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What Digital Marketers Can Learn from Amazon’s Purchase of Whole Foods Market

Jessica Porges

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My kids are back in school, and Amazon just closed their deal to buy Whole Foods Market. What do these events have to do with one another, you ask? A lot. As with all things Amazon, their focus is on me—the customer—and my experience. The more they know about me, the more relevant my experience with them becomes. To that end, enter Whole Foods Market.

4 Methods for Improving Conversion Rates

Shamir Duverseau

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Conversion rate optimization— it’s a mouthful. It’s also a science and an art … and frankly, a lot of work. But few aspects of your digital marketing strategy are more important than this cumbersome term. Our crowd of friends at Wikipedia define conversion rate optimization (CRO) as, "a system for increasing the percentage of visitors to a website that convert into customers, or more generally, take any desired action on a webpage." If you just totally zoned out, or assumed this was just a fancy way of talking about split testing, we understand. At Smart Panda Labs, we define CRO a little differently—it’s a way of thinking about all the digital experiences you offer.

The Future of Email is Interactive

Charlene Hixon

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It’s been 46 years since Ray Tomlinson sent the first ever email. The history of email itself is a fascinating evolution, and the progress in email marketing, especially of late, has been exponential. As a CRM + database marketing expert at Smart Panda Labs, it’s my job to keep up with these rapid changes.

Small Step For Conversion, Giant Leap For UX

Cheryl Myers

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This is not our first public display of affection for testing—we love tests, and we love to talk about them. In a previous post, for example, Shamir Duverseau shared three ways a testing and optimization program can help you increase revenue, reduce costs and improve customer loyalty. We’ve also shared a compelling testing case study on Optimizely’s blog, and theorized how a mobile app test might have saved Netflix considerable headache.

Email, We’re Gonna Party Like it’s Our Birthday

Alex Corzo

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I’ll come right out and say it—today is my birthday. Send the cake and presents this way! If you need more reason to celebrate, I recently discovered that I share my birth month with another mover and shaker. Last week email turned 46—older than the Internet itself—and it’s still looking great.