The only Graduate Certificate of Its kind At The University of Florida, there is a certificate you can get through the college of Journalism and Communications called "Communicating Value and Web Conversion". The last class I took for this certificate was just as excellent as all the other courses, however there was one major difference … Continue reading Communicating Value and Web Conversion Part 1
Author: Bryce Miller
How The Website Team Increased Call Center Orders by 14%
Increased Profits When Testing Segments Last year we saw that having our contact number on the site was very helpful for many of our users. We spoke to our lead designer about the data and asked for some suggestions on how to take advantage of the insight. That was when things got a little crazy. … Continue reading How The Website Team Increased Call Center Orders by 14%
How We Stopped a Beautiful Page From Ruining Everything
A Culture of Testing is Not Enough SPOILER ALERT - The more beautiful page lost by 37.8%, but that is not all. In late 2017, Our testing team received a beautiful redesign for a hotel page from design. This new design had gone through user research, including user testing, and would replace the current design … Continue reading How We Stopped a Beautiful Page From Ruining Everything
What is an Optimization Manager
The term "optimization" is vague. there are many references to this in technology "Search engine optimization" being the most commonly associated in my experience. so then you explain that you run tests on the website... so people think you run speed tests and "optimize" the code for a website... Next you explain that you run … Continue reading What is an Optimization Manager
Believe In People
I know so little about the world, as I have been hyper focused on only a few aspects of life. I always felt like my trusting nature was a hindrance in the business world, and that I was less of an employee than the hyper critical distrusting individuals that always seem to be doing better … Continue reading Believe In People
Website Optimization: How we got 52% more leads in three months
Many thanks to MECLABS and MarketingSherpa for their help in this journey. I could not have done this without them. They also did an amazing job making this information so beautiful and accessible. Note: MECLABS no longer has this information on their site. I have updated the link to a direct download below. The 5-part … Continue reading Website Optimization: How we got 52% more leads in three months
Cleverness vs. Clarity – Ready… FIGHT!
I am sure you have seen clever ads that help your brain think a different way, and clear ads that are upfront and even blatant sometimes. This article's purpose is to touch on some of the merits and pitfalls between them, and do a light B2C case study on how sacrificing the confused customers for … Continue reading Cleverness vs. Clarity – Ready… FIGHT!
Thought Sequence – why it rules design
I was working with a designer and explained, in a nutshell, what a thought sequence is and some ideas on how we could follow it in the new designs for a page. My nutshell version felt too compressed, so here's my augmented explanation: There are 2 principles that will be helpful in understanding the thought … Continue reading Thought Sequence – why it rules design
My Current Reading List
JavaScript in 24 hours, Sam's Teach Yourself by Phil Ballard Adobe Target Classroom in a Book by Brian Hawkins and Lily Chiu-Watson Managing Customer Experiences and Relationships: A Strategic Framework by Don Peppers, Martha Rogers, and Philip Kotler The Power of Vulnerability by Brene Brown (second time around) The Book of Mormon Zero to one … Continue reading My Current Reading List
3 optimization lessons from 3 books and an article
At The University of Florida I am studying customer communication, value proposition, and optimization testing from the only web conversion graduate certificate program out there right now. The following is made up mostly of reading material they are giving us, but I also added another book to the lessons learned. Lesson 1 In "What Most … Continue reading 3 optimization lessons from 3 books and an article
Scientific Web Optimization 