March 15 Clinic Notes

NOTES: To view the notes as they are added, please refresh this page when instructed to do so. Business Success Potential: S = 2V + C + P Where: S is the probability that the business will Succeed. V is the Value proposition. C is…

Catch Slowly Emerging Online Trends

Some things happen online at a dizzying speed and, unless you have the advantage of being the “first-mover”, it will cost you a lot to catch up. However, other things happen quite slowly. One of these slowly emerging trends is people’s…

In Search of a Value Proposition

If you had just ten words with which to describe why people should buy your company’s products or services, what would you say? You probably remember the “elevator speech” concept from back when venture capital companies were pouring…

Questions & Answers on Pay Per Click Tracking

This morning we received an email with a number of questions on PPC tracking. Our resident PPC expert, Aaron Rosenthal, wrote a lengthy reply which you'll see below. Question: I have read many of your research reports on PPC. It seems to…

More Evidence of the Power of Small Changes

In a recent article at DMNews.com, this passage really caught my eye... “Toolbarn.com increased the click-through rate on one campaign by moving the word “free” to the first line of the ad from the second line. And Toolbarn.com turned…

Tracking Click Fraud

This week the media seems to have been alive with articles and posts about click fraud. I can’t recall when the topic was so much “in the news”. Perhaps the high point of the week was when tempers flared and voices were raised at a session…

March 1 Clinic Notes

NOTES: These are the notes from our interactive March 1 teleclinic on The Power of Small Changes. If you missed it, the recording will be posted here approximately 48 hours after the event. Offer Copy Optimization Micro-TestMetricPage…