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Title: Your Ad is Only as Effective as your Landing Page
URL: http://www.rimmkaufman.com/rkgblog/2009/03/17/your-ad-is-only-as-effective-as-your-landing-page/
Printed: March 20, 2010
Source: The Rimm-Kaufman Group Blog, info@rimmkaufman.com

As a consumer, if a banner ad, or a search ad, catches my eye, why wouldn’t I click on it? The key is that in either case just getting me to click isn’t a win. It’s a two part process: 1) Get my attention, 2) Sell to me.

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