Email Reminder! Use Alt Tags
When you have images in your emails, be sure to use descriptive “alt tags.” An alt tag is a word or phrase attached to an image in your digital marketing material – such as email. If the original image can't [...]
Direct Response Radio: Overlooked Opportunity
I got a call from a new start-up. Parent’s Workshop entered a crowded and highly competitive field of educational self-help programs with The Early Achievement Program. Parent’s Workshop was an unknown entity with a totally new concept aimed primarily at [...]
Web Strategy: Your #1 Way to Stop Shopping Cart Abandonment [video]
On average, 7.5 out of 10 people abandon their shopping carts. Likewise, based on our readers’ response, their results for shopping cart abandonment seem to fall within that range. How do you stop this hemorrhage? How do you increase your [...]
Testing Corner: Do Videos Help or Hurt Response?
Will videos on your web page help or hurt your response? Let's take a look at a test that shows remarkable results: A consumer credit counseling service wanted to optimize its website subscription sign-up process. A radical redesign tested the [...]
TheStreet.com: Converting Free Website Users to Premium Subscribers
How do you convert users of a high quality free website to premium subscribers? That was the problem facing TheStreet.com with their premium offering, RealMoney. Thousands of users had become accustomed to getting RealMoney’s expert online stock market and investment [...]