Archive for the ‘Internet Sales’ Category

How to Sell to Everyone: The 4 Personality Types

May 29th, 2009 posted by Xander Becket 12:08PM | View Full Story

Everybody fits into one of four major personality types.

It may seem stereotypical to pigeonhole everybody into one of four boxes, but in the buying process each type has different needs.

Your website text (and sales team) must speak to each personality type individually to be the most effective. Should you go for the competition angle or the exciting angle? It depends on the personality of your customer.

There are a bunch of different names for the four personalities, like:

  • Sanguine, Choleric, Melancholic, Phlegmatic
  • D, I, S, C
  • Assertive, Amiable, Expressive, Analytical
  • Competitive, Spontaneous, Humanistic, Methodical

We’ll break them down by those last four (with celebrity examples!) because they’re the most aptly-named.
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The 4 Keys to a Well-Performing Landing Page

May 22nd, 2009 posted by Josh Lasdin 12:08PM | View Full Story

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The other day I attended a very informative webinar given by Anna Talerico from Ion Interactive. I was so inspired by her talk that I decided to recap the webinar with a nice blog entry.

As Anna stated, there are four key aspects that make up a high-performing landing page. What is a landing page? Landing pages are used as a high point of conversions typically in conjunction with a PPC Ad Campaign, or Email Blast. These four fundamentals state that your page should be engaging, dynamic, disposable, and agile. I’ll break each of these down for you.

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How to Get More Website Leads without More Traffic

May 15th, 2009 posted by Xander Becket 12:08PM | View Full Story

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Stop trying to get more traffic and start converting the traffic you already have.

That might sound weird coming from an internet marketer, but hear me out.

5 years ago the easiest way to increase leads from your website was to get more traffic. This meant search engine optimize, buy cheap clicks on PPC ads, or even buy some banner ads.

Clicks were cheap or free, so why not buy more?

Nowadays clicks are expensive. Sometimes REALLY expensive. If your website already has a steady traffic flow, the smart thing to do is to analyze what those visitors are doing on your site and adjust to give them what they want.
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The Danger of Using The Web for Branding

May 1st, 2009 posted by Xander Becket 12:08PM | View Full Story

Traditional advertising grew out of the old distribution model.

Companies made their product, sold it to stores where people buy the product, and those stores sold it to the consumer. This worked for everything from toothbrushes to televisions.

Then these huge companies wanted to increase sales of their product. Since all of the competition is right on the shelf, they needed to differentiate themselves from the other products.

One way was price: sell the lowest price product. But the better way, and a longer term solution, was branding.

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The 10 Businesses with the Highest Cost Per Click

February 20th, 2009 posted by Xander Becket 12:08PM | View Full Story

Pay per click can be expensive!

Yesterday Luke, Bill and I had lunch with Jeremy, Justin and Carl from Cleveland Brothers.

We were talking about pay-per-click advertising and Luke said that the keywords with the highest cost per click (CPC) would make a good blog post.

So here it is!

I looked into this a little while ago and remember that clicks for personal injury lawyers are pretty expensive, at about $20.00 apiece.

I thought that was about the highest CPC out there.

Boy, was I wrong!

It turns out that every one of the top 25 most expensive keywords belongs to one of 10 industries. I averaged their click costs to give you:

The 10 Most Expensive Industries to Advertise Online:

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Why We Don’t Advertise on the Google Content Network

January 30th, 2009 posted by Xander Becket 12:08PM | View Full Story

Google’s Adwords advertising platform gives advertisers two options:

  • Advertise on Search Results
  • Advertise on the Content Network

Search results advertising shows your ads on the search results for the keywords you choose. We’ve all seen these ads as the “Sponsored Links” on search engine results pages:

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The content network works differently. A publisher (like a blogger, news website, etc.) puts Google’s ad program on his or her site, then Google matches ads to that site based on the page’s content:
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