The Five Rs of Search Engine Marketing
In a video interview with Web Marketing Today, Bryan Eisenberg offers a 7-minute primer on what he terms the Five Rs of search engine marketing. Here’s a quick overview of Eisenberg’s thoughts on each R
Content: Article | Author: Bryan Eisenberg | Source: MarketingProfs | Subject: Marketing / Sales
Anatomy of a Landing Page: Design Elements Exposed
Landing pages have become an important part of the marketer’s toolbox. To create effective landing pages, you should understand the anatomy of a landing page and it should be part of your landing page and optimization framework. After optimizing thousands of landing pages over the years, Bryan Eisenberg wants to offer this framework for understanding the 10 key elements of a landing page.
Not all of … [ Read more ]
Content: Article | Author: Bryan Eisenberg | Source: ClickZ | Subject: Marketing / Sales
Planning a Link Bait Strategy
Six steps to getting Web site visitors to take your link bait and how to hold on to them.
Content: Article | Author: Bryan Eisenberg | Source: ClickZ | Subjects: IT / Technology / E-Business, Marketing / Sales
The Missing Google Analytics Manual
Get the most out of your Google Analytics with this collection of links to implement, configure and get insights from Google Analytics.
Content: Online Resource | Author: Bryan Eisenberg | Source: GrokDotCom | Subjects: IT / Technology / E-Business, Marketing / Sales
14 Tools to Legally Spy On Your Competition
Have you ever wished you were Bond? James Bond? Here are 007+007 = fourteen ways to spy on your competitors’ web sites, without breaking any FISA laws.
Content: Article | Author: Bryan Eisenberg | Source: GrokDotCom | Subject: Competitive Intelligence
Conversion Rate Optimization, Upside Down
Way too many conversion rate optimization projects are coming up empty. Companies feel they work too hard for too little return. Most conversion rate optimizations efforts are focused on pages and elements but don’t focus on the entire persuasion scenario. Perhaps and understanding of The Hierarchy of Optimization can help.
Content: Article | Author: Bryan Eisenberg | Source: ClickZ | Subjects: IT / Technology / E-Business, Market/Investment
How A Pretty Face Can Push Visitors Away
It’s no surprise that marketers use faces to draw people into their websites. They know that, from birth, humans are naturally attracted to, and engaged by, faces. But be careful. Simply picking a “pretty” picture isn’t enough. Generally, it’s best when the model faces the content you want visitors to engage with first.
Content: Article | Author: Bryan Eisenberg | Source: GrokDotCom | Subject: Marketing / Sales
How to Use Customer Reviews to Increase Conversion
Optimize your customer review system for maximum conversion.
Content: Article | Author: Bryan Eisenberg | Source: ClickZ | Subjects: IT / Technology / E-Business, Marketing / Sales
What Makes People Buy
“Roy Williams qualified shoppers as operating in either one of two modes: transactional or relational, a few years ago. At that time some of us loafed around virtually, exchanging emails with friends, trying to complete a list of reasons that motivate people to buy things. (Thank you, Tom G. & Brett F.) More recently, we returned to compiling the list with the rest of my … [ Read more ]
Content: Article | Author: Bryan Eisenberg | Source: GrokDotCom | Subjects: Customer Related, Marketing / Sales
Revenge of the Pixels: The Battle for Screen Real Estate
Designing web pages is challenging. Unlike almost any other media, a web design’s integrity is compromised by the nature of a fluid medium. In other words, just because you want something to look a certain way doesn’t guarantee it will – differing browsers, resolutions, screen sizes, monitor calibrations and operating systems all distort the experience.
One of the more contentious issues in web design presents … [ Read more ]
Content: Article | Author: Bryan Eisenberg | Source: GrokDotCom | Subjects: IT / Technology / E-Business, Marketing / Sales
The 5 W’s of Purchase Behavior
“In expanding the question about relational-transactional purchasing by asking the question of WHAT makes people buy, a fellow deep thinker from the Wizard Academy shared that we should also add in the essential “reporter” questions…”
Content: Article | Author: Bryan Eisenberg | Source: GrokDotCom | Subjects: Customer Related, Marketing / Sales
The Marketer’s Common Sense Guide to E-metrics
Buried in your server logs are the keys to unlock the potential of your business. This data needs to be turned into action-oriented information co-workers can use to improve the business. When you standardize and implement these powerful analytic tools that include the most important, easy-to-understand metrics, you ensure everybody has the tools they need to succeed.Take control of your web site by tracking metrics … [ Read more ]
Content: Article | Authors: Bryan Eisenberg, Jim Novo | Subject: Marketing / Sales
How to Choose a Web Analytics Solution
Clarifying the issues involved in managing and measuring Web analytics is critical to e-business success. My goal isn’t to recommend one product or another. I want to arm you with the right questions so you can make up your own minds.
The four basic factors we use to evaluate the best provider follow, with a little added detail. They’ll help you determine which is the solution … [ Read more ]
Content: Article | Author: Bryan Eisenberg | Source: ClickZ | Subject: IT / Technology / E-Business
Persuasive Online Copywriting
Writing for the web. Web word wizardry. Web writing that works. What does that mean? Your online copy must persuade – it’s integral to getting your visitors or readers to register, subscribe, qualify as leads, and yes, even buy from you. It’s writing that must earn its keep. And to effectively manage the quality of your online writing, you need to understand what works, why … [ Read more ]
Content: Book | Authors: Bryan Eisenberg, Jeffrey Eisenberg, Lisa T. Davis | Subjects: IT / Technology / E-Business, Marketing / Sales