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The first phase of growing your online presence is simply the creation of your digital properties including a company website, blog, Facebook page, and other social media accounts. With this, a business creates its online footprint and identity. As I've noted before, blogging is key for companies today as it offers the opportunity to answer common questions, outline solutions and tips to key items, and helps a company offer greater detail on the problems their products and services solve. The next step is converting visitors into leads or potential customers, and we'll look at one aspect of that in this article.
Converting visitors to leads is done by providing a form and incentive for the user to sign-up for something. Typically that "something" is a resource such as a coupon, discount, ebook, or other item of value that is valuable enough for the user to complete a sign-up form requiring their name and email. This moves the visitor from an anonymous surfer on the website to a potential customer. The key in doing this is to have landing pages on your website and Facebook page tabs. What is a landing page? Glad you asked.
A landing page is a focused page that exists with one intent, to motivate the visitor to complete a simple online form. This is done so that the person can be moved from anonymous by the company to an identified potential customer. This then enables the company to market to and nurture that person toward becoming a customer. Typically this would be done via follow-up email marketing.
A landing page is not the same as having a sign-up form on the home page of website. Nor is it the same as having a contact form on the website or a tab on the Facebook page. A landing page is different and unique because it has a sole goal of having the user complete the form. This is sometimes called "getting the user to opt-in." In essence, landing pages are streamlined web pages with a form. They invite users to sign-up. Those that have the highest rates of getting visitors to complete the form are those that offer an incentive or something of value in return. The value has to be significant enough to move the user to want to complete the form.
Landing pages work with existing web assets, such as the blog and product pages. For example, at the bottom of a blog post that attracted the visitor to the site in the first place, there can be a sentence that links to the site's landing page. An example would be to say this, "If you're interested in learning more about how Facebook promotions can grow your company Facebook page likes, then check out our free ebook here." The link would then take the user to the landing page.
The same goes for posts in social media. A business can share a post that inspires and informs, and then end with a link from the post to the landing page.
Smart businesses are looking at ways to increase traffic to their web properties and then developing strategies using tools such as landing pages to convert visitors into potential customers. Once a visitor is then identified, a strategy to nurture towards a sale can then be implanted. The key to remember in landing page design is simplicity with an incentive.
Mike Gingerich leads the Social Application division of web design company, Digital Hill Multimedia (http://www.DigitalHill.com). He is a co-founder of TabSite.com, a leader in Facebook fan page tools for businesses. TabSite offers brands the power to boost Facebook marketing with contests and promotions. For more information on TabSite, please visit www.tabsite.com.


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Gloucester's Clare Pleuler continues to make a name for herself on the Boston Univesity women's soccer team this fall.
The sophomore midfielder, who was named to the America East All rookie team as a freshman in 2012 and led Gloucester girls soccer to its most successful season in 2011, has appeared in all nine games for the 5-3-1 Terriers starting five while recording a team high two assists.
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Rockport's Keady Segel continues to be the starting goal for the Boston College men's soccer team and he has thrived.
The junior goal keeper sports a 3-1-2 record averaging just 1.07 goals allowed per game fro the 3-2-2 Eagles. He has also recorded a pair of shutouts.
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The Grand Prix of Gloucester is back at Stage Fort Park this weekend with events running from 8 a.m.-3:30 p.m. on both Saturday and Sunday.
The 15th Annual cyclocross race will feature the top cyclocross racers in the country.
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Union High School Football coach Mike Labrum thought his football team did not have enough character. So the coach of the Roosevelt, Utah school took drastic measures.
Labrum suspended the entire team over lack of character citing incidents such as cyber bullying and cutting class.
"We felt like everything was going in a direction that we didn't want our young men going," Labrum told the Deseret News. "We felt like we needed to make a stand."
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Apparently Buccaneers quarterback Josh Freeman's abysmal performance against the Patriots last week was enough for the coaching staff to make a change. Freeman has been benched in favor of 6'6" rookie quarterback Mike Glennon.
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THE buying habits of consumers are set to be transformed by the horse meat scandal, new research suggests.
Almost one quarter (24 per cent) of shoppers will buy less processed meat, and more than a fifth (21 per cent) have already started buying less meat in general, according to the findings gathered from a survey by researchers Consumer Intelligence.
The research also found that about 4.1 million people who previously bought processed meat said they would stop doing so altogether.
The effect of the scandal on unprocessed meat sales is less clear, with 25 per cent of people saying they would now buy more unprocessed meat like joints, chops or steaks instead of processed meats.
A further 19 per cent would like to do this, but said they could not afford to.
Vegetarianism seems set for a boost, with six per cent of adults claiming they know someone who has turned vegetarian as a result of the crisis, the survey said.
The scandal has significantly eroded public trust in the food they buy, as 67 per cent of respondents, equivalent to more than 32 million people, said they now trusted food labels less than before.
And 62 per cent said they were now more likely to buy their meat from independent butchers.
Not all consumers have been put off by the scandal, however, as around 12 million people (25 per cent) would knowingly eat horse meat and a further 16 million (33 per cent) would consider doing so, compared with the 20 million people (42 per cent) who say they would not eat it at all.
David Black of Consumer Intelligence said: "Our findings show that this scandal has really hit consumers hard, be it through having to change their shopping habits or altering the fundamentals of their diet.
"The main issue is about being able to trust that what the label says you're eating is what you're actually eating."
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Polly Staight says...
...I don't suppose that they are going to identify the EU as being wholly responsible for this pantomime, which it is.
But if they do, they might want to consider buying a vote from UKIP or at least giving them one's vote, since they are the only political party that understand just how evil the EU is and have already called out the criminals here.
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As for Ukippers, in my experience their brains have been smoked.
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Polly Staight says...
Is this the same ignorance that led you to write such fantasy about UKIP, of which you obviously know nothing?
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"I'm sticking to onion gravy made with REAL ONIONS and cornflour!! Lol"
Don't forget the beef stock!
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What's going on with Bachelorette? The Deadline report reads as if they shot it this summer, but I haven't heard anything since the initial announcement. Would be great to see him reteam with Caplan.
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Tim Bradley's Status?, Fighting style, opponents, etc. Have at it...
Tim Bradley's Status?, Fighting style, opponents, etc. Have at it...
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Im still not completely sold on Bradley, but Im sure that a couple of convincing wins against decent opposition upon his return, may sway my view of him as a fighter. His name has been coming up lately in threads, so I decided to open a quick thread. It's been rumors that he will return before the end of the year (possibly on the Pacquiao/Marquez undercard), and he's recently called out Morales.
I was curious to know everybody else's opinion on where he stands in the 140 lb division and his possible move up to Welterweight. In my opinion, a fight against Maidana or Matthysse would be a good comeback fight, as well as a big statement in the meantime. What are yall's thoughts on him in the WW division?
I have my doubts about him, but like I said in a thread earlier, I was NEVER a big Khan fan (and he still bothers me from time to time), but he is now starting to grow on me, so ANYTHING'S possible in regards to Bradley growing on me. Have at it...
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I am a huge fan of Bradley. I like his skills, pressure, desire, work ethic, and mostly his toughness. I am not here to convince anyone to agree with me, cause we all see things differently, but Bradley beats anyone at 140 IMO. I think he is the complete package, though he could use a bit more pop on his punches.
Now I am not following all this BS right now with what's going on with him and why he is inactive. It sucks but let's hope he knows what he is doing and he gets things worked out and get's busy real soon. That said here are a few match-ups with him and how I think they would play out.
Morales- Tim would easily beat Erik every second and get a easy decision or TKO victory. Bradley is too slick, fast, and young.
Maidana- More easy work for Bradley. Easily outbox the raw Maidana in a wide decision win.
Matthysse- A little tougher fight, but Tim would be a step ahead of him most of the time. 118-110 win.
Khan- Khan would jump out to an early lead, but once Bradley gets his timing down he can counter punch him more often as Khan tires a bit. And Bradley can then close the gap some more and force more of a sloppy inside fight mid rounds, which would favor Tim big time. As we get into the championship rounds Tim can go in for the kill and get the stoppage.
Now for a few fights at welterweight.
Ortiz- Bradley would weather some rocky early onslaughts by Victor. Mid to late rounds Tim will be warming up as he finds a very hittable Ortiz and gets a late stoppage by Ortiz quitting on his stool (I figured he already lost by cheap shot and got DQ'd, quit in middle of fight for being a bitch, and head butted-kissed-touched gloves-hugged-then hook-right KO'd).
Pac- I give this one to Pac in an exciting scrap that probably goes the distance. Pac has been at this level for a long time now. I would say Pac would build an early lead and Tim would come on late after Pac slows down a bit and gives Bradley more opportunities. But it would be too little too late, though Bradley would be competitive throughout. Or there is the possibility of an early stoppage with Pac's speed and power, but I would not count on that scenario.
Berto- I say with Berto's speed, size and power, he take's the early rounds for sure. BUT mid point as Berto starts gassing, Bradley would maul him and get a late stoppage for sure with Andre's poor defense.
Mayweather- Easy unanimous decision win for PBF. I love Tim, but horrible style match-up for him. Floyd would pick him apart from the outside and on the inside I just do not think he could be real effective with PBF's slick defense.
Anyway these are just some of my takes. I am sure some would not agree, but since I know more than all you bitches, just shut up, read, respect, and learn. Your welcome. Haha.
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