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…

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…

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…

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…

Are you looking to determine what website elements to test? Customer surveys are great way to find out where testing and optimization will have the greatest impact. Read on to find out how one web analytics company used customer feedback…

Every once in a while, we like to test our audience's marketing intuition on this blog. Guess which treatment had a higher conversion rate and you could win a free book.

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.

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…

Ads help marketers understand site visitors’ motivations. And, once you get them to click, you must meet those needs through your landing page. In today’s blog post, we explain how to create ad-page pairs that will maximize relevance and…

“Clarity trumps persuasion,” according to MECLABS Managing Director/CEO, Dr. Flint McGlaughlin. On landing pages, you must clearly and immediately express what you’re offering and why it’s valuable to visitors. So, how do you do that and…

From time to time, we like to test our audiences' marketing intuition by asking them to predict the outcome of a recent experiment. In this post, we feature two radically different emails aimed at the aimed at the same goal - to get a…

At MarketingExperiments we practice what we preach. We are beginning research with Radian6 that will lead to a social media marketing optimization methodology similar to the Email Messaging Optimization Index. One of our first research…

Your Value Proposition is the cornerstone of all your marketing efforts. But how do you go about testing your Value Proposition? In this post, PPC is put forward as the optimal solution for those trying to identify their Value Proposition…

PPC ads are one of the most ruthlessly competitive mediums in online marketing. You must go toe-to-toe with all of your competitors, and get the (qualified) click. Read on for a few tips from your peers to help improve your pay-per-click ad…

So, you’ve decided to go mobile with your website. But, how can you make sure your mobile site design will be effective and help drive traffic back to your desktop site? In today’s blog post, get some key advice and insights on how to build…

Creating an effective value proposition is often a tough task for marketers. But even when you think you got it right, you may be missing one key component. In today’s blog post, we explain why the “true value” of a product is just as…