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Testing can be a complex topic; especially when it comes to figuring out sample size, test length and what to test. So, in today’s blog post, we get some insight from our team to help you get the most out of each test and start answering…

When should you reveal price in the cart process? That is a question we received in one of our recent Web clinics on shopping cart optimization. In today’s blog post, we show you two key factors that can help you discover and test the…

MarketingSherpa asked a few thousand marketers: Which process/transaction is the primary objective of your organization’s website? See the chart that breaks down the answers and help name the categories of website objective for the 2011…

Online test results can be misleading, especially when you use an insufficient sample size. How do you find the right number to get valid results? In today’s blog post, we break down the math you need to find out what really works with your…

Giving away things for free doesn’t always lure visitors to take an action on your Web page. In essence, this is a transaction. You’re still asking them to take an action in exchange for the “freebie.” In today’s blog post, we explain why a…

What’s the most effective way to come up with ideas to optimize a Web page? Does it take individual thinking or a collaborative effort? In today’s blog post, we explain why mixing the two can help you and your marketing team create the best…

Whether your company offers 10 or 10,000 products online, the shopping cart can be one of the most mysterious and difficult areas of your Website to optimize. How many shopping carts steps are optimal for conversion? What…

Find out how a UK-based discount airline increased bookings and revenue through online testing. One test led to an 18% increase in seat bookings, and a second created a 2.5% increase in flight booking conversion and helped to solve an…

Radical changes can often produce stellar test results, or simply bomb. But, what happens when you see no significant statistical difference? In today’s blog post, we share one of our own email tests to explain what you can learn and what…

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…

Read about HubSpot's subject line testing on an email campaign that created almost 25,000 webinar registrations.

When drafting a piece of marketing collateral, sometimes the hardest part is coming up with the right headline to top it off. How can you create the most effective one? In today’s blog post, we break down four headline groups, and help you…

Sometimes optimizing a page means making a few minor tweaks here and there. But when the page has several issues, a radical redesign may be called for. When you take this step, it can either get you amazing results or fail terribly. But you…

Stock images are used all over the web without a second thought. But how effective are they really? Would it be better to use real images? Or do people respond more to a nameless model's smiling face? In this blog post, we review a recent…

Web use is projected to trump desktop Internet use by 2015. What effect will this change have on LPO and the effectiveness of your marketing campaigns in general? In today’s blog post, we take a closer look at this impending transition,…

Many marketers lose connection with their audience by overstating value, or simply burying it in a wash of information and unnecessary language. Though all correspondence should state value before a call-to-action, it's important to…

So you've just increased the effectiveness of your online lead capture by XX% using optimization strategies you've recently learned. Now what? How do you ensure that this gain is not lost in the sales pipeline? How do you keep the online…

At MarketingExperiments, we’ve discovered that it’s essential for every company to develop and clearly express their value proposition. We say it repeatedly, and that prompts questions from our audience. We can’t get to all of them, but we…