Last week, Mike Ricci and I attended the Mobile Marketing Association Forum conference in New York. Having a background in Mobile, this is by far my favorite conference. Here are some of the over-arching themes I was able to pick up.
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Stephen Eide
Training and Development Specialist
Five Steps to Drive Double-Digit Conversion Lift
February 22nd, 2013
Topics: Conversion Optimization, Featured, Marketing Optimization, Online Testing, Site Optimization, Testing
Congratulations on being committed to using data instead of HIPPOs (the highest paid person’s opinion) when it comes to your online presence. Making modifications based on test results can generate amazing success – in the case of one insurance industry client, modifications resulted in a 70 percent lift in conversion rates.
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Ryan Humm
SEM Manager
Sidestep a KPI Landmine & Grow Your Bottom Line with SEM
February 21st, 2013
Topics: Ad Spend Optimization, Featured, Search Engine Marketing
Profit seems straightforward, and, in a way, it is. Revenue – Ad Spend = Profit. So yes, the metric is straightforward in terms of showing the profitability within a marketing channel. But taken out of context from a company’s financial realities, it can obfuscate account performance instead of adding clarity.
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Vladimir Brayman
Ph.D., Chief Scientist
What Should You Expect from a Testing Tool?
February 19th, 2013
Topics: Campaign Optimization, Conversion Optimization, Landing Page Marketing, Marketing Optimization, Optimization, Optimize, Perspectives, Site Optimization
Today we will look at what you should expect from good testing tools in your marketing programs and campaigns. In my previous blogs, I showed that: Decision making requires causal relationships. The causal relationships can be found only through carefully performed experimentation, the process that is not that different from the scientific method. I also mentioned at
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Tom Waterfall
Director of Optimisation Solutions, EMEA
Moneysupermarket.com Wins Gold from WhichTestWon for Best Financial Multivariate Testing
February 18th, 2013
Topics: Marketing Optimization, Online Testing, Optimization, Site Optimization
Moneysupermarket.com won gold from WhichTestWon for running a multivariate test in the Credit Cards channel that looked to better understand visitor behaviour based on gender. Their testing showed that men and women responded differently to the presentation of credit scores when applying for credit.
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Karen Wood
Sr. Solution Marketing Manager
Why You Need to Stop Listening to HIPPOs + Start Testing
February 14th, 2013
Topics: Featured, Optimize, Site Optimization, Testing
Is your website optimization program managed by a HIPPO? That is, the Highest Paid Person’s Opinion? If so, you’re likely stuck in a rut of making site changes, analyzing behavior and conversion rates, implementing new changes as a result, analyzing those changes, and so on. Here’s how to get out of the rut.
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Chase Wells
Ads Partner Manager
Data That Speaks for Itself – How to Make your SEM Campaigns Scream
February 11th, 2013
Topics: Ad Spend Optimization, Ads, Advertising, Engage, Events, Featured, Partners, Search Engine Marketing
While it’s important to make your campaigns more effective and to focus on metrics such as CPC, CTR, CPA, ROAS, ROI, CPL, and a variety of other TLAs (three letter acronyms), it’s crucial to see what Search is doing outside of these metrics that you are held to – and that are often overlooked.
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Benjamin Diggles
Director of Digital Marketing
Webtrends Engage 2013 Conference Playlist
February 8th, 2013
Topics: Engage
We had an amazing response to the music selection this year at Webtrends Engage 2013 in San Francisco. So much so that there was an unbelievable demand for us to post the track listing that we used. Now before we take credit for all of it, I must disclose that a lot of these selections
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