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Dear Confused By Personas

June 23, 2009May 20, 2010
John Quarto-vonTivadar
Personas

A student at the University of British Columbia Web Analytics course reached out to us via Twitter to ask some questions about creating personas, specifically personas based on persuasion and the information is important enough that we thought we’d share

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Improvement Starts With (Bad) Habits

June 10, 2009May 20, 2010
John Quarto-vonTivadar
Featured, Headline, Marketing, Optimization & Testing

Occasionally we hear from clients after they’ve implemented some recommendation for improvement that they see a temporary dip in conversion. This seemingly goes against logic — after all, if you fix a problem, things should get better, right? — but

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Three Reasons The Easter Bunny Shouldn’t Be Your Marketer

April 10, 2009May 20, 2010
John Quarto-vonTivadar
Featured, Headline, Marketing

Despite the great press coverage, there are three excellent reasons why the Easter Bunny should not be your marketer

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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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Video Views Up, When Will Sales Follow?

January 27, 2009May 20, 2010
John Quarto-vonTivadar
Headline, Marketing, Research

Hot on the heels of a recent comScore report, we hear the interesting news that product videos views are up some 40%, year-over-year basis last October.  Now, that was done on a single rather small sample, but still this speaks

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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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A Sterne Look at 2009

January 17, 2009May 20, 2010
John Quarto-vonTivadar
Marketing

We’re pleased to replay Jim Sterne’s recent webinar with us, “Turn Web Analytics into 2009 Revenue”. Come watch the Chairman of the Web Analytics Association talk with Bryan Eisenberg (himself the Chairman Emeritus of the WAA) about proactively using Analytics

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"My Assistant Does My Workouts For Me"

November 20, 2008May 20, 2010
John Quarto-vonTivadar
Uncategorized

It’s November and soon the pie, cookies and egg-nog will be flowing freely for a six-week gut-busting calorie fest. After that comes the resolutions. And then comes the first of February. What does February 1st have to do with testing,

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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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When Is “Always Be Testing” Like A Banana Peel?

August 28, 2008May 20, 2010
John Quarto-vonTivadar
Optimization & Testing

Sometimes when you’re trying to get all the hard stuff right, you forget the easy stuff.  Then your buddies mock you. Hard:  Write another book. Easy:  Tell people where they can get a free sample chapter. Idiot:  Skip the Easy

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