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IMDB Score Bias: It's Temporal(georgesaines.com)
1 points by gsaines 16y ago|0 comments
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by gsaines 16y ago
I actually clicked this expecting the article to be parodying the Friedman Unit ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedman_%28unit%29 ) only to find utter sincerity!
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So, you think you’re not a tech fogey?(georgesaines.com)
3 points by gsaines 16y ago|0 comments
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21 Empirical Findings About Human Happiness(georgesaines.com)
1 points by gsaines 16y ago|0 comments
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by gsaines 16y ago
Yeah, that's also a good idea. I with the comment above about the wording, I'm wondering know if I couldn't iterate that checkbox to for the better. Thanks for the idea.
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by gsaines 16y ago
It's been more than a month since we took the test down, but I do think we had it defaulted to checked ... never thought about it being sleazy, but that's a good point.
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by gsaines 16y ago
That's a great point aresant, and we certainly didn't test the wording, which I admit would probably be a good idea. As I mentioned in the post, we actually thought very little of the wording or the styling or anything else, we were just th
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by gsaines 16y ago
We had thousands of visitors and hundreds of conversions (I don't know the exact numbers off the top of my head). We let it run long enough that the confidence intervals for the results fell below .1%, for this particular test, we would hav
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How One Check Box Lowered Conversions by 17%(georgesaines.com)
17 points by gsaines 16y ago|24 comments
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Startup Advice That Bears Repeating(georgesaines.com)
3 points by gsaines 16y ago|0 comments
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Are titles important in a startup?(georgesaines.com)
1 points by gsaines 16y ago|1 comments
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The Higher Education Bubble: Are Foreign Students the Answer?(georgesaines.com)
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by gsaines 16y ago
Yeah, we're actually running 3 tests currently, although you probably didn't notice them because they are fairly subtle. We were doing multivariate stuff before, but I think we're going to sticking with simple A/B tests for now due to the l
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by gsaines 16y ago
Good idea aresant, as I mentioned, we're actually testing a lot of different variables right now, and one of them is including testimonials to that effect. It's not in the testing queue as yet however, due to limited traffic and an abundanc
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by gsaines 16y ago
Hey Patio, thanks for sharing that link, I didn't even know that page existed!
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by gsaines 16y ago
Hey Carbocation, yeah, the file-drawer effect can be particularly strong with results for A/B and multivariate testing and partially I wanted to make sure people knew it was hard to get right and also to spread the word about our folly in t
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How We Increased Conversion Actions 218% And Increased Sales 0%(georgesaines.com)
60 points by gsaines 16y ago|18 comments
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Don't Let Your Startup Trap You(georgesaines.com)
6 points by gsaines 16y ago|3 comments
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A Tale of Two Users, or How Design is Tough(georgesaines.com)
13 points by gsaines 16y ago|13 comments
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Let's Admire the Rich for the Right Reasons(georgesaines.com)
2 points by gsaines 16y ago|0 comments
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by gsaines 16y ago
I wouldn't bet on it. Making money in the academic institutional licensing world is tough, especially if you are marketing something that doesn't impact bottom-line figures for people who are concerned. Arguably this use case is as far remo
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by gsaines 16y ago
Yeah, I agree, but I had just intended the titles to be a gimmick to draw attention to the essence of the GK Chesterton quote. I did, however, do a lot of digging through titles, and the ones I picked weren't misleading given the rest of th
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by gsaines 16y ago
This is essentially what I was driving at here, jswinghammer, that flattening history is a disservice to the people who lived it. The people on the street and the people at the Apple keynote were all living during this enormous recession, a
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3 Things Steve Krug Didn't Tell You About Usability Testing(georgesaines.com)
2 points by gsaines 16y ago|0 comments
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Be happier: Rent Everything(georgesaines.com)
127 points by gsaines 16y ago|135 comments
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by gsaines 16y ago
Yeah, Dropbox has a wicked simple homepage, I love it. I'm actually multivariate testing almost everything on that homepage, so it's possible you got the variant with the animation (would make it a lot more busy). Substituting out the found
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by gsaines 16y ago
Hmmm, that's no good. I'll have to check that. Thanks for the tip.
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by gsaines 16y ago
Hey Michael, I've actually not heard of McClure's AARRR model, I'll check that out. I've read read some of McClure's other articles, but not that one! Your first comment about the referral only working in the sweet spot probably did kill it
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by gsaines 16y ago
Thanks for the comment patio! Our conversation about referral programs is what actually prompted me to write this. If it had just been us, I would have assumed that we were just doing it wrong, but when someone with a lot more experience an
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by gsaines 16y ago
These are good points ryanelkins, especially about the distinction between "having wide appeal" and having customers that know other customers in the market. This was definitely a problem we faced early on. Essentially we thought we'd be se

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