Clicks (i.e. humans who click your ads) aren't waiting for perfection.

The respondents who click on your ads aren't going to wait around for you to get your landing pages just right. They are clicking on your ads today—right now, probably. You are paying (a lot) for them to click. They click, they land. And then what?

In a perfect world, they land on a perfect experience that gets them to do whatever it is you want them to do (engage, convert, buy). But we don't live in a perfect world, so you won't be well served by sitting around sweating the details of how to make that perfect experience. Get  something launched, see how users respond to it, and iterate based on that. Keep going, keep improving. Your post-click marketing should be evolutionary—adapting and responding to how your respondents are behaving. Each time you look at the results, the next step should, and will, reveal itself. You don't need to plan every test from here to next year. Doing so will stop you in your tracks. Just get going and keep on moving.

Anna Talerico

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# re: Your clicks won't wait for your landing pages to be perfect

Good advice. Perfection is overrated.

4/23/2008 11:10 AM | Megan L.

# re: Your clicks won't wait for your landing pages to be perfect

Perfection is a great thing to strive for, but is any marketing ever perfect? :)

4/23/2008 9:17 PM | Anna Talerico

# re: Your clicks won't wait for your landing pages to be perfect

Perfection is almost impossible to happen. Even human being is imperfect as well. Learning from mistakes can reduce our error and increase our efficiency.


5/20/2008 4:09 AM | rakeback

# re: Your clicks won't wait for your landing pages to be perfect

Landing page is like the first impression on the site. If they can't find what they are looking for or what they are looking for is too deep inside surely they'll leave feeling unhappy and another potential customer gone. So, yeah! First impression = important =D

5/21/2008 9:17 AM | zohai

# Hawthorne effect boosts landing page performance

Hawthorne effect boosts landing page performance

6/3/2008 8:28 PM | Post-Click Marketing Blog

# re: Your clicks won't wait for your landing pages to be perfect

Emm.. actually i'm new here.. maybe for me, i agree with zohai idea...so, i use to grab this info for my references... :)

6/8/2008 1:10 AM | Marmaris

# re: Your clicks won't wait for your landing pages to be perfect

Landing page are important to any internet marketers, webmasters, blogmaster. I agree that landing page equal to first impression. Readers will definitely come back if the landing page of the web is great.

6/11/2008 12:46 AM | SEO Directory

# re: Your clicks won't wait for your landing pages to be perfect

Seth just posted great blog on the balance between perfection and creating things that are worthy of our attention, including this quote: The object isn’t to be perfect. The goal isn’t to hold back until you’ve created something beyond reproach. I believe the opposite is true. Our birthright is to fail and to fail often, but to fail in search of something bigger than we can imagine. To do anything else is to waste it all.
http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2008/06/is-it-worthy.html

6/17/2008 7:25 PM | Anna Talerico

# re: Your clicks won't wait for your landing pages to be perfect

really its a nice article.

i spent lot of time in research with tools like click tracker etc but i am having good view about these kinda click activities

6/21/2008 3:07 AM | kannada

# re: Your clicks won't wait for your landing pages to be perfect

landing page needs to be good for a good conversion

7/4/2008 2:19 PM | SMS

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