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Archive for the ‘Website Optimization’ Category

MindValley’s Social Media Marketing Unveiled

Tuesday, December 2nd, 2008 Read more about Social Media, Viral Marketing, Website Optimization

Lately, we’ve been pretty busy behind the scenes work­ing on putting together some­thing new and rev­o­lu­tion­ary.
I’ve already unveiled a great deal of this stuff at an exclu­sive, pri­vate event. How­ever, some of the basic tricks were already pub­lished here in this blog.
In this post, you’ll find a list of those use­ful tricks com­piled for your easy […]

McAfee Magic: How One Tiny Tweak Boosted Sales by 15%

Thursday, November 20th, 2008 Read more about Conversion Rate, Creating Trust Online, Landing Page Optimization, Make Money, Reviews, Split Testing, Website Optimization

Who knew that such a tiny, lit­tle addi­tion — a small image to be pre­cise — can have such a sig­nif­i­cant impact on sales?
Well, we cer­tainly didn’t expect it, and that just goes to show the impor­tance of split test­ing even the small­est tweaks.
Here is what we did.
One of our biggest web­sites is www.SilvaLifeSystem.com and below is […]

What Does Your Order Button Say?

Friday, August 29th, 2008 Read more about Copywriting, Split Testing, Website Optimization

Have you ever won­dered what impact the lan­guage on your order but­ton could have on the con­ver­sion rate of your site?
We did and we were shocked to find out what a huge impact such a tiny change could make to the con­ver­sion rate of our site.
Well, since we believe in con­tin­u­ously test­ing just about every­thing, we went […]

150% More Traffic and 133% More Sales From A Few Tweaks. You Can’t Be Serious… Can You?

Monday, May 26th, 2008 Read more about Website Optimization

We just posted a free case-study video show­ing exactly how we helped a client score 150% more traf­fic and 133% more con­ver­sions.
It’s almost exactly 16 min­utes and depicts exactly what this entre­pre­neur did to her crazy niche site… which is “EMF Pro­tec­tion Equip­ment.” You’ll see “before” and “after” pics as well as hear from the […]

Upcoming Internet Marketing Tests

Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008 Read more about Split Testing, Website Optimization

We’ve been pour­ing through all the blogs, prod­uct releases, news­groups and trends in the Inter­net Mar­ket­ing world and build­ing a queue of hot new ideas to test.
Here are some of the Ideas We’ll be break­ing Test­ing and Shar­ing Results Of
Face­book Adver­tis­ing
How effec­tive are CTRs on Face­book? Do clicks con­vert to leads or sales? We’ll be testing […]

Want to Annoy Your Visitors, Turn Away Customers and Screw Up Your Google Rankings? Great, just add a Flash Intro to Your Site

Tuesday, January 22nd, 2008 Read more about SEO, Website Optimization

I was Googling to find the com­pany “AIESEC Michi­gan”, a recruit­ing firm in Ann Arbor.
Their offi­cial site is AiesecMichigan.com
But here is what Google shows:

Take a look at the last link on that page. Yup that’s the site they want to draw traffic to.

SKIP?
Not only is their flash web­site killing their search engine rank­ings (How is Google […]

Long Copy or Short Copy : Here’s How to Choose

Monday, January 7th, 2008 Read more about Copywriting, Website Optimization

I was lis­ten­ing to one of Yanik Silver’s CDs from his excel­lent copy­writ­ing course today and came across this inter­est­ing nugget.
A lot of peo­ple still don’t under­stand that long copy tends to usu­ally out­per­form short copy. They rea­son that long copy usu­ally turns peo­ple off.
This is true. In the study quoted in Yanik’s course, the majority […]

THUD Factor — How to Boost Sales by Re-Packaging Your Product in a Smarter Way">The THUD Factor — How to Boost Sales by Re-Packaging Your Product in a Smarter Way

Monday, January 7th, 2008 Read more about Checkout Design, Website Optimization

This is a short tip but a pow­er­ful one.
Let’s say you’re sell­ing a 300 page on Mex­i­can Cook­book on your site. It con­tains a vari­ety of recipes from begin­ner to advanced. You’re sell­ing this cook­book for $30.
Here’s what you can do to imme­di­ately boost your prof­its.
Split Your Prod­uct in Two
Take that book and divide it into two books.
Mexican […]

Psychology and Ecommerce — How To Happily Marry Them

Tuesday, November 27th, 2007 Read more about Articles, Website Optimization

Every web site we build is opti­mized for 6 crit­i­cal psy­cho­log­i­cal trig­gers.
Use these trig­gers to inspire vis­i­tors to become leads and leads to become cus­tomers.
Note: With this power comes great respon­si­bil­ity.
It’s the hol­i­days, so we thought we’d share some of our strongest strate­gies with you.
There’s a $474,500,000,000+ hol­i­day pie to be split over the next 35 […]

The Paradox of Choice — Another Look

Friday, January 19th, 2007 Read more about Conversion Rate, Site Design, Website Optimization

There is an inter­est­ing dis­cus­sion that we have been fol­low­ing and par­tic­i­pat­ing in regard­ing con­sumer choice.  There are two parts to this equa­tion:
First, we have been liv­ing in an age where choice is explod­ing and the Inter­net fur­ther accel­er­ated this trend.  That is why one of the top books on this topic is called: “The […]