The effort to improve website performance has traditionally been the problem of your hosting provider or IT. With the growth in mobile traffic, it is probably something marketers need to drive themselves. There is a ceiling on your conversion rate. It’s not your price. It’s not your copy. It’s not your form. When I tell […]
Find out how to A/B test copy, the words, images, captions, and fonts that you use on your website persuasively. Learn how data can be used to find out if your copywriting will deliver conversions. I believe that copywriters suffer from a particular kind of post-traumatic stress disorder. It comes from the fact that anyone […]
Every agency believes they have the right service for the price a company is willing to pay. So they can be very persuasive. Find out what questions you should be asking to pick the right agencies for your business. Agencies make things possible that our marketing teams just can’t do with the resources they have. […]
Marketing departments are understaffed, overworked and required to do quantitative and creative work. No wonder marketers are struggling. How does Erin Collis deal with the variety of tasks all marketers face? What can leaders do? F. Scott Fitzgerald is credited with saying “The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed […]
Barbara Caveness of Uncommon Logic tells us how she builds and manages teams that are both data-driven and creative. What job description would a marketing manager write if they wanted experimenters in their organization? I think it might go something like this. Title: Marketing Experimenter Primary job description: Making people aware of our products and […]
Is analytics really going to make a difference? Will I benefit by getting deeper into my analytics? Find out how exciting one man can make Google Analytics. Analytics is not one of those words that inspires action. It’s not a word like “Rose” dripping with alternate meanings and romantic associations. It’s not like the word […]
How is Curiosity related to Creativity? What are the barriers to your curiosity? Find out how to spur the curiosity of yourself and your team. Experimenters. You know the type. As children, we call them “precocious”. They’re the ones who are always asking, “Why? Why? WHY?” In middle school, they were sometimes called “mischievous,” seeming […]
Should you be stealing ideas from your competitors? Wouldn’t you like to know how their website is converting first? It turns out that you can, and Mike Roberts wants to make it cheap and easy. Novelty Bias. It is the tendency of new things to increase our interest in them. For a digital marketer, it […]
Every business wants to know their customers better. Yet many businesses are inward looking. What has to change? When you want to save a file in your favorite application, which icon do most apps offer up? Why it’s the image of a 3.5″ floppy disc, of course. Why is it that the universal icon for […]
How do you bring a data-driven approach to your website redesign? BigCommerce hired Chris Nolan to do just that. Here’s how he used data to drive a Market-first redesign. When we lose an employee to another company, I feel a mix of pride and saltiness. I’m proud that working here turns otherwise ordinary men and […]
