Improving Online Marketing
By now, we hope you get the general principle:
- Start with AdWords.
- Validate your keywords, ads, and landing pages.
- For your most popular keywords, split-test multiple ads and vary the ad text widely.
- Take the winning ad copy and put it to use everywhere.
To get your creative juices flowing, here's a list of media that can accommodate your winning ad copy:
- E-mail headlines (to improve open rate)
- E-mail content
- Blog post headlines
- Blog post content
- Sales letter headlines
- Sales letter testimonials
- Sales letter calls to action
- Captions under prominent images on your site
- Banner ads on other networks
- Organic Twitter posts
- Invitations to join Facebook events and Fan pages
- Descriptions of Meetup groups
- Descriptions of your foursquare venue (and other location-based marketing media like Gowalla and Yelp)
- Web page title tags
- Web page description tags
- Online press release headlines
- Online press release calls to action
- Coupons (on Google Places, Groupon, and other venues)