Posts tagged with 'optimisation'
We are being asked more and more by our clients to provide support as they move towards responsive design. In particular our retail clients are aiming to deliver ‘best in class’ responsive ecommerce experiences for their visitors.
Couple this with them being committed to an optimisation strategy, and we are extremely excited about the potential to improve their online performance.
But the challenge is, with so few larger retailers with large product catalogues already having moved to a responsive design (and this doesn’t mean the ones that have are necessarily doing it well) where can inspiration be gained to deliver a best in class experience?
Enter stage left Nixon, which starts its about page text with ‘We make the little shit better’.
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by Paul Rouke
29 April 2013 10:52am
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While companies appreciate the importance of mobile email, they are a long way away from implementing best practice, with just 25% currently optimising emails for mobile.
The seventh annual Econsultancy Email Marketing Industry Census, sponsored by Adestra, finds that mobile email is a key area for improvement.
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by Graham Charlton
09 April 2013 11:03am
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When evaluating the influence and quality of your website, sometimes it helps to take a step back and prioritize the site’s fundamental needs from the ground up.
Often times we get so entangled in optimization tactics that we don’t realize that the most vital elements of our websites can be what’s hindering its performance.
Before you start investing a lot of time and energy into improving advanced characteristics of the website, it’s important to ensure the most basic needs are met.
Mapping web optimization priorities in an anthropomorphic manner can help to understand the best way to prioritize website improvements.
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by Phillip Klien
14 March 2013 09:51am
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Social proof is perhaps the most well known of Robert Cialdini’s six keys to persuasion explained in his 2009 book titled “Influence”.
In this article I will describe why social proof works in the online context and how you can use it to increase conversions.
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by Blair Keen
05 March 2013 12:30pm
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Dan Huddart heads Web Analytics at RSA Group, a global insurance company. He oversees a group of analysts which works as an internal agency across all RSA brands, overseeing analytics and optimisation of digital properties in 33 countries.
Below he talks about testing, personalisation, a global web dashboard and how showing images of the right breed of dog can significantly improve pet insurance conversion rates.
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by Graham Charlton
26 February 2013 11:55am
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Christmas might seem like a distant memory now, but as we've seen from the recent troubles at Comet, HMV and Blockbuster, having a good Christmas can be the difference between success and failure for a retailer.
But what's coming to light from our search data is how Christmas Day itself is becoming critically important for online retailers.
We have seen a steady growth in e-retail on Christmas Day and Boxing Day over the last five years or so, and now with the proliferation of tablets and other smart devices we’re seeing the growth increase even further.
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by Jonathan Beeston
17 January 2013 15:00pm
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In our line of work, putting your intuition on the line is the norm.
Predictions, albeit with some measure of a hypothesis, are what we do, and we often get them wrong.
When we look back at some of the predictions made in the technology space in the last 150 odd years, we realise some of our predictions are not so embarrassing.
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by Tom Waterfall
09 January 2013 09:27am
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In my last blog I looked at why mobile and tablet optimisation was imperative to businesses.
In the second blog of the series I’ll explore why the time is now to optimise and I will also provide you with two of my top four considerations for tablet and mobile optimisation.
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by Tom Waterfall
06 January 2013 09:03am
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Most retailer marketers are sitting on a mine of unused big data. This kicks off a series of how-to-guides for constructing agnostic strategies around big data for the purpose of improving conversion.
Big Data has saturated the news cycle in 2012. But what exactly is big data, who is using it and how can your brand apply it?
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by Jacob Ajwani
02 January 2013 14:38pm
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For what feels like the last five years it has been predicted that "next year will be the year of mobile."
Well perhaps 2012 was finally that year in many aspects, and long live the multichannel shopper I say. So before I start seeing "2013 will be the year of the tablet", I'm hoping that 2013 will finally be the year of conversion optimisation.
To be more precise this is actually profit optimisation, but let’s not muddy the waters too much and just focus on the big C for now.
Here are the predictions from me and my team at PRWD for what 2013 has in store for the testing and optimisation industry. What do you think?
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by Paul Rouke
19 December 2012 13:10pm
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