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What To Do if Your Conversion Rates Drop: A Checklist

One of the most stressful situations for marketers is to come into work only to find out that their conversion rates have dropped overnight. In the worst cases, that drop is wildly significant.

It’s okay to panic. It’s what makes you human

9 E-Commerce A/B Test Ideas You Must Try

There are plenty of articles out there that talk about out-of-the-box A/B tests you can immediately run on your e-commerce site.

Although, with cookie cutter tests, you’re taking a risk. You might be running tests on parts of your site that don’t really need a test right now…

How to Track Micro Conversions with Google Analytics

This post is about how you can use Google Analytics (GA) coupled with Google Tag Manager (GTM) to identify and track the end-impact of those micro conversions

When CRO Isn’t Optimized for The User and How to Fix It

When you are optimizing for only conversions, you’re only optimizing for yourself.

Empowerment vs. Manipulation: A Rant

There’s been a heated argument happening between UX and CRO. One side believes in equipping the user to make the best decisions for their specific needs. The other side…

9 Fundamental UX Principles That Will Boost Conversions

Have you ever gotten mad at a website because you couldn’t get to where you wanted to go? What did you do? You probably left, never to return. Now flip the script…

9 UX Tips For Your Next Website Redesign

It’s not every day that you get to experience the excitement of redesigning your website. So when you do, it’s absolutely vital that you …

Identifying Website Optimization Opportunities

Sometimes opportunities to make your website better don’t come to you. You have to go in there and find them. Don’t rely on…

Mastering The First Impression: Homepage Optimization Tips

Have you ever heard of the “5-second rule”? No, not the one where you can still eat that muffin if it hasn’t been on the floor for 5 seconds. We’re talking about…

Why Facebook Ads Are So Unique

In order to run a successful Facebook advertising campaign, you need to throw out all the assumptions you use for all your other types of advertising.

Combining Creativity With Data in Web Design

There’s a common misconception that you need to avoid: The idea that you have to sacrifice creativity when using data to design your website.

How To Get Your Local Business Ranking on Google

Getting found online is hands-down one of the most important things your business can do. But standing out above all the distractions of today’s digital world is tough, especially when your competitors are aiming to do the same.

Stop Guessing: How To Use Data To Design a Killer Website

What does your website mean to you? Think on that for a minute. Now nobody will argue that you shouldn’t have a website just for the purpose of building brand awareness or establishing your digital presence.

The thing is, (*Heads up—a “no-shit” statement incoming*) the world isn’t “going” digital anymore. It’s already there. If you haven’t established yourself online, then…

Get Your Website in Shape in 2017: Most Important New Year’s Resolutions

It’s tradition. After the holidays, celebrations and reflection on the past year, you transition yourself for a new start.

That’s when you start to reflect inward and come up with your new year resolutions. Every year you try to get closer to reaching your full potential as a person. But you need to change the way you think about resolutions. Why limit these to only yourself? You should…

Be Unforgettable: How To Use Storytelling To Find Marketing Success

“Instead of just marketing new ideas to people, market ideas connected to their unique story.”

Think about a time when you were feeling joy, pride, frustration or hope. Pretty easy to remember.
Now see if you can remember a time that you…

The Next Evolution of Marketing: Pokemon Go and AR

Have you seen an increase in these symptoms in the people around you?

  1. Adults staring at their phone while navigating a crowded sidewalk.
  2. Groups of people (also staring at their phones) gathering at very random corners or abandoned buildings
  3. Strangers driving around, stopping and parking at the most random places…

4 Steps To Become Facebound: The Future of Inbound and Facebook

WARNING: I will not be held responsible for any loss of sleep or trauma that may result from reading this article. You are willingly engaging in this content and accept any repercussions that are suffered from it. Reader discretion is advised.

Awesome. Now we’ve got that out of the way. So you might be wondering… why the disclaimer? Well, you’re about to be subject to some unheard of info that will possibly shock you or scare you off the grid…

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How To Land a Marketing Job In Orlando

There are two types of people that absolutely need to read and bookmark this post.

  1. You just graduated from college. Whether it’s UCF, Full Sail, Valencia or somewhere else around here. You’ve interned at a couple agencies, you’ve attended some networking events, or maybe neither. You feel like you’ve done what you need in order to land a job. But you still don’t have one lined up.
  2. You graduated college a couple years ago. You’re pretty disappointed (or straight up unhappy) with your career choice. Now you’re trying to transition into the Orlando marketing world. But you don’t know how…

7 Content Marketing Mistakes That Everybody Makes

We all make mistakes. We’re human, it’s in our nature. Unfortunately, some mistakes are more costly than others. Take the recent Steve Harvey flub for example. Not only did his mistake of announcing the wrong Miss Universe winner embarrass him…

How This Strategy Built 20,000 Facebook Followers in 50 Days

Using this article from Jon Loomer as motivation, we decided to give the page an interest-based theme that is represented by this motorcycle law firm…

How To Directly Message Followers From Your Facebook Business Page

For a very long time, business pages on Facebook have been looking for ways to have one-on-one conversations with their followers. Unfortunately, pages cannot send an initial message to Facebook followers (which makes sense, otherwise we’d have an epic spamming issue). 

Facebook is making moves to turn…

Why You Can’t “Buy” Facebook Followers

To quote the great Lieutenant Daniels from The Wire, “My stats are clean.” A friend called me last night and asked me about Facebook advertising. He was wondering about a specific page that I’ve recently been working on, where we are able to go from 23 likes to 12,000 likes in one month.

He asked “How the hell did you…

Facebook Planning a “Dislike” Button – Here’s Why You Don’t Need To Worry

Spreading through the news today is a story about Facebook’s plan to implement a “Dislike” button on its social network. 

But please, don’t react so quickly. How will this affect you?…

The One Question That Marketers Fear Worse

Algorithm shift? Google rankings drop? Budget constraints? When you ask your marketing department about these topics, it shoots a bolt of terror right down their spine. But there’s one question they fear even more. One that is so…

A Hidden Approach To Engaging Your Facebook Audience

As a Facebook marketer, it can be a challenge to keep up with the changes Facebook makes that hinder you from reaching with your followers. Well they’ve finally… 

How To Create a Facebook Unpublished Post in Less Than 10 Minutes

Since you’ve found your way to this page, then you already know how important it is to be marketing on Facebook. The purpose of this guide is to help you get started with one of the most effective strategies you can get your hands on… 

Crushing 5 Questions That Expert Marketers Are Facing Right Now

Your whole life is a series of questions being answered. How are babies made? Why is the sky blue? Why does Game of Thrones continue to break my heart? Professional marketers are constantly drowning in questions…