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Archive for November, 2007

New Blog Template – Delightful?

Wednesday, November 28th, 2007 Read more about Articles

As you've probably noticed, we just recently updated our blog design. Over the next few days we'll be updating some links (a few are broken right now) and tweaking some of the design elements.
This makes it the perfect time to hear your thoughts on the new design. Like it? What works? What doesn't? In [...]

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 [...]

Affiliate Elite – Does it Lead to Elite Affiliate Marketing?

Monday, November 26th, 2007 Read more about Reviews

A Review of Affiliate Elite
Covering Affiliate Elite Features and Reviews
Affiliate Elite is the latest release from Brad Callen, who previously released Keyword Elite and SEO Elite. The very first thing you notice about Affiliate Elite is that it is loaded with features like:

PayDotCom and ClickBank database research to find the current HOT Products
Reverse Google Searches [...]

Google AdWords Tips | Use Free Stuff to Attract Attention

Monday, November 19th, 2007 Read more about Google AdWords Tips

This ad boosted conversion rates by 67%.
Marketing the product itself versus marketing the results.
We've previously talked before about the importance of pushing the BENEFITS of your product instead of the features. In general, sales copy highlighting the benefits will usually perform better, but every so often this generalization gets challenged...
Which is exactly what happened to [...]

Google AdWords Tips | Implying Passive vs Proactive Product Interaction

Wednesday, November 14th, 2007 Read more about Google AdWords Tips

Does your audience respond to ads that imply the product does things for them or that the product empowers them?
See which option had an 87% higher CTR.
One of the biggest questions when writing ads, headlines, or any sales copy for that matter, is whether your audience desires passive or active benefits. Do they want an [...]

Roger Hall Releases AdWords Ad Generator Tool

Tuesday, November 13th, 2007 Read more about Google AdWords

Automatically generate ads with proven formulas using this tool.
Roger Hall has recently released an ad generator tool that will automatically generate headlines and copy for your AdWords ads based on several inputs. You input your product and domain and within seconds you're looking at a bunch of ready-to-go ads to paste into your AdWords account [...]

Get a Great Ad Position in PPC Right from the Start

Monday, November 12th, 2007 Read more about Articles, Google AdWords

Initial PPC Ad Positions are critical to your overall success.
What positions do your ads usually take in PPC?
When you launch a website or just begin advertising a product, one of the most important things you should consider is the PPC position of your ad.
Before you get started, you have to understand Google’s standpoint on this. [...]

Google AdWords Tips | Let Your Customers Finish the Story.

Friday, November 9th, 2007 Read more about Google AdWords Tips

Learn one small tweak that boosted CTR by 100%
This 2 minute tweak could dramatically improve your CTR!
When you place an ad on AdWords, what you're actually doing is sharing the first few sentences of Your Story with the customer. Your ad is the very first impression they'll have of you, meaning it determines the tone [...]

Some People Write Headlines. Others Write GREAT Headlines. Which are you?

Thursday, November 8th, 2007 Read more about Articles, Headlines

Master the Secrets to Achieving Headline Greatness.
The Difference Between Good and Great Headlines.
On the average, 5 times as many people read the headlines as read the body copy. It follows that unless your headline sells your product, you have wasted 90% of your money.
~ David Ogilvy, World famous advertising executive and best-selling author.
Imagine staring at [...]

Google AdWords Tips | General vs Specific Description

Monday, November 5th, 2007 Read more about Google AdWords Tips

Learn what produced a massive 300% boost in conversions.
Today we're sharing a tip that created a huge boost in conversions for us. Occasionally in your testing you might want to try a significantly different ad, just to see if your current winner is headed in the right direction.
This is exactly what we did. And [...]