They say the third lever of content marketing growth is content optimization.
Content creation, content promotion, and content optimization.
A/B testing is an important skill for anyone to learn, whether you’re a marketer, product person, designer, or an analyst. It’s also a great framework for managers, as Elliot Shmukler has noted. Once you learn about A/B testing, you look at decision making, probability, innovation, and risk differently. It’s an attitude shift as much as … Read more
A/B testing (i.e. running a controlled experiment, normally in a digital environment like a website or an application) is prevalent nowadays. All of the biggest tech companies you know – Microsoft, Netflix, Booking.com, Google – run thousands of experiments per year. Now it’s weird if you don’t run A/B tests. There are dozens of tools … Read more
Content creation has a cost, both directly and indirectly. Knowing that cost lets you make better business decisions (and choose what to read)
A/B testing (aka split testing or online controlled experiments) is hard. It’s sometimes billed as a magic tool that spits out a decisive answer. It’s not. It’s a randomized controlled trial, albeit online and with website visitors or users, and it’s reliant upon proper statistical practices. At the same time, I don’t think we should … Read more
How do you model and predict growth (and growth opportunities)? There’s all this talk about “growth models” and “growth modeling” but not much talk about how to build them and get value from them. As with many things, it’s easy to see why they’re important, but hard to put them into action. This post covers … Read more
Capturing email leads is one of the primary goals of most content marketing programs. The money’s in the list, you get a million dollars back for every dollar you invest in email marketing, yada yada yada all the cherry picked statistics. Anyway, you know it’s important or you wouldn’t have found your way here. The … Read more
They say the third lever of content marketing growth is content optimization.
Content creation, content promotion, and content optimization.
There’s no shortage of books about CRO.
Not all of them are good, of course. Some are, some aren’t.
Personally, I think you should read one, maybe two books, specifically about conversion optimization. Other than that, you should go directly to the seat of knowledge.