ConversionXL

MAY 11, 2017

Knowing what the competitors are doing – how they are thinking about the market, what tactics they are using, how they are crafting messages and design – can make all the difference in the battle for the customers’ mind share and conversions. Companies do it for a wide variety of reasons – SEO, branding, GTM strategy , etc.

SEO 131

SEO Analytics Conversion Search 131

ConversionXL

APRIL 18, 2019

It’s an SEO strategy that focuses on making users happy rather than hitting a particular keyword density or winning exact-match anchor text. More than ever, your job as an SEO is to extract intents from query syntax. Several SEO tools— Ahrefs , Moz , SEMRush , and others— track SERP features for individual keywords.

Search 126

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Not for lack of competition, but as the result of a carefully designed ecommerce marketing strategy. Use semiotic analysis to design messaging that resonates. In a study of more than 35,000 landing pages, Unbounce found that effective copy had more than twice the impact of design on conversion rates.

eCommerce 129

eCommerce Marketing Social Media Retention 129

Hearpreneur

JANUARY 4, 2019

Each month Peak District SEO serves 25 customers with SEO services. Thanks to Phil Gregory, Peak District SEO ! #3- In 2019, I want to take that to another level by setting specific goals to develop the expertise of our staff members and to further cement our authority as the digital marketing experts in our verticals.

Entrepreneur 122

Entrepreneur Social Media Vertical SEO 122

Hearpreneur

JANUARY 28, 2022

I was required to design the logos for each of the companies. I also inquired with a professor at a university that provided design about accepting the assignment as a practical. Enventys Partners was born when my company Command Partners, a digital marketing firm, vertically merged with Enventys, a product development firm.

Naming 150

Naming Entrepreneur Jordan Merger 150

YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

Wonderist Agency is a full-service dental marketing agency specializing in growing dental practices with WordPress websites, SEO, PPC, social media, and local marketing strategy. The acquisition opens the door into a new vertical, allowing the co-founders to accelerate growth and lay the foundation for additional vertical expansions.

Merger 113

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ConversionXL

MAY 27, 2022

Bootstrapped startup Omnisend carved out a $19 million niche in an already saturated vertical. Lead generation strictly focuses on designing valuable offers that prospects would get in exchange for their contact details (typically an email address). SEO should lead with intent. Take monday.com.

Lead Generation 107

Lead Generation Demand Audience eCommerce 107

ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Performance PR taps into an undisputed fact of SEO content marketing: backlinks are best. According to MetrixLab , who conducted “numerous advertising meta-analyses across more than 20 different verticals, and in every major region globally,” 12 themes are most common in the strongest digital ad creative: Image source.

Advertising 131

Advertising Cost Customer PR 131

ConversionXL

JANUARY 14, 2020

In-house SEOs and consultants alike are routinely challenged to find new opportunities to expand organic traffic. In fact, new product features are the most underrated driver of SEO growth for large sites. SEO growth works differently for sites that scale with content (e.g., No conversation in SEO can exclude user intent.

SEO 159

SEO Framework SCRUM Search 159

The Startup Magazine

JUNE 2, 2022

Vertical banners placed on sidebars are known as skyscrapers. . Native ads appear as part of the design of a webpage. These campaigns also improve the effectiveness of content marketing and SEO. . They’re good for getting attention pretty easily, and they don’t use a lot of text. How Does Banner Advertising Work?

Advertising 158

Advertising Clickthrough Campaign Social Media 158

Up and Running

AUGUST 6, 2019

Every aspect of your restaurant’s design should fulfill one or of these two roles : . Understand your customer’s motivations when designing promotions as you want to blow your trumpet around a trait that the customer would readily agree with, and thus respond to every time. Helps customers identify with your restaurant. Promotions.

Technical Review 86

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Up and Running

JULY 26, 2016

Just for reference, Slidebean is a SaaS presentation software where users can add content, and a finished presentation is designed automatically. Nov-15: Graphic Designer (growth/product). They also love beautifully crafted design, or even exclusivity. Apr-15: Head of Marketing (growth team). Aug-15: Head of Sales (growth team).

Revenue 60

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View from Seed

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

Voice as an interface and an experience makes invisible design a reality. There’s still a long way to go to saturate – and potentially replace – software design on the client side. However, all the early Skills (I hate this term fwiw) for the various voice-powered hardware-platforms are 100% invisible once enabled.

Vertical 120

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The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 22, 2013

At Dribbble, we stumbled into ours – we were just building a side project, but it was a site for designers, and Dan is a designer with lots of recognition and credibility. If you pick one vertical and do it well, other folks will find you. Also, be strategic. Find a competitive advantage. Things snowballed from there.”.

Cofounder 164

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Steve Blank

APRIL 30, 2009

The design was actually a negative drag on selling anything off a retail shelf. From grumbling skeptics, they all became packaging design converts. And for sure they were never going to win any design awards. So we not only sent everyone through packaging school, we also brought the packaging design in-house.

Sales 120

Sales Silicon Valley RSS Las Vegas 120

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 23, 2011

He is starting to see this occur in sites that are verticalizing content. It has become a short form premium destination that is verticalizing content in category channels. He does think there are opportunities in vertical search. Do you agree that Google SEO optimized results for high volume search terms are broken? (49:35-51:30).

Vertical 265

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crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 15, 2015

We just love sharing articles about fonts, logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, economics and other interesting stuff! Why there won’t be an Uber in every vertical – buff.ly/1KNtdUj. Logitech Pulls Millions From Mice, Invests It In Design crowdspring.co/1dQPRkB.

Small Business 48

Small Business Design Social Media Startup 48

mobile.smashingmagazine.com

JANUARY 16, 2013

Web Design. Design Patterns. UI Design. Responsive Design , Strategy. Designing websites for smartphones is easy compared to retrofitting those already in place. Prior to the iPhone’s introduction in mid-2007, designers could rely on windows at least 700 pixels wide (if they ignored accessibility).

Mobile 101

Mobile HTML Flash Software Review 101

steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

Home Books for Startups Guide Secret History-Bibliography Steve Blank Startup Tools Steve Blank Entries RSS | Comments RSS Email Subscription Get Steve Blank via your RSS Feed RSS - Posts RSS - Comments Categories Air Force (12) Ardent (10) Audubon (1) Big Companies versus Startups: Durant versus Sloan (39) Business Model versus Business Plan (..)

Software Review 110

Software Review Startup Silicon Valley Analytics 110

Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 19, 2018

Finally, our logo, the letter “O”, was designed in a way to signify the connection and exchange taking place between buyers and sellers. As one of our big service offerings was to be SEO, we wanted one element to be organic (the chili) and another to represent our quality (smoking – as in smoking hot when combined with the chili).

Naming 87

Naming Software Review Entrepreneur Atlanta 87

Hearpreneur

JUNE 24, 2022

We talked about how moving the ball side to side was good for control, but to achieve that yearning score, we needed to move the ball vertically down the field. So, the word vertical is what I have been looking for. The SEO and content marketing industry requires time-consuming training to become a highly qualified professional.

Naming 114

Naming Entrepreneur South America Social Media 114

ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

Depending on your specialty (the vertical bar of your T), you may gravitate toward one language or the other. JavaScript for SEO, PPC, CRO, and analytics. Specialists in PPC, SEO, CRO, and product marketing benefit heavily from learning JavaScript. In addition to using it for CRO, PPC, SEO, etc., T,” as in your T-shape.

Marketing 117

Marketing PPC Framework Artificial Inteligence 117

Seeing Both Sides

AUGUST 16, 2012

In founding TripAdvisor, Kaufer wanted to take his hard core engineering skills and apply them to vertical search in travel. Fortunately, on the side, the company had built up TripAdvisor.com as a demo site to show the prospective clients what a vertical search engine could do. Big Data meets travel…in 2000.

Part-Time VPE 54

Part-Time VPE Software Review Costa Rica Technical Review 54

ConversionXL

JANUARY 5, 2017

Given that fashion-related products was ranked the most popular eCommerce vertical in 2015 , product filtering is clearly an issue eCommerce sites are facing. The “perfect” combination will depend on your vertical, product catalog, visitors and a variety of other factors. Image Source. Consider Factors Outside of UX.

eCommerce 108

eCommerce Product SEO Search 108

Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 6, 2019

What is Responsive Web Design? A responsive website, aptly named, means that the site’s web design has been developed to adapt and respond to the different forms of technology that your audience uses to view your site. Responsive web design is a key tool, offering many valuable benefits to your online marketing efforts.

Small Business 78

Small Business SEO United States Mobile 78

ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Marketers following this practice start with a hypothesis, design and run an experiment, and interpret results to fuel future experiments. The growth marketer would design and run an experiment (ideating, drafting, and sending the email), and then review the data to confirm or disprove the hypothesis.

Framework 102

Framework Marketing Acquisition Retention 102

The Next Web

DECEMBER 8, 2013

Today, Airbnb, oDesk and multiple second-hand fashion marketplace startups show that there are tons of untapped verticals where horizontal product platform cannot serve properly or where consumer simply prefer a more tailored brand. It turns out that network effects can be broken – Amazon and StubHub took on eBay in the mid 2000’s.

B2C 136

B2C B2B Demand Vertical 136

www.launch.co

JULY 25, 2012

We hit 15M uniques 18 months ago with our content+search product, but it was largely based on "good content" combined with "excellent SEO." The Google Panda update didnt help us, but we could have kept reworking around SEO -- just didnt personally feel worth it, to be honest. It wasnt fully satisfying to me. We live in cutthroat times.

Technical Review 54

Technical Review Jordan Audio Los Angeles 54

ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 29, 2016

The benchmark database for any particular vertical consists of a select sample of 100+ sites from various eCommerce categories or subcategories of Amazon’s Alexa’s Top 500 Sites on the Web. We selected 4-5 sites from each sub-vertical. Load time affects SEO , and it affects conversions. Maintain a modern, relevant design.

Conversion 48

Conversion eCommerce Database Vertical 48

ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

Today, Grizzle is a full-service content marketing and SEO agency that provides B2B and SaaS companies end-to-end services. In 30 minutes, Grizzle pivoted from a productized digital PR service to an SEO-focused content marketing agency. How you communicate as a function of that design is a critical problem that you should aim to solve.

PR 120

PR B2B Lean Audience 120

www.kalzumeus.com

AUGUST 13, 2012

Also, all this online participation has a variety of helpful side-effects for my business: more consulting leads, link juice to help my SEO out for the product businesses, reputation/credibility enhancement, yadda yadda. He’s one of the savviest SEOs alive and has a SEO training business which he would like to promote to people.

Email 54

Email Software Review Software Campaign 54

Occam's Razor

APRIL 25, 2011

That means I get to spend loads and loads of time across many industry verticals, see many many campaigns, translate many many foreign websites (thanks Google Chrome for auto-translate!) Your SEO strategy is buying links, expired domains, et. It irritates me to no end when I hear perfectly smart SEOs stuck in the 1940s.

Marketing 126

Marketing Flash Analytics Web 126

Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 7, 2022

It's not necessarily designed to give you insight as a business owner. Look, if you're tired of slowing down your teams with clunky software processes and marketing that is difficult to scale, HubSpot is here to help you and your business grow better with collaboration tools and built in SEO optimizations. You low value at the bottom.

Cofounder 74

Cofounder Hosting Networking Software Review 74

ConversionXL

JUNE 20, 2019

Here’s an example for “how to tie shoelaces fast”: The basics of SEO (with some adjustments ) apply to YouTube videos as well, giving YouTube publishers a chance to drive more awareness on Google and within YouTube. The interface is designed to keep people on the platform. All that said—YouTube has its downsides. Adapt video sizes.

Hosting 127

Hosting Video Technical Review Software Review 127

Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 12, 2017

Transcript of How to Get Found Using Local SEO Tactics written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Really the undisputed king of local SEO. Transcript provided by Verbatim Transcription Services. Back to Podcast. Transcript. We’re going to talk with Mike Blumenthal. John: Yeah. Mike: Unlike Yelp.

SEO 31

SEO Technical Review Database Search 31

Software By Rob

NOVEMBER 2, 2011

And your search engine rankings drop as competitors hire high-end SEO firms. All of this combines to make vertical niches the best option, by far, for someone bootstrapping a company. #3: Everything from graphic design to coding, marketing to setting up a payment processor. AdWords go from $.50 50 to $5 per click overnight.

Bootstrapping 75

Bootstrapping Revenue Vertical Advertising 75

pandodaily.com

JULY 18, 2012

More to the point, the relationships with vendors, know-how of product hunting and credibility in the design world took decades to develop. Ultimately, we each had a lot of domain experience in different content verticals and wanted to build the ultimate places we could work every day putting that experience to work. Great Article.

Entrepreneur 45

Entrepreneur San Francisco Silicon Valley Technical Review 45