Many times, a homepage can be the first interaction prospects have on a website and therefore what we do (or don’t do) at that moment can significantly impact our future relationship with them. This recent experiment might give you a little…

MECLABS Managing Director/CEO, Dr. Flint McGlaughlin, likes to say that in marketing you're not optimizing landing pages, you're optimizing thought sequences. So, in today's blog post, we use a real-life sample of landing page to show you…

We recently released the audio recording of our clinic on this topic. You can listen to a recording of this clinic here: Subscription Pathways What is your conversion rate of visitors to subscribers? Are you leaving money on the table? Our…

We recently released the recording of our Ideal Subscription Path clinic. You can listen to a recording of this clinic here: Windows Media Audio: http://meclabs.com/cgi-bin/pl/pl.cgi?csw RealMedia: http://meclabs.com/cgi-bin/pl/pl.cgi?csr…

Mobile adds a challenging layer of complexity when optimizing your online marketing funnel. Read some mobile discoveries we've made in the last year of testing and apply it to your own webpages.

The goal of optimization is not to make changes to a page but to make changes in the mind of the customer. Here are some simple ways you can shift from communicating company logic to customer logic and optimize the thought sequence of your…

MECLABS Institute has developed a series of patented methodologies (Pat. No. 8,155,995) to help marketing, advertising and business leaders bring rigor to the way their teams think about executing marketing tactics as well as serving a…

What can "Where’s Waldo?", the lovable children’s book series of the ‘90s, teach us about designing better page layouts? A lot, it turns out. In UX, we use different page layouts to help organize information and guide the users’ eye path.…

Marketers usually use the funnel as an analogy for customers moving through the sales process. What many marketers don’t realize, though, is that their customers are not falling into the funnel — they are falling out. Read on for two…

In order to best communicate as marketers, we need to sometimes slow down and ask the “why” we are doing the “what” and contemplate the reasons for the various elements of brand collateral, images, call to actions, and testimonials we…

The goal of most marketers is conversion. Often other metrics like open rate and clickthrough are thrown by the wayside for the “all-powerful” conversion. However, it is important to consider all metrics for a potential learning, not just…

MECLABS Institute performed an internal survey to find out what people look at when they are evaluating a website. This article will focus on the elements surveyed: appearance, clarity, timeliness, ease of placing an order and navigation.

With so much content available to audiences, it's difficult to stand out from the content production crowd. Learn how your site design and layout can positively influence engagement using an example from the Harvard Business Review.

Knowing what your customers will experience through your lead generation funnel is key to delivering on the expectations derived from your offers. Read further to learn six simple steps you can use to meet customer expectations and improve…

Homepage redesigns can be tricky when your a single product website. Learn 3 lessons in homepage optimization that can aid your testing efforts.

Even the marketing experts can be wrong. See a behind-the-scene look at a recent MECLABS test one expert recently called out on a below-the-fold treatment. The results could surprise you.

Many #OpSummit tweets have communicated surprise at the idea of moving the call-to-action below the fold and still being able to get results. To help us all understand a little better where the best place for your call-to-action is,…

If the goal of your page is to simply engage more with the visitor, then how do you approach conversion optimization? Take a look at how one publishing site generated a 43% decrease in bounce rate while gaining more referral traffic from…