The market is so saturated with mediocre goods and services that when a truly great one comes along, the same old marketing tactics simply don’t work anymore. Excellent products need excellent websites to communicate their full potential.…

Sometimes, you need to take a step back and look at your marketing campaign, even your sales-marketing organization, as a whole. So with the new fiscal year right around the corner, grab every smart person you work with, throw them in a…

With a marketplace so saturated, it’s difficult to get any kind of ROI out of affiliate campaigns. Affiliate marketers can increase their ROI the same way a merchant would increase its ROI: by providing enough perceived value to guide the…

Anxiety can stop website visitors in their tracks – the back button makes it ultra easy. Thinking of their concerns in rational terms may not help you either. Fortunately, the there are three different levels you can seek to relieve or…

As has been the standard for recent MarketingSherpa Summits, leading marketing solutions providers sent several analysts to provide direct, one-to-one consultation for the attendees of B2B Summit 2011. Always an informed, yet…

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…

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.

There’s a lot of bunk information out there about copywriting. The barrier to entry for being an “expert copywriter” is pretty low and some of those crossing that barrier are simply wrong in the advice they give. With the help of our…

One of the easiest things to do to get a lift on a lead generation offer is to reduce the number of form fields. We hear it all the time because it works. The problem is, it only works so well and then you start seeing diminishing returns.…

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…

After initial introductions, Daniel jumped right in with a case study illustrating how many companies tend to throw more money at leaky sales funnel, instead of fixing those leaks. In the case study, however, a marketing manager makes a…

Whether discussing a simple print ad or a complex integrated campaign, a marketer's goal is clear – tell people what you offer and why they should buy from you. If you're clear in your messaging, there's no need for persuasive tactics that…

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…

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.

Online testing can be a challenging task, especially for those who are new to testing. Do you truly understand what you’re testing and why? And, most importantly, how do you truly learn from your tests to improve all of your marketing…

A landing page optimization case study from a one-on-one live optimization at MarketingSherpa Email Summit 2011. Find out what one marketer found out about a landing page getting traffic from a Facebook ad, and how the entire purpose of…

At the MarketingSherpa Email Summit 2011 at Caesar's Palace in Las Vegas, Dr. Flint McLaughlin worked without a net and engaged in some live optimization of attendee-submitted emails. Check out what he had to say about two of those…

Getting people to visit your Web page can be easy, keeping them there is the kicker. How do you grasp those potential customers with short attention spans and little time on their hands? In today's post, we show how identifying and reducing…