Demandbase had its first webinar last week, an analysis of Post Click Marketing. Even the best and most successful marketing campaigns convert only about 5% of the clicks. What about the other 95%? Demandbase helps to focus on the "silent majority" as you can see by viewing the recording of the webinar here, but I also compiled some additional Resources and Best Practices from a variety of sources for you to help you with your Post-Click Marketing initiatives.
Landing Page Best Practices
There is a lot of content available regarding fine-tuning your landing pages. Here are five of the most interesting tips regarding landing pages (and web forms in general):
- Make sure the offer on your landing page matches the offer they clicked on. Are they seeing what they expect to see?
- Put your form and all relevant content "above the fold" – they need to see everything you need them to see, without scrolling down the page.
- Position the one thing you want them to do as the most obvious call to action on the page – don't overwhelm them with links or actions.
- Use "hidden" fields on your web forms to capture relevant information about lead source or to attach the lead to a specific marketing campaign.
- Streamline all forms for easy conversion, eliminate unnecessary questions and focus on only the information you need to qualify a prospect as "qualified."
Here are links to some great content on best practices, with more detailed information:
How to Get Valid Phone Numbers From B-to-B Prospects
by Anne Holland, former content director at Marketing Sherpa
Lead Scoring Should Influence Your Web Forms
by Jason Stewart, Senior Online Marketing Manager, Demandbase
Hot Tips to Increase Landing Page Conversions
Marketing Sherpa/Marketo co-presentation teleseminar with downloadable slide deck and audio file.
Getting started with Salesforce CRM for Google Adwords
This is a recorded session from Dreamforce 2008 featuring Sean Whiteley from Salesforce.com and marketing analytics guru Dave deBronkart from TimeTrade. Lots of good post-click marketing tips on tracking ROI of your clicks, landing page discussion starts at about 18:55.
Lead Management Vendor Selection
Rather than reinvent the wheel here, I discovered two really great resources digging in to this very subject that I can share. Full disclosure – Demandbase is a Marketo customer…
Selection of a Marketing Automation Vendor – Part 1
Selection of a Marketing Automation Vendor – Part 2
Inbound Marketer Blog
Raab Guide to Demand Generation Systems
Independent analysts at Raab Associates provide detailed, objective analysis of products from leading demand generation vendors. It is not free, but you can download a free excerpt here.
You are incredibly generous with your knowledge, Jason. I’ve been absolutely flooded with work as the year draws to a close, but you’re always worth stopping for.
Many good things to learn!
Can’t wait to get my own blog running so I can riff off yours.
I didn’t realize Anne Holland had moved on from MarketingSherpa.
Must get chauffeur and always-on wireless connection so I can watch webcasts while commuting.
Thanks for mentioning the Raab Guide, Jason. Although the Guide itself is not free, the site contains several papers and worksheets on demand generation system selection that are.
I do have to complain, however, that I’ve now spent several hours looking through your blog and in particular the Twitter links. How is anyone supposed to get any work done?
…actually, those were the Twitter links in the Inbound Marketer Blog that was referenced in your article. But I spent plenty of time looking more closely at Demandbase products too.
Thanks for your tips mate will come in handy for people like myself