Have you ever heard that a smile can take you a long way? Charisma and body language are present in everyday interactions, and play an important role in convincing or persuading others. The best sales people are those who provide a personalized and relatable experience to their customers, creating a connection and hopefully cultivating a new bond.
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Inbound Marketing Techniques
Seven Ways For Online News Organizations to Increase Subscribers
We recently examined how news organizations such as CNN, the NY Times, and the Guardian utilize popovers to get people to pay for news content online. Each news organization could improve their popover by making simple changes. In this blog post, we layout a seven prong strategy any news organization could integrate into their Popover strategy to increase subscribers.
Inbound Marketing Techniques
Three Rules to Create A Persuasive Free Offer
Attracting customers with the word FREE is a technique as old as marketing itself. The prospect of getting “something for nothing” makes people more likely to engage and imparts a subconscious need for them to give back. What formula can site owners use to craft their Persuasive Free Offer (PFO)? To woo new customers with a PFO, site owners must address three challenges…
Case Study
ESPN / Home Depot: Popover Banner Ad Example
Upon opening ESPN.com, a popover advertising products from Home Depot takes over about one third of the page (1a). The ad contains a “close” option in the top right corner, but it recedes to a horizontal banner format within a few seconds (1b). The message in the popover is reinforced by two vertical banners (2) and a rectangular ad further down the page (3).