4 Critical Steps for Marketing in a Recession (video)
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?
5 Memorable Lessons from my Sarah Palin PPC Campaign
Thanks to everyone for participating in my “Are you man enough to write a PPC ad about a woman VP” contest. Many excellent entries. 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 […]
Agencies Need to be Testing Landing Pages
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 […]
Simple techniques for making Web site visitors take action
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 […]
Swissarmyknife.com: Using Web strategy to improve integrated marketing
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, […]