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This Week in Small Business: Gangnam Style! – NYTimes.com

Okay, so it’s not the cover page of the main New York Times and it’s not that my article is a massive feature, but it is a featured link in a New York Times blog post. Seeing that name appear in the pingbacks for my latest Unbounce article (see here) was fantastic and reminded me of part of the reason I started blogging. The web is an amazing place where your content and your effort can end up on the other side of the world or put in front of an audience of tens of thousands. It’s brilliant and heady and exciting.

 James Gardner takes a look at the conversion rates of eight small-business landing pages.

So simple. Now to get that novel published!


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Unbounce – 8 Small Business Landing Pages Critiqued for Conversion

Unbounce - LogoMy latest article for Unbounce - 8 Small Business Landing Pages Critiqued for Conversion – is now online at the Unbounce blog.

As always, you can read the article at Unbounce, but here’s an extract:

In the United States small business accounts for 44% of GDP and employs 60 million people. In the United Kingdom, small businesses are responsible for 60% of private sector jobs.

That’s a lot of money and a lot of jobs. It’s also a big market place. In this article we’ll be looking at landing pages that are focused on selling to small businesses and asking one thing: do they cut the mustard?

Despite their importance to the economies of the US and UK and their combined buying power, selling to small businesses requires a particular approach: one based around value, not scale, and focused on ease-of-use, not enterprise features. Lined up below are eight landing pages from big and small organizations; let’s see how they get on.