The average conversion rate for a Facebook Ad is 9.1 percent. Website conversion rates, though, lag at an average of just 2.35 percent. The data varies by industry. On Facebook, for instance, fitness ads top the charts at nearly 15 percent. You might be surprised to learn that B2B ads…

In just the final quarter of 2017, consumers spent nearly $100 billion dollars in the retail e-commerce market alone. No wonder you want to learn how to increase online sales. You want a chunk of that $100 billion pie. U.S. e-commerce sales aren’t stagnant, either. They continue to grow year…

Fewer than 25 percent of businesses express satisfaction with their conversion rates. That’s pretty depressing. Conversion rate optimization (CRO) doesn’t improve your conversion rates overnight, but it sets you up for success. Part of CRO involves optimizing your calls to action for conversions. How is the best call to action…

What if you could boost email signups by 1,375 percent (or more)? And what if I told you that the secret to those kinds of results lies in something as simple as an exit popup? Craft blogger Nikki McGonigal used to just have an email signup form in her website’s…

For a long time, responsive design dominated the web as the format of choice for business and personal sites. Now, however, mobile optimization has begun to gain credence as a potentially preferable strategy. I’ve talked about responsive design many times before, including in this video. It’s definitely still relevant. However,…

Figuring out how to convert website visitors into customers requires not only strategy, but extensive testing. You can learn from others what worked for them, but your website audience is unique. That’s probably why you’re reading this article. You want to know the best place to start. Then, you can…

Customer acquisition is all about convincing people to buy your products or service. That’s it. But it’s more complicated than you might think. You have to understand how people make the decision to buy (or to not buy). It all starts with lead generation. Unless people in your target audience…

Generating good lead magnet ideas can become a long process. Simply throwing together an e-book or whitepaper just because other businesses do it would be a mistake. High-converting lead magnet ideas offer so much value that your target audience can’t say no. The more you refine your lead magnet, the…

Even though there is growing wisdom around the best product teams involving design, business and engineering heads from the very start, there is, quite often, still a divide between the design process and business needs. As someone who has both a Business and Design background, I have found it useful in…