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An Email Autoresponder That Didn't Work and Why

One of the best places to work on improving your conversion rates is the e-mail auto-responder.

Five Terrible Franchising Display Ads and One That Worked

For those of you who have been in the internet game for a long time, you know way more than I do about display ads. It seems that as long as people have been clicking around the internet, there have been advertisements ready to meet them. Anyone remember when banner ads used to look something like this?

It's Franchise "Buying" not "Selling"

Recently, we came across this video from the Franchise Performance Group on how we need to think about franchise lead generation from the perspective of franchise “buying” rather than the usual tactics of franchise “sales.” We hope you enjoy:

A Split Test That Shows The Power of One Word

For part of our franchise selection experience, we use a selection button as one of our calls to action. Essentially for a user to select one of the franchises on our category pages, they must click a button:

"Franchise" Phrase Match on Adwords -- A Necessary Evil?

There a number of pros and cons of phrase match, but I'm going to boil it down to a single set of issues.

My best email subject line this year (sort of)

It is nearly impossible to over-state the importance of an email's subject line. In my days as a franchise marketer, I've written well into the thousands of subject lines.

One Week Worth of Email Subject Line Tests

One thing I can tell you about our business is that we send a lot of email!

What’s the deal with this “Social, Local, Mobile” thing? And what should franchises do about it?

In 2014, the internet marketing community is all abuzz with the phrase “Social, Local, Mobile” There isn’t a week that goes by that you don’t hear someone espousing the merits of these three words. As with all buzzwords, there’s likely more glitz than substance, but let’s do our best to try and make sense of what’s going on here on three levels:

The Google Adwords Question for Franchises...Do I Have To?

Whether it’s loading Google.com, built in search bars in other browsers, Google Chrome, Google’s Android Operating system, or seemingly every other space in the world, Google is there waiting to answer everyone’s question about everything.