Does Your Landing Page Add Incentive or Repeat What Recipients Already Heard?

Every offer made online through email, social media, ads, or sponsored links should direct people to a webpage on your site dedicated to that offer.  These landing pages are a tried and true best practice because if people land on a page that doesn’t reinforce the offer they were interested in, confusion and abandonment multiply.  However, good landing pages bring

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Define Success: Website

Website metrics are often simplified to website metric, visitors. While the number of visitors is certainly important as we need traffic, many other metrics are a better measure of success on a website. There are several web metrics that can be used to define success based on the company objective: Bounce rate – This serves as a reverse goal, meaning

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Is Your Call to Action Luring Visitors In?

A good call to action is a Siren Song.  Your target audience shouldn’t be able to resist its lure.  However, many times websites calls to action are a dud.  They ask for a lot and provide little in return.  Make sure that your call to action is appealing to your website target so that conversions are consistently generated. The first

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Email Subject Lines – Be Direct

Jakob Nielson wrote a great article on email usability.  There is a lot of good points but I wanted to focus on his section about subject lines.  As a rule of thumb, if you have doubts on what the subject line should be . . . be direct. There is a great example in the article of a subject line

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