The Conversion Blog

Inbound marketing isn't only about driving traffic to your website or app, it's also about converting visitors into leads when they land on your site. The more qualified those leads are the better and the great thing about inbound marketing is that when you do it right a great deal of those leads will be qualified.

The process of making sure your site is turning strangers into customers and visitors into contacts is called conversion rate optimization and it's something you should be doing on a regular basis.

Whether it’s signing up for a newsletter, downloading an application, making a purchase, or creating an account, these conversions are important if you want to turn sessions into sales.

Here are some of our top tips for getting started with conversion rate optimization:

If you’re a veteran of ecommerce, the chances are you’ve been creating and maintaining successful Instagram and Facebook ad campaigns for a while now. You know your relevancy score from your cost per results, and you understand how to properly target your audiences and speak to them in a way that is highly engaging. Even the most successful Facebook campaigns can fall short, however, if you’re not aware of all the features Facebook has to offer.

While we find many businesses know what a Facebook Pixel is, we also see a lot of underutilization when it comes to the Facebook Pixel’s special custom features. These features can really boost your reporting, and even help with retargeting. Let’s take a look at how you can better harness the power of Facebook Pixels for your ad campaigns today.

Predicted to top $1billion in ad revenue by 2020, Pinterest is an often under-utilized platform that's growing daily. While not everyone's ecommerce content is appropriate for Pinterest, the potential for sales is huge in specific industries. In recent years we've seen growth specifically in home and interior areas, as well as in the food and clothing sectors.

Given that, as of 2018, 40% of Pinterest users have a household income of over $100k if you're not already using this platform to generate qualified leads on your site you're missing out.

Let's take a deeper look at how you can leverage Pinterest to increase sales. 👀

There's nothing worse than watching sales dip and abandoned carts skyrocket on your ecommerce site. Here's the good news: if you’re struggling with sales optimization you’re not entirely alone — a striking 75.6% of carts were abandoned in 2018. It’s clear that there’s real potential value in re-engaging these leads, nurturing them into customers, but how can you get started with this? 

Take a look at some of our top tips for ecommerce sites when it comes to conversion optimization and leading nurturing. Using these tricks, you’ll be able to supercharge your processes today.

We’ve said it once, and we’ll say it again, leaving your holiday campaign planning until Q3 is a very seat-of-your-pants approach to ecommerce marketing. That said, if for whatever reason you’re putting together your strategies just now we have the perfect post for you that is going to maximize conversions and increase sales over the holidays when it comes to your Magento store.