After trying a few different strategies with their page, nothing worked to improve conversion on Saxo Bank’s PPC landing page for a free trial. Michael Aagaard generated 99.4% more conversions by adding clear value proposition.

Upon the completion of the recent MarketingSherpa 2012 B2B Marketing Benchmark Report, we learned that because of an ever more challenging environment, B2B marketers are beginning to embrace sales conversion as a Sales and Marketing…

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,…

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…

Despite a marketer’s goal of thoroughly conveying value on a landing page through well-crafted body text and use of images, there will often remain a need for a powerful “hook” to further motivate a potential customer. In this post, see how…

As one of our blog readers pointed out in the comments on a recent post, this blog had an unoptimized call-to-action button asking readers to "submit" their comment. To figure out whether we could get a higher comment rate per post, we ran…

Online forms are an important aspect of one marketing automation company's lead generation. Find out the results of its form field length testing, and its strategy to make sure online forms lead to both a low cost-per-lead and a high…

One of the most enjoyable parts of being a MECLABS employee is seeing tests performed for a wide variety of companies and organizations. While we always welcome new opportunities to test, learn and share for the betterment of the marketing…

What happens when more than 200 marketers pull their heads together to optimize and test an online marketing campaign? Well, as imagined, the results are very interesting, and in this two-part blog series, Austin McCraw reveals some of the…

Many marketers think that if they get a lift in their landing pages, they are optimizing those landing pages. Not true. Optimization cannot occur unless you are rigorously and continually testing your landing pages. Until you do that,…

Chances are fairly good that you’ve either not started or not finished an LPO project of your own. Maybe it’s because you don’t know how to do LPO. Maybe it’s because you don’t have the resources. Whatever the reason, here's 36 tools and…

There’s no one right answer for the best way to optimize your landing pages. But there is a best way for your specific customers. With that in mind, we asked our readers to tell us the most valuable lessons they’ve learned while optimizing…

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…

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…

When creating a banner ad, what can you do to stick out among the rest? Do you always want to? In today's blog post, our research team explains how to stand out in the banner ad world and why sometimes it's ok to blend in.

See how an Australian telecom company utilized a revamped page design that highlighted the company's premier offerings, through an inviting layout and a distinct focus on its most powerful value statements.