Archive for April, 2012
4 Google Analytics Goal Types That Are Critical To Your Business
Tracking pageviews and visitors to see how much traffic you’re getting is incredibly important right? WRONG. Finding out if your website actually helps your business is MUCH more important. Knowing important metrics like: Leads Trial signups Account creations Newsletter signups White paper downloads Ebook downloads …are really what…
The Neil Patel Method To Getting Great Blog Content
When it comes to blogging, one of the key pain points is getting content. As a business owner, it may be hard to delegate time for yourself or your employees to write quality content for your blog vs. work on…
What Do The Best Website Pricing Pages Look Like?
With so much attention spent on landing pages, it can be easy to forget about one of your most important pages – the pricing page! It’s not just your pricing strategy that matters, but also the design of the page. In…
How to Steal Killer Sales Copy Straight from Your Prospects’ Mouths
The best copywriters in the world are thieves and frauds. We’re thieves because we steal words from our customers and prospects. We’re frauds because we act like those words came from our brains. Truth be told: it’s our thievery that makes us powerfully…
The 5 Easy Steps To Measure Your Social Media Campaigns
If you’re using social media, you should be measuring it. But don’t measure just for the sake of having metrics. Instead, measure your social activities so that you can learn what’s successful, what isn’t, and how you can improve. In this…
The Missing Metric in Google Analytics v5
Google’s recent update to Google Analytics v5 has been awesome. We have new reports for SEO, social media, and multi-channel funnels. There’s also all sorts of nifty little tricks and bags of goodies that were never available in the old Google…
There are over 1,000,000 Twitter tools to choose from. Here are the 4 I use.
There are a LOT of Twitter tools out there – so many that it can become quite confusing to figure out which ones you really need and which ones you can live without. Sure, they might just be a…
The Marketer’s Guide to Google Plus
Facebook and Twitter profiles are mandatory for most companies, but is Google+ worth it? You may think to yourself: “Why should I get a Google+ account when Facebook can essentially do anything Google+ can do?” At this point in time that…
Google Authorship Markup: How to get your picture in search results.
Ever wonder why some people’s faces are showing up in search results? How do they do that? They do it by linking and then adding the Google Authorship markup to one of the links. This is called a “rich snippet.” Stands out, doesn’t…
Does Website Design Impact The Bottom Line?
Companies invest thousands of dollars when they want to redesign their website, hoping that a more attractive design will lead to more revenue. But does it really matter? Is simplicity more important than eloquent design? Where do you draw the line…
What Instagram and the Titanic Can Teach You About Launching Your Next Product
On Monday, April 9th, Instagram, the 2-year-old photo-sharing app with no business or revenue model, was bought by Facebook for $1 billion. One. Billion. Dollars. This week marks the 100th anniversary of the great tragedy at sea: the sinking of the RMS…
How Accurate are Alexa, Compete, DoubleClick and Google Trends?
Back in January, SEOmoz did a test of free statistics services like Alexa, Compete, DoubleClick, and Google Trends. Their conclusion was that the visitor data provided by these services did not match their own analytics. Does that…
Create A YouTube Traffic Jam With These 4 Simple Optimization Tips
Did you know that YouTube is the second largest search engine after Google? As a Google product, YouTube has climbed to the top with over 4 billion videos being viewed every single day and a staggering 60 hours of video getting…
When to Use Google Analytics Goal Values
Wouldn’t you like to know how much money you make from organic search? Or your marketing campaigns? Google Analytics Goals do a great job at telling you where customers came from but they don’t immediately tell you how much money you…
How to Present like Steve Jobs
Steve Jobs’ presentations have become the stuff of legend. Inspired by his presentations, customers flocked to Apple stores waited in line for days to be the first to buy the newly released product. And his presentations left the media salivating over…
What Startups Can Learn From Pinterest
You likely don’t need to be reminded about Pinterest’s astounding growth. They’re not an overnight success and there doesn’t appear to be any magic to Pinterest. There’s no special technology that gives it an advantage & no new revolutionary marketing…
44 Must Read Resources on Content Marketing
The term “content marketing” sounds like a hip buzzword to describe the latest marketing craze, but in reality, the concept has been around since the first newsletters came rolling off the presses. And if there’s one single reason why companies around the…
5 Essential & Easy Social Media Metrics You Should Be Measuring Right Now
So your company is now officially participating in social media. You’ve set up a Twitter account, a Facebook page, even a few Pinterest boards. You respond to customer questions, follow fans, post important news, and thank your advocates for their support….
The 8 Google Analytics Features Every Site MUST Have Enabled
I’m going to lay it to you straight: Google Analytics doesn’t offer any value out of the box. In fact, it’s costing you money because you spend WAY too much time looking at metrics that don’t matter. But there’s a way to…
