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Website Design 101: Never Forsake Function for Design

Not all design is good design — especially if it forsakes function for aesthetic. Although we’re talking about website design here, I’d like to take a step back and share a real-world experience that shows how choosing form over function

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Website Conversion 101: How to Define the #1 Call-to-Action for Your Business

Anyone who has ever taken a class in marketing can tell you that a call-to-action is “a piece of content intended to induce a viewer, reader, or listener to perform a specific act.”  While this definition may be useful if

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The Best Way to Convert Website Visitors to Customers – Offer Great Value

You’ve got a few people who interact with your brand regularly. They love your blog, they comment on your social media posts, but they still haven’t bought what you have to offer. They’re clearly interested, but how do you push

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The Art of Website Conversion: How to Create an Irresistible Offer

Recently we talked about how marketing tools like blogs and social media aren’t an end unto themselves, but a method of building interest in your brand in order to generate leads and ultimately convert them into sales. So how do

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Do You Have an Aversion to Thinking About Conversion?

Your brand’s social media accounts are doing great. You have plenty of followers on Twitter and get tons of Likes on Facebook. Your blog’s readership is strong, too. But somehow, your sales haven’t actually improved much. Sounds like you’ve got

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Ditch the Slideshow for Better Website Conversion

Slideshows are a commonplace strategy for  sharing more information through a series of sliding imagery/offers on a homepage. We’ve all seen them. Each slide sits front and center for a few seconds, and then it’s gone. Avoid this strategy on

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How to Make Terrific Text Links — Optimize Them!

In this installment of our SEO Tips series, we’ll take a look at an oldie, but a goodie — text links. I say “an oldie,” because back in the day text links were one of the go-to strategies for website

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The User Experience (UX): An Oasis from Complexity

Common sense says that an educated human brain can handle a certain amount of complexity, an this is true. But when someone’s on your website, you’ve got to forget this fact because your visitor is depending on you to offer

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The Dark Side of Conversion: Desperation

Conversion can be a tricky strategy. When handled incorrectly, even the most helpful intentions may come off as desperate (what I like to call Hungry Wolf Syndrome). Case in point, I was recently shopping for a holiday gift for my

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Optimizing Your Facebook Business Page: User Experience & Conversion

In Part 1 and Part 2 of this series, we looked at optimizing your Facebook Business page for better SEO. Next, let’s look at some ways you can positively affect the user experience (UX) and website conversion on your Facebook

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