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This article is focused on how to improve your “Conversion Ratio.” Don’t know that is? Don’t worry; I’m here to explain it to you. Conversion Ratio is the amount of visitors that come to your website and are actually turned into clients or customers. How much traffic does your site get and what percentage of that results in products or services sold? If your ratio is low, then your site isn’t as efficient as it should be, and you should focus on boosting that number before you do anything else with the site. To do that, you need to ensure that your Internet advertising is the most effective it can be.

Online marketing is a tricky business. Normally, sales are done in person, where body language accounts for 90 percent of communication. How do we now operate in an environment with no human interaction and often unfriendly technology in the place of body language? How do we convince visitors to leave with a purchase instead of just leaving and not coming back?

First of all, you need to make sure that your website is written with the customer in mind. You should be doing whatever you can to build rapport with your prospects. Does your site take ages to load or is it fast? Is it visually appealing or a turn off to the eyes? Is your sales copy being written by talented people with experience? No amount of flash or fancy technology will replace the sales text of your site. That should be your number one priority.

Internet advertising is all about understanding what your visitors want. Since we can’t ask prospects in person and listen to their response, we need to examine what kinds of people are coming to our site, what keywords they’re searching for, where they’re coming from, and how long they’re staying. You need to be able to understand how visitors are currently interacting with your site in order to see where improvements can be made.

Once you understand what it is that people are searching for when they come to your site, you can better design it to meet those needs. But beyond that, you need to be able to grab their attention and hold their interest – no easy task in the online world. From there, you need to motivate them to act. Create a clear system of navigation that encourages visitors to act on every page. Whether it’s signing up for a free newsletter or prompting people to buy a free trial of your product, always be encouraging visitors to do, do, do!

In order to stay on top of your Internet advertising strategy, make sure you get a regularly updated traffic report sent to you based on your site’s log files. You need to know who is visiting your site and how often. And above everything else, always remember to keep things simple and useful. If you are actually pleasing or helping your prospects then why wouldn’t they want to return?





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Stephanie Robey is President and CoFounder of Pivot Positive, LLC - an Internet marketing business focused on helping people start work at home ventures. Previously, she was employed at The Search Agency with over 20 years experience in graphic design and 10 years experience in online marketing. She was responsible for launching the Conversion Path Optimization (CPO) unit where she and her team have conducted hundreds of optimization tests for online companies across multiple verticals.

She is a successful entrepreneur having started and sold 2 companies and remains on the board of directors of the third, PhotoSpin.com   Stephanie began her career in the direct marketing realm creating and producing direct mail for many of the major cable television companies and directly attributes her understanding of Internet marketing to those early offline experiences.  Stephanie is a graduate of San Diego State University with a BFA in Graphic Arts and also holds an Executive MBA from the Graziadio School of Business and Management at Pepperdine University.

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