Category Archives: Landing Pages

Top 10 High-Tech Email Marketing Mistakes

I just updated one of CDI’s most popular white papers: “Top 10 High-Tech E-Mail Marketing Mistakes.” You can download your free copy of the new version here. Topics include: * the not-so-obvious ways most landing pages distract or confuse the reader … * how to eliminate “sure-fail” subject lines …… Read More

Landing Page Optimization: 4 Basic Principles

Landing page optimization is a hot topic these days; indeed, whole companies have been built (and are thriving) on nothing but ensuring your landing pages generate the most registrations possible. Still, as I wrote in this previous post, most B2B marketers are still treating landing pages as an afterthought. For… Read More

5 Simple Ways to Stretch Your Google AdWords Budget

A board member was on Google last night and he e-mailed your boss to complain that none of your company’s search ads are showing up. Your West Coast sales rep is complaining that she’s getting fewer leads than her East Coast counterpart because Google ads go dark after 4:00 PM… Read More

Symantec E-Mail Not Up to the Challenge

Occasionally a good concept gets lost in the execution. Take this recent e-mail from Symantec as an example. What I like about this campaign, besides the eye-popping color scheme, is the overall concept. Symantec could very easily have prattled on about the merits of their product, but instead they’ve couched… Read More

Disintermediation & the Irrational Fear of Non-Media Expense

Excuse me while I rant for a minute, but what is it about buying media that makes it seems so benign? Here’s what I mean: companies spend tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars on media, often with little purpose or strategy behind it, because buying media – and media… Read More

Landing Pages: Who Cares Anymore?

Making even modest changes to landing pages can be the quickest and easiest way to increase online response rates and decrease cost per lead, yet in more cases than not, far more attention, scrutiny, and investment is dedicated to the front end of demand generation campaigns. Case in point: not… Read More