Keep the Scent ⚡️ The Marketing Upgrade


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Hey, it's Bobby.

After a hiatus I'm back with an upgrade worth your attention.

I've noticed too many businesses ignore this. Especially with marketing teams and budgets stretched thin.

But that's a mistake.

Applying this upgrade is a simple way to punch above your weight as a smaller brand.

1 Marketing Upgrade

Keep the Scent

In 9 words:

Create a congruent, brand-boosting experience for your audience.

Dilemma: In marketing, if you confuse: you lose.

If every touchpoint in your customer journey feels too different, the whole experience becomes disjointed. You confuse your audience.

At best, the mismatch causes a moment of hesitation.

At worse, they bounce, never to return.

Solution: Create a cohesive experience for your audience.

Maintain the “scent” of your brand across your customer journey. From your ads through to your landing pages (and from every step there on).

3 Ideas to Implement

1

Mirror your design

The simplest way to create a congruent experience is to mirror the Hero section of your landing page in your ads.

This way your reader is immediately clear they’ve navigated to the right place.

Real-world Example: Coaching.com mirrors the design of their landing page in their ad, using the same general layout, fonts, and colors.

Pro Tip: Make sure the experience is congruent on both desktop and mobile. Even today I still see too many brands neglect to check the mobile experience.

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Landing Page


2

Match key elements

Mirroring your landing page may be too limiting. Especially when bold creative in your ads could earn you more attention and clicks.

Instead, you can match key elements of your brand to create a similar “look & feel”.

Real-world Example: Amy Porterfield keeps her typography and brand colors consistent across her ad and landing page. The light blue background, narrow bold font, and yellow underline effect create congruency between the two pages.

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Landing Page


3

Use the same photo

Humans naturally look at faces first. You can leverage this tendency by using the same photo in your ad and landing page. This creates quick recognition and congruency.

Real-world Example: Mindvalley uses the same photo of their expert in their ad and landing page.

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— Bobby

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