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April 12, 2010 Monday 
ALL EDITIONS

SMALL BUSINESS: Crash course on a good landing page
BYLINE: Jamie Herzlich
SECTION: BUSINESS; Pg. A31
LENGTH: 632 words

Consumers tend to pass judgment quickly on the Web.

In fact, it takes as little as 50 milliseconds, or 1/20th of a second, to lose their attention once they've landed on a site.

So if your landing page - the place consumers end up when they click on an ad, link or search engine result - doesn't capture their attention, your business is going to lose the very visitors it's paying to attract, say experts.

"The landing page is the first thing a person sees when they get to your site," says Boris Grinkot, senior manager of research and strategy for MarketingExperiments, a Jacksonville Beach, Fla.-based marketing and sales research lab. "It has to capture their interest immediately."

To improve your landing page results:

Keep it relevant. If users click on an e-mail offer or pay-per-click ad, they expect to see the offer that was displayed once they get to the landing page, says Grinkot. Don't send them instead to a generic home page or a landing page that has nothing to do with the promised offer, he notes.

Eliminate the guesswork. Your landing page should have a clear call to action that lets visitors know what their next step is (i.e. "call now for a free consult" or "click here for coupon"), says Grinkot.

"A lot of times the page has a lot of information, but it's not clear what action you expect the person to take," he notes.

Be cognizant of design. A poorly designed landing page can instantly turn off visitors, explains Bruce Chamoff, chief executive of HotWebIdeas.net, a Web design and Internet marketing company in West Babylon.

"Every design element on the page will determine if that person leaves," down to the color and font, says Chamoff.

Tailor the design to the audience you're trying to attract, he notes.

Don't overwhelm the visitor. If a landing page is overloaded with too many services and offers, you may lose the customer, says Chamoff. Perhaps put your three best services on a landing page. Anything more may be overwhelming.

Optimize your pages. The landing page should be embedded with keywords most relevant to a visitor's search, says Gary Cucchi, vice president of Progressive Marketing Group, a strategic marketing and branding firm in Melville.

For example, the company recently developed a landing page for the South Oaks Child and Adolescent Center of Excellence in Amityville (south-oaks.org/child.php) and included such keywords as Long Island, mental health, substance abuse, rehabilitation, psychiatric, children, etc. in the landing page, he says. Check out adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal) for keyword suggestions, Cucchi recommends.

Perform testing. You'll never know what works unless you test it, says Ross Mahler, Progressive's director of Web services.
For instance, you might try out two different landing pages or pay-per-click ads to see which works better, he says.

Be mindful of copy. "Nobody reads on the Web," says Tim Ash, author of "Landing Page Optimization" (Wiley, $29.99) and chief executive of SiteTuners.com in San Diego, which specializes in landing page optimization. "We scan."

Companies often jam the landing page with too much text, notes Ash, who suggests clear headlines, short bullet points and summaries.

Eliminate fear. Your landing page needs to establish trust instantly, says Ash. A professional design helps, as well as including logos/names of established clients and perhaps trusted symbols like the Visa logo, says Ash.

Avoid visual distractions. Don't overwhelm customers with lots of photos/graphics unless they support your conversion goals, says Ash.

IMPRESS THEM

Want to impress your landing page visitors? Answer their top three questions:

1. Where am I? Did I end up on a relevant page?
2. What can I do here? What's the call to action?
3. Why should I do it? What's the benefit?

Source: Boris Grinkot

LOAD-DATE: April 12, 2010
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH
PUBLICATION-TYPE: Newspaper

Copyright 2010 Newsday, Inc.

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How much is a Super Bowl ad worth?
Marketing research laboratory offers free analysis for Super Bowl advertisers.

Jacksonville Beach, FL, January 8, 2010 – The cost of an advertisement during the Super Bowl is widely known public knowledge. While the final price has yet to be determined this year, the cost of one 30-second commercial at the 2009 Super Bowl was about $3 million according to USA Today.

Less well known, however, is the value of each advertisement. From the rise of social media to the fragmentation of mass media, advertisers are making multi-million dollar decisions while the ground shifts beneath their feet. And there appears to be no clear consensus among large advertisers, even in the same industry.

Some marketers, such as Pepsi, apparently no longer see the potential of a major singular event and will instead focus its efforts on cause-related marketing and online ads. It will not advertise during the big game for the first time in 24 years. Is it because the Pepsi brand has decided the ROI is not there? Yet, Dr. Pepper will be advertising for the first time.

So MarketingExperiments, a research laboratory dedicated to discovering "what really works" in marketing, is offering to help these advertisers ascertain the value of their investment. “Watching Super Bowl commercials is fun, but as a marketing researcher I have to ask the question – what is the return on this investment?,” Senior Manager of Research Partnerships Andy Mott said.

“Every day I talk to marketers from all over the world who are asking the same question about their advertising budgets. MarketingExperiments conducts research to not only help marketers answer this question, but find the most effective use of their marketing budget,” Mott said. “Sometimes we’re afraid to question the status quo, but in a time when every dollar counts we must ask the hard questions and find answers with real data rather than just intuition.”

MarketingExperiments will conduct this free analysis for any marketer that buys a network television spot that airs nationwide during this year’s Super Bowl. Research analysts will construct a model to measure the effectiveness of the advertising spend.

This in-depth data analysis will show how the mass media exposure contributed to bottom-line results and include a short-term and long-term ROI model to help marketers understand the full breadth and depth of the message. The analysis will also measure the contribution of the exposure to the brand’s value.

“We will conduct this analysis free of charge and present the results to the marketers in a manner that is both powerful and easily understood,” Mott added. “If your campaign was a winner, we’ll make that win easier to socialize. If you didn’t get the value you expected, we’ll help you understand why so you’re more successful next year.”

Any marketer interested in discovering the value of its media buy can call Andy Mott at (904) 339-0068 or email andy.mott@marketingexperiments.com for an in-depth analysis.

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