Some marketers don’t put much thought into button text. Over time, most organizations wind up with a handful of buttons they use for everything. It’s convenient, but not strategic. Your button text is one of the most critical pieces of your call-to-action. It tells people what will happen if they [...]
Your follow-up strategy can make or break your ad campaign. It doesn’t matter how low your cost per click was if your leads don’t convert. What you do after someone gives you their email can make all the difference. Wait too long to communicate with them, and they’ll forget how [...]
Imagine you’re at a friend’s house for lunch. After you spend a few minutes catching up, a stranger opens the front door, sits down at the table, and leans into the conversation. That’s what it feels like when your ads look out of place on someone’s website. To the reader, [...]
Want to improve your email performance? Never send out an email with only one subject line. If you test at least two ideas, you’ll ensure better results and learn more about what your audience responds to. But what if you can’t come up with another idea? Small tweaks like adding [...]
Optimization is about ensuring you’re getting the best possible result for the least amount of money, and it’s an essential part of digital advertising. It can make the difference between a campaign that costs you money and one that makes you money. And whatever your goals are, it’s hard to [...]
If nobody reads your emails, writing them is a waste of time. Who’s even seeing your marketing, let alone clicking through and taking the actions you want them to take? For some organizations, low open rates create a self-fulfilling prophecy: their email list isn’t performing well, so they don’t put [...]
When you send an email promoting your product or services, how many people does it go to? How many views does your average blog post get? What about social media? Your YouTube channel? If no one’s listening, it’s a lot harder to justify putting in the work to create great [...]
You’ve heard it before. Always. Be. Closing. The ABCs of sales teaches your salespeople to stay on the lookout for opportunities, but this mentality also values short-term gains over long-term success. Your organization has a relationship with every lead you capture. When you seize every opportunity to ask for the [...]
Digital advertising is highly scalable. If you want more leads, you just increase your spend to get more impressions, clicks, or conversions, or target another audience. But most brands don’t have an infinitely scalable budget. And a lot of organizations struggle to turn their leads into customers. That’s where content [...]
It’s a lot easier to be confident in your ideas when you can say, “We tested it. This messaging outperformed the others. This design increased conversions. This title got the most clicks.” A/B testing is a practice every marketing team should have in their toolkit. But while the concept is [...]