Businesses often focus only on deals to drive more sales. I think it’s a mistake. Not because it doesn’t work but because it only impacts a percentage of the audience. Not everyone is interested in a discount – many are more concerned about timely shipping, quality of the product, reputation of the business, etc. In fact, I’d be willing to bet that trust is often a better conversion optimization strategy than a discount. Conversions are often psychological. Consumers and businesses don’t simply purchase for a great deal, they often purchase … Continue reading
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How to Optimize a Landing Page
Just a few minor changes to your landing page can result in much better results for your business. Landing pages are the destination for your calls-to-action and the transition point where a visitor either becomes a lead or even a conversion. Here are some key elements of a well optimized landing page. Keep in mind we’re not just optimizing the page for search engines, we’re optimizing the page for conversions, too! Page Title – the title of your page is going to be displayed in search results and social shares … Continue reading
Infographic: Why Having Less Form Fields Drives Conversions
Our fantastic technology sponsor, Formstack, has done a lot of research on generating more conversions using forms. We worked together on compiling the best research that proves that less form fields drives conversions. In fact, we found that the optimal conversion rates occurs when the number of fields a user has to fill out is two or three. The infographic also provides some tips on how to improve your form design to drive conversions. Are your forms optimized across all devices? Is the font big enough? These are questions you … Continue reading
Infographic: Reasons Why People Abandon Shopping Carts
You’re never going to attain 100% of sales after someone adds the product to your shopping cart, but there’s no doubt that it’s a gap where revenue is slipping through. There are strategies to draw folks back in… remarketing is one of them. Remarketing campaigns follow people after they abandon the shopping cart and remarket advertisements to them as they visit other sites. The return is typically nice on remarketing campaigns. However, that’s after they’ve abandoned… how about before they abandon? Providing wish lists, free shipping, up front costs and … Continue reading
Infographic: Intelligent Email Marketing that Drives Conversions
If your inbound marketing were described as a funnel, I’d describe your email marketing as a container to capture the leads that fall through. Many people will visit your site and even engage with you, but perhaps its not time to actually convert. Email marketing provides the best opportunity to reach those folks who have left, abandoned, or not visited in a while so you can pull them back into your sales. Email is alive and well as a proven inbound marketing channel, and converts better than both search and … Continue reading
Infographic: Online Testing Essentials
So you’ve finally deployed all of your online marketing strategies and they’re integrated and functioning well. You’re able to measure and see the impact of each strategy independently… now it’s time to begin testing. Where do you start? From KISSmetrics: A well-built sales funnel is never complete until every part of it has been tested and optimized. For maximum success, marketers should dig deep and experiment with every customer interaction point. What follows is a brief guide that outlines what things are good to regularly test and optimize—including PPC, media … Continue reading





