Friday, February 27, 2015

The Ultimate Guide to Creating a Killer Explainer Video

Have you ever thought about putting an explainer video on your site? It could be an easy way to convert more visitors into customers. When we added one to Crazy Egg, it helped us make an additional $21,000 in monthly income. So, how do you create an explainer video that will increase your conversion rate?  [click to continue...]

Thursday, February 26, 2015

How to Create a Deep Connection with Your Readers

Why do you keep coming back to Quick Sprout? Maybe it’s because you are learning a lot from me, or maybe it’s because I’ve helped you grow your business. Although those are contributing factors, they aren’t the main reason you come back. So, what makes you keep coming back? Over the years, I’ve built a  [click to continue...]

Monday, February 23, 2015

How I Increased My Search Traffic by 47% from Translating My Blog into 82 Languages

When you write your blog posts, what language do you write them in? Chances are that you write them in English. What if I told you that you would get more traffic if you wrote your blog posts in Mandarin and Spanish as they are the two most popular languages in the world? I thought it would  [click to continue...]

Friday, February 20, 2015

Popup Showdown: 7 of the Best Popup Scripts and Plugins for Every Project

Back in the early days of the web, it was a scramble to find which business model would fly. Gone were the days of awkward sock puppets in Super Bowl ads or dancing hamsters taking center stage. The freshness and newness of the Internet was both exciting and worrisome. In those early days, Tripod.com was […]

The Ultimate Guide to Hashtags

You see them everywhere around the web… From Twitter to Instagram, hashtags are an essential part of social media. So, why should you care about hashtags? Well, hashtags are a great way to increase your overall social media traffic. For example, tweets with hashtags generate two times more engagement than tweets without them. In order  [click to continue...]

Wednesday, February 18, 2015

Survey Questions That Work: How to Unlock Your Customers’ Deepest Desires

How well do you know your customers and their needs? And, how well do you meet those needs? Do you just create a product and send it out? Or, do you take the trouble to analyze who your customers are, what they need, and how to best meet their needs? If you’re cool with just […]

10 Most Costly Marketing Blunders I’ve Ever Made

When you think of my name, Neil Patel, what comes to mind? You probably see me as a marketing guru or as an expert who is good at driving traffic to websites. Although that’s true these days, I’ve made a lot of marketing blunders over the years. Luckily, most of these blunders affected my own  [click to continue...]

Tuesday, February 17, 2015

Why Growth Hacking is a Team Sport

Reporting is part of every marketer’s job and—according to the experts—is an integral step in creating and maintaining a culture of growth. Yet most marketers don’t have a formal process or spend any significant amount of time compiling and sharing results with their teams. The findings of a recent study on GrowthHackers.com point to the […]

Monday, February 16, 2015

How I Generated 518,399 Visitors and 16,394 Leads from 77 Webinars

At KISSmetrics, we’ve held 77 webinars to date, with great results so far. You can safely assume that we would have stopped holding webinars long ago if the results had been less than desirable since we are a company that measures everything. So, what have the webinars yielded? The 77 webinars have brought us an additional 518,399 visitors,  [click to continue...]

Friday, February 13, 2015

How to Get the Most Value out of Your LinkedIn Posts

Whether you are trying to appeal to other businesses or position yourself for finding a high-paying job, LinkedIn is a social network you can’t ignore. Posting on this social network, which has over 250 million active members, is a great way to grow your brand and generate income. If you are still not convinced that  [click to continue...]

Wednesday, February 11, 2015

6 Email Personalization Techniques That Go Beyond a Name

We are living in the era of personalization. We have an abundance of data at our fingertips, but we don’t always make the most of the opportunity it provides. Many businesses have been incredibly slow to take up personalization. In fact it has been reported that only 5% of companies personalize extensively. That is a […]

No One Is Going to Read Your Corporate Blog (Unless You Read This)

So you’re interested in starting a corporate blog. Now what? You already know how it generates sales, but the real questions is…where do you start? And how do you ensure that people are actually going to read your blog (because company blogs are inherently boring, right?) Don’t worry, I’m going to answer all of those questions and more. As  [click to continue...]

Monday, February 9, 2015

Hitting a Plateau with Your Organic Traffic? Here Is How You Keep Growing

Google is constantly evolving. Not only is its algorithm changing, but the type of data shown within its search results is changing too. For that reason, it’s important that you understand all the changes that have been happening over the years. Why? Because it will help ensure that your site stays relevant so that you  [click to continue...]

Saturday, February 7, 2015

How to Build a Loyal Audience on the Web

Have you ever wondered how I’ve built a loyal audience with my sites? From Quick Sprout to KISSmetrics and now NeilPatel.com, I’ve been able to create a loyal following. How? you may ask. Well, to explain how I’ve been able to do so and, more importantly, how you can achieve similar results, I’ve created an infographic  [click to continue...]

SEO 2015: Will This be the Year of the Story Brand?

Certain people always seem to know what’s going on in digital marketing. They are able to predict the “Hot Topic” months in advance. For as many years as I’ve been in this business, I have been flabbergasted by the knowledge of others, and how they give that knowledge away, seemingly for free. Of course, they […]