Sandra Niehaus and Sara Sturtevant of Closed Loop Marketing offer three methods for getting inside your visitor’s heads to design an online experience that persuades and converts. Get Real Look at the Big Picture Triangulate and Iterate I captured this instagraph at Conversion Conference West 2012. FULL SIZE
BJ Fogg is a Psychologist, Innovator and Director, Stanford Persuasive Technology Lab. He gave an inspirational and interactive keynote presentation at Conversion Conference West 2012 using props instead of slides. His props included a magician’s robe, and a kayak paddle as a wand. Clearly, he knows something about how to communicate. Part of his presentation […]
Part of persuasive writing is crafting killer conversion copy. On today’s interview, I ask Joanna Wiebe for her opinion on the matter. Check it out. I’ve been putting the finishing touches on my Conversion Conference presentation entitled Creating Killer Conversion Copy: Emails, Landing Pages, PPC Ads and More. I asked Joanna Wiebe of CopyHackers.com to […]
Drawn video has a unique ability to engage visitors and increase conversion.
In your rush to get as many Likes, Follows, Connections and +1’s as you can, have you thought about how you are going to turn those fans and friends into leads and sales?
No parent relishes having “the talk” about conversion rates. No one wants to tell their kids: “Kids, conversion rates are still only around 2 percent” or tell them the naked truth about all the sites out there that were never optimized. Or point out that they’re hanging with the wrong crowd when it comes to […]
After nine months of writing, fifteen chapters complete and dozens of columns supporting the effort, you’d think that the easiest thing to do would be to pick a name for my conversion marketing book. As it turns out, this is difficult. So why read a post about selecting a book title? Because, it’s all about […]
I don’t pay to attend many conferences, but I think I’m pretty good at picking those that give me information I can use “on Monday.” Conversion Conference is definitely one of those. Just look at some of the agenda items:
The Iliad and The Odyssey, TV Sitcoms, your Website….what do they all have in common? The Hero’s Journey. Recently I read that Dan Harmon, creator of the quirky TV show Community (NBC) uses the literary device of the Hero’s Journey to map out his episodes. They all involve taking someone from his comfort zone, through […]
At the start of 2011, I wrote about the poker hand, the winning strategy, the high cards that let you compete against every other site their customers will visit. Creating and optimizing interesting content that helps visitors find what they need is a high card. Social media and attention to conversion metrics are cards that […]
