At the recent Launch Party Vancouver 9 (#LPV9 on Twitter), Unbounce got a great surprise by taking home the judges choice for startup most likely to succeed. It was a great event with a massive turnout from the local Vancouver startup and investment community and a strong contingent from Read More...
The Final Countdown by Europe is ringing in my ears as I write this post. It’s officially “down to the wire” time for the Unbounce team and as anyone from a start-up can attest, there just ain’t enough hours in the day.
We’ve opened the doors to a select few companies for a very private Alpha period right now, shortly to be followed by our Beta launch in a week or so.
You'd be happy too if you were a yellow cartoon ball with a smile to rival Julia Roberts. (Images from Ladybird Books)
Landing pages, conversion rate optimization, bounce rate, blah, blah, blah, blah, yada yada yada.
As important as all of those terms and concepts are, sometimes you need to step back a bit and look at things in a more playful manner.
I find metaphor can greatly aid the process of communication – although as you’ll infer from the title of this post – my examples can at times be a bit of a stretch. Hopefully, this bunch are clear enough to mean something.
And so, with no further posturing or technical jargon, I present to you – The MR. MEN Guide to Landing Pages, Conversion and Absurd Metaphor.
Take a peek inside Unbounce's Greatest Hits for September. (Image source: Vogue Magazine)
September was an exciting month for the Unbounce team. We moved into a new office and cranked into high gear for the big push towards our end of year launch (shhhh).
We bored our friends and family to tears with talk of landing pages and conversion marketing, and we wrote a slew of blog posts to help our readers kick their own landing pages in the butt.
If you’ve only just discovered Unbounce, this is a great place to start as we roll through the highlights from the month.
And the truth shall set your landing pages free! (photo credit - The Truth Group)
Simply put, A|B split testing isn’t a silver bullet or a panacea for improved conversion rate on your landing pages.
What it is, is an opportunity. A mechanism by which you can begin to understand the behavior of your customers and start to build upon that knowledge over time by testing and tweaking your campaign’s effectiveness.
Testing is exciting. It allows you to see which copy, imagery and page layouts create the desired emotional response in your target demographic.
These micro brand hints can be fed back into how you speak to customers on the phone, they can allow informed design decisions to be enacted on your website, and they can put more money in your pocket.
Bouncing is fun for kids, but for grown-up internet marketers it can mess with your conversion rate!
To Unbounce is to reverse the ugly trend known as bounce rate. Therefore the goal of every internet marketer in the world should be to unbounce their marketing. Great.
Logically, as you reduce the bounce rate, your conversion rate is likely to rise, although it’s not a purely reflective correlation. Reducing your bounce rate will keep more people on your landing page, being exposed to your brand and message. This has the effect of raising the number and likelihood of converting customers and hence your conversion will rise.
Download our free white papers and reports for some bedtime conversion optimization reading.
Download our free opinionated guide to landing page conversion.
Using Twitter to enhance, promote and measure your landing page campaigns.
