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4 Critical Steps for Marketing in a Recession (video)

December 11th, 2008 | Written By: Jay Baer
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Greetings. I’ve put together another video blog post, this time on a subject that’s on everyone’s mind: How to Market in a Recession. Do you believe?

Tagged as: conversion rate, customer service, email testing and optimization, integrated marketing, marketing tactics, multi-variate testing, ppc copywriting, web analytics, web analytics and testing, Web site analytics, Web site testing and optimization

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5 Memorable Lessons from my Sarah Palin PPC Campaign

September 8th, 2008 | Written By: Jay Baer
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Thanks to everyone for participating in my “Are you man enough to write a PPC ad about a woman VP” contest. Many excellent entries (see original post). Here are the results:

McCain is 72 years old
Avg US life expectancy is 78 years
Is Palin qualified? Read This
DailyKos.com 1.31% Click-through rate

Sarah Palin’s Secrets
What the GOP doesn’t want you to
know about [...]

Tagged as: Contest, google, landing pages, pay-per-click, ppc, ppc copywriting, ppc programs, PPC tips, Sara Palin, search engine copywriting, search marketing, web analytics and testing

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Agencies Need to be Testing Landing Pages

July 21st, 2008 | Written By: Jay Baer
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Average length of stay on a Web site is approximately 2 minutes and 30 seconds overall. Approximate length of stay by visitors coming from search is about 10 seconds. Why the difference? Search users are less likely to know your company and its attributes in advance, and they know there are several other options available [...]

Tagged as: ad agencies, advertising agencies, conversion rate, cost per click, landing pages, marketing tactics, pay-per-click, ppc, ppc programs, PPC tips, quality score, ROI, search marketing, SEM, web analytics and testing, Web site Analytics and Metrics, web site analytics and testing, Web site testing and optimization

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Simple techniques for making Web site visitors take action

October 28th, 2006 | Written By: Jay Baer
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Making the Horses Drink

The Web is the most comprehensively flawed world-changing technology ever. The ways in which you can screw up a Web site are without limit. In contrast, it’s a lot tougher to botch a fire, a wheel, a toilet, an ATM, or one of those KFC chicken/potato/corn/cheese bowls.

Like a really big Science Fair [...]

Tagged as: conversion rate, navigation, usability, web analytics and testing, web site metrics, Web Site Strategy

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Swissarmyknife.com: Using Web strategy to improve integrated marketing

September 28th, 2005 | Written By: Jay Baer
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What does the Internet have to do with your print, TV, radio, direct mail and other traditional tactics? Plenty.
Along with the oft-cited belief that half of all marketing dollars are wasted lies a corollary, which is that the traditional components of most marketing plans are evaluated using less than scientific means. In many cases, the [...]

Tagged as: integrated marketing, Internet Advertising, media mix, press release optimization, web analytics and testing

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