Session 2: New Way to Design-Conversion Optimization Masterclass

00:25:31
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Zusammenfassung

TLDRIn the Conversion Optimization Master Class, Brian Massey emphasizes the importance of using behavioral science and data-driven approaches to optimize marketing strategies. He begins by explaining "enclosed cognition," where wearing a lab coat can boost cognitive performance and influence perceptions, reflecting the science-driven approach of the course. The discussion revolves around moving from traditional, assumption-heavy design methods to a more iterative, data-driven process, which involves continuous testing and adaptation. Brian cites Moore's Law and advancements in cloud computing as catalysts for the shift towards using affordable technology for rapid experimentation. He highlights case studies like Marks & Spencer and Wasp Barcode to illustrate successful and unsuccessful applications of these methods. Brian outlines the new design metaphor, which involves testing and refining marketing efforts continuously. He urges marketers to collect and categorize ideas into hypotheses based on messaging, layout, credibility, social proof, and risk reversal. The approach provides a structured way to validate ideas and fosters creativity within safe and calculative boundaries. The master class aims to instill a scientific mindset in evaluating marketing tactics, encouraging participants to leverage data to be more innovative and responsive to customer needs.

Mitbringsel

  • 🧠 Enclosed cognition influences cognitive performance and perception.
  • 📈 Data-driven design replaces assumption-based methods.
  • 🔍 Continuous testing is key in the new design metaphor.
  • 💡 Moore's Law facilitates affordable tech advancements in marketing.
  • 💼 Learn from successes and failures like Wasp Barcode and M&S.
  • 📊 Collect, categorize, and test marketing ideas systematically.
  • 🎨 Data provides a safety net for creative exploration.
  • 🔄 Iterative testing benefits marketing strategies.
  • 🤝 Foster innovation with data-driven methods.
  • 📹 Behavioral data reshapes campaign and website design.

Zeitleiste

  • 00:00:00 - 00:05:00

    Brian Massey introduces the concept of 'enclosed cognition,' explaining how wearing a lab coat enhances cognitive performance and credibility by leveraging perceptions of intelligence and authority. He emphasizes the importance of using behavioral science for marketing, offering to guide participants on applying science in decision-making across various business roles. Behavioral data is highlighted as a tool for creativity, aiding in risk-taking by providing a 'safety net.'

  • 00:05:00 - 00:10:00

    The impact of behavioral science on marketing design processes is discussed, with a focus on how data is changing approaches to campaigns and content creation. Brian contrasts traditional design methods, reliant on scarce data and assumptions, with modern data-driven techniques that provide real-time insights. He stresses the necessity of scientific understanding in conversion optimization, emphasizing its significance in crafting high-converting campaigns.

  • 00:10:00 - 00:15:00

    Brian links technological advancements, like cloud computing, to the ease of obtaining behavioral data. This availability shifts the traditional marketing design process from assumption-based to experimental, allowing for continuous, data-informed adjustments. He illustrates this with examples of failed conventional design projects and the financial consequences of relying on outdated methods instead of adaptive, informed strategies.

  • 00:15:00 - 00:20:00

    Exploring the challenges of traditional launch-based design processes, Brian contrasts them with the iterative, experimental approach enabled by abundant data. He underscores the advantages of ongoing testing and refinement rather than one-time launches. Through examples like Marks & Spencer's and Finish Line's failed websites, he elucidates how real-time data can guide more successful, adaptive design strategies.

  • 00:20:00 - 00:25:31

    Brian describes how a methodical, data-supported approach to design enhances decision-making and outcomes. He presents a case study of WASP Barcode's branding transformation through iterative testing, resulting in improved business metrics. Brian advocates for collecting and categorizing creative ideas into hypotheses, urging participants to use data as a framework for safe exploration while aiming for revenue-generating solutions.

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Video-Fragen und Antworten

  • Why does Brian Massey wear a lab coat?

    Brian Massey wears a lab coat because of the concept of enclosed cognition. Science has shown that wearing a lab coat can improve cognitive test scores and influence perceptions, making both the wearer and the audience believe they are smarter or have more authority.

  • What is the focus of this conversion optimization masterclass?

    The focus is on using science and data, specifically behavioral science, to optimize marketing campaigns, websites, and business decisions.

  • What is Moore's Law and how does it relate to marketing?

    Moore's Law postulates that the number of transistors on a microchip doubles approximately every 18 months. This has driven advancements in technology like cloud computing, which in turn provides affordable tools for marketers to conduct experiments and collect data.

  • Why did the Marks & Spencer website redesign fail?

    The redesign likely failed because it followed a traditional design process that relied heavily on assumptions and initial research, without continuous testing and data collection, leading to unexpected outcomes post-launch.

  • How has data abundance changed the design process in marketing?

    With abundant data, the design process involves continuous testing and experimentation, allowing for adjustments and optimization at each step, rather than relying on upfront research and assumptions.

  • What are some key buckets for hypothesis creation in digital campaigns?

    Key buckets include Messaging and Value Proposition, Layout and UX, Credibility and Authority, Social Proof, and Security and Risk Reversal.

  • What is the new design metaphor Brian Massey talks about?

    The new design process involves iterative testing and optimization using abundant data, thus allowing for continuous learning and improvement throughout the campaign development.

  • What example does Brian give for successful iterative design in marketing?

    Brian discusses how Wasp Barcode Systems used an evolutionary design approach to rebrand and optimize their website, which led to significant improvement in leads within three months.

  • How can data act as a safety net for creativity in marketing?

    Data allows marketers to test and validate ideas, providing a framework within which they can experiment without taking uncalculated risks, thus enhancing creativity and innovation.

  • How does Brian suggest marketers handle ideas and hypotheses?

    Brian suggests collecting all ideas in a spreadsheet, categorizing them into key areas, and turning them into testable hypotheses to ensure the best ones are prioritized based on potential revenue generation.

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    welcome to the first installment of the
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    conversion optimization Master Class I'm
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    Brian Massey and I'm going to be your
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    instructor
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    now the first question you're probably
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    asking is what's with a lab coat
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    well it's not a gimmick it's not an
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    accident for sure I don't wear it just
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    because of its slimming effects I wear
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    it because science told me to
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    there's an arm of study called enclosed
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    cognition and it is the study of the
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    systematic influence that clothes have
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    on the wearer and the people around him
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    and the scientists have specifically
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    studied the lab coat and here's what
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    they found
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    when I'm wearing a lab coat I'm going to
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    score significantly higher on cognitive
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    tests
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    than if I'm wearing my street clothes
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    and this is interesting too because if I
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    put on the lab coat and I'm told it's an
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    arch mock I won't score as well on those
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    cognitive tests but I will rate myself
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    higher as a creative person
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    that's very interesting so when I put
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    the lab coat on I essentially think I'm
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    smarter than I really am
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    and the scientists have also studied the
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    effects of Uniforms on people and
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    somebody in a uniform carries more
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    weight than people who are listening to
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    them will take what they say with more
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    importance they'll believe it they'll be
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    more willing to act on it
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    so when I'm wearing the lab coat not
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    only do I think I'm smarter than I am
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    but you think I'm smarter than I am this
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    is just an example of how we can use
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    Behavioral Science to our advantage this
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    is a win-win for me what I'm going to do
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    for you today and for the rest of this
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    master class is I'm going to show you
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    how to use science to get this unfair
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    Advantage as well how to use science in
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    your everyday
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    decisions whether you're a marketer a
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    business owner a product manager
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    experimentation is the name of the game
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    and with just a few simple pointers I
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    know I can have you there making
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    decisions every day instead of guessing
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    and
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    for those of you that got into marketing
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    for the creative side of things who got
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    into it because you really wanted to
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    communicate and connect with people the
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    good news is that data will actually let
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    you be more creative it will let you
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    take more chances
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    this behavioral data is like a safety
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    net under what you're doing
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    today I'm going to talk about why
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    Behavioral Science is changing the shape
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    of the way we design marketing campaigns
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    one of the most important things I'm
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    going to cover today is why this
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    behavioral data is fundamentally
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    changing our design process why it's
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    changing the way that we design
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    campaigns and websites and web pages ads
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    and emails and even social media content
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    I'm going to show you why this is so
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    important that more of us in marketing
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    and Communications product management
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    business management are schooled in the
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    ways of science you are aware that
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    you're involved in a conversion
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    optimization master class and the data
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    is at the heart of that that says
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    something about you now I could have
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    called this uh how to make a million
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    dollars designing High converting
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    landing pages might have even had more
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    students than I've already got but they
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    would have been the wrong students
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    there is no one in this class that can't
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    do science in the service of their
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    visitors and their customers no one I've
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    just seen it too many times when we've
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    been working with a customer for a while
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    we send the team a lab coat we say
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    they've earned their lab code and we
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    have sent hundreds of them now you can
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    do this
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    so why are things different why is there
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    going to be a fundamental shift in the
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    way you design your campaigns after you
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    take this class
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    in 1965 a guy named Gordon Moore wrote a
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    paper and in it he postulated that the
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    number of transistors we can fit onto a
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    microchip would double every year
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    now the semiconductor people were really
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    happy about this because this would mean
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    that the chips would become twice as
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    fast and would cost half as much to
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    manufacture
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    there were naysayers but decades later
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    we have Moore's Law still in effect the
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    number of transistors that you can fit
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    on a chip is doubling about every 18
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    months even at geometries that are
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    approaching the size of atoms
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    so what does this have to do with
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    marketing how is this affecting
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    Communications
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    well Gordon's law has driven some
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    technologies that we can now take
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    advantage of
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    for example
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    we have cloud computing we can now for
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    just a few pennies
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    requisition a server in the cloud we
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    don't have to go out and buy boxes and
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    Big Racks of space and shove them in and
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    cool them and maintain them
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    now
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    entrepreneurs are now using this cloud
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    computing to create amazing testing
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    tools which I'm going to be sharing with
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    you throughout this master class
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    and the sensors like in our laptops the
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    quality of the webcam that's in a
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    typical laptop is incredible so
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    incredible in fact that we can now do
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    eye tracking studies for with people
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    instead of using expensive infrared
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    cameras these are just a few of the
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    examples that are enabling us
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    to do more
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    give us better tools and allow us to
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    experiment faster more easily and more
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    cheaply than we ever could we're in a
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    world of abundant behavioral data now
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    back in the old days when behavioral
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    data was hard to come by when we had to
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    requisition a room and bring in a bunch
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    of people and ask them questions study
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    them for a day
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    we had a higher expensive researchers to
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    go out and do market research for us
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    data wasn't that abundant and the design
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    approach reflected that we would do all
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    this research
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    use that to inform our decisions as the
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    whole team then went out and created the
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    copy and the designs the positioning and
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    how we're going to talk about our
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    products how we're going to design our
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    campaigns media everything was driven
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    from this initial bunch of expensive
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    research in other words a lot of people
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    had to make assumptions based on that
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    large body of initial research
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    that's when it's hard to come by that's
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    when it's expensive we don't have to do
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    that anymore
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    unfortunately we've hung on to that same
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    design process even though data isn't
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    scarce anymore
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    whenever we're going to do a website
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    redesign or whenever we're going to do a
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    new campaign we tend to start off doing
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    a whole bunch of research at the
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    beginning
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    and then making a lot of decisions based
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    on that research throughout the design
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    process
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    this can have unhappy consequences let
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    me give you an example
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    in 2014 a British retailer called
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    markson Spencer launched a new website
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    they'd spent two years on it and 150
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    million British pounds it's about 180
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    million US dollars
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    that's a lot of cheddar
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    in 2013 I checked their financials and
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    13 of the revenue of this 10 billion
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    British pound company
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    was done through the website
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    that makes it about a 1.5 billion dollar
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    online business so the 180 million
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    dollars might have been Justified when
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    they launched
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    the ux community said huh I think that
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    this might work everything looks pretty
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    good to us
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    the customers had a different opinion
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    after the launch of the site there was
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    an eight percent drop in sales they were
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    losing 10 million dollars a month and
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    that doesn't count the loss of brand
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    value in the marketplace the
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    disappointed people that came to that
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    site
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    so what happened here
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    I wasn't there I don't know specifically
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    but I can speculate that the agency went
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    through the traditional old style design
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    process in which they did a whole lot of
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    research on the front end
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    and then made a whole lot of assumptions
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    tens of thousands of some assumptions
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    about what should be on the side how it
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    should be presented what it should say
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    what the brand positioning should be all
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    done without testing and so they were
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    surprised when this incredible
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    investment rolled out the door and
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    started reducing sales
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    this isn't an isolated occurrence either
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    although disclosure of these sorts of
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    things is pretty rare in 2012 Finish
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    Line launched a new website right before
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    the holiday shopping season here's what
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    it looked like on November the 12th
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    and here's what it looked like on
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    November the 19th quite a change
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    completely different look and feel very
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    stylized not a lot of copy only really
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    relying on pictures to carry the mail
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    emphasis on content marketing
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    um
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    very very fancy you would think that
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    this would be a big win for them
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    well it didn't work out so well because
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    they had lost three million dollars
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    within the first few weeks of launching
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    this website it wasn't good for the
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    executives involved either
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    and they were smart enough at least to
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    have saved an old copy of the site on a
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    server somewhere so that when it became
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    too painful they could simply relaunch
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    the old site and it went back to the way
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    it was
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    but again the culprit was an agency with
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    a great idea collected some data made
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    some assumptions but you can get that an
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    agency very excited about their new
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    design could Foster a little
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    confirmation bias in other words they
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    see in the data the things they want to
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    see because they're so excited about
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    their cool new shoe pictures
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    this is the old design process
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    launch and see
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    we do a bunch of research at the
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    beginning we make a whole lot of
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    assumptions throughout the development
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    process and it's only at the end
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    when we launch the thing after we spent
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    the whole budget that we can really get
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    some good behavioral data it's called
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    launching
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    in a world where data is abundant like
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    we live in now the design process
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    changes
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    sure we want to start off with that kind
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    of research on the beginning we want to
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    develop those personas we want to do the
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    marketing studies we want to do the
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    questionnaires we want to have a good
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    idea of the direction that we want to go
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    with this
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    but instead of doing it all at once and
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    that being the last we do we get to test
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    our way experiment our way into the
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    right solution so we start off with our
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    research and then we discuss how we're
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    going to position it and from there we
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    do a study of the different kinds of
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    copy
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    they could drive that point home
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    then we have the final copy we can do an
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    image study choose several images that
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    we believe
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    communicates on a page for the brand in
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    general and study find out which of
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    those images is going to have the
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    greatest impact wireframes this is
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    usually where design agencies start hey
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    we're redesigning the website oh we'll
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    give you some wireframes before
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    positioning and before copying
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    wireframes come in later now we start
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    talking about how we're going to present
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    the information the copy and the images
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    that we've developed on each of these
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    pages
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    so that we can deliver the best result
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    designers should be like draftsman they
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    should be guiding the visitors eyes to
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    the important parts of the page we can
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    persuade with copy we can persuade with
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    images we cannot persuade with design
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    all we can do is make the copy and
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    images more persuasive or less
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    persuasive
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    so wireframes then we study the layout
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    we can do some eye tracking studies to
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    make sure that visitors eyes are getting
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    the important information on each of
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    those pages then we do mock-ups now that
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    we have mock-ups we can start compiling
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    data from panels and seeing which is
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    going to really move the needle the most
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    if there's a significant difference
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    between two mock-ups we want to go with
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    the winner right
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    bring that all together do the final
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    draft launch the campaign launch the
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    website and then we can start collecting
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    that delicious behavioral data that is
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    based on our visitors to our website
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    this is the new design metaphor this is
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    the new way
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    um
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    and I hesitate to call it the new way
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    because we're using old techniques
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    techniques that Direct Mail marketers
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    have been using for decades but we're
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    using it in a way that reinforces our
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    entire design process and doesn't make
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    us reliant on a few copywriters
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    designers creative directors and ux
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    people what we're going to do and what
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    I'm going to show you how to do in this
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    master class
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    is expand the sample size of their
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    decision makers involved in your design
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    process and and we're going to do it
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    while saving money and saving time can
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    you imagine that I hope you can
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    here's an example of a company that took
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    this design process to Heart they wanted
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    to Rebrand wasp barcode Sales inventory
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    and asset tracking software to other
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    businesses their primary call to action
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    was get a demo talk to one of our sales
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    people because when that happened they
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    sold a lot more software
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    they wanted the brand though to be
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    refreshed they didn't like the kind of
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    the old stodgy brand and felt that they
  • 00:14:23
    could really look more modern and and
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    support sales in the efforts that they
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    were making
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    over the time we worked with them
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    they designed a brand that was vibrant
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    and new and fresh
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    to give you an idea of how we did this
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    here are the steps that we've been
  • 00:14:41
    through in redesigning several of the
  • 00:14:43
    important pages on their site
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    we started off
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    by designing a landing page for some of
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    their paid search ads we wanted to learn
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    from that traffic without affecting the
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    rest of the site and what we learned
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    from that we brought over to the first
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    product on their site
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    a few Tri trial and errors there and we
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    moved on to their demo Landing form and
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    we were able to test that to a
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    significant increases so we took what we
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    learned there and brought it over to the
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    other product pages by that time we were
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    confident enough to really change the
  • 00:15:18
    home page and it gained an entirely new
  • 00:15:21
    look and feel we took another swing and
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    a bolder design and on each of the pages
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    found those combinations that worked now
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    not all of them did we were able to walk
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    away from those that didn't but this is
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    the power of the design process that
  • 00:15:36
    we're talking about data driven design
  • 00:15:40
    for some reason I don't like that data
  • 00:15:42
    driven design it isn't data driven it's
  • 00:15:44
    creative driven
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    supported by data the other beauty of a
  • 00:15:48
    campaign that is pretty complex like
  • 00:15:51
    this
  • 00:15:52
    is that you get to start winning early
  • 00:15:55
    on for a website design process you
  • 00:15:58
    spend months working on the site and
  • 00:16:02
    then you launch all your assumptions at
  • 00:16:03
    once
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    when you do an evolutionary design like
  • 00:16:06
    this when you use new design metaphors
  • 00:16:10
    you get to start winning as you're going
  • 00:16:12
    so in the case of Los Barco we increased
  • 00:16:15
    their leads by 250 percent
  • 00:16:17
    within three months of starting the
  • 00:16:19
    redesign not even being done
  • 00:16:22
    so as we learned we improved and you can
  • 00:16:25
    expect the same thing to happen to you
  • 00:16:27
    at the heart of all this is ideas and we
  • 00:16:31
    tend to discard our ideas when we don't
  • 00:16:34
    think we're going to be able to convince
  • 00:16:36
    somebody that holds the purse strings
  • 00:16:38
    that they're good ideas
  • 00:16:41
    when we look back at the campaigns that
  • 00:16:43
    really moved us the things maybe they
  • 00:16:45
    got us into communication and marketing
  • 00:16:47
    and maybe even into entrepreneurship
  • 00:16:50
    those were daring unexpected and well
  • 00:16:55
    who would have known if they would have
  • 00:16:56
    worked
  • 00:16:57
    they solved a lot of day because they
  • 00:17:00
    were the boss's idea or there was the
  • 00:17:02
    force of sheer will of some person's
  • 00:17:04
    personality that pushed them through the
  • 00:17:06
    organization for every one of those
  • 00:17:09
    amazing campaigns there are thousands of
  • 00:17:12
    campaigns that failed
  • 00:17:15
    intuition can only get us so far
  • 00:17:18
    I'm going to encourage you to start
  • 00:17:20
    collecting all of the ideas that you
  • 00:17:23
    have and all of the ideas that your
  • 00:17:24
    organization has and all of the ideas
  • 00:17:27
    that you're going to be generating as
  • 00:17:29
    you go through this master class
  • 00:17:31
    I'm going to even give you the
  • 00:17:32
    spreadsheet visit this URL
  • 00:17:36
    grab the spreadsheet keep it around on
  • 00:17:39
    your computer anywhere you need so that
  • 00:17:42
    when those ideas come
  • 00:17:44
    you can write them down just enter them
  • 00:17:46
    into the hypothesis column on the
  • 00:17:49
    spreadsheet when the boss comes in and
  • 00:17:52
    says I think we need a website refresh
  • 00:17:54
    you can say I will make sure that we
  • 00:17:57
    write that down because
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    when you start drilling down and turning
  • 00:18:01
    these ideas into hypotheses that you can
  • 00:18:03
    collect data on you realize that there's
  • 00:18:06
    a whole lot more under that you have to
  • 00:18:08
    start asking questions like really what
  • 00:18:11
    makes you think that this is where data
  • 00:18:13
    starts to create a little bit of a fence
  • 00:18:16
    now when I say a fence you might think
  • 00:18:18
    oh well there's something that's going
  • 00:18:20
    to block creativity there's something
  • 00:18:21
    that's designed to keep things out
  • 00:18:23
    there's something that's designed to
  • 00:18:25
    keep things the same
  • 00:18:26
    but if I tell you a story of a group of
  • 00:18:29
    children playing in a field a wide open
  • 00:18:31
    field
  • 00:18:33
    and one of them says hey guys
  • 00:18:35
    I heard that there was a Golden Globe in
  • 00:18:38
    the field somewhere and if we find it
  • 00:18:39
    we'll be rich
  • 00:18:41
    what are the children going to do
  • 00:18:43
    well they're going to travel around in a
  • 00:18:45
    little Clump close together
  • 00:18:49
    if they come back the next summer into
  • 00:18:50
    the same field but it's been fenced in
  • 00:18:53
    let's say that the Rancher fenced it in
  • 00:18:55
    the guy says we should look for the
  • 00:18:57
    Golden Globe again
  • 00:18:59
    they're going to expand out all of them
  • 00:19:02
    to the edges of the fence because that
  • 00:19:04
    creates a space in which they can feel
  • 00:19:07
    safe expanding into and this is what
  • 00:19:10
    data is going to do for you and your
  • 00:19:11
    team it's going to allow them to expand
  • 00:19:15
    but not into dangerous territory the
  • 00:19:19
    data gives us really good guidance as to
  • 00:19:22
    how creative we can be and will free us
  • 00:19:25
    up so collect all of your ideas put them
  • 00:19:28
    into the spreadsheet we're going to talk
  • 00:19:30
    about those ideas on our call this week
  • 00:19:33
    and start to understand how we put these
  • 00:19:36
    into categories and buckets
  • 00:19:39
    that we can use to prioritize them
  • 00:19:43
    let's talk about the kind of hypotheses
  • 00:19:44
    that we'll see in a typical digital
  • 00:19:46
    campaign the first bucket is messaging
  • 00:19:49
    and value proposition this is anything
  • 00:19:51
    that has to do with the words and images
  • 00:19:55
    that we use to convey a message now by
  • 00:19:58
    images I mean everything from stock
  • 00:20:01
    photos
  • 00:20:02
    to video to animations anything that's
  • 00:20:06
    going to convey a value proposition on a
  • 00:20:09
    landing page on a website in an ad
  • 00:20:12
    all of these things need the support of
  • 00:20:15
    a strong value proposition
  • 00:20:17
    on a website your value proposition is
  • 00:20:20
    combined with the offer yeah 10 off
  • 00:20:22
    shoes but it's also composed of your
  • 00:20:25
    return policy or shipping policy your
  • 00:20:28
    guarantees and anything that makes you
  • 00:20:31
    special are you the low-cost leader are
  • 00:20:34
    you the high quality leader do you have
  • 00:20:35
    the largest selection
  • 00:20:37
    these are all part of your value
  • 00:20:39
    proposition and any hypothesis that
  • 00:20:41
    addressed the words and the images the
  • 00:20:43
    ways that you communicate your value
  • 00:20:46
    proposition or the value proposition of
  • 00:20:49
    a product or the value proposition of an
  • 00:20:52
    offer on a landing page fall into this
  • 00:20:55
    bucket messaging and value proposition
  • 00:21:00
    the next bucket is layout and ux as I
  • 00:21:03
    hinted at earlier this is the way that
  • 00:21:06
    we present information on a page in an
  • 00:21:09
    ad on a landing page on a website in an
  • 00:21:12
    email is the it's the layout it's the US
  • 00:21:16
    it's how the user can interface with the
  • 00:21:19
    information and it can span everything
  • 00:21:21
    from how a simple blog page is laid out
  • 00:21:24
    to convey the information in an article
  • 00:21:27
    all the way through to the checkout
  • 00:21:30
    process or the sign up process for your
  • 00:21:33
    product or your online service
  • 00:21:36
    so very important that the right
  • 00:21:38
    information being the right place on the
  • 00:21:40
    page and that the designer has used
  • 00:21:42
    their knowledge of positioning and
  • 00:21:44
    juxtaposition and
  • 00:21:47
    um font and color and white space and
  • 00:21:50
    negative space and all of those
  • 00:21:52
    designery things that we respect them
  • 00:21:54
    for in the service of communicating your
  • 00:21:57
    value proposition credibility and
  • 00:22:00
    Authority how good a job are you at
  • 00:22:04
    conveying that you are a credible
  • 00:22:05
    company that this is a credible product
  • 00:22:08
    and that you are an authority in your
  • 00:22:11
    Niche anytime we talk about how long
  • 00:22:13
    we've been in business anytime we talk
  • 00:22:15
    about how many customers we've served we
  • 00:22:18
    are building credibility and Authority
  • 00:22:20
    this is where proof becomes very
  • 00:22:23
    important
  • 00:22:24
    so even the design is important for
  • 00:22:27
    communicating credibility and Authority
  • 00:22:29
    we tend to give this bucket a little bit
  • 00:22:32
    too much weight
  • 00:22:34
    because most of the money we spend on
  • 00:22:36
    the website goes into the design the
  • 00:22:38
    design can only get it so far
  • 00:22:41
    social proof what social proof do you
  • 00:22:44
    have what evidence do you have that
  • 00:22:46
    other people have used your products and
  • 00:22:47
    been very very happy with them on an
  • 00:22:50
    e-commerce site typical social proof is
  • 00:22:52
    ratings and reviews on other sites
  • 00:22:55
    testimonials have you won any awards are
  • 00:22:58
    you a member of associations
  • 00:23:00
    these are all the things that can convey
  • 00:23:02
    in your campaigns that other people have
  • 00:23:05
    used you and loved you
  • 00:23:08
    finally security and risk reversal
  • 00:23:10
    hypotheses in this category speak to how
  • 00:23:14
    secure I feel how confident I feel and
  • 00:23:17
    it's everything from ensuring that if I
  • 00:23:19
    give you my credit card it's not going
  • 00:23:20
    to get hacked to if I make a bad
  • 00:23:23
    decision do I have any recourse and
  • 00:23:25
    what's it going to cost me so when
  • 00:23:28
    you've started putting ideas into your
  • 00:23:30
    spreadsheet you're going to want to put
  • 00:23:31
    them into one of these five buckets and
  • 00:23:33
    there's a column in the spreadsheet
  • 00:23:35
    already there configured for you to drop
  • 00:23:37
    this information beside each of those
  • 00:23:40
    ideas we'll call them hypotheses later
  • 00:23:43
    after we've done a little work on them
  • 00:23:45
    so is this hypotheses related to
  • 00:23:47
    messaging and value proposition is it
  • 00:23:49
    related to the ux and the layout is it
  • 00:23:52
    related to Authority and credibility is
  • 00:23:54
    it related to social proof or is it
  • 00:23:57
    related to security and risk reversal
  • 00:24:00
    this will start to give you a clue
  • 00:24:02
    number one as to what people think the
  • 00:24:05
    problem on your website is
  • 00:24:07
    and it will also give you a clue as to
  • 00:24:10
    where you should start prioritizing
  • 00:24:13
    hypotheses
  • 00:24:15
    ideas
  • 00:24:16
    for your next experiment we'll get there
  • 00:24:20
    don't worry about it
  • 00:24:22
    homework for today is to start filling
  • 00:24:25
    out this sheet and coming with five
  • 00:24:28
    hypotheses in each of these categories
  • 00:24:31
    if you're stuck just pick five in each
  • 00:24:33
    of these areas you may need to wander
  • 00:24:35
    around and say hey what are your ideas
  • 00:24:38
    for this campaign or what are your ideas
  • 00:24:40
    for improving the website
  • 00:24:43
    your team's going to love being heard
  • 00:24:44
    they're going to love the thought that
  • 00:24:46
    their ideas have shown up on a
  • 00:24:48
    spreadsheet somewhere and that they
  • 00:24:49
    won't be forgotten and you're going to
  • 00:24:52
    love that you get to hang on to these
  • 00:24:53
    ideas even The Crazy Ones you cannot do
  • 00:24:56
    any vetting of these ideas go ahead and
  • 00:24:59
    put The Crazy Ones on there we're going
  • 00:25:01
    to go through a process that's going to
  • 00:25:03
    ensure that the good ideas bubble to the
  • 00:25:05
    top and by good I mean those most likely
  • 00:25:08
    to generate more Revenue
  • 00:25:10
    and that those that aren't boiled to the
  • 00:25:13
    bottom
  • 00:25:14
    are you excited all right we'll see you
  • 00:25:17
    on the call this week the schedule is in
  • 00:25:20
    your email and be ready to talk about
  • 00:25:23
    the ideas that you started collecting
  • 00:25:25
    and any insights you have from what
  • 00:25:27
    buckets they're falling into
Tags
  • Conversion Optimization
  • Behavioral Science
  • Data-Driven Design
  • Moore's Law
  • Marketing Strategy
  • Hypothesis Testing
  • Creative Marketing
  • Iterative Design
  • Customer Insights
  • Digital Campaigns