Article # 1 - How to Get More Visitors to Click, Buy or Promote on Your Site:
When we talk about perfection in a website, there is no such thing. In other words, it means that there is always a room for improvement and betterment. The point to ponder is how to improve one’s website. The first step is to determine the primary goal of website. What purpose does it serve to the target audience? Is the purpose of the page to promote it on social media, encourage people to call you, get chances to fill out a form or to generate online sales? Once a person understands what the goal is all about, the next step is to think about the path through which visitors must travel in order to achieve the goal. This path is known as conversion funnel. The key to success is to bring improvements and optimization in the conversion funnel. For instance, let us suppose that thirty percent of visitors go to the homepage and select product sales page. Twenty percent of them proceed towards order form and finally forty percent of the remaining visitors complete the order form and come to the thank you page. The number of visitors completed the funnel in this case is 2.4 percent. This percentage is known as conversion rate.
The success of your website lies behind improving the conversion rate. If the conversion rate of each page in conversion funnel is increased by ten percent, the overall conversion rate grows by thirty three percent. The unfortunate part is that most entrepreneurs and business owners fail to understand and measure their website’s conversion rates. The factors that should be considered in increasing the conversion rate are changing your choice of text, changing text size or font choice, adding new images, changing the background colour of your page and modifying your layout. Moreover, the conversion rate should be tracked on a monthly and daily basis both.
Article # 2 – Survey: Email is 40 times More Effective than Facebook and Twitter:
With the emergence of social media, everyone is of the opinion that this is the best medium of communication. However, current survey of McKinsey and Co. tells us that the no form of marketing and communication is more effective than emails. In the research of McKinsey, there were three tips given for marketing through emails. Among them was to focus on the journey, not on the click.
Moreover, customized landing pages, which direct the user to the item in the email, can significantly increase the conversion rates by more than twenty five percent. There are also some figures reported regarding opening of emails on mobile devices. Today, approximately forty five percent of emails are opened on mobile and smart phone devices. However, people get disturbed and frustrated when they receive emails on such devices as they are busy playing their games. It has been reported by Google that forty percent visit a competitor’s site instead.
Article # 3 – Amazon to Join the Smartphone Bandwagon Later this Year: Report
Amazon, the world’s largest online retailer, is preparing itself to join the Smartphone race with its own version soon. Thus, Amazon is trying to bring itself in competition with the big giants such as Apple, Samsung and other manufacturers. According to a few sources, Amazon has been recently doing testing of its phones in Seattle and San Francisco.
The phone that Amazon is trying to bring in the market would have the capability to display 3D images without requiring special glasses. The phone will have four front-facing cameras, sensors and retina-tracking technology for 3D projection. The phone would be able to sense eye movements. In addition to this, the phone will automatically zoom in the images when the phone is brought closer to the face of the user. Moreover, there has been news that Amazon has partnered with Japan Display. Japan Display is also the manufacturer of Apple’s iPhone 5S and 5C. Amazon has been observed to launch latest gadgets such as Amazon Fire TV to compete with Apple TV to compete with Apple’s products. Amazon also launched a new device for shoppers known as Dash. It scans the product barcodes by sitting at home only.
There is no information regarding the operating system that this phone would be using. However, there are rumours that Amazon will be using a modified version of Google’s Android OS. When we talk about Amazon’s Kindle Fire tablet and Fire TV set top box, it is currently limiting its users from Google Play Store and provides its own app store for digital content. Amazon has plans to enter mass production by the end of this month.
Amazon is making an entry into a new category in Smartphone industry when the market is experiencing a rapid extension. The main leaders in this market are Samsung and Apple. Forty nine percent of the market is being led by these two giants. It would be a big challenge for Amazon to compete, sustain and make an impact in the industry.
