About Ryan Nelson

Ryan Nelson is a writer for Overthink Group, where he helps brands tell their stories and climb search engine results pages. He also teaches people about the Bible on OverviewBible.com.

Why You Should Think Carefully About Where You Advertise

You have an overwhelming number of advertising options. So how do you ensure that you’re connecting with the best possible audience in the best possible ways? Today’s digital advertising heavily emphasizes the power of data—which is important, because it helps you connect with the right people and produce the most [...]

2019-08-23T21:08:27+00:00

Don’t Let Clutter Kill Your Conversion Rates

It takes a lot of work to design and build high-quality landing pages. So it’s frustrating when they don’t perform as well as you expected. But sometimes, low conversion rates aren’t a reflection on your copy, your design, or even your targeting. Sometimes low conversion rates are a sign that [...]

2020-12-09T21:57:34+00:00

3 Tips to Reach Your Audience in a Noisy World

On Facebook, 99 percent of people scroll past your ad without clicking. More than 90 percent of all content (blog posts, videos, webpages, etc.) gets no traffic from Google. And the average email has an open rate of 21 percent. In other words, the vast majority of marketing gets ignored [...]

2020-07-27T14:52:33+00:00

How Pastors Influence Church Members

Pastors don’t often promote specific products or services from the pulpit. But when church members have questions about how to live out their faith, pastors tend to recommend the books, conferences, courses, advisors, organizations, and other resources they’re familiar with. If you want to reach Christian consumers, you should have [...]

2020-04-02T16:34:29+00:00

How Pastors Help You Reach Your Ideal Audience

For brands that create church products, the decision-makers are often elder board members, tech directors, or ministry leaders. If that’s you, it might seem like a waste of effort to advertise to pastors or create unique content for them. They’re not the ones buying and using your product or service, [...]

2020-03-19T14:30:43+00:00

How to Write Emails That Get Clicks

It’s frustrating when you spend time and money building a list of leads, only to wind up with a bunch of subscribers who ignore all your emails. Email marketing can be incredibly effective, but a lot of brands make common mistakes that hurt their click-through rate (CTR). Thankfully, there are [...]

2020-08-06T16:07:27+00:00

4 Reasons Print Advertising Is Still Important

As your brand explores what to do with your advertising budget, someone will inevitably ask, is print advertising still worth it? Why invest in print ads when you have so many great digital options? Digital advertising has some major strengths that print ads can’t replicate. It’s far easier to measure [...]

2020-06-25T14:54:21+00:00

Why Your Leads Need Consistent Messaging

Why do people sign up for your email lists? Before you ever start writing a lead nurture campaign, you need to answer to this question. Relevancy is one of the most important factors to consider when emailing your list. You need to consider why your subscribers signed up, and what [...]

2019-01-17T16:18:14+00:00

What Digital Advertisers Forget about Brand Awareness

Not every advertising campaign has to directly move the needle and drive sales. Sometimes it’s more helpful to get your brand on people’s radar before working toward other goals. Brand awareness is hard to measure. But it certainly has value. Whether you’re launching a dedicated brand awareness campaign or simply [...]

2020-09-22T17:52:59+00:00