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It’s the fourth quarter of 2008, which means you’re probably preparing your search marketing budget for 2009. We asked a search marketing expert with in-house and agency experience to share her advice for creating a budget that will help you optimize your dollars. Includes tips on: o Creating goals based on the right metrics o Managing SEO and  More...
The top 4 ways to propel your website rankings, traffic, lead generation and sales are as follows. 1. Properly optimize your Google Adwords account. This involves installation of Adwords Conversion Tracking, building proper Adwords Keyword Lists, have a proper keyword tool to do your keyword research, conducting ad copy A/B variate split testing  More...
You can, within the limits of ethics and accuracy, represent yourself any way that you want on the Internet. Your landing page isn't written on stone tablets; it's the most ethereal of objects -- a set of bits that reside on a computer hard disk and are accessible to the world.  More...
The next time you design a web site, its okay to take it for a joy-ride. You’ve earned that right. But, make sure you throw the keys to other drivers and let them take it on the highway or down the street to Starbucks. These people are your user testing hero’s.  More...
Do you ever wish finding the perfect job could be as easy as one, two, three? According to new research, it might be as easy as red, yellow or blue. That's right; by determining which primary, secondary and achromatic colors you prefer most and least, you can figure out a successful career path based on how you approach work, the types of work  More...
Yours truly, Founder of BizSugar, is the featured guest in this Episode of The Small Business Trends Radio. I share a few lessons I've learned from over 17 years of helping small business owners and from starting my own business ventures, and I identify common mistakes that even experienced business owners make and offer tips to help put your bus  More...
Whether your market is B-to-B, B-to-C, or both, testing and optimizing even a few key aspects of your landing pages can provide major gains for your lead-gen efforts. The principles of the MarketingExperiments Conversion Sequence serve as a guide to optimizing your pages and your sales or lead-gen process to improve conversion and ROI. This  More...
Technology inspired by Israeli surveillance has led to camera-equipped billboards that can track viewers’ faces to gather reliable viewing data for digital displays and screens. The technology comes from TruMedia, which is testing the cameras in about 30 locations nationwide. A company in Paris offers similar tracking. Software behind each bill  More...
I'm sure the title of this post is going to make a few folks upset. Don't worry, the content is going to really make you mad. Not at me, but maybe at yourself, and especially at whoever taught you how to split test. That's because, for most Adwords advertisers, the title of this post is very accurate. Most advertisers are doing split testing  More...
Can a small change to your website's action buttons make a big difference in conversions? Many conversion optimization cheerleaders suggest that larger buttons convert better, and some tests show even different colors can perform better. Marketing Sherpa credits cart button design as one of 7 tweaks that helped Newegg.com boost online sales by 30  More...
As web marketers seek new ways to boost conversion rates and improve their visitors' site experience, interest in multivariate testing is on a feverish rise. But those unfamiliar with the techniques are often unclear about where to start, or how to ensure success. Common methods for running controlled experiments on Web sites range from simple  More...
We search marketers can learn a lot from the direct mail wizards. Putting it more crudely: if Claude Hopkins were alive, his Google campaigns would kick ass. Claude Hopkins. Albert Lasker. John Caples. David Ogilvy. Leo Burnett. Maxwell Sackheim. If you don't know these names, you should. They're the guys who invented direct respo  More...
Marketers are seeking new and better ways to measure the effectiveness of their programs and justify their marketing spend. One concept that has elbowed its way to the front of the metrics pack is “engagement,” but while just about everyone agrees on the importance of measuring engagement — who doesn’t want to know how well your customers are rece  More...
A revolution in Marketing: After several years of low-key alpha testing and on and off again rumors of launch, it appears that Google Print Local will finally go live as a public beta in the next few weeks.  More...
What A/B testing and multivariate testing really mean, and the implications for your test results.  More...