November 10th, 2009 § § permalink
Not sure how well your home page is performing?
There’s a really simple test that I picked up from Malcolm Auld during his presentation at Marketing Week. While primarily to do with copy, it is nonetheless a simple and effective way to assess if your website’s home page is hitting the mark.
- Call someone with no prior knowledge of your business
- Introduce yourself and tell them what you do by way of reading back your home page copy verbatim
If they can understand what you do, you’ve passed. If not, it’s to the glue factory for your website.
90% – and that’s being generous, the real number is probably far higher – of corporate websites would probably fail this test. Far too often, they get so caught up with their own corporate hyperbole and double speak that they miss the point: Nobody cares about your product or service. They only care about how your product or service will improve their lives.
When you take this test into consideration with the importance that users place on good web design (of which weak web copy was likely to drive 25% of survey respondents away), you can see how critical it is to get your web presence right.
August 28th, 2009 § § permalink
Well Marketing Week is over for another year and despite my earlier missives, I thoroughly enjoyed and learned plenty from the sessions I attended.
Michae Ebeid (@mikeebeid), Malcolm Auld (@MADmarketing) and Jenny Williams (@ideagarden) were thought-provoking and entertaining with their presentations. Malcolm in particular surprised me with his insight and intelligence despite being a Liverpool supporter. » Read the rest of this entry «
August 25th, 2009 § § permalink
Following on from my post last week, it seems I am not alone in my ambivalence towards Marketing Week’s handling of social media.
Seems that I wasn’t the only one who noticed how poorly Marketing Week was handling it’s own social media campaign with no Twitter presence (hello, @marketingweek ??) and a lonely WP blog entry.
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August 20th, 2009 § § permalink
I was browsing through the Marketing Week program earlier today and was shocked to discover a distinct lack of sessions with a social media focus.
Instead there still seems to be a lot of “Introduction to digital/mobile/etc.” that while still serving a fundamental purpose, are so 2006…(or is that 2005). It’s a pretty sad indictment of Adelaide marketers that as an industry, we still need to be convinced about the basics before we can get into the juicy, topical stuff. » Read the rest of this entry «
