Email is a Relational Medium
An email is a conversation. It’s not a magazine ad. It’s not a branding opportunity. It’s not a website. It’s a way to talk to your customers, and (hopefully) have them respond back. One of the most...
View ArticleWe Want to Put You on a Plane to Call to Action Conference [CONTEST]
Image via Shutterstock. If you’re an active social networker, you already know that travel photos and social media go together like… aerial shots of brunch and social media. So when we decided to...
View ArticleHow The Micro-Yes Sequence Can Help You Generate More Leads and Sales
As a marketer, you are faced with two fundamental challenges before you ever make a sale. Of course, you have to get your prospects’ attention and interest to start a conversation. But it’s just as...
View Article13 WordPress Plugins That’ll Save You a Ton of Time
Running a blog requires an insane amount of time. In fact, there’s not enough time in your day to do everything (especially if you have a full-time job, too). From learning new ways to get traffic and...
View Article4 Lessons About B2B Inbound Marketing from a Sunday Morning in the Coffee Shop
I was in Starbucks the other day, and in walks an older gentleman. I couldn’t help but notice that people kept focusing on him and chatting him up — in line, while waiting for a drink, etc. I could...
View ArticleThe Goal of an Email is to Get a Click
As marketers, we tend to forget that we don’t sell anything in an email. An email’s objective is not to get a purchase; it is to get a click. We should be asking the question, “What would drive the...
View ArticleThe Danger of Using Grammatically Incomplete Headlines
Our experiments have consistently proven that there is a significant difference between a page that uses a clever but incomplete thought as a headline and one that uses a value-infused headline. The...
View ArticleOptimized the Hell Out of Your Client’s AdWords Account? Don’t Drive More...
This is Dale (okay, it’s actually Corey, our Director of Campaign Strategy), but we’ll call him Dale for the sake of this post). Dale is the Manager of Paid Media at a local digital marketing agency....
View Article10 Things You Need to Do After You Publish Your Blog Post
Can I ask you a question? What do you do after you hit the “Publish” button? If your blog isn’t getting any traction, you probably aren’t doing the right things. Let’s be real. You can’t just post to...
View ArticleAre Your Free Trial Emails Making You Look Desperate? Here’s How to Fix That
A SaaS free trial starts like any relationship – full of hope, dreams and possibilities. Your prospect starts a trial and gladly opens your welcome email. She wonders what marvellous, mind-reading...
View ArticleTalking at Your Customers vs. Talking to Your Customers
There is a stark difference between talking “at” your customer and talking “to” your customer. Talking “at” your customer will create a disconnect; it simply tells the customer what to do but doesn’t...
View ArticleCall to Action Conference 2017 – Recap and Recordings
It’s a wrap! Unbounce just hosted its 4th annual Call to Action Conference, with 1,200+ of the brightest marketers from brands like MEC, Adobe and Vimeo in attendance. On stage, our roster of marketing...
View ArticleAdvice to Writers Who Feel Like a Fraud (from a Writer Who Feels Like a Fraud)
Let me guess … Every success in your writing career has been a fluke. When people praise your work, they don’t know what they’re talking about. You’ll never measure up. You’re not a real writer. And...
View ArticleA Webpage is a Conversation
The moment prospects decide to engage with your webpage, they begin to communicate with you — your webpage is a conversation. It is our job as marketers to get into the conversation and speak to those...
View ArticleConversion Rate Optimization
As a marketer, you must have a thick skin when analyzing your own webpage because, generally, you are not dealing with an eager customer. Chances are, you are dealing with a jaded customer who has been...
View ArticleWhen a Client’s Website is Sabotaging Their PPC Success (And What One Agency...
Digital marketing agency Webistry helped the fine folk at a local dentist office (pictured above) secure 400% more conversions by convincing them to not send PPC traffic to their website… As the...
View Article437 Digital Marketers Went Head-to-Head with a Conversion-Predicting Machine...
Being a digital marketer is an exciting gig. Ad platforms, best practices and tools change at warp speed, meaning you’re always learning and you’re never bored. But it’s a tough gig, too. As...
View ArticleThe Only Factor: The key to high-performing webpages
When potential customers click on a webpage, they ask themselves — either consciously or unconsciously — three important questions: Where am I? What can I do here? and Why should I be here? If you...
View ArticleThe Cost Per Lead Calculator – Better Allocate Your PPC Spend
The pay-per-click landscape has become so saturated that only the most analytical marketers are able to continuously turn a profit from their paid search, display and social campaigns. Data-driven...
View ArticleClient Management the Mad Men Way
This July, we celebrate the 10th anniversary of the premier of season 1, episode 1 of Mad Men, the 1960s era show that validated and united everyone who’s worked in advertising. Ten years later, we’re...
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