I’m going to tell you a secret that changed our business forever and skyrocketed our client’s marketing results.

Are you ready?

Build standalone landing pages for your campaigns.

Sounds simple, right?

Like almost bordering on silly, simple.

Well, let me tell you a quick story.

A case study that proves the point

We used to run Google and Facebook Ads to our client Easton Motors’ website. We thought they had a pretty solid conversion rate in the 3-5% range.

With a 3.33% conversation rate, you need 33 visitors to your page to get a conversion.

With a 5% conversion rate, you need 20 visitors to your page to get a conversion.

So for this client, we needed somewhere between 20-33 visitors to get a conversion, aka a lead for their sales team to sell to.

From what we could see in their Google Analytics and HotJar screen recordings, it looked like a lot of people would hit the site, then browse the vehicle inventory.

But the real goal for this client was to get their website visitors to start the finance application process to see if they qualified for in-house financing. If they didn’t then it didn’t make sense to have them browsing the cars on the site.

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One of the great things about the internet is how you learn how to use it better by using the internet.

Yup.

But given how much information there is out there, it can be nice when someone curates it for you and just gives you the best of the best.

Here are the go-to internet marketing resources we’ve used to learn the trade and that we heartily recommend to others. Bookmark this page because we will update it as we find new ones.

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