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Making Tabs Work For You

April 9, 2009May 20, 2010
John Quarto-vonTivadar
Conversion and Persuasion, Featured, Headline, Research

UI Designer David Leggett wrote an interesting article recently, “Tabbed Navigation, and What Makes It Useful“. His first, and best, point is a physical observance: in a real-world store one has a sense of the physical size of the establishment

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Right Now Is Always The Right Time

January 19, 2009May 20, 2010
John Quarto-vonTivadar
Conversion and Persuasion, Featured, Headline, Optimization & Testing

[A personal story with a business ending] Over New Year’s, I went on a dance cruise to Mexico — a group of dancers goes on a regular cruise ship and effectively “takes over” the dancing, especially late night — and

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Sell Me Something, Not Some Thing

November 13, 2008May 20, 2010
John Quarto-vonTivadar
Featured, Headline, Landing Page Optimization, Marketing

During recent casual browsing, I noticed the following magicJack ad (on the left): Now can anyone tell what the heck the product is? (I happen to know, since I also remember a late night commercial that explains it.)* Put yourself

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Does Your Testing Organization Have A Gag Reflex?

August 26, 2008May 20, 2010
John Quarto-vonTivadar
Featured, Headline, Marketing, Optimization & Testing, Research

Does your organization or company have a gag reflex when it comes to testing? Never mind the medicine to fix a problem, are they even prepared to acknowledge that the problem exists? Ronny Kohavi from Microsoft’s Experimentation Platform had a

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The Price of Perfection

March 14, 2008May 20, 2010
John Quarto-vonTivadar
Featured, Headline, Landing Page Optimization, Marketing, Optimization & Testing

Recently, one of our regular readers blogged about testing with Google Website Optimizer (GWO). In the discussion thread, a respondent worried that he may not be able to use GWO because his company’s website has a database-driven content management system.

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Testing Add-to-Cart Buttons: Stuck in the Middle With You

January 25, 2008May 20, 2010
John Quarto-vonTivadar
Featured, Headline, Optimization & Testing

Bryan Eisenberg walked into my office the other day to point out an interesting item found while surfing: a left-sided add-to-cart button on a product detail page. We chatted back and forth about the conversion issues involved with placing it

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“No, but I did sleep at a Staybridge Suites last night… “

November 2, 2007May 20, 2010
John Quarto-vonTivadar
Featured, Headline, Marketing

Often I relate stories about conversion missteps or persuasion challenges facing companies on- and off-line. Today, I’d like to relate a success story! An Open Letter to Andrew Cosslett, CEO of InterContinental Hotels Group: Dear Mr. Cosslett, As a business

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