Black Friday and Cyber Monday are ostensibly the two largest shopping days of the year — especially for ecommerce. This year felt even more insane than any previous year, with Black Friday sales starting almost a week before Thanksgiving, and a barrage of sales emails coming from every direction — from Walmart to the artisanal […]
Evergreen Webinars are de rigueur for product marketing — especially to cold traffic. There are a number of online tools like EverWebinar for creating set-it-and-forget-it webinars that allow you to create and monetize webinars to your heart’s content. But do they work? This is part of our on-going series with John Lee Dumas of Entrepreneur […]
You’ve heard the stats. All the way back in 1997 Nielsen showed that people don’t read online – they scan. And that’s only gotten worse. Today, you have about 8 seconds to capture a user’s attention on your website. The human attention span is now shorter than that of a goldfish. Despite this, many websites […]
Let me tell you a story. A friend of mine launched a travel guide, priced at $47. He guaranteed that anyone who purchased the product would save $500 in flights within the first six months of using it. If they didn’t, he promised to refund the entire cost of the purchase. That’s a guaranteed $450 […]
There are two outcomes to any marketing funnel. Either the lead purchased the product you had for sale… or they didn’t. Today I want to talk about those customers who chose not to buy from you, despite having gone through an excellent, carefully structured nurture sequence — and why you shouldn’t write them off quite yet. […]
As a marketer, you have a bucket list of tactics to try — things that you’ll get to one day. The challenge is which tactics will be the most effective, with the least effort. The proverbial “low-hanging fruit.” You know that in order for a business to thrive, it needs to sell more than one […]
So. You want more leads. You’ve spent a few months writing blog posts to boost your organic traffic and have spent money on advertising with Google, Facebook, and Twitter. You worked hard to create a smashing opt in — an assessment that’s tailored carefully to your dream audience. But… something isn’t working. People are coming to […]
My uncle Ben always told me: “With great power comes great responsibility.” Or maybe that was someone else. Oh well. This month we introduced a huge slew of new features, that we hope you enjoy, and a sneak peek at some cool stuff that’s coming down the pipeline. So let’s get started! Introducing Snippet 2.0 […]
SUMMARY The Client John Lee Dumas of EOFire sold over $2,137,739 in online courses this year. He’s a great example of how being generous with free stuff can be extremely profitable, giving away a steady stream of content to bring in leads and drive sales. The problem isーhe had no idea which content impacted revenue […]
SUMMARY The Client Axe Wellness (draxe.com) is one of the most successful health blogs around. They offer a ton of actionable advice. They have well-tested and high-converting lead magnets that deliver their users high-impact content on fitness, natural remedies, diet and overall health. The problem is their team had no way to measure lead value… […]