Ask good e-commerce or search marketing professionals how they build successful programs and you’ll hear them discuss things like conversion rates. Conversion rates are the percentage of a total audience that takes an action. I’ll take that a step further toward clarity and say that “conversion rate” is reserved for a monetary transaction. For other activities you try to motivate and measure (filling out forms, social sharing, answering questions and etc.), I prefer to use the term “action rate.”




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