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Dronacharya was an accomplished warrior, and trained his royal students well in the art of archery. One day he decided to test their archery skills. Setting up a painted wooden fish on top of a tall pole, he then installed the pole at the center of a pool of water.
He told his students that he wanted them to look down at the reflection of the fish in the water and shoot the eye of Read more
Excerpted from the book Making Websites Win by Karl Blank.
Some products or services—particularly those that are complex—can be hard to describe. When such products are sold using a traditional brand-marketing approach, the results are often disastrous. The visitors don’t buy because they don’t understand what they’ll get.
Examples
• Unclear branding waffle : “Music, Read more
In this case study Delivra, a marketing automation company wanted to know if adding a privacy guarantee, directly below the sign-up button, would give assurance, increasing sign-ups to their free email marketing guide.
Or, conversely, if it would create hesitation, prompting people to question their privacy on the site .Their team tested the two variations of a sign-up form below:
Version A : With privacy gu Read more
Today I’ll critique the ad above by Fisher Investments, in the print edition of the Wall Street Journal.
Overall it is an effective ad but could be improved. I've seen these folks running direct-response ads in the WSJ for years, along with Great Courses, Stauer and the Hong Kong tailors (Mr. Daswami) [link].
You can tell who understands direct-response marketing and is likely making money, vs. those Read more