7 Marketing Lessons Learned When Naming My New Book

  After nine months of writing, fifteen chapters complete and dozens of columns supporting the effort, you’d think that the easiest thing to do would be to pick a name for my conversion marketing book. As it turns out, this is difficult. So why read a post about selecting a book title? Because, it’s all [...]

Conversion Conference: One Conference that Should Pay for Itself Quickly

I don’t pay to attend many conferences, but I think I’m pretty good at picking those that give me information I can use “on Monday.” Conversion Conference is definitely one of those. Just look at some of the agenda items:

Lessons from Groupon: How to Succeed with Email

Whatever you think of deals site leader Groupon, you can’t argue with their amazing success. Since 2007, Groupon has built an email list of 50 million subscribers and have kept them enraptured even though they send an email almost every single day. Is it the deals? I would argue that it is not. Groupon: Is it [...]

5 Ways to Prepare for the Battle of the Landing Page

I believe so strongly in the power of targeted, focused landing pages, that I’m going to prepare you for the inevitable battles that will ensue. It is inevitable that forces of darkness will swoop down on you as you prepare a page designed for high conversion rates.

How Analytics Saved One Business’s Online Sales

Tom had two sites targeting the same audience, and getting about the same traffic. Both had analytics installed. This was a rare opportunity to see how two very different approaches to Web site design affected online sales conversion out in the real world.