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| Building a Formula For Success | |
| Why Online Sales Matter | p. 1 |
| First Things First | p. 2 |
| Internet Research Equals Internet Sales | p. 2 |
| Advantages of Internet Marketing | p. 3 |
| The Bird's Eye View | p. 4 |
| Standard Practice | p. 4 |
| Your Online Sales Engine | p. 5 |
| Back to Basics: Business Strategy 101 | p. 7 |
| The Customer Is King | ... MOREp. 7 |
| Understanding the Buying Process | p. 7 |
| Remove Organizational Silos | p. 8 |
| Get the Most Bang for Your Buck | p. 8 |
| Find Out What's Working | p. 9 |
| Lessons We've Learned | p. 9 |
| Keywords, Keywords, Keywords | p. 9 |
| Paid Search Mismatches | p. 10 |
| Get the Fundamentals Right First | p. 11 |
| Bigger Is Better | p. 11 |
| Content and Inlinks | p. 12 |
| Websites Are for Spiders and People | p. 12 |
| Small Business Safety | p. 12 |
| Budget for Marketing the Website Itself | p. 13 |
| Learn by Example | p. 14 |
| B2C Example: Happy Puppy | p. 14 |
| B2B Example: TropiCo | p. 15 |
| Online Sales Engine Success Stories | p. 15 |
| Case Study: Moving into New Global Markets | p. 16 |
| Case Study: Manufacturing Company Improves Sales | p. 16 |
| Case Study: Large Childcare Provider Increases Web Conversions | p. 17 |
| Case Study: Major Software Company Grows Sales | p. 17 |
| Summary | p. 19 |
| What an Online Sales Engine Can Do | p. 21 |
| What Is an Online Sales Engine? | p. 22 |
| Why Adopt the Online Sales Engine? | p. 22 |
| The Online Sales Engine Components | p. 23 |
| The Components Form a Process | p. 25 |
| Avoid ôDangerous Dataö Nightmares | p. 25 |
| Case Study: Identifying Junk Leads | p. 26 |
| The Customer-Driven Process | p. 26 |
| Define Your Goals | p. 27 |
| Configure Tracking and Set Goals for Metrics | p. 28 |
| Conduct Research and Improve the User Experience | p. 30 |
| Sell Online | p. 32 |
| Manage Your Website | p. 34 |
| Increase Visibility with SEO and Paid Search | p. 34 |
| Revisit the Metrics | p. 38 |
| Close the Loop with Metrics | p. 38 |
| Maintain Your Analytics | p. 39 |
| The ROI-Driven Process | p. 39 |
| Summary | p. 40 |
| Building a Metrics-Driven Practice | p. 43 |
| The New Era of Website Metrics | p. 44 |
| Which Metrics Matter Most? | p. 44 |
| Influencing Leads and Revenue | p. 44 |
| The Conversion Funnel | p. 45 |
| Lead-Generation Businesses | p. 46 |
| E-Commerce Businesses | p. 47 |
| Choosing a Contact Method | p. 47 |
| What to Measure | p. 49 |
| SEO Key Performance Indicators | p. 50 |
| Paid Search KPIs | p. 53 |
| Use Business Analysis to Define Your KPI Benchmarks and Goals | p. 55 |
| When to Measure Matters | p. 56 |
| Integrating Web KPIs into BusinessDecision Making | p. 58 |
| Case Study: Landing Pages with Custom 800 Numbers | p. 59 |
| Web to Lead to CRM Analysis: Close That Loop! | p. 60 |
| The Impact of Internet Marketing on Sales | p. 60 |
| Case Study: Reviewing Customer Conversion Data in Salesforce | p. 62 |
| Moving Data into Salesforce | p. 63 |
| KPI Reporting on Leads and Sales | p. 64 |
| Quantity Versus Quality | p. 64 |
| Projections for Future Gain Based onPast Performance | p. 65 |
| Summary | p. 67 |
| Breaking Down Silos to Get the Metrics You Need | p. 69 |
| Do More Than Gather Data: Build a Team | p. 70 |
| Web Analytics: Types, Purpose, Popular Tools for Each | p. 70 |
| Logfile Versus Script-Based Analytics Tracking | p. 71 |
| Click Analytics | p. 81 |
| Call Tracking: Why It's Essential and How to Select Granularity Needed | p. 82 |
| Measuring If the Phone Rings (Memory Doesn't Count) | p. 82 |
| Selecting the Granularity Needed | p. 83 |
| Lead Management: SFA/CRM Integration | p. 84 |
| CRM Products | p. 84 |
| CRM Basics | p. 85 |
| Next Steps for Follow-Up | p. 86 |
| Next Steps for Analysis: Quantifying ôAssistsö Through Lead Attribution | p. 88 |
| A Case Study in Lead Management | p. 90 |
| Summary | p. 91 |
| The Audience Is Listening (What Will You Say?) | p. 93 |
| Where Do You Start? | p. 94 |
| Start with the Tasks and Goals of Your Potential Audiences | p. 94 |
| Other Important Audiences | p. 95 |
| Listen to and Watch Your Audience | p. 97 |
| Develop Website Personas | p. 100 |
| Persona and Scenario Development Process | p. 101 |
| Sample Personas | p. 102 |
| Adapt Your Website to Your Personas' Needs | p. 105 |
| Next Steps: Gather More Feedback | p. 105 |
| Consider Their Path to Your Content | p. 105 |
| Case Study: Persona-Driven Redesign | p. 107 |
| Speak Your Audience's Language: The Real SEO | p. 109 |
| Do Your Keyword Research | p. 109 |
| Evaluate Your Keyphrases in the Context of the Entire Word Market | p. 110 |
| Case Study: Word Market Focuses Tutor Time on the Right Descriptors | p. 113 |
| Summary | p. 114 |
| Putting It All Together and Selling Online | p. 117 |
| Designing Your Website | p. 118 |
| Incorporating Information Architecture Techniques | p. 118 |
| Experiment with an Unconventional User-Driven Architecture: McKinley.com | p. 119 |
| The Information Architecture Process | p. 120 |
| Investigate and Inform Your Information Architecture | p. 122 |
| Develop a Website Skeleton or Wireframe | p. 122 |
| Test the Information Architecture | p. 126 |
| Graphic Design Comes Later | p. 127 |
| A Process Overview | p. 127 |
| Information Architecture Case Study | p. 128 |
| User Personas and Keyword Analysis | p. 128 |
| High-Level Information Architecture | p. 128 |
| Page Templates with Content Specified | p. 131 |
| How the Website Mission Can Affect Information Architecture | p. 133 |
| Designing Your Landing Pages | p. 133 |
| Landing Page Basics | p. 134 |
| The Design Cycle | p. 138 |
| Getting More Granular: When Do You Need a New Landing Page? | p. 138 |
| Long-Term Maintenance Is Critical | p. 139 |
| Optimizing Your Landing Pages | p. 140 |
| When to Optimize | p. 141 |
| Use Your User Research | p. 142 |
| How to Measure | p. 143 |
| You Have Data. Now What? | p. 145 |
| Summary | p. 145 |
| Making Websites That Work | p. 147 |
| Improving User Experience and Conversion Rates | p. 148 |
| The Basics: What to Fix Before Testing | p. 149 |
| Follow Web Conventions | p. 149 |
| On Key Pages: Form Optimization Basics | p. 150 |
| Template-Level: Automated Attention Analysis | p. 151 |
| On Every Page | p. 152 |
| Beyond Best Practices: User Research | p. 155 |
| Where Do Surveys Fit In? | p. 155 |
| Quantitative User Research: Form Analytics, and A/B Testing | p. 156 |
| Qualitative User Analysis: Observations, Usability Tests | p. 158 |
| UX Checklist | p. 161 |
| Website Planning and Maintenance | p. 162 |
| Plan for Graceful Failure | p. 162 |
| Website Maintenance Tasks | p. 165 |
| Planning a Website Refresh or Relaunch | p. 168 |
| Case Study: Poor SEO Execution Hurts | p. 173 |
| Summary | p. 175 |
| It's All About Visibility | p. 177 |
| Who Sees What and How | p. 178 |
| What Search Engine Spiders See | p. 178 |
| What Search Engine Visitors See | p. 179 |
| Writing Web Content for Users and Spiders: On-Site Optimization | p. 181 |
| Page-Level SEO Best Practices | p. 181 |
| Page-Level SEO Guide: An Example | p. 183 |
| Case Study: Call It What It Is to Increase Findability | p. 185 |
| Special Considerations: Blogging for SEO Benefit | p. 185 |
| Blogging Best Practices | p. 186 |
| Get Out of Your Own Way: Make Sure Your Content Is Findable | p. 187 |
| A Digression into the Guts of Web Code | p. 188 |
| Watch Your Web Technologies | p. 190 |
| Take Advantage of Universal Search: Tag Your Media Files with Target Keywords | p. 190 |
| Have Fun with Widgets, but Avoid Putting Interesting and Relevant Content Inside Frames | p. 192 |
| Don't Spread Yourself Too Thin: Consolidate Your Content Power on Your Main Domain | p. 194 |
| Crawler Control: Speak to Your Spiders | p. 194 |
| Increase Your Findability via Link Building | p. 200 |
| How to Approach Website Owners for Links | p. 201 |
| Increase Your Findability: Claim and Maintain Your Local Business Listings | p. 202 |
| Monitoring, Responding to, and Encouraging Reviews Online | p. 203 |
| Advanced Visibility Strategies: Going Social | p. 204 |
| Extending Your Reach with Paid Search Advertising | p. 205 |
| Search Engines as Paid Search Vendors | p. 206 |
| Effective Paid Search Management | p. 206 |
| Define Your Market | p. 208 |
| Qualify Your Market with Specific Ad Copy | p. 209 |
| Convert Your Visitors into Customers | p. 211 |
| Revisit, Refine, and Refresh Your Campaigns | p. 211 |
| Advanced Visibility Strategies: Display Advertising | p. 212 |
| The Best Ways to Target Display Ads | p. 214 |
| Summary | p. 215 |
| Running the Feedback Loop | p. 217 |
| Revisiting the Project Goals | p. 218 |
| Your Goals Will Change as Your Process Matures | p. 218 |
| Analyzing Across the Online Sales Engine | p. 220 |
| Pulling Data from Various Silos | p. 221 |
| Common Data Analysis Pitfalls | p. 223 |
| Proving ROI | p. 226 |
| What to Consider When Calculating ROI | p. 226 |
| When ROI Doesn't Matter | p. 228 |
| How to Set Projections for Future Performance | p. 229 |
| How to Set Projections for Future Performance | p. 229 |
| Boardroom-Ready Reporting | p. 234 |
| Provide Context for the Numbers | p. 234 |
| Boardroom Reporting Best Practices | p. 236 |
| Summary | p. 237 |
| Special Considerations for International Organizations | p. 239 |
| Going Global in the New World Order | p. 240 |
| The Return of the Silo Problem | p. 240 |
| Triage for International Disorientation | p. 240 |
| The Impact of Language, Culture, and Transparency | p. 241 |
| Working with Translators and Localization Experts | p. 241 |
| Case Study: Spidering to Keep All Localized Websites Up-to-Date | p. 246 |
| Basic Mechanics for a Global Metrics-Driven Practice | p. 246 |
| Use a Single Website Analytics Program Globally | p. 247 |
| Set Your Web Analytics to Track Across Top-Level Domains | p. 247 |
| Unify Your CRM or SFA Process | p. 248 |
| Talk to Each Other! | p. 248 |
| Basic Mechanics for Global Organic Search Visibility | p. 250 |
| Focus on the Correct Search Engine | p. 250 |
| Tune Your Social Strategy to the Right Channel | p. 252 |
| Mind Your Website Top-Level Domains | p. 252 |
| Basic Mechanics for Global Paid Search Configuration | p. 253 |
| Create Regional Campaigns | p. 253 |
| Set Geographic Targets | p. 254 |
| Use the Right Language | p. 254 |
| Working with Time Zones | p. 256 |
| Basic Mechanics for Global Usability | p. 258 |
| Before You Translate: Character Set Issues | p. 258 |
| Working with Forms | p. 258 |
| Working with Other Data | p. 259 |
| A Note for E-Commerce Websites | p. 259 |
| Making It Usable | p. 260 |
| Summary | p. 262 |
| Appendix TropiCo's State of the Web Report | p. 263 |
| Table of Contents | p. 264 |
| Executive Summary | p. 264 |
| About Part I | p. 264 |
| About Part II | p. 265 |
| About Part III | p. 265 |
| The Year in Review: The Data | p. 265 |
| General Traffic Trends | p. 265 |
| Geographic Distribution | p. 266 |
| Traffic Sources | p. 267 |
| Quarterly Leads Trends | p. 268 |
| How It Happened | p. 269 |
| Paid Search (Setup, Management, and Expansion) | p. 270 |
| Search Engine Optimization | p. 274 |
| Usability | p. 275 |
| Strategy, Analysis, and Reporting | p. 276 |
| Local Search | p. 278 |
| Referral Media | p. 279 |
| Looking Forward to 2012 | p. 280 |
| Localize the Online User Experience | p. 280 |
| Engagement: Move Online Strategy Toward Interactive Brand Experience | p. 281 |
| Maintain Momentum from FY 2011 | p. 281 |
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