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Infographic: Why Users Disengage With Your Email

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subscriber-engagement-infographic

Too many email marketers fall into a rhythm where they send email based on their corporate schedule or their goals rather than the subscribers’ needs. Providing emails to your audience and ensuring they’re valuable will keep them subscribed, engaged, converting… and will ultimately keep you out of their junk email folder. After visiting your website, making a purchase, or stumbling across your company’s blog, a customer has signed up to receive email from you. For a marketer, this is the most fragile, difficult relationship to maintain, and one wrong step … Continue reading →

Infographic: Do Colors Impact Online Purchase Behavior?

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Color and Purchase Behavior Online

Here’s a fascinating infographic from KISSmetrics on color and its impact on purchasing decisions. Keeping this in mind, Nick’s recent post on utilizing cookies to provide a different experience to a visitor rather than a customer could come in handy… perhaps your site could change stylesheets and move from a black layout (impulse) to a pink layout… or if you’re running a special, a blue layout!

Email Marketing List Maintenance

Posted on by Douglas Karr
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When’s the last time that you’ve retooled your email program to ensure your email lists are properly segmented and subscribers are getting the information that they want? So many marketers are attentive only to large subscriber counts… smaller email lists and targeted content always outperform mass media. Here’s the perfect maintenance email, received from WebTrends: The topics are nicely segmented and updating my preferences was only a single click. If you can capture subscribers’ preferences for how often they’d like to be contacted – even better (as it happens, daily, … Continue reading →

Do Comments equal Conversions?

Posted on by Douglas Karr
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I did some analysis of my blog this weekend to look for a correlation between my search engine results, my most popular blog posts, the posts with the most comments, and the posts that actually resulted in revenue due to consulting or speaking engagements. There was no correlation. Reviewing my most popular posts, you’ll find WordPress Contact Form, Huntington Bank Sucks, I left Basecamp, and the length of an Email Address carry the most traffic. Those posts lead the way for Search Engine Results. Those posts also carry the most … Continue reading →

Leveraging Web Analytics

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Many people look at the typical site configuration and they see a Web Site that points to a Call to Action and then they measure that Call to Action through Analytics, calling it a conversion. If you were to draw that out, it looks like this: The problem, of course, is that the Web Analytics is housing TONS of hidden jewels of data that no one pays attention to or leverages. Typically, Analytics is utilized only to measure sources, searches, clicks and conversions. Utilizing those reports, the Marketing professional then … Continue reading →

Where’s the Next Button?

Posted on by Douglas Karr
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Usability really is a science but some of it is instinctual. I remember having many an argument with people about usability when I worked as a Product Manager. There are some things that are a given – such as how eyes track across a screen (left to right), how they skim downward, and how they expect an action on bottom right. Not much science involved, some of these things are both instinctual and some of them are habitual based on previous trends in online navigation. Tonight we’ve got a friend … Continue reading →