Which pages to target for paid traffic?

Marketers often argue about whether it’s better to send ad traffic to product detail pages (PDPs) or dedicated sales pages. It depends. Here are three…

By John M. Ottley

Direct Mail Mistakes

Most startups ignore direct mail, thinking it’s an archaic customer acquisition channel. It can work; companies do it for a reason. Start by avoiding these…

By John M. Ottley

Sharing Pixels

Retargeting ads are effective, but they’re limited in scale to the people who’ve visited your site or used your app. Pixel sharing, on the other…

By John M. Ottley

The upside of negative reviews

Negative reviews can actually improve checkout conversion. For context, reviews are a big deal: Negative yet constructive reviews can outperform your best positive review for…

By John M. Ottley

Prequalify leads

Sales teams waste calls and emails on unqualified leads. That’s why it’s so important to prequalify leads, only giving the best leads the option to…

By John M. Ottley

Google Call-Only ads can increase conversion

Good at closing sales over the phone? Try Google call-only ads. They are text-based and link directly to a phone number instead of a website.

By John M. Ottley

Increase email performance by cleaning your list each quarter

We want you to delete contacts from your email list. Two reasons to remove inactive contacts from your list: So here's what you do: Once…

By John M. Ottley

Piggy back on popular tweets to get brand awareness

On Twitter, you can grow your following, increase your brand awareness, and get website traffic by simply piggybacking off popular tweets. Many marketers are too…

By John M. Ottley

Analysis of YouTube trending videos

We reviewed an analysis of every trending YouTube video from 2019. Here are some of our learnings: There are specifically some videos that do well…

By John M. Ottley

Top Chrome Extensions For SEO

I was a fan of Firefox until the day I started using chrome. I love chrome for various reason. One of the most important ones is that…

By John M. Ottley

Speed up linux

Every time a file is read from your Linux ext3 partition it writes back a attribute to the file detailing the last access time. There…

By John M. Ottley