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Andy Brudtkuhl

Bounce Rates - 0 views

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    Learn what bounce rates are, how they affect you, and what you can do to improve your user's experience.
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    Bounce rates can be an important measurement for your website and web pages. They can help determine whether a certain ad campaign is successful, whether you're targeting the right keywords, or whether changes you make are improving your site. Knowing the bounce rate of your site and individual pages can give clues about what is and isn't working for your site.
Andy Brudtkuhl

Stop bouncing: tips for website success - 0 views

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    Bounce rate has these attributes: 1) It is really hard to misunderstand. It measures the number of people who landed on your site and refused to give you even one single click! 2) It is available in most web analytics tools, including our own Google Analytics. 3) It is quick and easy to use. Bounce rate will help you understand where and how to make changes on your website in under an hour.
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    Great tips from Google on reducing your website bounce rates
Andy Brudtkuhl

Video in Email Boosts Click-Thru Rates 2-3x - 0 views

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    Incorporating video into emails - a simple enough concept that wasn't even possible two years ago - improves click-through rates by 2-3 times, according to a recent Forrester report.
Andy Brudtkuhl

Google Website Optimizer Case Study: Daily Burn, 20%+ Improvement - 0 views

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    This post will show exactly how one start-up improved their homepage conversion rate (visitor to sign-up flow) more than 20%, then 16% again, with a few simple changes and Google Website Optimizer.
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    This post will show exactly how one start-up improved their homepage conversion rate (visitor to sign-up flow) more than 20%, then 16% again, with a few simple changes and Google Website Optimizer.
Andy Brudtkuhl

Why Conversion Rates are Vastly More Important Than Increasing Traffic - 0 views

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    Great points to focus on conversion rates rather than traffic.
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    The most important point every online business needs to know is this: Conversions (how many people take the desired action - whether that is completing a purchase, gaining potential leads, or increasing a subscriber base) are more important by far than increasing traffic.
Andy Brudtkuhl

Optimizing Landing Pages to Match Customer Motivation - 0 views

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    If you run an ecommerce site or have clients that do so, this is a great resource for analyzing and configuring your landing pages based on the motivation of the customer.
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    Today I want to look at motivation from a different angle. I want you to choose a landing page that is top priority for you to optimize. For example, your most profitable product with the highest abandonment rate. I want to get you thinking about which customer motivations are most likely to match your business, your products, your typical customer and your landing page presentation.
Andy Brudtkuhl

Top Secret: Get Your E-mails Opened - Email marketing tips - 0 views

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    With floods of e-mail arriving every hour, most people are ruthless about deleting anything they even suspect won't interest them. Not only that, they're also just as likely to report unwanted e-mails as spam as they are to delete them. So if you're not writing compelling subject lines that get the e-mails opened, all your hard work is lost. Here are five tips for writing effective e-mail subject lines that can easily double the open (and click-through) rates on your next e-mail.
Andy Brudtkuhl

Social Media Comes Of Age: Blackshaw Reflects On Marketing And The Web In 2008 - 0 views

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    Great rundown of social media and new media success in 2008
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    2008 was a newsworthy - albeit, topsy-turvy - year for marketers and researchers. Importantly, social media evolved from experimental sideline to a mainstream attraction. Twitter saw huge growth rates, Barack Obama rewrote the rules of digital marketing, and user-engagement, and "service is marketing" Zappos.com re-wrote new rules for building brands and rewiring e-commerce. Facebook trended upward, MySpace held steady, and reputation-broker Wikipedia continued marching to the top of Google search results.
Andy Brudtkuhl

Reducing Customer Anxiety About Products on Product Pages - 0 views

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    Great insight into customer anxiety and its effects on e-commerce conversion rates. This is a great resource for increasing your conversion rates in your ecommerce strategy.
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    The e-tailing group conducted a consumer survey last summer and found that product descriptions were the most important to help make a purchase decision, followed by the merchant's guarantee, stock availability and quality of images. (One can assume for certain categories like jewelry and apparel, images are even more important).
Terry Leigh Britton

DomainCheapsters.com - Rock Bottom Prices on Domain Names - 0 views

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    Though registered via GoDaddy, the owner of this site (a GoDaddy affiliate) has lowered his prices to rock-bottom rates.
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    This seems darn good - run by Brian Johnson of Commission Ritual fame.
Andy Brudtkuhl

Five Tips for Writing Effective Web Headlines - Conversion University Help - 0 views

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    You've refined your keywords, optimized your bids, and written AdWords text ads that pull in tons of targeted clicks, but after looking at your Google Analytics reports, you realize that your landing page has a bounce rate of 91%. Which means that 91% of the users coming to your site are quickly glancing around and leaving, deciding immediately that this site isn't for them. One of the easiest, low-tech ways to make users stick around and look at your products or services is to catch their attention with an engaging headline.Recent research suggests that users decide to stay or leave your site in 8 seconds or less -- in that short amount of time, headlines are the one piece of copy that users will actually read. Here are five tips for writing headlines that will draw in user attention.
Andy Brudtkuhl

Local Search Grows 58%; Outpaces Overall Online Search - 0 views

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    The study found that local search - the practice of using online search tools to find local businesses, products, or services - grew 58% in 2008, reaching an annual total of 15.7 billion searches. By comparison, overall core US web searches grew at a much smaller rate of 21% year-over-year, nearing 137 billion searches by the end of 2008.
Terry Leigh Britton

ClickBank Search - 0 views

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    Clickbank opportunities showing top ten per category. Seek gravity over 100 and low refund rate (earned per sale near or better than commission amount)
Andy Brudtkuhl

Landing Page Testing: How to test and what to test - 1 views

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    Testing your ad copy and your landing pages can significantly improve your paid search efforts. Of course, building a solid keyword base, creating an optimized account structure, and executing a well-planned bid management strategy are also crucial. However, testing allows you to understand how to optimize and improve your communication with your target audience. Conducting thorough tests on your landing pages can deepen your audience interaction and increase your conversion rate.
Andy Brudtkuhl

6 tips to win back inactive subscribers - 0 views

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    If you use software like aWeber you will get great statistics on whether your email was opened and if they clicked on anything... If you are getting a low read rate chances are you need to modify/tweak your Subject Line.. aWeber does a great job of cleaning out your lists when email becomes inactive.. Checking into these statistics is important to keep your email marketing campaign fresh. This post has some details on "reactivating" your *dead* lists.
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    How many email messages did you send out in your last campaign? Really? That many? Wow! Now, how many of your recipients actually opened or clicked on your email? Yeah, that's a different story. Remember that with email, size doesn't really matter. Performance is what counts, not just for your email program and its bottom line but also for your sender reputation. A reactivation campaign is the answer here, and it's just as important as any acquisition campaign. It will help you clean out the dead wood, re-energize your list and reclaim some of the money you spent acquiring and engaging those addresses in the first place.
Andy Brudtkuhl

14 free tools that reveal why people abandon your website - 0 views

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    14 killer tools to help you evaluate the user experience of your website.Excellent tools to help you figure out who your audience is, what they are doing, and most importantly - why they are leaving your website.
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    Here's a big problem with web design: If you want to make your website better at turning visitors into customers (or subscribers), you need to understand why most of your visitors are leaving! But those people come and go without trace! How do you know what they wanted? How do you know what would have persuaded them to take action? If you owned a real-life bricks-and-mortar store, this would be easy: You'd hear their objections. You'd be able to ask questions. You'd hear what they muttered as they headed for the door. Capturing the voice-of-the-customer is more difficult with the web, but it can be done. Here are 14 free tools to get you started!
Andy Brudtkuhl

12 Ways to Improve PPC Landing Page Conversion Rates - 1 views

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    Dollars are a little tighter this year than last, so learning new ways to stretch marketing dollars is vital. Improving your landing pages so they convert more sales is a dynamite way to boost your Return on Investment (ROI). Here are a few tips for making your landing pages more effective. The goal is to make your landing pages more persuasive, more focused, more complete -- and provide the testing feedback needed to measure the success of your efforts.
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