How Small Businesses Can Use Visual Content and Increase Conversions

How Small Businesses Can Use Visual Content and Increase Conversions

What do big companies have that small businesses don’t? Maybe they have more resources or online followers, or maybe they have more budget to spend on advertising and site design. However, none of this should deter you. Using visual content effectively online is all about knowing how to do it right.

Infographic – 86 Percent of Users May Leave a Website When Asked to Create an Account

Convince & Convert sponsor and provider of social media sign-on technology Janrain has put together some research on user behavior around online web forms and registration pages. Have you considered the value that registration forms are creating (or taking away) from your website? Here’s what they found: Download this infographic as a PDF – http://info.janrain.com/acton/attachment/1205/f-00fb/0/-/-/-/-/file.pdf

5 Ways to Use Pinterest to Boost Press Release Results

Pinterest is taking over social media like a tsunami of college students on a pizza delivery guy. Why not? It’s fun, highly addictive and – newly announced as the 3rd most popular social network in the World – it’s creeping up on Facebook with 11+ million users. So how can you leverage that popularity to […]

How to Make Social Media Infographics That Get Noticed

Video production by my friends at Candidio. Fast, inexpensive, great service. (Abbreviated transcript below. Please watch video for entire interview.) Jay: Welcome everybody. It’s Jay Baer from Convince & Convert, joined today by a very special guest, my friend Mark Smiciklas from Intersection Consulting in lovely Vancouver, Canada and author of the new book “The […]

5 Reasons Pinterest is Addicting and 4 Weaknesses That May Kill it

How Pinterest is secretly profiting from your links | VentureBeat

Like Google searches for M.I.A. after her Super Bowl middle finger salute, the growth of Pinterest is positively ferocious. A 329 percent increase in unique visitors in 90 days is the kind of rocket ship acceleration that is usually far more myth than reality, even in social media start-up circles. Why this newfound obsession with […]

Is Content Marketing a Necessity For Your Brand?

Content Marketing – Give Them Something to Talk About If customers and prospects are already chattering about your brand on the social Web, your social media initiative can focus primarily on becoming an authentic part of those existing conversations. If someone throws you a surprise party, you just need to show up – you don’t […]

5 Step Process for Social Media Success

social media success process

Social media makes big companies feel small again, and gives small companies a natural advantage because they are closer to their customers. It doesn’t matter what industry you’re in, you have interesting stories to tell. Finding and sharing them is the first step toward social media success. What is your process for harvesting stories within […]