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We’re live onsite at B2B Summit 2011, and Dr. Flint McGlaughlin, Managing Director and CEO, MECLABS, opened the proceedings this morning by teaching this enthusiastic audience that most marketers can’t even define “value proposition,” much…

If you’re not careful, you could be running tests that tell you one thing when the situation is completely different. You could be making critical decisions based on bad data. And those are the worst decisions you could make, because you’ve…

If you’ve tuned into past MarketingExperiments Web clinics, you’ve seen some pretty impressive gains: 141% increase in conversion 12% more revenue across an entire ecommerce website $4.9 million in additional sales pipeline…

Toward the end of last year, Active Network, a technology and media company specializing in online registration and event management software, began a testing and optimization program on the website of one of its brands, RegOnline. For…

No matter how well you optimize your website, there’s still no substitute for getting someone on the phone with your best salesperson for a complex product. People buy from people, and having a human talk to a prospect on the phone, answer…

Nothing can be assumed when you're sending an email. When you make assumptions, you're really hoping the audience will "figure it out." For Adam T. Sutton, this was top of mind during the Actionable Design Insights session at ExactTarget…

Discovering your value proposition is one of the main things we hear marketers struggling with on a day to day basis. But there are some people you can turn to for help: your customers. One of the places you can look for what your customers…

Imagine for a second that you’re running a banner ad campaign on a website with a black background. Now, if you were going to choose a color for that banner to get more clicks, would you choose a dark shade of blue or bright yellow? If…

Copy length. It’s been somewhat of an obsession of mine lately. For marketing copywriting. For content in general. So, I was really looking forward to running a pretty simple copy length test – long vs. short copy. A simple test. However,…

According to Dan Zarrella of HubSpot, engineering contagious ideas comes down to three main factors. Using those factors, Dan saw a significant increase in the Facebook shares and Retweets of his content. Here are the three factors Dan…

Many marketers find metrics the most annoying and intimidating part of online testing. But if you simply organize your metrics into four major groups, all of that annoyance and intimidation goes away...

Is long copy or short copy better? It's a question we here a lot here at MarketingExperiments. The answer is simply...Yes. Both can perform in different circumstances. To help you choose which to use in your own circumstance we created this…

Letting your value proposition guide company meetings and decisions is a great way to run a business. But if you don't have one, it's obviously a little harder to do that. To help you craft your value proposition, we decided to create this…

Ideally, marketers could have an unlimited budget to run tests on their sites to learn more about their customers and drive long-term sustainable revenue. But in the real world marketers need buy in from superiors. The best way to do that…

Different people like your company for different reasons. This is part of the difficulty in crafting an effective value proposition. How can you create a single, competitive value proposition that addresses all of your customers? In this…

Friction is one of the greatest obstacles to your conversion process, and though most marketers currently have some idea of what Friction is, many are only seeing half the picture. In this blog post, we reveal seven of the most common…