Build, Publish & A/B Test Landing Pages Without IT
Nice T-shirt. Terrible way to spend your inbound marketing budget.
There’s a simple point to be made here. When you’re sending multiple streams of inbound traffic to your homepage (or registration page, cart page) the original upstream ad message gets lost in a flood of generic multi-channel multi-product communication that dilutes the experience to the pointContinue Reading
If you’re using Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn etc. to drive traffic to your business – but the results are less than inspiring – you’re probably making fundamental mistakes during the conversion phase of the social media conversion funnel (see the infographic in this post).
Looking for some design inspiration for your next landing page? We’ve just started a new landing page examples section in the Unbounce blog where we’re going to feature the best examples of landing pages that we find on our marketing travels. In each post we’ll break down the anatomy of the landing page and lookContinue Reading
In November 2004 I had my first real encounter with marketing people. It was a horrible experience.
I come from the user experience (UX) crowd, indulging in usability, interaction design, information architecture and other such altruistic endeavours rooted in a desire to make the web work better for “the customer”. The marketing guys had anContinue Reading
Here’s the scoop cowboy: They came. They saw. They didn’t care. Sad, and perhaps a little painful – if you take these types of thing personally.
Maybe they weren’t ready? Unprepared even.
I’m not here to instill false hope about your business model or promise you a golden chalice of optimized redemption. Really I’m not. That wouldContinue Reading
What do ping pong balls have to do with conversion rates? It’s all about focus and “message reception”.
Recently, Rick and I have been giving landing page workshops to small businesses and start-ups, and we always kick things off with a game that involves ping pong balls… and an unwitting volunteer. Our purpose is toContinue Reading
For my latest post, I wrote about Lessons in Conversion Centered Design: 7 Arm-Twisting Persuasion Techniques for Your Landing Pages on the web analytics and internet marketing blog over at VKIStudios.com.
Overview
The post uncovers 7 persuasive tactics for increasing conversion on your landing pages:
Learn to point
Let your visitors eat a grape
The M.I.R.B.O. principle
Popular + busyContinue Reading
Landing pages are awesome, we all know that. They expand upon your ad message just enough to distill the concept into a bite-sized chunk of marketing goodness. They convert waaay better than the traffic you send to your homepage, and once you understand the basics, they’re pretty simple to put together.
Having said that, there areContinue Reading
In the spirit of failed New Year’s resolutions, I’m writing this post 11 days after the fact. We all do a miserable job of living up to our personal commitments, so I figured a few new business goals might be in order to get your marketing campaigns off the proverbial couch and into the gym.
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For the holiday season, I’ve taken a quick stab at re-writing that 12 Days of Christmas ditty. If Christmas ain’t really your thing, then hopefully the lolcat is enough to bring a smile to your face.
Remember to sing along. Preferably after a few egg nog’s or Christmas Ale’s. (It’ll be funnier).
On the 1st day ofContinue Reading
Download our free white papers and reports for some bedtime conversion optimization reading.
Read our opinionated guide to landing page conversion.
Using Twitter to enhance, promote and measure your landing page campaigns.
A collection of articles about landing page fundamentals.
