January 21, 2004

Additional Web Conf Notes For Rollover Implementation

You can make changes by hand but that would be very difficult and require and advanced understanding of Javascript and CSSP.

Books:

Dreamweaver 4 Magic, from New Riders... ISBN: 0-7357-1046-5

Extensions:

Your best course of action is to purchase Dreamweaver MX or MX 2004 and download the following extensions from PVII at http://www.projectseven.com/extensions/index.htm:

  • ReDoIt

  • Remove IE Link Scrubber

  • Snap Layers

Tutorials that you may find helpful:

http://www.projectseven.com/tutorials/index.htm

Code That needs to be added to the body tag of any page that the rollover is on:

<BODY onLoad="P7_Snap('YourAnchorName','YourLayerName',500,45)" onResize="P7_ReDoIt();P7_Snap('YourAnchorName','YourLayerName,500,45)">

How To Link An External JavaScript File:

<SCRIPT language="JavaScript" type="text/JavaScript" src="YourJavascriptFileName.js"></SCRIPT>

Posted by c.rainer at 04:24 PM

Email Capture - Conference Notes

BIO:

Dr. Flint McGlaughlin

The Marketing Experiments Journal is published by Digital Trust Inc. (DTI). Dr. Flint McGlaughlin is the Director of DTI.

Dr. McGlaughlin is a pioneer in strategy and communications. His primary research is focused on discovering the most effective means to market intellectual assets across the Internet.

Dr. McGlaughlin has advised more than 1500 companies including, AT&T, The Federal Reserve, Pitney Bowes, and Merrill Lynch. He has conducted over 2000 hours of keynote speaking. He has directed the development of more than 20,000 web pages.

Dr. McGlaughlin currently serves as the Co-Executive Producer of the new FOX Family series: "Courage" - hosted by actor Danny Glover. He also serves as a senior advisor or board member to twelve growing companies, and four charitable foundations.

His writing and television production activities have, thus far, won two Tellys, an Edwin Murrough, and an Emmy.

Dr. McGlaughlin is quick to acknowledge that the research at MEC is largely dependent on the intense, focused efforts of the Lab's Leadership Team.


NOTES:

Table 1:

PAY SEARCH ENGINE CAMPAIGN
ITEMCAMPAIGN ACAMPAIGN B
Click Throughs10,00010,000
Cost Per Click$ .50.50
Conversion Rate1.5%1.5%
Customers150150
Average Sale$ 3939
Immediate Sales$ 58505850
Email Capture Ratio010%
Email Addresses Captured01000
Additional Customers
(8 Mailings over 120 days)
030
Additional Sales$ 01170
Total Cost (*)$ 50005000
Total Sales$ 58507020
Gross Profit$ 8502020

***> What you need to UNDERSTAND: If you add up the intangible costs of time, and landing page preparation, CAMPAIGN A was unprofitable. But CAMPAIGN B netted 238% more than CAMPAIGN A. The difference was the email capture.

Table 2:

New Subscribers Captured without the Use of a Pop-Up Window
PERIODNEW SUBSCRIBERS
Week 137
Week 242
Week 344
Total123

Table 3:

New Subscribers Captured WITH the Use of a Pop-Up Window
PERIODNEW SUBSCRIBERS
Week 171
Week 284
Week 377
Total232

***> What you need to UNDERSTAND: The use of the pop-up window generated 190% of the subscribers of the original effort.


URLs

1. Email Capture Pop-Ups Tested

2. Home Page Design Tested, Part 1

3. Home Page Design Tested, Part 2

4. Pop-Up and Rollover Scripts

5. http://www.marketingexperiments.com/

Posted by Brian Alt at 12:53 PM

January 02, 2004

Email Marketing Filter Guidelines

To reduce the likelihood that your permission-based emails will get filtered by anti-spam protocols:

- Keep your "From:" field consistent.

- AOL 9 users and new Outlook users have to "whitelist" your email address. This is the main reason for not changing the "From:" field once you are approved.

- Get our own unique IP address for email. Consult with your list hosting provider to determine whether this is available.

- Stick to text email. HTML is filtered more often by corporate servers and some ISPs.

- Use double opt-in. Single opt-in lists stand a greater chance of being filtered or blocked.

- Limit the number of hotlinks in an email.

- Avoid certain words in the subject line to keep your "spam score" down. More on this in a future report.

Posted by Brian Alt at 03:41 PM