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A/B testing, also called split testing, is an age-old method of figuring out which marketing strategies work best for your business (or figuring out how to cure scurvy in 18th-century sailors—someone give those salty mariners a sack of oranges!).  Either way, it works.    You can use A/B testing on everything from website copy to paid search ads to marketing emails.  It takes some extra time, but the payoffs make it worthwhile—as long as your A/B tests are well designed.    Say you

In the final 2020 episode of our Digital Breakthroughs podcast, we wanted to shake things up with a guest host! This week, our own Director of Marketing, Matt Erickson, took the podcast reigns and put CEO Bernard May in the virtual hot seat. To close out the year, our CEO wanted to unveil a new strategic marketing framework that we use for all our clients so you, too, can add it to your marketing toolbox for 2021.   We call

Welcome to part two of our podcast (and blog) all about conversion optimization tips, tricks, tactics, and strategies for the holiday season and beyond. If you missed part one you can click here to see what you missed from part one, but if you are feeling brave and want to start from here, we respect your gusto! When we left off with CEO Bernard May and Marketing Director Matt Erickson, we had just begun unpacking the need to use Google

Can you believe that the holidays are right around the corner?! And we all know that the holiday season is something that families, shoppers, and businesses count on to make the year in the rearview mirror all worthwhile. With this in mind, National Positions’ Digital Breakthroughs podcast decided to dedicate Episode 9 to conversion rate optimization. Basically, if you could double or triple your revenues and profits without increasing your costs, would you do it? Yeah, so would we! That

It is no secret that in the world of marketing, branding, and advertising that the attention you get is often the measure of success. Or is it? All brands in (and out of) the digital ecosystem are constantly battling to be top of mind and striving to capture the lion’s share of search, ad clicks, social engagement, and far beyond. The mindset since the birth of digital marketing has been “the more attention you command, the more you can sell.”

A marketing funnel (or sales funnel) is the process a lead goes through to become a paying customer or client. The end goal may also be non-monetary, like capturing a person’s email address. Marketing funnels (sometimes referred to as the “customer journey”) are essential because they help turn prospects into customers. They’re called funnels because at the beginning of the process you cast a wide net to attract lots of potential customers. Some people continue down to the next step,