For many businesses, the key to making sales is to first generate leads. Leads are valuable because they’re the people who have indicated organic interest in your content and your business by giving you their information in some way, whether it’s by filling out a form to download an ebook,…
Believe it or not, driving traffic to your website — albeit challenging — isn’t enough to sustain your business. In an effort to truly leverage that investment in traffic, marketers must use conversion rate optimization, or CRO, to convince said traffic to complete a desired action. In some cases, these…
The other day, I was reading a blog post about using Twitter for marketing. While reading through the post, I noticed an offer for a free ebook about the same thing, and by clicking on it, I was taken to a new page. This page let me know what was…
Have you ever heard the term “analysis paralysis”? It’s the concept that too many choices can inhibit a person’s ability to make a decision. It’s like when a visitor is on your website and there are too many places to look or there’s a confusing design. When this happens, visitors…
Users, visitors, prospects, leads, and customers. What do all these words have in common? They’re how we, as marketers, classify the people who engage with our brand — humans with needs and desires. Yet, as we lump them together in analytics dashboards, based on view time, country of origin, bounce…
There’s a common misconception about attention that most marketers love to reference nowadays: the average human has a shorter attention span than the average goldfish. But if you really think about this claim, it can’t possibly be true. People watch two and half hour long movies and binge entire seasons…
In copywriting, there’s an old adage that states the purpose of your first line of copy is to compel people to read your second line of copy. In web design, the same principle applies. But instead of crafting a compelling first line of copy, you need to design gripping website…
In the marketing industry, we treat experts like they’re village elders, soaking up every tip and trick they have to offer so we can implement them into our own work, desperately hoping for similar results. But, when you really think about it, marketing is always changing and experts often don’t…
As marketers, we all know what macro conversions are — simply put, a macro-conversion is the primary goal of your site. For instance, Amazon’s macro conversion is when a user purchases a product. Boston Web Group’s macro-conversion, on the other hand, is when someone requests a consultation appointment. But oftentimes,…