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by aresant 13y ago
The spirit of your post on the topic and the execution of the idea are just awesome. I hope that came across in my original comment - appreciate you giving us testers more fuel for the fire!
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by aresant 13y ago
Upvoting because this is so beautifully executed and I'd love to see people test this out on their checkout process. That said, my experience indicates that this is not going to convert well. To mirror the author's own quote: &quo
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by aresant 13y ago
The messaging challenge Quip is going to have is that they have to call themselves a "modern word processor" so we have context to understand what it is. But from the landing page this looks / feels drastically different from
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by aresant 13y ago
A sort of interesting side bar - Capital One may have offered different rates to different customers by browser type -> http://www.conversionvoodoo.com/blog/2010/11/do-different-we...
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by aresant 13y ago
Here's what I think happened: a) Xhibit has built a solid digital agency team on the back of nutraceutical affiliate marketing offers, and enough revenue to support a trailing $300 - 500m valuation. But they realize their business isn&
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by aresant 13y ago
This is awesome, I just donated and tried it out. If you guys are open to some conversion rate optimization testing ideas I saw a few areas that would likely respond to treatments - drop me a line via my profile and I'd be happy to hav
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by aresant 13y ago
I encountered an absolutely jaw dropping Walmart deck a while back correlating their site speed with conversion rate: http://www.webperformancetoday.com/2012/02/28/4-awesome-slid... Sounds like a great fit fo
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by aresant 13y ago
Great primer, if this stuff interests you - particularly with regard to utilizing colors to drive CRO etc please go check out http://www.colorvoodoo.com/ which is the original book that got me A/B testing >10 years
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by aresant 13y ago
Although it's from the distance past (1995) this article sheds a bit of light on the word "chick" http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?date=199... And several people and sexes are well rep
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by aresant 13y ago
I haven't encountered Xobni since I quit Outlook a few years back, but at the time I remember it being a very innovative and interesting layer that I actually got value from. Pairing the Xobni brains w/the Yahoo Mail product could
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by aresant 13y ago
This is genius and fills a real need, here's why: I've spent the last two years building out a customer acquisition program for a brick & mortar chain with ~50 locations. We CONSTANTLY try to train the people in the store to a
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by aresant 13y ago
"A good flatterer doesn't lie, but tells his victim selective truths (what a nice color your eyes are). Good PR firms use the same strategy: they give reporters stories that are true, but whose truth favors their clients." I
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by aresant 13y ago
My pleasure and hope that it helps! If you guys are doing decent scale on sales it's 100% worth building your own checkout process so you can really drill down your high-intent traffic, or at least testing stripe / etc (or whateve
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by aresant 13y ago
Most A/B testing will fail when you're testing the wrong elements. I have a challenge for you. The examples you list are "top" of the funnel tests: buttons for engagement, a homepage redesign. But when I go deeper into y
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by aresant 13y ago
Traitor or not, you can't argue with the fact that Ed Snowden just gave Google, FB, Yahoo, MSFT, etc fighting ammunition to at least address these issues with the government publicly, and for that I am thankful.
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by aresant 13y ago
To your point, PG wrote a complete essay on exactly why GROWTH matters so much to valuations - http://www.paulgraham.com/growth.html
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by aresant 13y ago
There's been a lot of debate over the past several years as to whether or not unpaid internships are even legal. The clearest outline is from the FSLA, and the criteria is outlined below: "If all of the factors [below] are met, then the wor
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by aresant 13y ago
"Today's low mortgage interest rates and tight supply of homes for sale are "creating a kind of witch's brew of extreme price spikes," says Stan Humphries, Zillow chief economist. (1) Logic tells me that when the all-important "monthly paym
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by aresant 13y ago
Reminds me of one of my favorite quotes from Admiral Stockdale: "You must never confuse faith that you will prevail in the end, which you can never afford to lose, with the discipline to confront the most brutal facts of your current realit
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by aresant 13y ago
India has some incredibly promising science in the pipeline that has the potential to change the world such as, for instance, a true male contraceptive: http://www.wired.com/magazine/2011/04/ff_vasectomy/ I love that he highlights that he
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by aresant 13y ago
I've been a paid Flickr user for years and I'm excited about the new UX. BUT PLEASE PLEASE fix the iPhone app which, after their new update earlier this year, no longer lets you upload video!
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by aresant 13y ago
Fair point but 3 - 5x ad units @ $0.50 - 1 still don't add up to $10 - 20 . . .
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by aresant 13y ago
That CPM struck me as crazy high too and tumblr content is much closer to "social" than it is to premium media which would put the CPM a lot closer to $0.50 - 1.00 at scale. Recent break out of CPM by country for FB : http://www.rudibedy.c
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by aresant 13y ago
The lottery let's people gamble (which is illegal in most US states) because of "the children". EG lottery profits go to support additional money for public schools. This is all after a 16% operating / administrative cost, of course, which
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by aresant 13y ago
“Whatever you do, do it in moderation” An old proverb that may be, but applies too as a simple system to avoid repetitive strain injuries. Sit, stand, change positions. Rotate to a different input device (mouse, tablet, trackball) each week
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by aresant 13y ago
This is a terrible abuse that pisses me off. But it still struck me as funny how many of us HN's (self included) jumped to the defense of Weebly for "optimizing revenue" in the "When a Startup Sends a Passive-Aggressive Email Every Day " st
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by aresant 13y ago
The short answer is that they don't provide much depth. I've seen Optimizely call something a "winner" with 95% confidence after 48hrs. The triangular method we use w/the off-the-shelfers is something like: a) Optimizely base stats b) Conve
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by aresant 13y ago
Evan these are incredible tools, thank you for contributing another brick in the wall for those of us that bleed A/B testing :) I would love to see Optimizely and VWO embrace similarly non-ambiguous and functional reporting as a default. EG
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by aresant 13y ago
"In the long run this is a commodity and Dropbox won't be able to compete" Cloud storage is ALREADY a commodity, so much so that Dropbox doesn't actually host any files, they use Amazon's S3 (1)! (1) https://www.dropbox.com/help/7/en
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by aresant 13y ago
One of the most interesting long-term plays here is when Tesla builds a truck. The #1 and #2 best selling "cars" by volume are trucks and trucks represent ~4 of the top 10 best selling cars overall. (1) Musk has said that he has "this idea

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