We’re packing the bags and creating new presentations. We’ll be at at several conferences in the near future and hope to meet you at one of them.

It’s a good thing there are two of us because on June 8th-9th you can meet me at Search Engine Strategies in Toronto and on June 9th, you can meet Jeffrey at the Yale Club in New York City, where he will be the keynote speaker at the OMMA Metrics and Measurement conference.

I’m already be…

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No one but search engines and media properties make money from people clicking on ads. If you rely on sales of products or services, the revenue is a consequence of being seen as relevant to your visitors’ needs. After that click you must also instill trust, persuade visitors that you solve their problem, and that it’s simple to buy from you. The original conversion guru, New York Times bestselling author and ClickZ columnist, Bryan Eisenberg, will be presenting proven ideas…

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Last week, I had the pleasure to record this webinar with my good friend Craig Danuloff, CEO of ClickEquations. Some of you may remember Craig from the webinar we did a couple of months ago on Google’s Quality Score: Exposing the Secret Factor to PPC Success. I asked Craig to explain to us the details behind his much anticipated e-book on maximizing Pay Per Click marketing, and he was kind enough to take the time out of his schedule.

We were…

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The spending level for Valentine’s Day gifts this year will be slightly lower than last year – $140 to be spent by men (versus $166 in 2008), and $75 (versus $90) to be spent by women, according to the BrandKeys Valentine’s Day Index, writes RetailerDaily.

Mature consumers prefer single-image advertisements over ads with multi-image collages by a margin of 66% to 34%, and also gravitate to images that show products and lifestyles,  according to a recent image-preference survey by Creating Results according to…

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We’re pleased to replay Jim Sterne’s recent webinar with us, “Turn Web Analytics into 2009 Revenue”.

Come watch the Chairman of the Web Analytics Association talk with our own Bryan Eisenberg (himself Chairman Emeritus of the WAA) about proactively using Analytics Data to drive continuous Testing and generating actual dollars, a concept even more important this year than last.

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By the way, we received a number of inquiries from folks who saw the video already asking, “what…

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“There’s no reason to become alarmed, and we hope you’ll enjoy the rest of your flight. By the way, is there anyone on board who knows how to fly a plane?”

- Elaine in the movie Airplane

Does looking at an instrumentation panel like this (picture on the left) create feelings of information overload? It does for most non-pilots I know.

Pilots on the other hand, quickly identify the primary flight gauges and navigation equipment.  They know what’s immediately important for flying…

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Craig Danuloff, President of ClickEquations did a fabulous job exposing how to leverage Google Quality Score to improve pay per click success during our webinar yesterday. In case you missed the webinar you can see the replay. Unfortunately, we didn’t have enough time to get to all the questions so Craig and I will take turns answering them on our respective blogs. Enjoy part 1 of Craig’s responses on the ClickEquations blog. Then enjoy some additional questions and answers are below:

Q: How…

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Guess what becomes more important? Yup, conversion.

As online marketers are forced to reign in their spending (along with just about everyone else today), many may be tempted to cut their optimization budgets. After all, optimizing a website is w_o_r_k. It’s far easier to simply buy more traffic, when you need to generate greater profits.

That strategy even works too, on a short enough time horizon, although admittedly more so in bull markets than bear ones. But in recessionary times (or those…

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Converting first time visitors are a must if you want to succeed in uncertain economy.  They’re also often times pretty expensive to convert into sales. Join FutureNow’s co-founder and best selling author, Bryan Eisenberg as he teams up with the Sitebrand team to help you tackle the issue head on…

Most of the time, first time visitors are the largest underperforming segment of your traffic, representing on average 60 to 80 percent of all visitors, with a conversion rate significantly lower than…

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If you missed our Landing Page Optimization webinar on September 29th with Google’s Tom Leung now is your chance to catch the replay. Not only did we cover some layout and design tests you could try to boost your conversion rates but also covered how you could perform them using Google Website Optimizer’s advanced testing features like split path tests, multi-page tests, linger or time spent tests and take any action tests. There was some wonderful Q & A at the…

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