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Interesting, well produced videos on marketing techniques.

This is a great roundup of the biases and psychological effects that drive humans to act. Every marketer should be comfortable with these concepts.

 @eConsultancy brings the excellent teaching of Claude Hopkins Scientific Advertising into our online world. It's almost conversion steampunk until you realize that we haven't invented very much original.

And we've left some smart ideas behind.

Enjoy these nine tips and you should be able to find a free PDF of Hopkins' book somewhere on the Web.

If not, email me.

Regular expressions rear their ugly head in more and more places. Google Analytics is just one.

For me the regular expression showed up in the excellent Yoast SEO plugin for Wordpress. I needed to redirect a URL that had parameters, like this:

http://conversionsciences.com/conversion-upside-report/?t=10000&v=344&x=250

To do this, I could not use a regular redirect, as everything after the ? would be stripped away. I needed to use a Regular Expression Redirect. However, this sort of thing -- using query parameters -- wasn't covered in any of the Yoast documentation.

This article gave me the hint I needed, and the technique that ended up working. To summarize, I used the following regular expression to match my URL with the parameters:

^\/conversion-upside-report($|\/.*$)

The parentheses save the matching contents into a variable, which I can access using $1 in the new URL, like this:

resources/conversion-rate-optimization-calculator/upside-report/$1

It worked great. Give it a try: http://conversionsciences.com/conversion-upside-report/?t=10000&v=344&x=250

Thanks to Himanshu.

Jeffrey Eisenberg gives you a boat load of great Conversion techniques

Designers, THIS is your job on a landing page, not creating "engaging Web experiences."

 @KISSmetrics This is a great tutorial for how you can keep your emails from getting tagged as SPAM. As a side bonus, these techniques will also help get more of your emails read by your prospects.

I especially like "Sending emails onec every two or three months can be more detrimental than sending multiple emails dialy. Why? Your customers may forget all about you."

SEO and then Email and eNewsletter. These are the most effective marketing techniques.

Whitepapers are great lead generators

I'm always wary of any list that claims to be "complete." This list comes pretty close, and includes one of my favorite selections from The Conversion Scientist Blog.

The list is novel in that you can select the categories of interest to you and the post will modify itself to serve you best.

I'll be intersted to find out if this novel feature increases conversion rates on the page.

What do you think?

We just can't get enough info on landing pages. We love them.

This article helps you design landing pages for three kinds of visitors: Cold visitors (no they don't live up north) Warm visitors (not necessarily friendly) Hot visitors (don't necessarily got it goin' on) How do you address these different visitors? Read on.