As marketers, it is vital that our campaigns remain relevant to customers throughout the year. Seasonal campaigns tailored to specific holidays or events might be one way to ensure that our messaging remains in constant alignment with the motivations of our prospects.
How can we be sure that our seasonal campaigns are truly bolstering the appeal of our product and enhancing our core value proposition? Despite the opportunities that season-specific campaigns present, how can we be sure these changes will not negatively affect the clarity of our messaging?
In this 35-minute Web clinic, our research team shared strategies for finding the balance between seasonality and clarity, including a test that resulted in a 25% difference in clickthrough.
7 Tactics to Boost Your Digital Marketing Conversion RatesAnne Marie Dono
Increasing digital conversions rates is the top priority for any marketer this year, according to a recent ExactTarget survey. In this webinar we introduced 7 tactics you can use immediately to increase sales, leads, or the metric that you define as a conversion via your website or mobile apps.
This was the first time we introduced the concept of Growth Rate Optimization (GRO), a term I coined to describe a more holistic approach to optimization that is laser-focused on growing revenue by finding the perfect balance between user needs and business goals. Under this umbrella concept, we cover 7 tactics or concepts that help you optimize across various digital marketing channels from media buying to websites and mobile apps.
Hopefully you'll leave with some ideas on how to jumpstart or kick-start your optimization program. If not, email me!
Stay tuned for more webinars regarding Growth Rate Optimization.
100 Stats, Charts & Graphs to gain 'Buy-In' for Inbound/Content Marketing by ...Gus Wilson
HubSpot's newest collection of 100 Awesome Marketing Stats, Charts & Graphs, based on original research and data from a variety of sources, including analysis of our 4,500 customers, surveys with hundreds of small and medium-sized businesses, and dozens of top-notch publications like MarketingSherpa, eMarketer, Pew Research, McKinsey, and more.
We’re going to cover best practices that top brands use to drive referrals and customer acquisition:
The following best practice examples come from companies that actually sell something. !
People always ask: “How do I get more referrals?” ! That’s easy. ! Focus on two things that really move the needle. ! User participation & Optimization
Again, two things really ‘move the needle’ for referral program performance. User Participation Optimization
User Participation Location matters
Homepage & Navigation Best practices: ! • Site-wide • Highly visible (upper-le#)
Order Confirmation Page Best practices: ! • Pop-up overlay • Varied offers
User Account Page Best practices: ! • Embedded • On button click - if you have to • PURLs
Stand Alone Referral Page Promote / drive traffic from: ! • Homepage & Navigation • Dedicated email blasts • Trigger emails & newsletters • Social following • Customer service follow up • Email signature
Dedicated Email Blasts Best practices: ! • Single call to action • Clear offer • Schedule (monthly / quarterly)
Your ‘reach’ may be bigger than you think…
Optimization Increase sharing rates and referral conversion rates
What to measure Shares ! Widget Impressions ! = Sharing Rate Conversions ! Referral Visits ! = Referral Conversion Rate Referral Visits
Sharing Rate - optimize call to action Best practices: ! • Clear call to action • What’s in it for them • What their friends get (if double-sided) • Address book importing
Sharing Rate - optimize design + 42% sharing rate • Red, italic headline • Background image
A B C • Purple bracelets • Green bracelets • “Expires in 24 hours!” • Woman on beach • “Expires in 24 hours!” + 35% Gain
Doubled referral visits and referral sales
Welcome overlay • Friend incentive • Email capture • Reveal code
Session-based • Dynamic message
Dedicated landing page • No distractions
1 Offers for sharer & friend 2 Calls to action for sharer & friend 3 Shared content (copy & images) 4 Shared email subject line Elements for testing 5 Referred visitor experience
Calls to Action - quick tips Tip 1: Verb + What’s in it for me? Tip 2: “I want to ___________.” • Get $10 in store credit. • Get a free month. • Give $10, Get $10 • Share and earn $10
Referral Benchmarks How are you doing?
Sharing
Referral Visits
Referred Visitors
Cost Per Acquisition CPA
Revenue Lift
Examples of Campaign Metrics Example companies by size
Where to start optimizing (30 day snapshot - 3 companies) a Rockin’ b Work on sharing rate c Work on conversion rate
Party Foul ! The biggest mistake people make . . .
Don’t force a login or registration 90% drop off!
Recap Follow best practices and avoid common pitfalls.
7 Tactics to Boost Your Digital Marketing Conversion RatesAnne Marie Dono
Increasing digital conversions rates is the top priority for any marketer this year, according to a recent ExactTarget survey. In this webinar we introduced 7 tactics you can use immediately to increase sales, leads, or the metric that you define as a conversion via your website or mobile apps.
This was the first time we introduced the concept of Growth Rate Optimization (GRO), a term I coined to describe a more holistic approach to optimization that is laser-focused on growing revenue by finding the perfect balance between user needs and business goals. Under this umbrella concept, we cover 7 tactics or concepts that help you optimize across various digital marketing channels from media buying to websites and mobile apps.
Hopefully you'll leave with some ideas on how to jumpstart or kick-start your optimization program. If not, email me!
Stay tuned for more webinars regarding Growth Rate Optimization.
100 Stats, Charts & Graphs to gain 'Buy-In' for Inbound/Content Marketing by ...Gus Wilson
HubSpot's newest collection of 100 Awesome Marketing Stats, Charts & Graphs, based on original research and data from a variety of sources, including analysis of our 4,500 customers, surveys with hundreds of small and medium-sized businesses, and dozens of top-notch publications like MarketingSherpa, eMarketer, Pew Research, McKinsey, and more.
We’re going to cover best practices that top brands use to drive referrals and customer acquisition:
The following best practice examples come from companies that actually sell something. !
People always ask: “How do I get more referrals?” ! That’s easy. ! Focus on two things that really move the needle. ! User participation & Optimization
Again, two things really ‘move the needle’ for referral program performance. User Participation Optimization
User Participation Location matters
Homepage & Navigation Best practices: ! • Site-wide • Highly visible (upper-le#)
Order Confirmation Page Best practices: ! • Pop-up overlay • Varied offers
User Account Page Best practices: ! • Embedded • On button click - if you have to • PURLs
Stand Alone Referral Page Promote / drive traffic from: ! • Homepage & Navigation • Dedicated email blasts • Trigger emails & newsletters • Social following • Customer service follow up • Email signature
Dedicated Email Blasts Best practices: ! • Single call to action • Clear offer • Schedule (monthly / quarterly)
Your ‘reach’ may be bigger than you think…
Optimization Increase sharing rates and referral conversion rates
What to measure Shares ! Widget Impressions ! = Sharing Rate Conversions ! Referral Visits ! = Referral Conversion Rate Referral Visits
Sharing Rate - optimize call to action Best practices: ! • Clear call to action • What’s in it for them • What their friends get (if double-sided) • Address book importing
Sharing Rate - optimize design + 42% sharing rate • Red, italic headline • Background image
A B C • Purple bracelets • Green bracelets • “Expires in 24 hours!” • Woman on beach • “Expires in 24 hours!” + 35% Gain
Doubled referral visits and referral sales
Welcome overlay • Friend incentive • Email capture • Reveal code
Session-based • Dynamic message
Dedicated landing page • No distractions
1 Offers for sharer & friend 2 Calls to action for sharer & friend 3 Shared content (copy & images) 4 Shared email subject line Elements for testing 5 Referred visitor experience
Calls to Action - quick tips Tip 1: Verb + What’s in it for me? Tip 2: “I want to ___________.” • Get $10 in store credit. • Get a free month. • Give $10, Get $10 • Share and earn $10
Referral Benchmarks How are you doing?
Sharing
Referral Visits
Referred Visitors
Cost Per Acquisition CPA
Revenue Lift
Examples of Campaign Metrics Example companies by size
Where to start optimizing (30 day snapshot - 3 companies) a Rockin’ b Work on sharing rate c Work on conversion rate
Party Foul ! The biggest mistake people make . . .
Don’t force a login or registration 90% drop off!
Recap Follow best practices and avoid common pitfalls.
Harnessing Customer Motivation: How one company increased conversion by 65% b...MarketingExperiments
Customer motivation is the single most important factor in the sales process. Unfortunately, motivation is also the hardest variable for us to influence. Thus, when a motivated customer comes to our page, it is imperative that we understand the specific reason that they came to the page and harness that desire effectively.
As marketers, we must be certain that the page elements we use align with the specific drive and thought processes of our prospects, empowering them to proceed rather than instilling conversion-killing anxiety or confusion.
In this 35-minute Web clinic, our research team gave you tips — learned through years of research and rigor — about how to identify and leverage this motivation, including one test that boosted conversion by 65%.
Increasing User Engagement: How one company tested its site navigation and in...MarketingExperiments
What actions do you want your visitors to take on your site? What if you could influence those actions more effectively?
Although conversion metrics typically receive the majority of marketers’ attention, understanding what behavior motivates the conversion event may be even more important. For some companies, website engagement may be the most effective indicator of conversion potential that you can monitor using analytics.
In this 35 minute Web clinic, our research team will revealed three tactics proven to boost engagement on your website. This session also included a case study demonstrating how one company tested navigation structures, which resulted in a clickthrough increase of over 35%.
Getting Your Content to Convert: Taboola's Content Marketing West Coast Works...Taboola
Taboola hit the West Coast from August 11th-13th 2015 conducting Content Marketing Workshops in three major cities: Seattle, San Francisco and LA. Speaker and Senior Content Strategist, Inbar Yagur, led an interactive session emphasizing the steps you need to take to create great content and a successful campaign.
Topics included how to build an effective content strategy, engage your audience, accomplish user action and more.
Site Banners Tested: How Minor Changes led to a 433% increase in clickthrough...MarketingExperiments
Is your site banner doing a good enough job effectively conveying critical information to your customer? How can you tell?
And is a banner even beneficial to your specific site?
Past MarketingSherpa eye-tracking research has shown that up to 80% of repeat site visitors exhibit banner blindness, ignoring certain areas of a page entirely if they believe the content will not directly address their needs.
How can you best leverage this prime real estate to boost site performance, rather than hurt clickthrough and conversion?
In this 35-minute Web clinic – Mike Loveridge, Head of Digital Test and Learn, Humana, will join the MarketingExperiments team live to discuss a series of banner tests that his team carried out, including one test that increased clickthrough by 433%.
This presentation gives you instant access to 10 PPC tactics that are rarely used, but highly effective.
10 Proven PPC Tactics & Tips Guaranteed to:
+Drive quality buyers to your website
+Understand how PPC drives your other sales channels
+Use changes in local weather to produce more leads
+Beat competitors in Google Search
+Save time and generate more sales
The Key to Dominating Your Local Market---
Get a FREE Visibility Checkup and Discover where your business stands in relation to competitors in your area so you can start driving in More Quality Local Leads!
Get Started Here: http://www.surefiresocial.com/visibility-report-sign-up-page/
From Portent's Webinar Series, here is October's session on conversion rate optimization. Our Director of SEO, Josh Patrice, provides 47 actionable tips to get your site's conversions improving ASAP!
7 Principles of Conversion Centered Design with Oli GardnerStukent Inc.
Oli Gardner, co-founder of Unbounce, shares the secrets of landing page optimization with 7 Principles of Conversion-Centered Design. You can view this Stukent Expert Session here: http://www.stukent.com/expert-sessions/7-principles-of-conversion-centered-design/
SearchLove San Diego 2017 | Joel Klettke | Don't Buy Your Customer a Beer: Ho...Distilled
Want to convert better? Then you need to learn how to steal your best copy right out of your client's mouths. In this session, Joel will share a proven process for collecting and then translating customer feedback into copy that obliterates objections and moves prospects to act.
Landing Page Optimization: 6 Years of Testing Distilled Into 5 Critical LessonsTaboola
On Wednesday, October 14th, Michael Aagaard (Sr. Conversion Optimizer, Unbounce) and Inbar Yagur (Sr. Content Strategist, Taboola) led a webinar discussion on landing page optimization. Topics included:psychological principles that help you design effective pages, how to conduct solid, data-driven user research, and more.
2016 Email Marketing Best Practices - Kuala Lumpur Marketing MeetupFreelance
When it’s done right, Email Marketing can easily be one of the most efficient and effective ways to keep customers regularly coming back to do business with you – over and over again.
Learn how to gain the most from this powerful marketing channel – at all key stages of the process.
In this training guide, veteran marketer Nikki Johnson presents various tips, tricks, and best practices to help you capture maximum value through this tool.
Discover how Skyscanner does Growth across different channels with Growth Director, Michael Briggs.
For more information visit https://medium.com/@Skyscanner/multi-channel-journeys-inside-growth-ddc2ff87af30 and https://www.skyscanner.net/mobile.html for a working example of our product in motion.
The customer journey has become very complex – there are so many touch-points that influence the ultimate buying decision.
Oftentimes, the customer journey begins with a high-intent search. Crafting and serving up strong, relevant ads will bring the lead directly to your website. However, keeping the potential customer on your website long enough to convert is challenging – this is where live chat comes in. It acts as a powerful conversion tool to facilitate a positive customer experience ending in a sale.
If you want to boost conversion rates in the buying cycle, our search and chat experts Armen Vartanyan of WordStream and Sebalis Davis of Pure Chat, are here to help. Join us for this live webinar to learn how to perfect the customer journey through key touch-points like paid search and live chat.
During the webinar, you'll learn:
-How the customer journey has evolved
-How to capture more conversions through paid search
-How to identify if you should implement a live chat function
How a Content Marketing Company Does Content Marketingion interactive
Uberflip’s VP of Marketing, Hana Abaza and ion co-founder Anna Talerico come together for a content packed, content marketing presentation.
Get the inside scoop from a company that produces hundreds of webinars, thousands of blog posts and many more leads. Hana and Anna take you through:
- Goals and Strategy
- Content Marketing Cycle
- Planning and Process
- Execution and Evaluation
Learn how to use content to raise awareness, boost engagement and fuel lead and demand generation by focusing on more than just great content. We show you what a quality content experience looks like and how that experience differentiates your content from the rest.
Get the roadmap you need to put your content marketing program on the fast track to success.
The challenge for many of today’s marketers isn’t just creating content, it’s creating content that stands out from the rest of the online clutter. Whether in the business or consumer space, content marketers want to know why they should invest in interactive content, how they can prove their investment and show ROI, and how other companies are succeeding with interactive content.
The answer lies in positioning your customer at the center of the online experience. But how do brands accomplish this?
120 Awesome Marketing Stats, Charts and GraphsHubSpot
http://www.HubSpot.com/charts - Over 120 marketing charts and graphs based on original research and data from a variety of sources, including analysis of our 6,500 business customers, surveys with hundreds of businesses responding, and dozens of top-notch publications like MarketingSherpa, eMarketer, Pew Research, McKinsey, and more. To download a free copy of your own, please visit http://hubspot.com/charts
2015 B2B Content Marketing Benchmarks, Budgets, and Trends for North AmericaMarketingProfs
This is the fifth year that MarketingProfs and Content Marketing Institute have put together this report on how marketers use content in their marketing mix. With changes in the industry, the report may look a little different than you remember. Dive in, and enjoy!
Harnessing Customer Motivation: How one company increased conversion by 65% b...MarketingExperiments
Customer motivation is the single most important factor in the sales process. Unfortunately, motivation is also the hardest variable for us to influence. Thus, when a motivated customer comes to our page, it is imperative that we understand the specific reason that they came to the page and harness that desire effectively.
As marketers, we must be certain that the page elements we use align with the specific drive and thought processes of our prospects, empowering them to proceed rather than instilling conversion-killing anxiety or confusion.
In this 35-minute Web clinic, our research team gave you tips — learned through years of research and rigor — about how to identify and leverage this motivation, including one test that boosted conversion by 65%.
Increasing User Engagement: How one company tested its site navigation and in...MarketingExperiments
What actions do you want your visitors to take on your site? What if you could influence those actions more effectively?
Although conversion metrics typically receive the majority of marketers’ attention, understanding what behavior motivates the conversion event may be even more important. For some companies, website engagement may be the most effective indicator of conversion potential that you can monitor using analytics.
In this 35 minute Web clinic, our research team will revealed three tactics proven to boost engagement on your website. This session also included a case study demonstrating how one company tested navigation structures, which resulted in a clickthrough increase of over 35%.
Getting Your Content to Convert: Taboola's Content Marketing West Coast Works...Taboola
Taboola hit the West Coast from August 11th-13th 2015 conducting Content Marketing Workshops in three major cities: Seattle, San Francisco and LA. Speaker and Senior Content Strategist, Inbar Yagur, led an interactive session emphasizing the steps you need to take to create great content and a successful campaign.
Topics included how to build an effective content strategy, engage your audience, accomplish user action and more.
Site Banners Tested: How Minor Changes led to a 433% increase in clickthrough...MarketingExperiments
Is your site banner doing a good enough job effectively conveying critical information to your customer? How can you tell?
And is a banner even beneficial to your specific site?
Past MarketingSherpa eye-tracking research has shown that up to 80% of repeat site visitors exhibit banner blindness, ignoring certain areas of a page entirely if they believe the content will not directly address their needs.
How can you best leverage this prime real estate to boost site performance, rather than hurt clickthrough and conversion?
In this 35-minute Web clinic – Mike Loveridge, Head of Digital Test and Learn, Humana, will join the MarketingExperiments team live to discuss a series of banner tests that his team carried out, including one test that increased clickthrough by 433%.
This presentation gives you instant access to 10 PPC tactics that are rarely used, but highly effective.
10 Proven PPC Tactics & Tips Guaranteed to:
+Drive quality buyers to your website
+Understand how PPC drives your other sales channels
+Use changes in local weather to produce more leads
+Beat competitors in Google Search
+Save time and generate more sales
The Key to Dominating Your Local Market---
Get a FREE Visibility Checkup and Discover where your business stands in relation to competitors in your area so you can start driving in More Quality Local Leads!
Get Started Here: http://www.surefiresocial.com/visibility-report-sign-up-page/
From Portent's Webinar Series, here is October's session on conversion rate optimization. Our Director of SEO, Josh Patrice, provides 47 actionable tips to get your site's conversions improving ASAP!
7 Principles of Conversion Centered Design with Oli GardnerStukent Inc.
Oli Gardner, co-founder of Unbounce, shares the secrets of landing page optimization with 7 Principles of Conversion-Centered Design. You can view this Stukent Expert Session here: http://www.stukent.com/expert-sessions/7-principles-of-conversion-centered-design/
SearchLove San Diego 2017 | Joel Klettke | Don't Buy Your Customer a Beer: Ho...Distilled
Want to convert better? Then you need to learn how to steal your best copy right out of your client's mouths. In this session, Joel will share a proven process for collecting and then translating customer feedback into copy that obliterates objections and moves prospects to act.
Landing Page Optimization: 6 Years of Testing Distilled Into 5 Critical LessonsTaboola
On Wednesday, October 14th, Michael Aagaard (Sr. Conversion Optimizer, Unbounce) and Inbar Yagur (Sr. Content Strategist, Taboola) led a webinar discussion on landing page optimization. Topics included:psychological principles that help you design effective pages, how to conduct solid, data-driven user research, and more.
2016 Email Marketing Best Practices - Kuala Lumpur Marketing MeetupFreelance
When it’s done right, Email Marketing can easily be one of the most efficient and effective ways to keep customers regularly coming back to do business with you – over and over again.
Learn how to gain the most from this powerful marketing channel – at all key stages of the process.
In this training guide, veteran marketer Nikki Johnson presents various tips, tricks, and best practices to help you capture maximum value through this tool.
Discover how Skyscanner does Growth across different channels with Growth Director, Michael Briggs.
For more information visit https://medium.com/@Skyscanner/multi-channel-journeys-inside-growth-ddc2ff87af30 and https://www.skyscanner.net/mobile.html for a working example of our product in motion.
The customer journey has become very complex – there are so many touch-points that influence the ultimate buying decision.
Oftentimes, the customer journey begins with a high-intent search. Crafting and serving up strong, relevant ads will bring the lead directly to your website. However, keeping the potential customer on your website long enough to convert is challenging – this is where live chat comes in. It acts as a powerful conversion tool to facilitate a positive customer experience ending in a sale.
If you want to boost conversion rates in the buying cycle, our search and chat experts Armen Vartanyan of WordStream and Sebalis Davis of Pure Chat, are here to help. Join us for this live webinar to learn how to perfect the customer journey through key touch-points like paid search and live chat.
During the webinar, you'll learn:
-How the customer journey has evolved
-How to capture more conversions through paid search
-How to identify if you should implement a live chat function
How a Content Marketing Company Does Content Marketingion interactive
Uberflip’s VP of Marketing, Hana Abaza and ion co-founder Anna Talerico come together for a content packed, content marketing presentation.
Get the inside scoop from a company that produces hundreds of webinars, thousands of blog posts and many more leads. Hana and Anna take you through:
- Goals and Strategy
- Content Marketing Cycle
- Planning and Process
- Execution and Evaluation
Learn how to use content to raise awareness, boost engagement and fuel lead and demand generation by focusing on more than just great content. We show you what a quality content experience looks like and how that experience differentiates your content from the rest.
Get the roadmap you need to put your content marketing program on the fast track to success.
The challenge for many of today’s marketers isn’t just creating content, it’s creating content that stands out from the rest of the online clutter. Whether in the business or consumer space, content marketers want to know why they should invest in interactive content, how they can prove their investment and show ROI, and how other companies are succeeding with interactive content.
The answer lies in positioning your customer at the center of the online experience. But how do brands accomplish this?
120 Awesome Marketing Stats, Charts and GraphsHubSpot
http://www.HubSpot.com/charts - Over 120 marketing charts and graphs based on original research and data from a variety of sources, including analysis of our 6,500 business customers, surveys with hundreds of businesses responding, and dozens of top-notch publications like MarketingSherpa, eMarketer, Pew Research, McKinsey, and more. To download a free copy of your own, please visit http://hubspot.com/charts
2015 B2B Content Marketing Benchmarks, Budgets, and Trends for North AmericaMarketingProfs
This is the fifth year that MarketingProfs and Content Marketing Institute have put together this report on how marketers use content in their marketing mix. With changes in the industry, the report may look a little different than you remember. Dive in, and enjoy!
Brand Design Tested: How simple changes in page element aesthetics led to a 5...MarketingExperiments
As marketers, brand strategy has never been more important. The color schemes, logos, Web design, typography and other design elements that we choose can immediately orient customers when they arrive at our pages. When used properly, these aesthetic choices also reinforce our core value proposition.
Despite the importance of branded design, it is important to realize that we cannot allow our design choices to create obstacles or friction in the minds of our customers and prospects.
In this Web clinic, our research team shared strategies for finding a balance between branded design and page clarity, including a test that helped boost subscriptions by 51%.
Personalized Messaging Tested: How little changes to an email send led to a 3...MarketingExperiments
What truly makes donors give? What prompts customers to clickthrough some emails but delete others?
While there are many technical factors involved in email marketing, the easiest to change, and the most impactful to the bottom line, is getting your messaging right.
In this Web clinic, we’re reaching outside of our own labs to find one of the most interesting nonprofit tests we’ve seen in recent years.
Why explore tests from nonprofit organizations? Nonprofits face the ultimate challenge. Without an actual product or service to sell, they must convert based on perceived value. If you can understand why people donate to a nonprofit, you can understand how to amp up the perceived value of any product or service's actual value.
Tim Kachuriak, Chief Innovation and Optimization Officer, NextAfter brought three lessons learned from a test that generated a 380% increase in revenue per email for an American think tank.
Optimizing Email Capture: How a simple form change led to a 364% increase in ...MarketingExperiments
Despite the increase in understanding of optimization, email capture forms across the Web continue to underperform.
Simply put, we are losing revenue in our sign-up forms.
The ratio of undeliverable emails to new subscribers continues to grow, making each new capture increasingly important to maintaining a healthy list size. Because our email capture form provides us with the opportunity for specificity and segmentation, it is also the best way to ensure the right names are getting on our lists.
Though it is easy as marketers to overlook the importance of optimizing our email capture, now is the time to refocus our efforts on this vital campaign element in order to increase both the size and quality of our lists.
In this 35-minute Web clinic, we shared tests that have revealed actionable tactics to improve email capture, including one test that resulted in a 364% increase in leads. We also provided viewers with transferable takeaways that they can leverage for their own email capture.
Here at MarketingExperiments, applying the scientific method to digital marketing campaigns is at the heart of what we do.
As digital marketing, A/B testing and optimization have become so important over the last 15 years that we’ve literally built the MECLABS Institute around them, a whole new language has sprung up around these idea, complete with its own unique buzzwords, acronyms, and industry shorthand.
As marketers, particularly those just starting to test, it can be exhausting just figuring out how to talk the talk.
To help you cut through the jargon and get straight to the heart of these terms, we at MarketingExperiments have created the Marketing and Online Testing Dictionary. This tool not only provides definitions of nearly two hundred marketing terms related A/B and multivariate testing, but also offers additional resources to help you learn more about many of the ideas and concepts presented herein.
How to Write Headlines That Convert: Key discoveries from a meta-analysis of ...MarketingExperiments
The headline is an element that it so simple — you don't need any special coding skills to change headlines on your websites. Yet, headlines require serious attention. In this Web clinic, we shared a headline change that resulted in an 816% increase in conversion, just from understanding the cognitive psychology of the customer.
The headline is so crucial to marketing campaigns that we have three writers performing a meta-analysis of our lab’s more than 15 years of behavioral research measuring real customer reactions to websites and campaigns from B2B, B2C and nonprofit brands.
This Web clinic revealed key discoveries from this meta-analysis to help any marketer — no matter how much or how little copywriting experience they have — create more effective headlines.
You’ll learn actionable principles for creating headlines that work to improve the results of all your marketing campaigns, emails and websites.
The Top 5 Marketing Discoveries of 2015: 12 months of research in just 60 min...MarketingExperiments
At MarketingExperiments, 2015 has been another great year full of new research and discoveries about what makes customers say 'yes.' It’s not easy to attend or watch every Web clinic, so we want to provide you with the opportunity to catch up on what you may have missed.
In this 60-minute webinar, we looked back at our thousands of hours of research from 2015 to bring you five of the most surprising, actionable discoveries from the year. These simple principles will help you to quickly improve multiple aspects of your digital campaigns — from subject lines and calls-to-action to visitor engagement and mobile design.
With 2016 fast approaching, now is the time to make sure that all of the elements of your digital marketing campaigns are as effective as they can be. Join us on December 9 to learn quick, actionable tactics for improving your marketing collateral in time for the new year.
Strengthen your copy in 35 minutes: Proven strategies to boost the effectiven...MarketingExperiments
You are under constant pressure to quickly pump out copy, often under seemingly impossible deadlines. Without always having the time to test, how can you give your copy the best chance of actually being effective?
In this 35-minute Web clinic, we’ll dive into over 15 years of research from the MECLABS Institute to answer such questions as:
• How long should your copy be?
• What format should it take?
• What should you emphasize?
• What order should it be presented in?
During the November Web clinic, we will share numerous tests that have revealed actionable tactics to strengthen copy across emails, landing pages and PPC ads, and provide attendees with transferable takeaways that they can leverage for their own copy.
Does Fear-based Marketing Work: How one company saw a $45 million increase in...MarketingExperiments
As marketers, we are often taught to identify and tap into the pain points of our customers. But once we pinpoint these sources of customer anxiety, how should we proceed? Should we attempt to alleviate this stress through encouragement or empowerment, or should we instead ratchet up the tension, frightening prospects into thinking that only we can solve their problem?
In this 35-minute live clinic, available at MarketingExperiments.com, we looked at six case case studies, covering everything from social media testing and nonprofit donation drives, to the overall messaging strategy of a Fortune 500 company.
Repeatable Brand Strategy: How successful brands are outmaneuvering the compe...MarketingExperiments
As marketers, our primary problem today is not brand confusion but rather confusion about brand.
When it comes down to the essentials of what makes a brand successful, Aristotle gave us the answer around 2,300 years ago. What’s more, he made it into a repeatable method that just about anyone can use to create a more successful brand.
In this 35-minute replay, Flint McGlaughlin, Managing Director, MECLABS Institute, shows you how to apply Aristotle’s framework to your brand and marketing so you can outmaneuver your competitors.
Leveraging Content to Generate Leads: 3 simple tactics one company used to ac...MarketingExperiments
Content marketing is a popular marketing strategy. Many marketers spend a significant amount of time developing content to generate interest from their customers.
But how do you use this content to generate a direct response? When you do, how do you ensure that you get the most response from the content you have created?
As one company recently discovered, it isn’t as simple as just putting a piece of content on your website. In fact, you could have valuable content to offer (as they did), but if you are unable to communicate this content in an effective way, then you are likely wasting much of the effort put into creating that content.
In a recent experiment with one of the largest industrial product distributers in the world, we were able to generate a 96% increase in the total number of leads by simply making a few tweaks to the way a piece of content was presented to the customer. We didn’t change, alter or rewrite the content. We simply ensured the expression of its value was felt at its fullest force.
In this 35-minute Web clinic, the MECLABS research team explained three simple tactics that you can employ on your own content marketing campaigns.
Optimizing for Multiple Customer Personas: How a recent test “broke the rules...MarketingExperiments
Standard rules of optimization often call for a single focus in writing the headline, body copy and even call-to-action. This works well when all of your visitors are interested in the same thing.
But, what do you do when you have to write copy for a page that serves multiple visitor types with varying interests?
In this Web clinic, Flint McGlaughlin, Managing Director, MECLABS, will reveal how copywriting and design impacts clicks and conversions on pages that serve highly diverse interests simultaneously.
He will address some of the most common questions related to managing the messaging:
• How many visitor types can I address on a single page?
• How do I choose which prospect to focus on?
• Are there any effective templates for managing multiple customers?
• How do I balance the divided attention?
• What copywriting mistakes are commonly made when writing for different personas?
Product Pages Tested: How carefully pinpointing customer anxiety led to a 78%...MarketingExperiments
All over the Web, our product pages are underperforming. It isn’t that we’re losing customers who would never buy the product in the first place, we are simply failing to communicate our products in a way that highlights the most important value and alleviates implicit customer concerns.
According to the recently released MarketingSherpa E-commerce Benchmark Study, the majority of marketers reported their overall e-commerce conversion rate was below 5%. That means for every 100 people, 95 of them don’t convert.
Until we can improve our product pages to help the customers understand the product better, those conversion rates won’t change.
In this clinic, we revealed a real experiment where changes to the product page produced a 78% increase in conversion. You learned:
• Exactly what changes were made to the product page
• Why the changes made the difference
• How you can apply the principles from this clinic to your own pages
Category Pages That Work: Recent research reveals design changes that led to ...MarketingExperiments
Category pages are a standard staple for websites offering multiple SKUs and often take a backseat when it comes to testing and optimization, either due to system constraints or competing priorities.
So when it comes time to create a new site, radical redesign or a different content management system, what is the most effective approach?
In this Web clinic, Flint McGlaughlin, Managing Director, MECLABS, will reveal category page design changes that are consistently increasing clicks and conversions across multiple industries.
Here are some of the key questions our research findings looked to answer:
• Should I include an “Add to Cart” button?
• How much product information should I display?
• Does introductory content on the page impact engagement?
• What’s the most effective way to organize my products?
**PLUS: Live Optimization**
To help you apply the research covered during the Web clinic, time will be reserved for live analysis of audience-submitted category page designs. If you would like your live design or conceptual wireframe reviewed, please submit it below.
Please Note: By filling out the form below you agree to receive invitations to future MarketingExperiments events and information from our educational partners.
2nd Annual Killer Content Awards: Honoring The World's Best B2B Content Marke...G3 Communications
Sharing case studies and behind the scenes looks at the design and execution of the cutting edge content marketing programs. The Killer Content Awards features industry leaders in areas such as:
• Social media and targeted content marketing;
• Educational content that informs and inspires buyers;
• Linking content to measurable, revenue-focused results;
• Using video and interactive content in new and creative ways;
• Deploying content that drives successful, cross-channel campaigns.
Speakers:
• Andrew Gaffney, Demand Gen Report
• Alicia Fiorletta, Channel Marketer Report
Optimizing Subscription Paths: How a radical webpage redesign produced a 173%...MarketingExperiments
A customer’s world is constantly changing. Each day, as technology evolves and devices change, so does the customer experience.
This is particularly true for many in the subscription space, as content distribution is at the bleeding edge of all this change.
As subscription marketers, we can often hear that our sites need to “be this” or “do that” in order to stay up with the changing customer experience.
But what really makes a difference? What really works in marketing today? How are customers really being impacted by all these changes?
In this 35-minute Web clinic, we transcended all the speculation and “best practices” to review a recent experiment in which we tested six different radical webpage approaches against each other to determine which would truly generate the most customer response within a market that is frequently inundated with constant change: the publication subscription space.
But the goal of a test was not simply the lift, but gain knowledge. To that end, we walked through this experiment (and many others) as we distilled transferable insights gained from over a decade of testing, so that you can immediately apply the lessons learned from this experiment to your own webpages.
How is a full conversion optimization project conducted on a website? What pages should you optimize first? How do you successfully identify problems on any given webpage? And what are the changes you make to the different pages? In this webinar we will show the progression of conversion optimization a single website.
We will discuss several case studies, which ultimately led to a 48% overall site improvement. This webinar will show you how to gain incremental increases on each page and will teach you how to optimize the other pages throughout the site using the marketing insights gained throughout the process. You'll Learn:
- How to create a conversion roadmap? How to select which pages to optimize?
- How identify different conversion problems on a webpage?
- How to apply marketing insights learned from each test across different verticals and channels?
Does 'Green' Marketing Really Work? What a recent experiment uncovered about ...MarketingExperiments
Almost anyone with a little creativity can claim to be a “green” company. “Green washing” has become so prevalent in recent years that new marketing laws have had to be put in place to control the blatant deception in so many green marketing campaigns.
But truthful or not, green marketing promises to give our campaigns a quick performance boost with only a slight shift in design or messaging.
However, does it really have an impact on whether a customer will buy from us or not? One company decided to test it, and what the marketers found may surprise you.
In our next clinic, we’ll be exploring the question of whether green marketing has a measurable impact on real marketing campaigns. You’ll learn:
• What we discovered from a real green marketing experiment
• How consumers think about green marketing
• Principles you can take away and immediately apply to your own marketing materials
***PLUS LIVE OPTIMIZATION***
In addition to the case studies and practical training you’ll receive in the clinic, you’ll also have a chance to have your pages reviewed live with research-grounded suggestions from our analysts.
Building the Business Case for Content Marketing - #SPARK15TrackMaven
Content marketing is most powerful when the C-suite understands how it drives revenue and builds the brand. And, other teams within an organization also need to understand how content marketing helps meet business objectives so that these teams can contribute as well. Learn how to talk about content marketing in a language that executives and other stakeholders understand and embrace. This includes having the data to demonstrate impact, particularly when it comes to growing share of voice in the market relative to competitors.
Email and Landing Pages: What worked? What didn't?Brian Tucker
I presented this at the 2012 Nonprofit DMA with my good friend Evan Blackford. We cover some examples work from various areas/offers to demonstrate what is working...and what still needs work!
Email Summit 2015: Top takeaways from this year's best sessionsMarketingSherpa
You give us 30 minutes, and we'll give you all of the greatest takeaways from two days of MarketingSherpa Email Summit 2015 sessions.
In our next MarketingSherpa webinar, sponsored by BlueHornet, we'll present the most valuable content from more than 13 sessions presented by marketers with transferable and inspirational insights into what works, and what doesn't, in email marketing today.
Join Daniel Burstein, Director of Editorial Content, and Jessica Lorenz, Event Content Manager, both of MarketingSherpa, for the in-depth recap of Email Summit 2015 to get ahead of your competition this year.
Live from IRCE: Key insights from the MarketingSherpa E-commerce Benchmark StudyMarketingSherpa
What drives e-commerce marketing success today?
MarketingSherpa, thanks to a research grant by Magento, an eBay company, embarked on a nine-month research project to help answer this question. The result is the MarketingSherpa E-commerce Benchmark Study, which addresses 25 core e-commerce questions based on responses from 4,346 marketers.
Join us for this special MarketingSherpa webinar, broadcast live from the world’s largest e-commerce event – IRCE 2014 – where marketing thought leaders will discuss key charts from the Benchmark Study, and how e-commerce marketers can use this data to overcome challenges and improve results in their own companies. You’ll learn from three expert marketers as they discuss:
• Overall e-commerce conversion rates
• Channels that drive significant traffic
• Barriers to growth that e-commerce marketers face
This webinar is sponsored by Magento.
Download your complimentary copy of the MarketingSherpa E-commerce Benchmark Study: MarketingSherpa.com/Ecommerce
In the brave new world of Social Media Marketing, Email is still far and away the biggest ROI driver. Find out how to use Email marketing to propel your business
Similar to Does Seasonal Messaging Really Work? How one company's wrong assumptions led to a 25% decrease in clickthrough (20)
The Power of the Properly Sequenced Subject Line: Improve email performance b...MarketingExperiments
In a January 2015 MarketingSherpa survey, U.S. adults in every single age group identified email as their preferred form of communication with companies.
Despite the cross-generational appeal of email communication, it is important to realize that customers are not actively trying to open our emails. Rather, they are attempting to eliminate them. With so many messages flooding in daily, customers routinely skim their inboxes with one finger already hovering over the delete key, eager to eliminate any emails that don’t immediately appear relevant to their needs.
As marketers, subject lines are our first line of defense against the trash bin, and we have precious few words to work with. Though the words we choose to use are vital, the order in which we sequence these words within the subject line can make or break our email campaigns as well.
In this 35-minute Web clinic, our research team shared strategies for using the right words, in the right order to maximize the effectiveness of our email campaigns, including two tests that helped boost clickthrough by 15%.
Incorporating Video in Your Mobile Strategy: 2 key principles that helped one...MarketingExperiments
According to a Pew Research Center report in 2013, eight out of 10 American Internet users regularly watch or download videos. The rapid expansion of video on the Web over the past five years has largely been powered by the adoption of smartphones, which make creating and uploading videos faster and easier than ever.
This research indicates that in 2015 and beyond, video will continue to be an essential medium for content on the Web.
As marketers, we often hear that video is the way to engage customers when developing creative for our companies or clients, but how do we know whether the investment is justified?
How do we know that using video is any more effective for delivering a message to our audience than simple copy and static imagery?
In this 35-minute Web clinic, our research team shares strategies for leveraging video to increase the performance of online marketing collateral, including one test that helped boost mobile conversion by over 50%.
Landing Page Optimization: Adding a simple short form increased leads 40%MarketingExperiments
This presentation is part of the MarketingExperiments Blog post, "Landing Page Optimization: Simple, short form increases leads 40%" (http://bit.ly/1Cga7lU). In the blog post, the author discusses how a simple form change led to a 40% increase in leads.
Special Live Optimization Session (with Flint McGlaughlin): The top discoveri...MarketingExperiments
Savvy marketers constantly ask, “How can I get more people to say yes to my offer?”
Perhaps a more important question is, “Why are people saying no?”
In this 35 minute, live optimization Web clinic featuring Flint McGlaughlin, Managing Director and CEO, MECLABS Institute, we distilled over 90,000 hours of research and the collective insight of over 300 experiments from 2014 to optimize the pages that you submitted for review.
We also looked at a case study where two different design approaches an ecommerce company took led to a 167% change in conversion. We showed you which elements dramatically impacted conversions with an emphasis on the cognitive psychology behind the results.
Maximizing Subscription Revenue: How 3 businesses increased their subscriptio...MarketingExperiments
Would you, as a marketing professional, prefer short-term profit or long-term growth?
Although the answer should be obvious, in a hyper-competitive market, subscription marketers continue to opt for the former instead of the latter.
Before discounting subscription products in an effort to increase conversions, you should consider the following questions:
• How do you know that your current discounted pricing isn’t hurting your product's long-term value proposition?
• How do you know you found the optimized price for your product?
• Is a single price point or product appropriate for all prospective customers?
• Do you know which aspect of the product customers value most?
• How do you retain customers at a price point that maximizes revenue in the long-term?
However large your company, it’s important to analyze the role that discounting plays in the overall subscription strategy.
Marketers will learn what to consider before discounting products, as well as risk mitigation strategies inherent in long-term promotional offers.
The MECLABS Technology Group developed a customized technology solution for a multinational banking and financial services company.
This tool enabled their own marketing team to quickly create, manage, and track marketing creative and campaigns.
Read through the presentation to learn more.
ClickZ Live -- Chicago 2014: 3 Common Testing Mistakes (and how to avoid them)MarketingExperiments
How confident are you of understanding how (and why) customers react to your campaigns?
In his ClickZ presentation, Taylor Kennedy, Senior Manager of Training, shared lessons that will optimize ecommerce campaigns to help you identify principles that improve your own testing strategy, while getting a better understanding of your customer.
Optimizing PPC Campaigns: Simple copy changes that increased clickthrough rat...MarketingExperiments
Many marketers depend on paid search to reach their customers. Significant revenue is spent on keyword strategy, but position is only half the battle. It really does not matter how many people see your PPC ad if it does not motivate anyone to click. This raises some essential questions:
• Have you maximized the effectiveness of all 95 characters?
• Does every word convey meaning with the greatest force?
• Will your ad stand out from the competition?
In this 35-minute interactive Web clinic, sponsored by Marin Software, the MECLABS research team reviewed a series of PPC experiments from the MECLABS research library in which small changes led to significant increases in ROI – including one experiment in which changing a single word increased CTR by 289%.
During the course of the presentation, we identified transferable principles discovered from more than a decade of search experimentation that you can immediately apply to your own PPC campaigns.
Optimizing Web Forms: How one company generated 226% more leads from a comple...MarketingExperiments
According to the MarketingSherpa 2012 Lead Generation Benchmark Report, capturing a higher quantity of qualified leads is of one of the most important goals in the minds of marketers.
So how can we capture more leads across our Web forms without significantly reducing the quality of those leads?
In our next clinic, the MECLABS research team will walk you through a scientifically validated case study in which one company radically redesigned its Web form without significantly reducing form fields. The marketers' approach generated a 226% higher rate of lead capture.
You’ll learn:
• The exact changes the company made to its form with before and after versions
• How those changes affected conversion on the page
• Examples and case studies on Web form optimization from our library
• How to apply everything you learn to your own pages through live optimization
Marketing Multiple Products: How radical thinking about a multi-product offer...MarketingExperiments
Marketing with multiple products is difficult. Whether you are in e-retail or not, multiple products can throw a wrench in our best laid marketing plans. Often, what we know to be our most powerful products appear doomed to be over-shadowed by the clutter of less impactful (and sometimes even competing) products.
But what if there was an elegant way to think about our multiple products that could maximize the impact of the whole?
In this Web clinic, we’ll be discussing how one marketer was able to cut through the clutter of a convoluted multi-product offering and increase revenue by 70%.
You’ll learn:
• The exact before and after creative that achieved the result
• How we discovered a way to communicate (seemingly) competing offers
• Key tactics that you can take away and apply to your product offering
• Exactly what this could look like for your own pages through live optimization
Lead Nurturing Tested: New research reveals how slight script tweaks increase...MarketingExperiments
How many prospecting calls does your sales team make per day to convert your leads? 30? 50? 100? Are they effective? After all of the effort you put into your marketing efforts, Sales is likely still complaining for one of two reasons: low lead quality, or low lead quantity.
How can you bridge the gap between your marketing efforts and Sales’ calling efforts?
What if you could make a single suggestion to your sales team and see a 31% increase in response? Furthermore, what if that 31% increase came solely from a slight script modification that only took a few minutes to rewrite?
In this clinic, we’ll share how this simple change in messaging impacted one company’s call-back rate, and how you can quickly rewrite your own call scripts for a significant increase in performance. In this clinic, you’ll learn:
• The exact changes in the script that achieved the 31% increase
• Why each of those changes improved performance
• How you can apply the same principles to your call scripts
The Most Effective Calls-to-Action: 5 principles discovered for increasing cu...MarketingExperiments
Think for a moment about your current calls-to-action on your main offer pages. Are they in the right place on the page? Are they generating enough customer response? Is your CTA copy optimized?
What if there were some slight modifications you could make to your CTA copy, placement, size and color to experience a significant increase in response?
In this 35-minute Web clinic, the MECLABS research team will cover the essentials to swiftly modify your CTAs for a performance lift. In addition, we will be reviewing your CTAs live, so you can apply everything you learn in the clinic to your own optimization efforts.
Financial curveballs sent many American families reeling in 2023. Household budgets were squeezed by rising interest rates, surging prices on everyday goods, and a stagnating housing market. Consumers were feeling strapped. That sentiment, however, appears to be waning. The question is, to what extent?
To take the pulse of consumers’ feelings about their financial well-being ahead of a highly anticipated election, ThinkNow conducted a nationally representative quantitative survey. The survey highlights consumers’ hopes and anxieties as we move into 2024. Let's unpack the key findings to gain insights about where we stand.
Mastering Local SEO for Service Businesses in the AI Era is tailored specifically for local service providers like plumbers, dentists, and others seeking to dominate their local search landscape. This session delves into leveraging AI advancements to enhance your online visibility and search rankings through the Content Factory model, designed for creating high-impact, SEO-driven content. Discover the Dollar-a-Day advertising strategy, a cost-effective approach to boost your local SEO efforts and attract more customers with minimal investment. Gain practical insights on optimizing your online presence to meet the specific needs of local service seekers, ensuring your business not only appears but stands out in local searches. This concise, action-oriented workshop is your roadmap to navigating the complexities of digital marketing in the AI age, driving more leads, conversions, and ultimately, success for your local service business.
Key Takeaways:
Embrace AI for Local SEO: Learn to harness the power of AI technologies to optimize your website and content for local search. Understand the pivotal role AI plays in analyzing search trends and consumer behavior, enabling you to tailor your SEO strategies to meet the specific demands of your target local audience. Leverage the Content Factory Model: Discover the step-by-step process of creating SEO-optimized content at scale. This approach ensures a steady stream of high-quality content that engages local customers and boosts your search rankings. Get an action guide on implementing this model, complete with templates and scheduling strategies to maintain a consistent online presence. Maximize ROI with Dollar-a-Day Advertising: Dive into the cost-effective Dollar-a-Day advertising strategy that amplifies your visibility in local searches without breaking the bank. Learn how to strategically allocate your budget across platforms to target potential local customers effectively. The session includes an action guide on setting up, monitoring, and optimizing your ad campaigns to ensure maximum impact with minimal investment.
In this presentation, Danny Leibrandt explains the impact of AI on SEO and what Google has been doing about it. Learn how to take your SEO game to the next level and win over Google with his new strategy anyone can use. Get actionable steps to rank your name, your business, and your clients on Google - the right way.
Key Takeaways:
1. Real content is king
2. Find ways to show EEAT
3. Repurpose across all platforms
Most small businesses struggle to see marketing results. In this session, we will eliminate any confusion about what to do next, solving your marketing problems so your business can thrive. You’ll learn how to create a foundational marketing OS (operating system) based on neuroscience and backed by real-world results. You’ll be taught how to develop deep customer connections, and how to have your CRM dynamically segment and sell at any stage in the customer’s journey. By the end of the session, you’ll remove confusion and chaos and replace it with clarity and confidence for long-term marketing success.
Key Takeaways:
• Uncover the power of a foundational marketing system that dynamically communicates with prospects and customers on autopilot.
• Harness neuroscience and Tribal Alignment to transform your communication strategies, turning potential clients into fans and those fans into loyal customers.
• Discover the art of automated segmentation, pinpointing your most lucrative customers and identifying the optimal moments for successful conversions.
• Streamline your business with a content production plan that eliminates guesswork, wasted time, and money.
The What, Why & How of 3D and AR in Digital CommercePushON Ltd
Vladimir Mulhem has over 20 years of experience in commercialising cutting edge creative technology across construction, marketing and retail.
Previously the founder and Tech and Innovation Director of Creative Content Works working with the likes of Next, John Lewis and JD Sport, he now helps retailers, brands and agencies solve challenges of applying the emerging technologies 3D, AR, VR and Gen AI to real-world problems.
In this webinar, Vladimir will be covering the following topics:
Applications of 3D and AR in Digital Commerce,
Benefits of 3D and AR,
Tools to create, manage and publish 3D and AR in Digital Commerce.
Unleash the power of UK SEO with Brand Highlighters! Our guide delves into the unique search landscape of Britain, equipping you with targeted strategies to dominate UK search engine results. Discover local SEO tactics, keyword magic for UK audiences, and mobile optimization secrets. Get your website seen by the right people and propel your brand to the top of UK searches.
To learn more: https://brandhighlighters.co.uk/blog/top-seo-agencies-uk/
Monthly Social Media News Update May 2024Andy Lambert
TL;DR. These are the three themes that stood out to us over the course of last month.
1️⃣ Social media is becoming increasingly significant for brand discovery. Marketers are now understanding the impact of social and budgets are shifting accordingly.
2️⃣ Instagram’s new algorithm and latest guidance will help us maintain organic growth. Instagram continues to evolve, but Reels remains the most crucial tool for growth.
3️⃣ Collaboration will help us unlock growth. Who we work with will define how fast we grow. Meta continues to evolve their Creator Marketplace and now TikTok are beginning to push ‘collabs’ more too.
In this presentation, Danny Leibrandt explains the impact of AI on SEO and what Google has been doing about it. Learn how to take your SEO game to the next level and win over Google with his new strategy anyone can use. Get actionable steps to rank your name, your business, and your clients on Google - the right way.
Key Takeaways:
1. Real content is king
2. Find ways to show EEAT
3. Repurpose across all platforms
10 Video Ideas Any Business Can Make RIGHT NOW!
You'll never draw a blank again on what kind of video to make for your business. Go beyond the basic categories and truly reimagine a brand new advanced way to brainstorm video content creation. During this masterclass you'll be challenged to think creatively and outside of the box and view your videos through lenses you may have never thought of previously. It's guaranteed that you'll leave with more than 10 video ideas, but I like to under-promise and over-deliver. Don't miss this session.
Key Takeaways:
How to use the Video Matrix
How to use additional "Lenses"
Where to source original video ideas
Short video marketing has sweeped the nation and is the fastest way to build an online brand on social media in 2024. In this session you will learn:- What is short video marketing- Which platforms work best for your business- Content strategies that are on brand for your business- How to sell organically without paying for ads.
A.I. (artificial intelligence) platforms are popping up all the time, and many of them can and should be used to help grow your brand, increase your sales and decrease your marketing costs.In this presentation:We will review some of the best AI platforms that are available for you to use.We will interact with some of the platforms in real-time, so attendees can see how they work.We will also look at some current brands that are using AI to help them create marketing messages, saving them time and money in the process. Lastly, we will discuss the pros and cons of using AI in marketing & branding and have a lively conversation that includes comments from the audience.
Key Takeaways:
Attendees will learn about LLM platforms, like ChatGPT, and how they work, with preset examples and real time interactions with the platform. Attendees will learn about other AI platforms that are creating graphic design elements at the push of a button...pre-set examples and real-time interactions.Attendees will discuss the pros & cons of AI in marketing + branding and share their perspectives with one another. Attendees will learn about the cost savings and the time savings associated with using AI, should they choose to.
Mastering Multi-Touchpoint Content Strategy: Navigate Fragmented User JourneysSearch Engine Journal
Digital platforms are constantly multiplying, and with that, user engagement is becoming more intricate and fragmented.
So how do you effectively navigate distributing and tailoring your content across these various touchpoints?
Watch this webinar as we dive into the evolving landscape of content strategy tailored for today's fragmented user journeys. Understanding how to deliver your content to your users is more crucial than ever, and we’ll provide actionable tips for navigating these intricate challenges.
You’ll learn:
- How today’s users engage with content across various channels and devices.
- The latest methodologies for identifying and addressing content gaps to keep your content strategy proactive and relevant.
- What digital shelf space is and how your content strategy needs to pivot.
With Wayne Cichanski, we’ll explore innovative strategies to map out and meet the diverse needs of your audience, ensuring every piece of content resonates and connects, regardless of where or how it is consumed.
Digital marketing is the art and science of promoting products or services using digital channels to reach and engage with potential customers. It encompasses a wide range of online tactics and strategies aimed at increasing brand visibility, driving website traffic, generating leads, and ultimately, converting those leads into customers.
https://nidmindia.com/
Top 3 Ways to Align Sales and Marketing Teams for Rapid GrowthDemandbase
In this session, Demandbase’s Stephanie Quinn, Sr. Director of Integrated and Digital Marketing, Devin Rosenberg, Director of Sales, and Kevin Rooney, Senior Director of Sales Development will share how sales and marketing shapes their day-to-day and what key areas are needed for true alignment.
4. #WebClinic
Experiment: Background
Background: A large financial institution.
Goal: To convince visitors to take out a mortgage or refinance an existing mortgage.
Research Question: Which email treatment will generate the highest clickthrough?
Test Design: A/B sequential test
*Note: Test has been anonymized to protect partner confidentiality.
Experiment ID: TP 2077
Record Location: MECLABS Research Library
Research Partner: (Protected)*
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Experiment: Treatment
• The Treatment
incorporates a seasonal
headline
• Halloween-themed
imagery and seasonal
modifications to the value
copy are implemented
throughout
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Why didn’t the seasonal treatment win?
Many marketers assume that seasonal messaging plays
an important role in delivering the right message, to
the right person, at the right time. How can we ensure
that seasonality enhances, rather than sabotages, our
campaigns?
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Today’s focus
Today we will be looking at
two key principles from this
test that can be leveraged to
prevent similar one-time
campaigns from costing us
revenue.
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Seasonal messaging
1. For seasonal messaging to be effective, it must be relevant to
your product and enhance your core value proposition.
Unnecessary seasonality strips away the clarity of the offer and
dilutes your core value proposition.
Key principles
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Experiment: Treatment
• With the addition of Halloween
copy and imagery in the
Treatment, much of this clarity
is obstructed
• This brings up one question: If
the additional content doesn’t
clarify the value proposition,
does it increase its appeal,
exclusivity or credibility?
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• The Halloween messaging fails to
make the offer more appealing to
the prospect or add exclusivity to
the offer
• In addition, there is no meaningful
connection established between
Halloween and mortgage
acquisition or refinancing
Experiment: Treatment
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Background: A computer retailer.
Goal: To leverage seasonal messaging in order to increase computer and accessory sales.
Research Question: Which page treatment will generate higher conversion?
Test Design: A/B split test
*Note: Test has been anonymized to protect partner confidentiality.
Experiment ID: TP11170
Record Location: MECLABS Research Library
Research Partner: (Protected)*
Experiment: Background
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The Control:
Traditional Design
Marquee w/ Featured Products
Product Category Menu
Categorized
Products
4th of July Discounts
Experiment: Which page converted more?
The Treatment:
Integrated Seasonal Design
52%
In conversion (99% LOC)
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Experiment
9%In Open-Rate
26%In Click Rate
Original Subject Line:
Book now to save up to 30% on hotel
stays this December in [City]
Treatment Subject Line:
Holiday Shopping, [Traditional City]
Dinners, Cathedral Concerts and More
[City] Traditions
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Seasonal messaging
1. For seasonal messaging to be effective, it must be relevant to
our product and enhance our core value proposition.
Unnecessary seasonality strips away the clarity of the offer and
dilutes our core value proposition.
2. To guard against future one-time campaign disasters, no
assumption should be left untested. As marketers, we cannot
afford to blindly rely on “best practices.”
Key principles
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Experiment: Sex offender registry
$6 a month for full
access
Control
$6 per month
+ $20 activation fee
Treatment
XNo Difference
in conversion
99%In Revenue
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Experiment: Local newsletter sign-up
Control
• Simple, traditional typeface
• Standard form field
• Brand-specific typography
• Branded design for sign-up form
Treatment
51%In Conversion
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Is seasonality relevant to my product or service?
Do my seasonal campaign elements spotlight, rather than distract from, the
actual product?
Is my seasonal messaging careful not to detract from the clarity of my offer?
Does the inclusion of seasonality make my product more attractive or
appealing to the customer?
Checklist: Seasonal messaging
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Live Optimization: National Parks and Recreation
Primary Audience: Park visitors and
potential park visitors
Page Purpose: Generate sign-ups and raise
awareness of parks and recreation efforts
and national parks
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Live Optimization: Far & Wide Collective
Primary Audience: Prospective customers
of artisan-made clothing and home decor
Page Purpose: Sell artisan-made products
Pop-over
newsletter
registration
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Live Optimization: 740 Rewards
Primary Audience: B2B — Clients looking
for website support and social media
management
Page Purpose: Lead generation
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Live Optimization: Falcon Social
Primary Audience: Marketers in need of
better social media management
Email Purpose: Encourage download of
software demo
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Next Clinic: Test background
Founded in 1973, the Heritage Foundation is a
nonprofit research and educational institution—a
think tank—whose mission is to formulate and
promote conservative public policies.
Every December, the Heritage Foundation sends
out an email to members asking for donations to
help the group reach their year-end fundraising
goals.
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Next Clinic: Control
• This email was sent by Jim DeMint,
the president and most well-known
leader of the nonprofit, asking
recipients for their support with a
year-end gift
• The Control leverages continuity, as
all support requests throughout the
year have come from DeMint
• The tone of the email is formal and
professional
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Next Clinic: Treatment
• The email was sent by Christie
Fogarty, the nonprofit’s much lesser
known Director of Membership,
making the same request
• The Treatment breaks continuity, as
all support requests throughout the
year have come from the president
of the nonprofit
• The email uses a much softer,
informal tone
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Live August 12 at 4 p.m. EDT
• The exact changes that resulted in a 380% change in response rate
• Why those changes convinced donors to give
• Lessons learned from NextAfter’s nonprofit work that can be
transferred to for-profits
• Key strategies to utilize and pitfalls to avoid when leveraging
personalization
Join us, along with special guest Tim
Kachuriak of NextAfter.com, for the next live
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