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Take a look at where your email sign-up call-to-action appears and, if it's below the fold, test making it more prominent and see what kind of a boost in conversion rate you see.
One key to a successful email marketing program is list growth; you want to be adding new people to your list, preferably via opt-in, on an ongoing basis. Here's a quick case study on how a small change yielded big results.
Last year I began working with a new client. First up: an audit of their email acquisition program. The analysis turned up a number of things, but there was one simple thing that I noticed right away.
The call-to-action to sign up for email was at the bottom right of the page, below the fold (see the wireframe layout below).
As a business-to-consumer e-commerce company, the primary mission of the client's website is to generate revenue. That's why they "buried" the email sign-up call-to-action, opting to put product information in the "prime real estate" above the fold. Visitors who didn't scroll past the fold didn't see it; and even those who did quite likely missed it.
Now, here's the thing about scrolling: people do scroll more today than they did back in 1995. When the World Wide Web was new, scrolling was rare - most people were relatively new to reading content online and they didn't necessarily realize that you could scroll.
Fast forward to 2013. Just about everyone is comfortable reading online and scrolling is no longer a foreign concept. But, in my experience, the part of the web page that appears "above the fold" is still your prime real estate. Just because people can scroll doesn't mean that they will.
And you certainly don't want them to have to scroll to look for your email sign-up. No matter what the primary goal of your website is, the secondary goal should be to entice people to provide you with their email address. This gives you the opportunity to build a relationship with them and, hopefully, pull them back to your website in the future to fill out a lead generation form, make a purchase, view advertising, or whatever you need them to do to boost your bottom line.
So, my hypothesis for the first test was that we could increase email list growth by moving the existing email sign-up call-to-action (same copy, same design) up above the fold (so that visitors would see it without scrolling).
The only concern the client had with this test was the potential impact on revenue. If we devote less of the "prime real estate" above the fold to messages that generated revenue directly, wouldn't revenue suffer? Would the value of the additional email addresses gathered make up for any loss?
We did an A/B split test comparing the control (above) to a test page (below), where the email sign-up call-to-action was moved to the top of the right column, above the fold. Everything else about the call-to-action - the offer, the incentives, the copy, the design - remained exactly the same.
The result? The test generated a 30 percent increase in email sign-up conversion rate. Just by moving it to a more prominent place on the page, we got a boost in list growth.
Even better - we didn't see a decrease in revenue generated by this page. In fact, the test page generated 27 percent more revenue than the control. So not only is the client's email list growing more quickly, so is their bottom line, thanks to this small change.
This was just the first step toward improving this client's email acquisition. But it was so simple. Take a look at where your email sign-up call-to-action appears and, if it's below the fold, test making it more prominent and see what kind of a boost in conversion rate you see.
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"At last!," you say. Finally, a 12-step program to get me, them our yourself out of Zinfandel-stained pajamas, away from the keyboard and on to something more productive. Whatever that may be... Well, no. Wine Bloggers Anonymous is not a support group. It's simply a reality.
Despite the smiling pictures and optimistic bios on their blog sites, wine bloggers are largely ignored by the world around them. Tom Johnson posted an entertaining and informative article about the sad state of wine blogs today on PalattePress. He pointed out, among other things, that wine blogs are not only light years away from drawing the traffic that political and entertainment blogs get, they aren't even getting substantial attention from serious wine enthusiasts.
Tom suggests that wine bloggers could go a long way toward closing the gap, at least with the wine-drinking audience, if the bloggers stopped reviewing wine and started linking more with each other. There is value in these suggestions and even more in his analyses, but I don't think either action will move the needle substantially.
There seems to be a lot of negativity toward wine reviews these days, whether they be capsule reviews, one-liners with a score, or a full page of tasting notes. Part of this is still due to frustration over the dominance of, and excessive consumer focus on, scores from Robert Parker, The Wine Spectator, etc. Part of it is due to mounting frustration over descriptions of wine that are laden with adjectives yet fail to give readers a true sense of what the wine is like to drink. As Tom points out, there is also the reality that no blogger can ever hope to achieve the extensive range of reviews and that Robert Parker does, or even the level of the latest blogger-berating wine reviewer, Stephen Tanzer. Heck, Tanzer's dog probably sniffs more wine in a month than most bloggers do in three years. (Or so he would have you think.) So why bother with reviews in a blog. Here's why…
People want them. Perhaps wine experts don't want them. But, if bloggers concern themselves about what the wine intelligentsia want, then the blogs are going to continue talking to that same small audience. There is a reason well beyond volume and authoritativeness that Parker's site is popular and that his scores and others adorn the shelves of wine shops around the world. To quote Michael Brill of CrushPad in his recent interview on WineRadio.com, "Most people need to be told what to buy."
We may be horrified by that statement. We may bristle at the thought that someone knows our taste better than we do. And we may say, "Down with reviews, let the public decide!" But we are the minority and minorities are not "most people." Most people don't visit 100 wineries per year. Most people don't spend 5+ hours a day reading about wine, whether it be online or in print. Most people don't go to a half-dozen trade tastings every month. I could go on. The fact is, most people need to be told what to buy. There are too many choices out there and the typical consumer would rather put their money where an "experts" mouth is than gamble on their own intuition.
This desire to be told drives shop owners to clutter their shelves with tasting note cards, just as bookstores have best-seller racks and news shows announce which movies are grossing the most on any given weekend. People want to know what's popular with their peers and with critics. Reviews may not adequately characterize a wine. But they are something that a lot of people want and providing what people want is a way to increase web traffic. Dropping reviews may hurt, rather than help, readership. (On a side note, if people like Tanzer didn't feel that blog-based reviews had some draw and the potential to cut into their revenue by providing free wine commentary, then they probably wouldn't bother to take shots at bloggers.)
Cross-linking is a great idea and I'm all for it. However, the links will only be seen by people already reading blogs. Certainly, if some of the top bloggers decided to be more generous and link with a wider range of blogs, that would lead to increased traffic for the less known sites. Many of the "anonymous" sites have a lot to offer and exposing them to greater readership would be a benefit to wine enthusiasts. At the moment, some of the top blogs seem to link and comment only to each other. Whether that is out of expediency and the desire for efficiently driving traffic, a competitive spirit or simply a lack of awareness is unclear.
Frankly, I am not in a position to pontificate about what will drive blogs to higher levels. My own traffic isn't that high ("Yet," I add hopefully). But, I continue to think about the issue and try different things. As these things succeed, or don't, I'll be happy to share my experiences so that others can benefit. Or laugh.
Even with a very successful plan, the potential audience for wine blogs is fairly small though. As Adam Japko said in his comment on Tom Johnson's article, "You need to have an interest in wine beyond the average person to follow and consume this stuff." If the vast majority of wine sold is under $10 per 750ml and is consumed within 24 hours of purchase (both true), then the vast majority of purchases are not being made by people who care enough to read about wine on a monthly, let alone daily, basis. So long as we continue to blog only about wine, most of us are destined to remain wine bloggers anonymous.
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Wine Enthusiasts, who consume and care about more than the average $10 mass produced wine; are indeed a niche market. Do we think Wine Spectator or Robert Parker influence them either? No, so why do we insist in comparing people who write about a niche product to those of mass appeal.
Compared to a mainstream topic or website, Simple Hedonisms hits are small. For the defined, by intent smaller regional market it serves, and the limited time I have, I am very happy with it, and its continued upward growth. (50% this month over last.) ya...so no-one is reading blogs, social media doesn't matter...and oh ya - the earth is flat!
1. They often don't have meaningful search, comment, or other features most people expect on current sites.
2. Their database is often thin compared to others available - CellarTracker aggregates far more tasting notes, many retail sites feature multiple reviews from the pros, and the pro review sites have both expertise (real or perceived) and depth of review databases.
3. The reviews aren't reaching the audiences that could benefit most (local consumers thinking about buying a bottle locally, that night) because they aren't optimized to reach a local audience.
4. Wine review blogs often feature just wine reviews instead of meaningful connections to other topics as magazines and newsletter sites do. Those might be food and wine, articles about wineries, growers, regions, techniques, events, or others. They might be about local events, restaurants, wine stores, or wines you tried from any of those local places.
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I finished the Blessed Herbs Internal Cleanse a while ago, but I'm just now getting around to posting my experience with it! If you haven't read it already, read my review of the Blessed Herbs Colon Cleanse now since that's the first step in the Blessed Herbs cleanse program.
Since the Colon Cleanse was so effective for me, I was really looking forward to going through the Blessed Herbs Internal Cleanse.
As with the Colon Cleanse, Brian also did the Internal Cleanse with me. I found it immensely helpful that we were able to go through this together. Since it's such a long program, I think it's important for your partner to also go through it with you. The support is very helpful.
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I read that is completely normal if your body is eliminating parasites, so I was at least happy to know that the unwanted guests were being expelled from my body even if I didn't feel great.
I felt pretty good through the second week where we cleansed our kidney, gall bladder and lungs. I didn't have any adverse effects from the herbs during this week.
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BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union plans to restrict the use of three pesticides to better protect dwindling bee populations.
The announcement Monday was cheered by environmentalists, disappointed chemical companies and came after the bloc's 27 nations failed to agree on a common stand.
EU Consumer Commissioner Tonio Borg said his agency will override the deadlock and move "in the coming weeks" to restrict three neonicotinoid pesticides on plants and cereals that attract bees. The measure takes effect Dec. 1 for two years unless decisive new information becomes available.
Beekeepers have reported an unusual decline in bees over the past decade, particularly in Western Europe, according to the European Food Safety Authority. It says bees are critically important to the environment, sustaining biodiversity by providing pollination for a wide range of crops and wild plants — including most of the food crops in Europe.
Borg said bees contribute over 22 billion euros ($29 billion) a year to European agriculture.
In all, 15 EU nations were for the restrictions, eight were against and four abstained. Borg said he still felt confident in moving ahead because "a majority of member states now support our proposal."
Environmentalists welcomed the move.
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The head of the EU Parliament's environmental committee acknowledged that "precise data is still lacking" but applauded the consumer agency's action.
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Now that is just a sneak peek of a bellycious lechon belly that we luckily get to try yesterday during a taste test. Not sinful nor salty but satisfying. Satisfying one's craving for our fave lechon and take note this has a taste of lechon Cebu. Just the belly part and no bones which as they say makes more value for your hard earned money especially this Christmas.
It can be a little bit pricey let's say P30 more than the usual lechon per kilo but you got more of the lechon and no bones from the belly part that most if not all of us usually go for first when a whole lechon will be laid out in front of us in feast in any family gathering or special occasion. Will blog more about this and post more photos in my next post about Beloy's boneless lechon belly.


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Hutton: Oakland move good for Horizon, Valpo
By MIKE HUTTON firstname.lastname@example.com Twitter: @MikeHuttonPT May 11, 2013 9:40PM
Jeffrey D. Nicholls/Post-Tribune Oakland head coach Greg Kampe watches from the sidelines Sunday afternoon at Kemper Arena in Kansas City. The Grizzly have never beaten the Crusaders.
Updated: June 13, 2013 7:35PM
I want Oakland in my league because I want Greg Kampe around.
I want him to come to the Athletics-Recreation Center and have him help fill my notebook up once a year, or even twice if the Crusaders play them at home in the conference tournament.
I want Oakland in the Horizon League because, Kampe is, as a friend of mine from the region used to say, "Good people."
Kampe is like that best friend you had — the one who could open the door to your house, walk into the kitchen, open the refrigerator and grab himself a beer, while you were gone and you wouldn't care a whit.
You just want him around — even if you're not home.
I want Oakland in the league because the Grizzlies are well coached and they play hard and they have a rivalry with Valparaiso University that is deep and spirited and good for the fans and fun to cover.
I'll take the Loyola-for-Oakland trade any day. The Ramblers have Chicago going for them, but they still play like a team stuck in a different decade in a town that is indifferent about them.
Yes, the Oakland-for-Loyola trade was a great day for the Horizon League and an even better day for VU. He's back — a vestige of the Mid-Continent Conference and the Summit League.
Kampe called me on Friday, after getting off the golf course. He'd just shot an 82. Remarkable for a pudgy, slightly beyond middle-aged coach, who had both his knees replaced last year and who ruptured his Achilles sliding into first base playing softball in a 55-and over league last year.
How many college basketball coaches at the Division I level still play softball? I'm guessing just one. (Well, not anymore).
Kampe was thrilled to shoot an 82 after all he'd been through.
He's just as thrilled to get a chance to play in the Horizon League.
He is one of the few coaches around who has spent nearly a professional lifetime at the same school, (29 years), taking the Grizzlies from a Division II power to Division I, where they became one of the best teams in the Summit League.
He has a hundred VU stories — starting with the infamous streak (the Crusaders beat the Grizzlies 16 straight times), the time that Tarrance Price beat Oakland after making four straight 3-pointers at their place, to the Grizzlies' last two nonconference victories over the Crusaders, both of which were one-possession games.
Kampe loves playing VU, loves the competition and rivalry and the people. It's good to have him and Oakland back.
Eddie Fierek and Noll
Former Highland coach Eddie Fierek would be a perfect fit for the Bishop Noll job. Fierek dismissed the idea, saying in a text that he had no plans to apply for the job because he just signed up as an assistant for Calumet College.
However, never take "No" for answer, right? Fierek coached at Bishop Noll before he jumped over to Highland, where he has a teaching job that pays him just a little more than he can make at Noll.
He did well at Highland but he got burned out after seven seasons. I'll tell you why you get burned out coaching the Trojans: It's hard to have to bang against Lake Central, West Side, Munster and East Chicago in the West Side Sectional year after year.
The Noll job is an attractive one, at least at this minute, because the Warriors really are a team that is poised to make a deep run in the tournament. They have Larry Crisler and Tyreon Gates back, along with the possibility of a 6-10 center.
They don't have to deal with Bowman. Whoever gets the gig should be well-positioned to at least have some success this season. That's always nicer than losing. The private school jobs always pose an interesting dilemma for athletic directors: Do you try to hire someone who is vested in the program for a while (possibly a retired coach) or go for someone ambitious and young, knowing very well they could be gone after a year or two?
In this instance, Noll needs the right guy. I suspect the right person won't necessarily be someone on staff, given all the problems the school had earlier this season when the Indiana High School Athletic Association ruled that Lamous Brown had transferred from Chicago Harlan for athletic purposes. In a climate where kids come and go like a band of gypsies, Noll needs to act quickly so the kids know who is in charge.
Gary Amateur
One of many not-so-shameful plugs for the Gary Amateur, formerly known as the Northwest Indiana Golf Classic.
It will be held at South Gleason Golf Course on June 8 and June 9. The cost is $55. Pay the day of the tournament.
An entry blank can be found in the Post-Tribune today. Also, the driving range will be open for action on both days.


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Probation for 14 pounds of pot
Two Minnesota men who admitted they had about 14 pounds of marijuana in their car when police stopped them for speeding were sentenced to 18 months on probation for possession of marijuana.
Joshua Cam Ky, 47, of Shakopee, Minn., was the passenger in a Ford SUV and Cuong Hoang Tang, 36, of Farmington, Minn., was the driver when Indiana State Police pulled them over on Dec. 1, 2011 on Interstate 90 westbound in Hammond.
Police found about 14 pounds of marijuana in two cardboard boxes.
If the men comply with the terms of their probation, which will be served in Minnesota, they can ask the judge to reduce their felony conviction to a misdemeanor.
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A 29-year-old North Carolina man was sentenced Thursday in Lake Superior Court to 120 days in Lake County Jail for misdemeanor possession of marijuana.
Jermaine Markee Bunch, of Roper, N.C., admitted he had a marijuana blunt, less than 30 grams, in his possession on April 21 at the Denny's – Flyin' J Truck Stop, 1401 Ripley St., Lake Station, where officers were called on a disturbance report and pulled over Bunch.
Charges of escape, a class C felony, and misdemeanor disorder conduct were dismissed.
With credit for good behavior, Bunch has six days left to serve in the sentence issued by judge pro tem Michael Lambert.
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A Cedar Lake man was sentenced for domestic battery in a 2011 incident involving his wife.
Leslie Maurice Falk, 42, was ordered to serve six months in custody, followed by 30 months on probation for the May 6, 2011, crime. Falk admitted he, his wife and his 4-year-old were at the family home in the 6800 block of 128th Avenue in Cedar Lake when he put his hands on his wife's neck in the living room and squeezed. The couple's child was present during the incident. Falk also admitted he fired a gun in the living room, but neither his wife nor child were injured. The bullet lodged in the wall above the woman's head.
Falk had faced 20 to 50 years on the attempted murder charge, which was dismissed along with charges of unlawful possession of a handgun by a serious violent felon, two counts of criminal recklessness, strangulation, two counts of intimidation, neglect, attempted battery and interfering with reporting a crime.


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Remembering 'Sopranos' star James Gandolfini
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Actor James Gandolfini arrives at "Violet & Daisy" Premiere during the 2011 Toronto International Film Festival held at The Elgin theatre on September 15, 2011 in Toronto, Canada.
Today we remember actor James Gandolfini who died of an apparent heart attack while on vacation in Rome. "The Sopranos" star was 51 years old. Director Allen Coulter worked with Gandolfini as a producer and director on the HBO hit and he joins the show with a remembrance.


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Customer Loyalty - Golden Rule Investment for Small Business
"Small business owners have little insight as to how good an investment a Customer Loyalty Retention strategy can be, especially within an established business", claims Peter Wiedemann, Business Strategist from Lead Loyalty Marketing.
It is hard for business owners to change their 'hole-in-the-bucket' religion of seeking a never ending stream of new customers to pour down the funnel, only to see them leak out the bottom.
- Most business managers rate customer retention as critical to their survival.
- Many can even recite the golden rule that 'it costs less to retain existing customers than to find new ones'.
- A few can even quote statistics such 'on average increasing customer retention rates by 5% can increase profits by 25% to 95% 1
Yet in the same breath most are screaming they cannot afford to provide customers with more discounts, on top of their existing discounts, for Loyalty programs.
A common misconception in this cycle of discount marketing is that customers do not value anything else.
The 'hook' to keep customers returning can be sharpened many different ways. The concept of perceived value coupled with emotional triggers are a very powerful combination.
Providing 'experiences' such as head chef sitting down at your table full of invited friends, to sample his private stock, has far more loyalty depth and dimension, than 'get 10% off your next visit, once you accumulate 2000 points'.
Small business has the ability to be creative and structure rewards around customer actions beneficial to them. Just make sure customers also perceive them as valuable and attainable.
Customers like to be appreciated and feel they are receiving special treatment, especially good customers. As cliche' as it may sound, belonging to a special group is desirable.
The mass produced silver, gold and platinum clubs may have lost some of their lustre over the years, but they have proved themselves for decades. It may be time to spice up the allure, but the underlying human desire still runs deep.
Customer Retention and Loyalty Rewards programs have different roles to play. Customer Retention needs to be ingrained into the fabric of the business. If customer facing staff are unfriendly and unhelpful, then no amount of 'points' is going to keep customers coming back.
Most established small businesses are instinctively performing elements of retention. Usually it is a combination of factors such as good product, customer care, convenience and the many other customer valued ingredients essential for business survival.
However, it is hard for small business to gauge how much of each element is responsible for the repeat revenue pie, and even harder to work out how to improve on this.
This is where Loyalty Programs can be so valuable, as they boost the ability to retain customers through providing a structured, customer focal point and baseline from which to improve.
As a marketing investment they are low risk, low cost and when aligned to an achievable business strategy, have a high probability of remarkable success.
Program revenue is easily measured to determine financial benefits and they compile data on customer preferences, to further improve effectiveness.
Most Loyalty programs are outsourced or have a high degree of marketing automation, so little effort is required in the day to day operation of the program once setup.
By default Loyalty programs force regular business communications with customers and in turn provide the ability to receive customer feedback.
Data analysis and customer interaction provides business insight. Remarkably this insight has a way of seeping into other areas of the business. It could even provide ideas for new product lines or services to sell.
There are few marketing decisions warranting such an overwhelming case for action.
Of course it requires a little effort to make it work, but if the ethic is there, then so are the 'rewards'.
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1 "Zero Defections: Quality Comes to Services," Harvard Business Review, September-October 1990.
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