The answer could be in the form of news, email sign-ups, unique visits, enrollments, etc. A brand’s website or blog should be its ROI hero, but in many cases it ends up being a public relations liability.
Conversion rate is a great metric to use when you're looking to measure meaningful actions like sales, lead gen, downloads, or sign-ups. Assuming you're testing your PPC ads on a regular basis, which I hope is the case, one of the challenges you...
URL Destination is probably the easiest and most effective for your first split test, as most often the goal will be to increase sign-ups or click-through to another page. Split testing is important. Really important.
If signups from one channel tend to lead to higher value customers, you may want to give more value to those signups to see if you’re able bring in more valuable customers. It’s a topic at nearly every digital marketing conference as well as in...
Links from dangerous sites: Do you have inbound links from sites that have been flagged for malware, numerous pop-ups, or other spammy issues? While it’s much easier to blame Google and sign a petition begging Google to kill its Penguin update...
How many incremental email signups, article downloads, or contact me forms will you need to generate with search and social marketing to justify your travel? Examples of names you might use include “email sign-up” or “article ABC download.
Number of sign-ups per day. Late last month Twitter announced 200 million tweets per day. Then last week, just one day after Google CEO Larry Page stated that 1 billion items are being shared per day on Google+, a Twitter development team tweet...
Look for secondary conversion opportunities (newsletter sign-ups, social network building, etc. Industrial professionals go online when searching for products, services, and information. A recent white paper (short form submission) from GlobalSpec...
The content for each stage must lead to and enable conversions such as links, shares/tweets, email address capture, new member signups, Twitter follows, Facebook likes, PDF downloads, webinar signups and more, all of which lead up to the...
Business owners in Portland, Oregon, can now sign up for Google Offers Beta. Google is promising businesses on the Offers website that the Groupon-style program, which went live last week, will help bring in new customers, with Google handling all...
Even if this is a failure and a feature they eventually pull back - it will have generated millions of account signups - remember Google Profiles have to be public or be deleted by July 31. Google wants this to be more about promoting businesses...
Google has been pushing signups for the products a little harder. So Google spoke out against the rumors of Circles - their possible social platform - this weekend, using the Wall Street Journal as their distributor of denial.
You may find the PR agency has a schedule of events, such as trade shows, product launches, and parties, seminars, networking meet-ups, breakfast briefings, photo-shoots and more. Establish Sign-Off Rules
There has been mention that LivingSocial affiliates have been using adware to get signups. Others said they received a message they tried to sign up for the deal more than once. What better way to get people to sign up that pop up a signup form on...
The ultimate goal may be sales, sign-ups, increased customer satisfaction, or any number of other goals, but audience engagement will always play a crucial role in attaining those goals. Engaging with an audience is at the core of any company or...
Without access to individual site analytics, we can't see bounce rates, sign-ups, conversion rates, pages consumed, or whatever other metric we'd like to view to assess the quality of the traffic. As usual, there's been a lot of talk about Facebook...
Twitter has indeed developed its own BlackBerry app, accounting for 7-8% of new sign-ups, according to Ovum. Twitter is now facing the typical and critical issue of in-house vs external apps development for its platform as the micro-blogging site...
Enhanced ads can link to photos, video, coupons, directions, reservation sign-ups, or menus. Sponsored features are included with local biz listings. Google has been testing a new local ad feature. You know when you search something local on Google...
In fact, it ended up surpassing both total sign-ups and conversion rate. I've been obsessed with creating promotions recently. I've been studying the art of positioning promotions and precisely how a promotion is launched, and I've been...
SiteTuners.com has recently announced the launch of a FREE private beta program (limited to the first 5000 sign-ups) for it new AttentionWizard.com visual attention simulation tool. Works with page mock-ups - can be used with in-progress mock-ups...