Archive for ‘Conversion’
You vs. The Data: When to Stop Optimizing and Start Thinking.
We live in the age of data. For businesses that operate online in any capacity, the web provides unprecedented insight into what our customers are doing with our online offerings. Every click, every Ajax call, every transaction can be measured, attributed,…
How Loading Time Affects Your Bottom Line
Page loading time is obviously an important part of any website’s user experience. And many times we’ll let it slide to accommodate better aesthetic design, new nifty functionality or to add more content to web pages. Unfortunately, website visitors tend…
5 Simple Tips To Help You Increase User Sign Ups
There are plenty of simple things you can do on your website that can increase your signups, whether it’s for something like a free newsletter or a paid subscription service. Most don’t require any kind of technical or coding…
Steal These 5 High-Converting Website Tricks
Have you ever wondered which websites convert best, and what they’re doing right? Many people immediately name Amazon as one of the highest converting sites based on the sheer variety alone and the volume of products it ships – but…
What Should You Test On Your Landing Pages For Maximum Conversions?
Have you ever wondered why all your split testing is only bringing you small, incremental improvements in your conversion rate? Most website owners blindly slog along, testing tiny but noticeable changes like headlines, button color and so forth. You’ll get some results…
Why Are 98% Of Your Visitors Not Signing Up For Your Site?
I always hear people ask, “my site has a 2% signup conversion rate — is that good?” What they should be asking is “why aren’t the other 98% who visit my site signing up?” Knowing the answer to that question will tell…
3 Techniques to Increase Conversions for Your SaaS Business
Note – this webinar has past. SaaS businesses have the ability to increase conversions quite easily. Whether it’s increasing user sign ups, online sales, or building marketing lists, this webinar will show you how to increase your most important website metrics: conversions…
Do Your Users Have Shopping Cart Abandonment Issues?
Everyone loves a good deal, and shopping comparison and coupon sites have made it easier than ever. If you’re like most people, the minute you see a better deal on the item you wanted to buy, you effectively leave your…
Beginner’s Guide to Landing Pages
A well-designed landing page can greatly increase conversions for your PPC or email marketing campaigns. Rather than directing visitors from those sources to your general website (where they may have a hard time finding what they’re looking for), you can direct…
10 Little Known Factors that Affect Your Conversion Rate
If you’ve been working on increasing your conversion rate, you already know to test major changes like the placement of product photos and copy, headlines, call-to-action buttons and so forth. But if you aren’t seeing the gains you’d hoped…
101 Conversion Tips To Help Improve Your Website
Do you want to improve your website conversions? Well before you get started you probably first want to sign up for funnel tracking and an A/B testing solution. This way, not only will you figure out what you should…
Anatomy Of A Perfect Landing Page
Although there is no exact formula to making a perfect landing page, there are some common rules of thumb to increase your chances of making a winning one. If you’re looking for ideas on where to start with your next landing…
5 Truly Awful Landing Pages You Won’t Believe are from Well-Known Companies
With massive advertising budgets, government bailouts and an entourage of marketing experts, you’d think these famous companies would have getting a high conversion rate perfected down to a science. Unfortunately, as is the case with these five shining examples, what…
A Beginner’s Guide to Google Website Optimizer
If you want to make real progress in increasing the conversion rates on your website, randomly trying different headlines, images, and other elements on your pages and crossing your fingers isn’t going to get you very far. You…
Conversions vs. Traffic: Have Your Cake and Eat it Too!
If you’re selling something online, then one of your ongoing goals is almost certainly to sell more product. Too often, when we try to sell more, the first thing we do is try to get more visitors on our…
Five Unique Calls to Action that Will Make You Click Twice
The call to action is the “Holy Grail” of every marketer. Get it right, and you’re swimming in sales. Get it wrong, and your traffic tends to stagnate. You may get lots of visits, but little to show for it. To…
How to Convert Window Shoppers into Buyers
Imagine you’re walking down a city street. The sun’s warm, the leaves are changing color, people are smiling, there’s a breeze in the air… and suddenly the tempting smell of freshly baked goods slips past. You look, and it’s coming from a…
7 Conversion Tactics You Should Be Using but Probably Aren’t
It’s a never-ending battle, isn’t it? With website conversions there’s always something to test, something to improve on. Of course you have the biggies like accessibility, third-party endorsements (think Trust Seals like Verisign and Comodo) and a clean, fast-loading design, but there…
Ambulances, Car Crashes, and Why Fear Will Always Be a Marketer’s Best Weapon
Ever notice how everyone turns to look when an ambulance goes by? Or how traffic seems to stop whenever there’s a crash on the side of the road? Something scary is happening, and people can’t help wanting to see what’s going on. It’s…
Why It’s a Good Thing People Are Shallow (and 13 Ways to Exploit It)
They say we shouldn’t judge a book by its cover, but let’s face it: people are shallow. We judge based on looks all the time. We’ll pass a dirty-looking, disheveled person on the street and assume he’s homeless, or crazy, or…
How to Double Your Conversion Rate in the Next 5 Minutes
Sounds too good to be true, right? After all, what could you possibly do in five minutes that has the potential to double your conversion rate? It’s hard to believe, but it’s true. Because you see, there is one part of your website…
