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How a peculiar Calendar cranks conversion rates on your webite

You want to grow your conversion rates, right? One of the best ways to do that is with A/B testing.

If you’re wondering what A/B testing is, here’s a definition: simply put, A/B testing is split testing.

Here’s an easy, real life example. You own a coffee shop, and you want to see which type of packaging sells best. You offer a green package and a yellow package. You test them for one month. In the end, you learn that people buy the same flavor of coffee more often when it’s in the green package.

You just conducted an A/B test.

As it pertains to website conversion rates, A/B testing is the comparison of two versions of a web page to see which one works better – page A or page B. You compare the two, see which one converts better, and you move forward with the one that has a higher conversion rate.

A/B testing takes you from “you think” to “you know.” You might have “thought” people would like the yellow package, but after the test, you realized the green sells better. The same thing applies to website marketing.

A/B split testing allows you to spend your online dollars wisely because you learn what drives your customers and compels them to take the desired action.

In this article, we’re going to talk about how to grow your conversion rates with an A/B testing calendar.

You’re probably thinking, “What the @&%# Jon?!?! Who cares about a stupid calendar? That isn’t going to increase anything. I have a My Little Pony Calendar from 2013 sitting on my desk, and it does nothing but collect dust.”

OK, got it. You’re right, sort of. Putting your strange fetish in desk calendars aside, a testing calendar keeps you testing, even when you don’t want to. When you’ve grown bored or frustrated or are just to busy cleaning out the 31,384 emails that accumulated in your email box before the end of the year.

To be successful, you must be disciplined and keep pushing. After a while you will gain insights and break-throughs you never thought possible. Put a calendar together and kick yourself in the ass and get moving. These are the basics that actually work. The results WILL come!

Make a Plan

You don’t want to be testing just for the sake of testing. You want to amplify your conversion rate optimization, so you want a plan, a guide that moves you forward on a profitable path.

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Creating a Compelling Company Facebook Page

Creating a successful business has always been more than simply opening shop and waiting for customers to find you. When you’re trying to improve your business, you need to have a great marketing plan, and that includes a comprehensive social media strategy. If you want to entice customers, you’re going to want to consider having a great company Facebook page.

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Select Your Page Type

The first thing you need to do when you’re creating a business page is to select the proper type of business. Pages are listed together in their different categories. If you want people to be able to find your business and interact with your company easily, this first step is crucial.

Facebook currently has six different categories you can choose from for your company:

Local Business or Place
Company, Organization, or Institution
Brand or Product
Artist, Band, or Public Figure
Entertainment
Cause or Community

There are many instances where these categories overlap. For example, a local, non-profit theatre group could select entertainment, local business, or cause/community. It all depends on what the organization wants to focus on. Choose the section that will be most beneficial to your business. Continue reading “Creating a Compelling Company Facebook Page”

Understanding Real-Time Marketing

The digital arena is a nonstop, attention-grabbing powerhouse that’s changing the marketing landscape by the millisecond. If your marketing efforts aren’t millisecond-optimized and ready for real-time, then your audience will walk out of the theater before the show is over. To better achieve marketing success on a digital level, here is a basic explanation of real-time marketing and how it’s teamed with real-time analytics to bring your online marketing to new heights, especially on your landing pages.

Real-Time Marketing in a Digital Nutshell

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Online marketing is a tough nut to crack. All idioms aside, it’s also essential for businesses wanting to reach a massive customer base. Because of this, a real-time marketing approach is an effective way to reach audiences on aclose-to-immediate timescale.

Real-time marketing is an inbound approach that relies on social media and other digital avenues to advertise to customers based on potential sales opportunities. The idea of “real-time” comes into play with the delivery of the advertising itself. Continue reading “Understanding Real-Time Marketing”

If you aren’t A/B testing, you’re falling behind!

Is your landing page conversion rate not where you want it to be? Sometimes you just need to change things up on your website and get a new look. When you use A/B testing, you have two separate landing pages. Some of your traffic is sent to one page, site “A,” while the rest is sent to site “B.” Each landing page is slightly different, allowing you to gauge and experiment visitor reactions. With A/B testing, you’re able to find the best placement for items on your page, colors, and more to maximize visitor conversions.

How to Make Changes

One of the first things you’ll want to consider when thinking about doing A/B testing is what changes to make. There are a variety of things that you should reposition or completely change on your website that will enhance your conversion rate: Continue reading “If you aren’t A/B testing, you’re falling behind!”

17 MKTG ABBR U N2K (Marketing Abbreviations You Need To Know)

Have you ever been in a meeting when everyone started throwing around acronyms? It gets a little confusing. Since many of these acronyms are either interchangeable or similar, that makes it even harder to follow. Let’s try to decode some of the most notorious marketing acronyms.

1. AOV – Average Order Value

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Averages are all the rage in marketing and sales. When you know your average order value, you can state this in marketing letters, inquiries, and more. Of course, knowing your AOV isn’t going to tell you what’s wrong with your site, but if your AOV is low it can help you realize if you have some work to do. Continue reading “17 MKTG ABBR U N2K (Marketing Abbreviations You Need To Know)”