The average goldfish has a nine-second attention span. The average Internet user has an eight-second attention span. That’s what your marketing is up against every time someone hits your landing page or opens your email. Your readers are literally less attentive than a goldfish. That’s not a criticism of how [...]
Optimization is the science of making your work as effective as possible. You strategically tweak and test your landing pages, emails, and ads to maximize a specific metric, such as clicks, conversions, or opens. And therein lies the problem with optimization: it can give you tunnel vision. Focusing too much [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]