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How to Get More out of Conversion Confirmation Pages

(Search Engine Watch) Conversion optimization focuses on compelling visitors to take a specific action on your site or landing page, but marketers shouldn’t overlook a low-hanging fruit: the purchase/lead confirmation page. Joseph Kerschbaum, senior client strategist for PPC Associates, shares seven tips to improve the confirmation page to set a good foundation for lasting customer […]

How Privacy Policies on Forms Affect Sign-ups

(ContentVerve.com) Placing a brief note about your privacy policy to assure visitors that their information won’t be shared or abused seems like a good way to boost sign-up rates, right? Yes and no. While this is a good idea in general, there are important caveats marketers should know about, illustrated by four A/B tests for […]

Data & Analytics

Key Metrics for Determining Your Marketing ROI

At face value, it may seem like some marketing activities should be eliminated due to a high initial cost per lead.

Data & Analytics

Texting with Grandma: 5 Facts You Should Know About Seniors 55+

The cliché of a senior not knowing how to use a cell phone is prevalent in pop culture and advertising, but is it true? Five facts you need to know.

Direct Marketing | Print

Evaluating MailChimp’s Mixed-Media Campaign

(The Daily Egg) It’s easy to fall into the trap of thinking that “marketing” is synonymous with “digital,” but companies need to remember that tangible interactions are a great way to change things up a bit, in a pleasant way. Kathryn Aragon, of The Daily Egg, offers a look into how MailChimp ran a mixed-media […]

Digital

Snickers Runs PPC Ads to Target Misspellings by Hungry Searchers

(AdAge) Snickers found a creative way to target hungry searchers with a PPC ad campaign in the U.K. that used the top 500 search terms on Google and found the most common misspellings of those words, yielding a grand total of 25,381 words to bid on. The brand and its agency also ran “Snickers Foosball,” […]

How to Write “Awesome Frickin’ Content”

(Search Engine Watch) When asked what his best SEO tip was a couple years ago, Scott Stratten, author of “UnMarketing,” simply said to write “awesome frickin’ content.” But what does that mean? Grant Simmons, director of SEO and social product for The Search Agency, explains. Among other things, the content should answer a user’s question, […]

Data & Analytics

How Text Messaging Can Drive App Engagement and Revenues

(MarketingProfs) Text messaging is one of the most effective direct marketing channels to attract new users as well as to increase engagement with existing customers, according to a recent study by Peggy Anne Salz, editor of MobileGroove. This article lays out what you need to know from the study, a case example from the Qeep […]

Old Media, New Tricks

(Wall Street Journal) Buying ad space on the video screens inside the Clark/Lake train station in Chicago typically involves making half a dozen phone calls and exchanging several emails or faxes with the firm that owns the screens. Now, advertisers can accomplish the same task with a few clicks of a computer mouse, thanks to […]

Digital

How To Create In-House Social Media Celebrities

(PR News Online) On this video, Nicole Yelland, director of marketing and communications at Livio, spoke with Mike Bako CEO of DS Simon Productions, about how to use Twitter to personify your brand and make it more relatable to your audiences. She’s got some interesting tips that you may not be thinking of.