Author Archives: Bobby Hewitt

About Bobby Hewitt

Bobby Hewitt is the president and director of conversion rate design for Creative Thirst, the conversion rate optimization firm that specializes in turning more clicks into customers to increase leads, subscriptions and sales to improve clients’ conversion rates. Bobby has over ten years experience in web design and Internet marketing and holds a bachelors degree in Marketing from Rutgers University. He is also certified in Online Testing and Landing Page Optimization and holds a certificate in Web Analytics from The University of British Columbia. Bobby is also the recipient of the Jim Novo Award of Academic Excellence, an award given out yearly (starting in 2007) to the graduate with the highest grade average over all 4 courses of the UBC Award of Achievement in Web Analytics and is awarded by the Web Analytics Association and University of British Columbia Continuing Studies. He believes that improving conversion rates begins with an understanding of the social psychology of your users, based on personas and persuasive design.

Turning Executives Into Believers

There are obstacles within organizations that keep us from moving forward.
Yet we keep going. You’re about to read how to get around the roadblocks of people, how to get more buy in and how to deliver results. Continue reading

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Reciprocity and Influence In a Digital Age of Persuasive Marketing

They say, human nature doesn’t change, but more and more I see the influence of digital communication changing things, changing us, changing culture and slowly but surely molding the evolution of humanity. Continue reading

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The Top 21 Converting Secrets From Bryan Eisenberg

The main take away from the keynote was that the top converting companies are not doing anything remarkably different from mid level converting competitors, there is no special ingredient. But rather many spices combined and cooked to perfection to get results that are bigger than any one part alone. Continue reading

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eMetrics Summit – Turning Executives into Analysis Believers

How do you get your friendly neighborhood execs to use your analysis to support their intuition? Corporate analysts and consultants alike must continually show value and get buy in from senior executives. Learn how at the upcoming NYC eMetrics Summit on October 21, 2011 Continue reading

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Customer Behavior in a Hyper Connected World

Fundamentally, human nature doesn’t change. Platforms may come and go and new shiny objects may take our focus for a little while, but what it really comes down to is, people are people. Continue reading

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Affiliate Summit East 2011

Affiliate Summit East 2011, the premier affiliate marketing conference, is taking place August 21-23, 2011 in New York City. This three day conference includes an exhibit hall with affiliate merchants, vendors, and networks, as well as multiple tracks of educational … Continue reading

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Design Your Website With Marketing Psychology

The best way to use this online is to align the social proof action you want your prospect to take with the action of what others have taken before him. In this way previous online visitors are influencing new prospects. Continue reading

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Conversion Rate Optimization Fail

Not all conversion rate marketing tests will be winners. Some testing failures are to be expected in order to maximize your returns. Continue reading

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A/B Test of the Week Analysis

This test was recently featured on Anne Hollands Which Test Won. Spoiler Alert: Version A was the winner. Most marketers, 62% of them believed that version B would outperform the winning version. If this is not a reason to test I … Continue reading

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Think Backwards to Increase Your Conversion Rates

To increase your website conversion rates sometimes approaching the problem backwards can reveal remarkable opportunities for improvement. Continue reading

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