4 Ways to Improve Your Submit Button

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When looking to improve conversion rates we often first look to the type of media we’re using to drive traffic to our site. However, there are some easy ways to improve our marketing performance right on our own site! By improving the click through rate on submit buttons you can potentially increase your marketing performance

Picking Up the Pieces: Secrets of Marketing in a Fragmented Digital World

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Marketing is going through a period of significant evolution. The era of easily compartmentalized silos has been usurped by the Splinternet, a large-scale fragmentation of devices, data access, and technology standards. The Splinternet upends many of the assumptions upon which interactive marketing is based and, at the same time, presents both challenges and opportunities for

Security logos and privacy policies can improve conversion rates

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Through our work with commerce customers, we’ve uncovered some interesting and consistent data that results in improved conversion rates.   Forms in both purchase and registration funnels requesting personal information such as email addresses, telephone numbers, and credit card information, typically add a significant level of friction and even anxiety for users.  This is typically the

Maturing Your Optimization Efforts

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So, you’ve started doing some testing on your website and you’re wondering what’s next.  Or perhaps you’re just making a foray into testing but you don’t know how to get started.  These are very common scenarios for the marketing and optimization folks we work with on a daily basis.  Leveraging our experience with customers, Webtrends has

Five Ways to Optimize Product Pages on Etsy.com

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I’m a new fan of Etsy.com. The site focuses on selling handmade products such as art, jewelry, photography and other products. It’s a great way to find very unique, well-made items for gifts…or yourself! Their Wikipedia entry describes them as a “crafty cross between Amazon and eBay.” Recently I bought a very cool pin there