<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:blogger='http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005" xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10592935</id><updated>2026-01-03T12:05:40.678-08:00</updated><category term="marketing"/><category term="conversion"/><category term="261 Questions"/><category term="personas"/><category term="Web"/><category term="social media"/><category term="social networks"/><category term="SEO"/><category term="generations"/><category term="Competitive"/><category term="Ideas"/><category term="Content is Important"/><category term="The Patterns of Web Marketing"/><category term="results"/><category term="Case Studies"/><category term="ConversionCast"/><category term="Evil Devices"/><category term="ROI"/><category term="Spontaneous"/><category term="advertising on social networks"/><category term="analytics"/><category term="conversion scientist"/><category term="copywriting"/><category term="data-mining"/><category term="events"/><category term="measurement"/><category term="music"/><title type='text'>Customer Chaos Labs</title><subtitle type='html'>Exploiting the Internet So You Don&#39;t Have To</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://customerchaos.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10592935/posts/default?alt=atom&amp;redirect=false'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://customerchaos.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><link rel='next' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10592935/posts/default?alt=atom&amp;start-index=26&amp;max-results=25&amp;redirect=false'/><author><name>Brian Massey</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04046124512823741822</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirF35eB3wXPMcjWvIeKZbuidNCzwGR98Pm5kEknwq2-iQNS4SS6nxuXW4QC5cjT5mUKqO99qwDXN2EIRetdIz2ZccrHVqioAABz9FcJaCsevzybTfDjO9u-AEcyYbUIg/s220/BAM-Cropped-150x150.png'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>132</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10592935.post-7700447178298215068</id><published>2011-01-16T11:36:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2011-01-16T19:07:04.340-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Business Advice from Drug Dealers-ProductCamp Austin</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style=&quot;padding: 3px; text-align: left;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.flickr.com/photos/bmassey/5361124412/&quot;&gt;Business Advice from Drug Dealers-ProductCamp Austin&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://brandautopsy.com/&quot;&gt;John Moore&lt;/a&gt; gave us an engaging and informative presentation with business advice from two well-known drug dealers: Starbucks and Frank Lucas (The American Gangster). &lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div align=&quot;center&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.flickr.com/photos/bmassey/5361124412/sizes/o/in/photostream/&quot; title=&quot;Business Advice from Drug Dealers-ProductCamp Austin by bmassey, on Flickr&quot;&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;Business Advice from Drug Dealers-ProductCamp Austin&quot; height=&quot;1024&quot; src=&quot;http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5284/5361124412_8e97dcceb3_b.jpg&quot; width=&quot;328&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://customerchaos.blogspot.com/feeds/7700447178298215068/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://customerchaos.blogspot.com/2011/01/business-advice-from-drug-dealers.html#comment-form' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10592935/posts/default/7700447178298215068'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10592935/posts/default/7700447178298215068'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://customerchaos.blogspot.com/2011/01/business-advice-from-drug-dealers.html' title='Business Advice from Drug Dealers-ProductCamp Austin'/><author><name>Brian Massey</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04046124512823741822</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirF35eB3wXPMcjWvIeKZbuidNCzwGR98Pm5kEknwq2-iQNS4SS6nxuXW4QC5cjT5mUKqO99qwDXN2EIRetdIz2ZccrHVqioAABz9FcJaCsevzybTfDjO9u-AEcyYbUIg/s220/BAM-Cropped-150x150.png'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5284/5361124412_8e97dcceb3_t.jpg" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10592935.post-4926710876514032303</id><published>2010-09-06T12:40:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-09-06T23:23:56.919-07:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Evil Devices"/><title type='text'>Revealed: Slow Motion Device Slows Competing Websites, Drives Visitors Away</title><content type='html'>&lt;h3&gt;Bad things happen when Web sites load slowly.&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;p&gt;Research scientists at Customer Chaos Labs have identified a way to significantly reduce the effectiveness of any of your competitors’ Web sites.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Slow their load times.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Don’t be fooled. You may think that, since most people have high-speed broadband connections that all pages load quickly enough.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;It’s not true.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIMuxwBvYeuCYH0FKrwAla97p1Z5CFfBCsZIDVPepho9C8UCYq8smLNG-mt2Mx2mSJMaHoFOLkh4KjhVjkIr-8CGXgz4oZVpVhHb9iage8slCebE_ZaOKXASMJ_yaqVU1hYRBwVA/s1600-h/SlowMotionEmitterblk10.png&quot;&gt;&lt;img style=&quot;display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto&quot; title=&quot;The CCLabs Slow Motion Emitter&quot; alt=&quot;The CCLabs Slow Motion Emitter&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjo4Y3DBlmncuJFfT0fAqQ5b_RVKHi_x8VjvMbhgDKz5cfP7KwLJRUM8ASdX_MkwUl4Xz8xxqm7vOySxf7aNL5V7X9P-GkK-0qFx1K3tE9mQqZnFoZVQ6SBH3M-og3o1gMMNkyoCA/?imgmax=800&quot; width=&quot;500&quot; height=&quot;240&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Drawing shows&amp;#160; how Slow Motion Emitter slows website load times.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Don’t believe that your visitors are going to wait a few seconds for your site to load.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;They won’t.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;h2&gt;The Success of the Slow Motion Emitter&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;p&gt;Customer Chaos Labs has been utilizing our top secret Slow Motion Emitter on behalf of our clients to slow their competitors’ sites. The results are tremendous:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;A large number of visitors never view a second page of competitors sites. We say that the visitor “&lt;strong&gt;bounced.”&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Visitors viewed fewer pages per visit (Average &lt;strong&gt;Pages per Visit&lt;/strong&gt;). This means that they didn’t see much of the information on competitor sites. &lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Visitors spent less time on competitor sites, reducing the odds that they will purchase, sign up, or share socially. &lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Why are we revealing this now?&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately, the do-gooders at Conversion Sciences have revealed our technology to the public. While they have found a defense, they cannot know the locations of all of our emitters. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;We believe that their story illustrates the effectiveness of the technology. The fools make the case for us.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;You can’t buy PR like that.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;h2&gt;You can still benefit&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;p&gt;If you would like to ensure that your competitors’ hosting providers are targeted by a Slow Motion Emitter, we can help. Naturally, we are very selective about our clients. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;To request more information, please complete the following form:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;h2&gt;YES! I want to know more about the devious plans Customer Chaos Labs has for the Internet and the Web!&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;!-- Begin MailChimp Signup Form --&gt;&lt;style type=&quot;text/css&quot; media=&quot;screen&quot;&gt;

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&lt;p&gt;In general, you can reverse risk by&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Telling prospect how you will treat their data &lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Telling prospects what to expect if they complete the form &lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://bit.ly/bZwPHz&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Read about Risk Reversal Tactics for B2B Lead Generation&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;You can &lt;a href=&quot;http://bit.ly/aom3RI&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;subscribe to The Conversion Scientist&lt;/a&gt; by email.&lt;/p&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://customerchaos.blogspot.com/feeds/9053246539703567623/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://customerchaos.blogspot.com/2010/07/b2b-risk-reversal-tactics.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10592935/posts/default/9053246539703567623'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10592935/posts/default/9053246539703567623'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://customerchaos.blogspot.com/2010/07/b2b-risk-reversal-tactics.html' title='B2B Risk Reversal Tactics'/><author><name>Brian Massey</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04046124512823741822</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirF35eB3wXPMcjWvIeKZbuidNCzwGR98Pm5kEknwq2-iQNS4SS6nxuXW4QC5cjT5mUKqO99qwDXN2EIRetdIz2ZccrHVqioAABz9FcJaCsevzybTfDjO9u-AEcyYbUIg/s220/BAM-Cropped-150x150.png'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10592935.post-2258403628057220185</id><published>2010-06-24T00:10:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2010-06-24T00:18:50.292-07:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="analytics"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="conversion scientist"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="measurement"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="ROI"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="social media"/><title type='text'>A Focus on ROI is Good for Social Media</title><content type='html'>&lt;p&gt;How many times do you have a great conversation in the social space  only to find the company&amp;rsquo;s Web site opaque, posing, and irrelevant?&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Social media won&amp;rsquo;t work if we&amp;rsquo;re transparent in our social graph and  obsequious everywhere else.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Let&amp;rsquo;s encourage businesses to put content out that draws people to  their Web site. They will quickly begin to realize that certain content  works (educational, entertaining content) and certain content does not  (home pages with self-aggrandizing copy).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;ROI is the great informer for these companies&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://bit.ly/dgYhnN&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Read more at The Conversion Scientist&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://customerchaos.blogspot.com/feeds/2258403628057220185/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://customerchaos.blogspot.com/2010/06/focus-on-roi-is-good-for-social-media.html#comment-form' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10592935/posts/default/2258403628057220185'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10592935/posts/default/2258403628057220185'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://customerchaos.blogspot.com/2010/06/focus-on-roi-is-good-for-social-media.html' title='A Focus on ROI is Good for Social Media'/><author><name>Brian Massey</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04046124512823741822</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirF35eB3wXPMcjWvIeKZbuidNCzwGR98Pm5kEknwq2-iQNS4SS6nxuXW4QC5cjT5mUKqO99qwDXN2EIRetdIz2ZccrHVqioAABz9FcJaCsevzybTfDjO9u-AEcyYbUIg/s220/BAM-Cropped-150x150.png'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10592935.post-2510337812433455543</id><published>2010-06-12T11:55:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2010-06-12T11:55:09.557-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Copy Vs. Design: Which Is Most Important To Conversion?</title><content type='html'>&lt;p&gt;To better understand some of the fundamental principles of conversion  science, I&amp;rsquo;d like to offer a case study. Two websites, both owned by  the same business, targeting the same demographic, getting about the  same search traffic, but with different conversion rates.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;According to Heliski.com owner Tom Jackson, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.heliskiingreview.com/&quot;&gt;www.heliskiingreview.com&lt;/a&gt; was  &amp;ldquo;dated, awkward, wordy, but it&amp;rsquo;s working.&amp;rdquo; On the other hand, he said, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.heliski.com/&quot;&gt;www.heliski.com&lt;/a&gt; was &amp;ldquo;newer, looks  better, better organized but &lt;em&gt;way&lt;/em&gt; underperforming in lead gen.&amp;rdquo;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The question&amp;mdash;why would the clunky older site outperform the shiny  newer site? (Disclosure: Heliski is one of my clients).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a title=&quot;How Analytics Saved One Business s Online Sales&quot; href=&quot;http://bit.ly/bxSNwo&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;How Analytics Saved One Business&#39;s Online Sales&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://customerchaos.blogspot.com/feeds/2510337812433455543/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://customerchaos.blogspot.com/2010/06/copy-vs-design-which-is-most-important.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10592935/posts/default/2510337812433455543'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10592935/posts/default/2510337812433455543'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://customerchaos.blogspot.com/2010/06/copy-vs-design-which-is-most-important.html' title='Copy Vs. Design: Which Is Most Important To Conversion?'/><author><name>Brian Massey</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04046124512823741822</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirF35eB3wXPMcjWvIeKZbuidNCzwGR98Pm5kEknwq2-iQNS4SS6nxuXW4QC5cjT5mUKqO99qwDXN2EIRetdIz2ZccrHVqioAABz9FcJaCsevzybTfDjO9u-AEcyYbUIg/s220/BAM-Cropped-150x150.png'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10592935.post-2375136659113244322</id><published>2009-04-01T09:29:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2009-12-20T19:48:36.021-08:00</updated><title type='text'>The PubCon South 2009 Interview with Brian Massey</title><content type='html'>&lt;h3&gt;Conversion Scientist Brian Massey and Vanessa Zamora&lt;/h3&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Curious about what a Conversion Scientist does? This may help. Though I&#39;ve given better interviews in my life, I think Vanessa&#39;s poise more than makes up for my blathering.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Slides from my PubCon South 2009 presentation are at &lt;a href=&quot;http://budurl.com/WhatToTestPost&quot;&gt;What to Test?&lt;/a&gt; The Conversion Scientist.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;a onblur=&quot;try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}&quot; href=&quot;http://budurl.com/PubCon09Vid&quot;&gt;&lt;img style=&quot;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 234px;&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3sODfG00A1bhIw8v6x16l_Vzj567dIL2iqCBeht7D9NTFGs-vZudmtlOBhBQG_SKe63NygEt46Yg-4NSvARA8h8OtIfE8Pk8Ff-EMZc8kkvegmqBmcpvlKJsGQskut84vGO-voQ/s320/brian-and-vanessa.jpg&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; alt=&quot;Brian Massey and Vanessa Zamora&quot;id=&quot;BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5417530622135520114&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a title=&quot;Brian Massey and Vanessa Zamora interview at PubCon South 2009 on Conversion Sciences&quot; href=&quot;http://budurl.com/PubCon09Vid&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;http://budurl.com/PubCon09Vid&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://customerchaos.blogspot.com/feeds/2375136659113244322/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://customerchaos.blogspot.com/2009/04/pubcon-south-2009-interview-with-brian.html#comment-form' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10592935/posts/default/2375136659113244322'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10592935/posts/default/2375136659113244322'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://customerchaos.blogspot.com/2009/04/pubcon-south-2009-interview-with-brian.html' title='The PubCon South 2009 Interview with Brian Massey'/><author><name>Brian Massey</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04046124512823741822</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirF35eB3wXPMcjWvIeKZbuidNCzwGR98Pm5kEknwq2-iQNS4SS6nxuXW4QC5cjT5mUKqO99qwDXN2EIRetdIz2ZccrHVqioAABz9FcJaCsevzybTfDjO9u-AEcyYbUIg/s220/BAM-Cropped-150x150.png'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3sODfG00A1bhIw8v6x16l_Vzj567dIL2iqCBeht7D9NTFGs-vZudmtlOBhBQG_SKe63NygEt46Yg-4NSvARA8h8OtIfE8Pk8Ff-EMZc8kkvegmqBmcpvlKJsGQskut84vGO-voQ/s72-c/brian-and-vanessa.jpg" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10592935.post-3352033100122721021</id><published>2009-02-26T23:17:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2009-02-26T23:17:16.817-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Scarcity Breeds Industry in Marketing</title><content type='html'>&lt;h3&gt;Beating the competition when resources get tight&lt;/h3&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;img style=&quot;margin: 0px 10px&quot; alt=&quot;Brian Massey writes for the Bulldog Marketing Watchdog Journal&quot; src=&quot;http://www.bulldogsolutions.com/images/newsletter/shell/toplogo.gif&quot; align=&quot;right&quot; /&gt; An article I coauthored just landed in the Bulldog Marketing Watchdog Journal. There is an opportunity out there, an opportunity created by panicked competitors making bad decisions about what to cut in anticipation of slowing sales.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;h3&gt;Are you one of those &amp;quot;competitors?&amp;quot;&lt;/h3&gt;  &lt;p&gt;The second installment is&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a title=&quot;Article by Brian Massey, Joel Granoff, and Rose Holston&quot; href=&quot;http://budurl.com/BulldogPt2&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Scarcity Breeds Industry: Where Should You Be Putting Your Marketing Dollars in 2009?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;The first article was:&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a title=&quot;Brian Massey, Joel Granoff and Rose Holston&quot; href=&quot;http://budurl.com/bulldog1&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Five Ways to Gain a Competitive Advantage&amp;#8212;While Everyone Else Is Panicking&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;I may be off base, but my colleagues, &lt;a href=&quot;http://begreeted.com&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Joel Granoff&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://avisocomm.com&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Rose Holston&lt;/a&gt; (both appear in the header of &lt;a href=&quot;http://budurl.com/5wux&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;The Conversion Scientist blog&lt;/a&gt;) are too smart to be dismissed offhand.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Tell us what you think in the comments here.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://budurl.com/559x&quot;&gt;&lt;img title=&quot;Ink Generated with Ink Blog Plugin - http://www.edholloway.com&quot; alt=&quot;Connect with Brian Massey&amp;#39;s Social Graph&quot; src=&quot;http://www.majorinlife.com/ftp/Question9DoyouShowtheProduct_1368C/Ink000400930000.png&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Brian Massey&lt;/p&gt;  </content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://customerchaos.blogspot.com/feeds/3352033100122721021/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://customerchaos.blogspot.com/2009/02/scarcity-breeds-industry-in-marketing.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10592935/posts/default/3352033100122721021'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10592935/posts/default/3352033100122721021'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://customerchaos.blogspot.com/2009/02/scarcity-breeds-industry-in-marketing.html' title='Scarcity Breeds Industry in Marketing'/><author><name>Brian Massey</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04046124512823741822</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirF35eB3wXPMcjWvIeKZbuidNCzwGR98Pm5kEknwq2-iQNS4SS6nxuXW4QC5cjT5mUKqO99qwDXN2EIRetdIz2ZccrHVqioAABz9FcJaCsevzybTfDjO9u-AEcyYbUIg/s220/BAM-Cropped-150x150.png'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10592935.post-3545612335494488754</id><published>2009-02-04T18:55:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2009-02-04T18:55:02.390-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Beating the Competition in 2009 and a Behavioral Marketing Riff</title><content type='html'>&lt;h3&gt;Avoid the mistakes your competition will make to gain customers this year.&lt;/h3&gt;  &lt;p&gt;While I&#39;ve decided not to participate in the recession, that doesn&#39;t mean that things won&#39;t be different for me in 2009. My clients&#39; competitors -- and yours -- are totally bought into the recession and will be making some bad decisions.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;This is good news for you and for me.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;I detail some of the mistakes your competition is going to make this year in an article I co-wrote for Bulldog Solutions. Check out &lt;a title=&quot;Article by Brian Massey for Bulldog Solutions&quot; href=&quot;http://budurl.com/BulldogFiveWays&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Five Ways to Gain a Competitive Advantage While Everyone Else is Panicking&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;The third recommendation we offer in that article is &amp;quot;Concentrate on programs that move prospects through the sales funnel.&amp;quot; Behavioral Targeting is just one of the strategies you should consider to snatch customers from your competitors. The second entry in &lt;a title=&quot;Brian Massey writes on Behavioral Marketing metrics and analytics for ClickZ.&quot; href=&quot;http://budurl.com/ClickzPixel&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;my Behavioral Marketing column for ClickZ&lt;/a&gt; includes a riff on what behavioral marketers can learn from the simple action of visiting a Web page. I&#39;ve recorded a &lt;a title=&quot;Brian Massey Riffs on Behavioral Targeting metrics and analytics. Podcast.&quot; href=&quot;http://budurl.com/BTRiff&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Behavioral Targeting Lullaby&lt;/a&gt; inspired by George Carlin.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://budurl.com/559x&quot;&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;Connect with Brian Massey&quot; src=&quot;http://www.majorinlife.com/ftp/ILaunchedaFacebookApplication_EB38/Ink726239330000.png&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  </content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://customerchaos.blogspot.com/feeds/3545612335494488754/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://customerchaos.blogspot.com/2009/02/beating-competition-in-2009-and.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10592935/posts/default/3545612335494488754'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10592935/posts/default/3545612335494488754'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://customerchaos.blogspot.com/2009/02/beating-competition-in-2009-and.html' title='Beating the Competition in 2009 and a Behavioral Marketing Riff'/><author><name>Brian Massey</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04046124512823741822</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirF35eB3wXPMcjWvIeKZbuidNCzwGR98Pm5kEknwq2-iQNS4SS6nxuXW4QC5cjT5mUKqO99qwDXN2EIRetdIz2ZccrHVqioAABz9FcJaCsevzybTfDjO9u-AEcyYbUIg/s220/BAM-Cropped-150x150.png'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10592935.post-8594599769790589730</id><published>2009-01-15T22:07:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2009-01-15T22:07:56.764-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Is the Internet Shaping Culture or is it Just a Symptom of Change?</title><content type='html'>&lt;h3&gt;If it&#39;s not the cause, then what is?&lt;/h3&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;img height=&quot;181&quot; src=&quot;http://api.ning.com/files/7b46-4twEUJ-b-zc3wSruGODBrC869hmCc5EiTGEMzIKKOkYgAx2euuax9v1a-VBHQ4BvJLK3LoNVc8YeqGBK8uxcBRZLiQJ/1124523_summer_beach_5.jpg&quot; width=&quot;240&quot; align=&quot;right&quot; /&gt; I did a bit of a &lt;a title=&quot;Society of Word of Mouth Post by Brian Massey&quot; href=&quot;http://budurl.com/dismantle&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;rant on my profile over on the Society for Word of Mouth community&lt;/a&gt;. I was sitting at the Wizard Academy, a school of communication that has been predicting a change in culture that would transform the way we communicate. &lt;a title=&quot;Ray Seggern, One Man Brand&quot; href=&quot;http://budurl.com/RaySeggern&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Ray Seggern&lt;/a&gt; was doing a presentation called &amp;quot;The Pendulum&amp;quot; made famous by Wizard Academy founder Roy H. Williams. It&#39;s the kind of presentation that sticks with you for weeks after &lt;a title=&quot;Visit the Wizard Academy for a free day of having your mind blown&quot; href=&quot;http://budurl.com/wizardfreeday&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;you see it&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;One thing that Roy puts forth very convincingly is that the Internet and it&#39;s sibling technologies are a tool of change more than a cause of change. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;This is a pretty scary thought. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Why? Because, if it&#39;s the Internet that is causing the kids to act so funny, then we can keep an eye on it. If it&#39;s just a symptom of the change, then something more nefarious is going on, something that may &lt;a title=&quot;We are Actively Dismantling Your Trusted Marketing Strategies&quot; href=&quot;http://budurl.com/dismantle&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;sneak up on us&lt;/a&gt;. Either way, you can&#39;t opt out. It&#39;ll get you too.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Are you going to be surprised? &lt;a title=&quot;I&amp;#39;ll be at the Wizard Academy on March 13th for the Free Day&quot; href=&quot;http://budurl.com/wizardfreeday&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Visit the Wizard Academy on March 13th a free day of mind bending clarity&lt;/a&gt;. It&#39;s about communicating fully and so much more.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://conversionscientist.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/ink278560156250.png&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  </content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://customerchaos.blogspot.com/feeds/8594599769790589730/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://customerchaos.blogspot.com/2009/01/is-internet-shaping-culture-or-is-it.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10592935/posts/default/8594599769790589730'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10592935/posts/default/8594599769790589730'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://customerchaos.blogspot.com/2009/01/is-internet-shaping-culture-or-is-it.html' title='Is the Internet Shaping Culture or is it Just a Symptom of Change?'/><author><name>Brian Massey</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04046124512823741822</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirF35eB3wXPMcjWvIeKZbuidNCzwGR98Pm5kEknwq2-iQNS4SS6nxuXW4QC5cjT5mUKqO99qwDXN2EIRetdIz2ZccrHVqioAABz9FcJaCsevzybTfDjO9u-AEcyYbUIg/s220/BAM-Cropped-150x150.png'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10592935.post-6758934049855969915</id><published>2009-01-10T11:58:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2009-01-10T12:21:01.248-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Entrepreneurs, Business Models and Bootstrappers</title><content type='html'>&lt;h3&gt;What Business Models are You Exploring for Your Business?&lt;/h3&gt;  &lt;p&gt;We&#39;ve begun a conversation over on &lt;a title=&quot;Alternatives to the Ad-supported Business Model by Brian Massey&quot; href=&quot;http://budurl.com/wfh2&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;the Bootstrap Austin blog&lt;/a&gt; that I hope you&#39;ll join. I tried to come up with &lt;a title=&quot;Brian Massey discusses alternative business models based on Kevin Kelly&#39;s six generatives&quot; href=&quot;http://budurl.com/wfh2&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;examples of businesses leveraging the six &quot;Generatives&quot;&lt;/a&gt; that &lt;a title=&quot;Kevin Kelly on ChangeThis.com: Better Than Free&quot; href=&quot;http://budurl.com/8ums&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Kevin Kelly discusses in his interesting manifesto &quot;Better Than Free.&quot;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;This is where you come in. I wasn&#39;t really able to tease too many examples out of my head. How does your business takes advantage of one or more of his generatives?&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;ul&gt;   &lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Immediacy&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;    &lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Personalization&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;    &lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Interpretation&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;    &lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Authenticity&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;    &lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Accessibility&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;    &lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Embodiment&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;    &lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Patronage&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &lt;/ul&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Let us know by commenting on &lt;a title=&quot;Alternative Business Models on the Bootstrap Austin Blog by Brian Massey&quot; href=&quot;http://budurl.com/wfh2&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;the Bootstrap Austin blog&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://budurl.com/559x&quot;&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;Connect with Brian Massey via his Social Graph&quot; src=&quot;http://www.majorinlife.com/ftp/SearchMarketingPhilosophyIftheycometheyw_F53C/Ink082398980000.png&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://customerchaos.blogspot.com/feeds/6758934049855969915/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://customerchaos.blogspot.com/2009/01/entrepreneurs-business-models-and.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10592935/posts/default/6758934049855969915'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10592935/posts/default/6758934049855969915'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://customerchaos.blogspot.com/2009/01/entrepreneurs-business-models-and.html' title='Entrepreneurs, Business Models and Bootstrappers'/><author><name>Brian Massey</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04046124512823741822</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirF35eB3wXPMcjWvIeKZbuidNCzwGR98Pm5kEknwq2-iQNS4SS6nxuXW4QC5cjT5mUKqO99qwDXN2EIRetdIz2ZccrHVqioAABz9FcJaCsevzybTfDjO9u-AEcyYbUIg/s220/BAM-Cropped-150x150.png'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10592935.post-7037361692914780025</id><published>2008-12-24T10:19:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2008-12-24T10:19:41.158-08:00</updated><title type='text'>The Christmas ConversionCast</title><content type='html'>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://lh6.ggpht.com/_AZKRxls5iec/SVJ9NhqFu6I/AAAAAAAAA9Q/Sy7wB_a_E2U/s1600-h/image%5B4%5D.png&quot;&gt;&lt;img style=&quot;margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px&quot; height=&quot;208&quot; alt=&quot;image&quot; src=&quot;http://lh6.ggpht.com/_AZKRxls5iec/SVJ9PBgfQBI/AAAAAAAAA9U/LIa1A5mK9Dc/image_thumb%5B2%5D.png?imgmax=800&quot; width=&quot;240&quot; align=&quot;right&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;We&#39;ve prepared a &lt;a title=&quot;A Christmas Card Video from The Conversion Scientist&quot; href=&quot;http://budurl.com/ChristmasCast&quot;&gt;Christmas Video that only a Conversion Scientist&#39;s mom would love&lt;/a&gt;. So, if you&#39;re thinking about your visitors this Holiday Season and wondering how your Web site will cheer your new year, you may find this gift from us to you inspiring.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;You&#39;ve inspired us this year.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;h3&gt;&lt;em&gt;May your holiday&#39;s bring you cheer and may that feeling stay with you long into the coming new year.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://budurl.com/559x&quot;&gt;&lt;img title=&quot;Ink Generated with Ink Blog Plugin - http://www.edholloway.com&quot; alt=&quot;Connect with Brian Massey&amp;#39;s Social Graph&quot; src=&quot;http://www.majorinlife.com/ftp/Question9DoyouShowtheProduct_1368C/Ink000400930000.png&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  </content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://customerchaos.blogspot.com/feeds/7037361692914780025/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://customerchaos.blogspot.com/2008/12/christmas-conversioncast.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10592935/posts/default/7037361692914780025'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10592935/posts/default/7037361692914780025'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://customerchaos.blogspot.com/2008/12/christmas-conversioncast.html' title='The Christmas ConversionCast'/><author><name>Brian Massey</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04046124512823741822</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirF35eB3wXPMcjWvIeKZbuidNCzwGR98Pm5kEknwq2-iQNS4SS6nxuXW4QC5cjT5mUKqO99qwDXN2EIRetdIz2ZccrHVqioAABz9FcJaCsevzybTfDjO9u-AEcyYbUIg/s220/BAM-Cropped-150x150.png'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_AZKRxls5iec/SVJ9PBgfQBI/AAAAAAAAA9U/LIa1A5mK9Dc/s72-c/image_thumb%5B2%5D.png?imgmax=800" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10592935.post-2547311693761996366</id><published>2008-12-18T22:44:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2008-12-18T22:44:58.755-08:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="social media"/><title type='text'>What is Social Conversion?</title><content type='html'>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a title=&quot;Read the post Drilling in on Social Media Strategies on The Conversion Scientist&quot; href=&quot;http://budurl.com/DrillingIntoSocial&quot;&gt;&lt;img height=&quot;273&quot; alt=&quot;Stuffing Social Media into our Old Funnel&quot; src=&quot;http://conversionscientist.com/podcast/TheMarketingFunnel-1.png&quot; width=&quot;344&quot; align=&quot;right&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;We&#39;ve started an interesting thread over at &lt;a title=&quot;The Conversion Scientist Blog for Social Media and More&quot; href=&quot;http://budurl.com/5wux&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;The Conversion Scientist&lt;/a&gt; on Social Conversion. What is Social Conversion? How is it different than classic Conversion strategies, such as Landing Pages?&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;a title=&quot;Drilling in on Social Conversion Strategies&quot; href=&quot;http://budurl.com/DrillingIntoSocial&quot;&gt;The post, Drilling in on Social Conversion Strategies&lt;/a&gt;,&lt;/em&gt; was inspired by a collaboration between me and Dave Evans, the result of which appears in his most recent &lt;a title=&quot;Dave Evans on ClickZ&quot; href=&quot;http://budurl.com/SocialConversions&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;ClickZ article, &lt;em&gt;Social Conversion: Taking Step Two&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;I&#39;ll be starting &lt;a title=&quot;Brian Massey is a new ClickZ Columnist&quot; href=&quot;http://budurl.com/ejpw&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;my own ClickZ column&lt;/a&gt; in January focusing on Behavioral Marketing. Needless to say, I am both excited and intimidated by the thought of joining some of the brightest people in marketing over at ClickZ.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Don&#39;t forget to &lt;a title=&quot;Subscribe to The Conversion Scientist&quot; href=&quot;http://budurl.com/dontmissapost&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;subscribe to The Conversion Scientist&lt;/a&gt; and/or the &lt;a title=&quot;Subscribe to the Conversion Scientist Podcast&quot; href=&quot;http://feeds.feedburner.com/ConversionScientistPodcast&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Conversion Scientist Podcast&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a title=&quot;Join Brian Massey&amp;#39;s Social Graph via ClaimID&quot; href=&quot;http://budurl.com/559x&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;Connect with Brian Massey&quot; src=&quot;http://www.majorinlife.com/ftp/ILaunchedaFacebookApplication_EB38/Ink726239330000.png&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  </content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://customerchaos.blogspot.com/feeds/2547311693761996366/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://customerchaos.blogspot.com/2008/12/what-is-social-conversion.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10592935/posts/default/2547311693761996366'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10592935/posts/default/2547311693761996366'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://customerchaos.blogspot.com/2008/12/what-is-social-conversion.html' title='What is Social Conversion?'/><author><name>Brian Massey</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04046124512823741822</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirF35eB3wXPMcjWvIeKZbuidNCzwGR98Pm5kEknwq2-iQNS4SS6nxuXW4QC5cjT5mUKqO99qwDXN2EIRetdIz2ZccrHVqioAABz9FcJaCsevzybTfDjO9u-AEcyYbUIg/s220/BAM-Cropped-150x150.png'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10592935.post-5485843802515096209</id><published>2008-12-03T18:49:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2008-12-03T18:59:52.145-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Free Copywriters to Do What They Do Best</title><content type='html'>&lt;h2&gt;Does your copywriter suffer from PTSD?&lt;/h2&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://lh3.ggpht.com/_AZKRxls5iec/STdFKc-6EGI/AAAAAAAAAHc/64PHtzaEGwA/s1600-h/image%5B5%5D.png&quot;&gt;&lt;img height=&quot;189&quot; alt=&quot;image&quot; src=&quot;http://lh3.ggpht.com/_AZKRxls5iec/STdFK9mkJGI/AAAAAAAAAHg/7a-qYs4TGWg/image_thumb%5B3%5D.png?imgmax=800&quot; width=&quot;152&quot; align=&quot;right&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; In &lt;a title=&quot;Business Owners: The Truth about Building Your Web Site&quot; href=&quot;http://budurl.com/WebSiteTruth&quot;&gt;a rant on what Business Owners can expect when building a Web site&lt;/a&gt;, I expressed my sympathy for copywriters, who, I asserted, often suffer from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, or PTSD.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;blockquote&gt;   &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;The red ink that a business owner pours over (the copywriter&#39;s) work looks to them like blood. ... Most are beaten into submission, delivering mind-numbing copy with the flavor of Styrofoam. &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;You see it every day. Incoherent chains of adverbs and multi-syllabic words designed only to make the business look smarter or bigger than it really is. &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Good copywriters are storytellers. Business owners want manifestos to what they&#39;ve built. &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;/blockquote&gt;  &lt;p&gt;I&#39;ve upped the ante over on The Conversion Scientist with the post &lt;a title=&quot;Put down your red pens. Trust your copywriters. The Conversion Scientist&quot; href=&quot;http://budurl.com/zerosteps&quot;&gt;Zero Steps to Copy That Makes Visitors Stick&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;strong&gt;Copywriters, are you ready to engage a new business model for developing Web copy?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;h3&gt;The Three-comp Copy Model&lt;/h3&gt;  &lt;p&gt;In my experience, copywriters can expect to get paid somewhere between $1500 and $2500 for a typical business-to-business Web site. Some charge by the hour. Some charge by the page. Some charge a project price tied to an estimate of the hours required.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Designers may get $10,000, $25,000 or $50,000 for the same site.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;This seems upside-down to me. A unique design generates interest. Compelling copy generates engagement, leads and sales.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Copywriters should offer a three-comp package for about $7,500, in my opinion. They will deliver three different &amp;quot;Copy Bodies&amp;quot; that tell a story from the value proposition down to the features and benefits. Then the business owner can select one of the three. You have to enforce only one rule: they can do little more than correct any inaccuracies in your copy. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;You will then pull from the copy body to populate Web pages, adding appropriate headings as you go.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Where would the extra cash for the copy come from? Well, let the designers do one version -- and only when the copy is complete. They should be able to select design elements when they have a compelling copy narrative to design from.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;h3&gt;You&#39;ve gotta be good&lt;/h3&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Of course, your copy has to be compelling. You have to work extra hard to understand who&#39;s coming to the site. You have to understand them better than the business. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;You have to be confident using stories, metaphors and analogies that help the reader understand the value that the business provides. Your headlines have to appeal to the four kinds of buyers you&#39;re writing for: Competitive, Methodical, Spontaneous and Humanist.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;You also have to appreciate the importance of search keywords in your work. Good writing will already be very search engine friendly.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;h3&gt;Who will take the three-comps challenge?&lt;/h3&gt;  &lt;p&gt;I&#39;m looking for that copywriter who is willing to put this business model to the test. You probably won&#39;t be working with a design firm; you&#39;ll need to go directly to the client.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;When you pitch the price, talk about conversion rates, lead generation, visitor engagement, time on site, and lower bounce rates. Designers can&#39;t &amp;quot;move the need&amp;quot; much on these, but you &lt;em&gt;can &lt;/em&gt;with content.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;To sweeten the deal, offer to throw in a white paper or case study that can be used to generate leads. This will underscore you&#39;re ability directly influence their online business goals.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I&#39;ll personally coach any copywriter who is willing to take on this challenge&lt;/strong&gt;. No charge. &lt;a title=&quot;Contact Brian Massey at Conversion Sciences&quot; href=&quot;http://budurl.com/conversci&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Contact me by phone or email&lt;/a&gt; if you think you have a client to whom you can pitch this idea.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Comment here and let us know if you&#39;ve had any luck with this approach. Let&#39;s put a crack in the dam that has held Web copywriters back for so long.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a title=&quot;Connect with Brian Massey, Author of Customer Chaos&quot; href=&quot;http://budurl.com/559x&quot;&gt;&lt;img title=&quot;Ink Generated with Ink Blog Plugin - http://www.edholloway.com&quot; src=&quot;http://www.majorinlife.com/ftp/Question9DoyouShowtheProduct_1368C/Ink000400930000.png&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Photo courtesy &lt;a title=&quot;nookiez provided Red Ink Splatter on sxc.hu&quot; href=&quot;http://www.sxc.hu/profile/nookiez&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;nookiez via stock.xchng&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  </content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://customerchaos.blogspot.com/feeds/5485843802515096209/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://customerchaos.blogspot.com/2008/12/free-copywriters-to-do-what-they-do.html#comment-form' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10592935/posts/default/5485843802515096209'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10592935/posts/default/5485843802515096209'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://customerchaos.blogspot.com/2008/12/free-copywriters-to-do-what-they-do.html' title='Free Copywriters to Do What They Do Best'/><author><name>Brian Massey</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04046124512823741822</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirF35eB3wXPMcjWvIeKZbuidNCzwGR98Pm5kEknwq2-iQNS4SS6nxuXW4QC5cjT5mUKqO99qwDXN2EIRetdIz2ZccrHVqioAABz9FcJaCsevzybTfDjO9u-AEcyYbUIg/s220/BAM-Cropped-150x150.png'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_AZKRxls5iec/STdFK9mkJGI/AAAAAAAAAHg/7a-qYs4TGWg/s72-c/image_thumb%5B3%5D.png?imgmax=800" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10592935.post-307018514584868191</id><published>2008-11-24T12:40:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2008-11-24T12:50:47.552-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Are Your E-mail Superstitions Getting in the Way?</title><content type='html'>&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a title=&quot;E-mail Superstitions on The Conversion Scientist&quot; href=&quot;http://budurl.com/eSuperstitions&quot;&gt;&lt;img style=&quot;margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px&quot; height=&quot;194&quot; alt=&quot;The Maneki Neko, or Lucky Cat&quot; src=&quot;http://conversionscientist.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/image2.png&quot; width=&quot;240&quot; align=&quot;left&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;If you&amp;#8217;re considering investing in a social marketing campaign, and you haven&amp;#8217;t nailed your e-mail strategy, you may be investing in the wrong place.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Over on The Conversion Scientist, I present &lt;a title=&quot;The Superstitions that keep you from using e-mail to it&amp;#39;s fullest potential on The Conversion Scientist&quot; href=&quot;http://budurl.com/eSuperstitions&quot;&gt;the five superstitions that keep businesses from making the most of e-mail&lt;/a&gt;, and do my best to debunk them.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;E-mail is perhaps the most cost-effective way to communicate with qualified prospects for your business. It is far more measurable than almost any social media marketing strategy. And, e-mail is the biggest social network on the planet.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Will you let go of your superstitions?&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Help me out. You can vote for this story on &lt;a title=&quot;Vote for The Conversion Scientist Post on Junta42&quot; href=&quot;http://budurl.com/meg5&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Junta42&lt;/a&gt; and on &lt;a title=&quot;Vote for Post on Sphinn&quot; href=&quot;http://budurl.com/tfat&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Sphinn&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://budurl.com/559x&quot;&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;&quot; src=&quot;http://www.majorinlife.com/ftp/SearchMarketingPhilosophyIftheycometheyw_F53C/Ink082398980000.png&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Photo courtesy &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.sxc.hu/profile/zettmedia&quot;&gt;zettmedia via stock.xchng&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  </content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://customerchaos.blogspot.com/feeds/307018514584868191/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://customerchaos.blogspot.com/2008/11/are-your-e-mail-superstitions-getting.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10592935/posts/default/307018514584868191'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10592935/posts/default/307018514584868191'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://customerchaos.blogspot.com/2008/11/are-your-e-mail-superstitions-getting.html' title='Are Your E-mail Superstitions Getting in the Way?'/><author><name>Brian Massey</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04046124512823741822</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirF35eB3wXPMcjWvIeKZbuidNCzwGR98Pm5kEknwq2-iQNS4SS6nxuXW4QC5cjT5mUKqO99qwDXN2EIRetdIz2ZccrHVqioAABz9FcJaCsevzybTfDjO9u-AEcyYbUIg/s220/BAM-Cropped-150x150.png'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10592935.post-4678420023346596976</id><published>2008-11-12T13:03:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2008-11-12T13:06:12.188-08:00</updated><title type='text'>The Three Conversion Strategies You&amp;#39;ve Got to Get Right</title><content type='html'>&lt;p&gt;I&#39;ve posted &lt;a title=&quot;Identifying your Key Conversion Strategies on The Conversion Scientist&quot; href=&quot;http://budurl.com/ConversionStrat&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;my presentation from the Innotech eMarketing Summit&lt;/a&gt; over at The Conversion Scientist.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a title=&quot;Brian Massey presents to the Innotech eMarkeitng Summit on Conversion Strategies&quot; href=&quot;http://budurl.com/ConversionStrat&quot;&gt;&lt;img style=&quot;margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px&quot; height=&quot;180&quot; alt=&quot;Brian-Massey-Innotech1108-1&quot; src=&quot;http://lh4.ggpht.com/_AZKRxls5iec/SRtEkojOQVI/AAAAAAAAAHQ/iNYN7S0V06U/Brian-Massey-Innotech1108-1%5B5%5D.jpg?imgmax=800&quot; width=&quot;240&quot; align=&quot;left&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; The presentation will take you through a process from which you will learn the Web Marketing Pattern that your Web site matches. This is based on what your visitors are trying to accomplish and what your business needs to accomplish.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;I then identify three key strategies for each type of Web site that -- I believe -- you must get right in order to convert traffic to leads and sales.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;You&#39;ll &lt;a title=&quot;Brian Massey-Identifying Your Key Conversion Strategies&quot; href=&quot;http://budurl.com/ConversionStrat&quot;&gt;find the audio and the slides&lt;/a&gt; over at &lt;a title=&quot;The Conversion Scientist blog by Brian Massey, Conversion Sciences&quot; href=&quot;http://budurl.com/5wux&quot;&gt;The Conversion Scientist&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;a title=&quot;Subscribe to The Conversion Scientist&quot; href=&quot;http://budurl.com/dontmissapost&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Don&#39;t miss a post.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.majorinlife.com/ftp/ILaunchedaFacebookApplication_EB38/Ink726239330000.png&quot; /&gt; &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Picture courtesy &lt;a href=&quot;http://budurl.com/v5cj&quot;&gt;Brian Combs of Apogee Search&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  </content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://customerchaos.blogspot.com/feeds/4678420023346596976/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://customerchaos.blogspot.com/2008/11/three-conversion-strategies-you-got-to.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10592935/posts/default/4678420023346596976'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10592935/posts/default/4678420023346596976'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://customerchaos.blogspot.com/2008/11/three-conversion-strategies-you-got-to.html' title='The Three Conversion Strategies You&amp;#39;ve Got to Get Right'/><author><name>Brian Massey</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04046124512823741822</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirF35eB3wXPMcjWvIeKZbuidNCzwGR98Pm5kEknwq2-iQNS4SS6nxuXW4QC5cjT5mUKqO99qwDXN2EIRetdIz2ZccrHVqioAABz9FcJaCsevzybTfDjO9u-AEcyYbUIg/s220/BAM-Cropped-150x150.png'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_AZKRxls5iec/SRtEkojOQVI/AAAAAAAAAHQ/iNYN7S0V06U/s72-c/Brian-Massey-Innotech1108-1%5B5%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10592935.post-4662745989248223190</id><published>2008-11-03T15:24:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2008-11-03T15:34:45.660-08:00</updated><title type='text'>A Social Network Your Business Can&amp;#39;t Ignore</title><content type='html'>&lt;p&gt;We use a little bit of parody on &lt;a title=&quot;We&amp;#39;re moving!&quot; href=&quot;http://budurl.com/49r8&quot;&gt;the new Conversion Scientist blog&lt;/a&gt; to drive an important point home.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a title=&quot;Ray Tomlinson, the father of @&quot; href=&quot;http://budurl.com/49r8&quot;&gt;&lt;img style=&quot;margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px&quot; height=&quot;135&quot; src=&quot;http://conversionscientist.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/image-thumb.png&quot; width=&quot;136&quot; align=&quot;left&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; Do you know which social network is the largest on the planet? It has members numbering in the billions. It is used by people young and old. You&#39;re most likely a member, but your business may be ignoring it as a way to connect and convert.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Find out about &lt;a title=&quot;The Social Network you need for conversion&quot; href=&quot;http://budurl.com/49r8&quot;&gt;the social network your business can&#39;t ignore&lt;/a&gt; over at the new Conversion Scientist blog.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style=&quot;clear: left&quot;&gt;I hope Ray Tomlinson has a sense of humor.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.majorinlife.com/ftp/ILaunchedaFacebookApplication_EB38/Ink726239330000.png&quot; /&gt;&amp;#160; &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Image copyright BBN Technologies.&lt;/p&gt;  </content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://customerchaos.blogspot.com/feeds/4662745989248223190/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://customerchaos.blogspot.com/2008/11/social-network-your-business-can-ignore.html#comment-form' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10592935/posts/default/4662745989248223190'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10592935/posts/default/4662745989248223190'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://customerchaos.blogspot.com/2008/11/social-network-your-business-can-ignore.html' title='A Social Network Your Business Can&amp;#39;t Ignore'/><author><name>Brian Massey</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04046124512823741822</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirF35eB3wXPMcjWvIeKZbuidNCzwGR98Pm5kEknwq2-iQNS4SS6nxuXW4QC5cjT5mUKqO99qwDXN2EIRetdIz2ZccrHVqioAABz9FcJaCsevzybTfDjO9u-AEcyYbUIg/s220/BAM-Cropped-150x150.png'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10592935.post-8393014174589670843</id><published>2008-10-27T17:13:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2008-10-27T17:14:45.347-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Best Buy&amp;#39;s Personas Irritate Blogger</title><content type='html'>&lt;p&gt;&lt;img style=&quot;margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px&quot; src=&quot;http://conversionscientist.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/image1.png&quot; align=&quot;left&quot; /&gt; I was recently pointed to a post from March on The Consumerist stating that Best Buy was behaving poorly by developing personas of their most profitable buyers.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Those of us that know the power of Personas won&#39;t be surprised that Best Buy does this. In fact, I wondered what took them so long.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Read my take on the &amp;quot;controversy&amp;quot; and view their personas on the &lt;a title=&quot;Best Buy Uses Personas on the New Conversion Scientist blog&quot; href=&quot;http://budurl.com/q5yb&quot;&gt;NEW Conversion Scientist blog&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style=&quot;clear: left&quot;&gt;Best regards,&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.majorinlife.com/ftp/10AreYouBraveEnoughtoGiveWebVisitorsWhat_122CA/Ink579902880000.png&quot; /&gt; &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;P.S.&lt;/strong&gt; Did you get a chance to check out &lt;a title=&quot;DallasSummerMusicals.org ConversionCast on the New Conversion Scientist Blog&quot; href=&quot;http://budurl.com/vh75&quot;&gt;the ConversionCast&lt;/a&gt;? Do you want a ConversionCast done of your home page or landing page? Simply &lt;a title=&quot;Submit your page for a ConversionCast&quot; href=&quot;http://budurl.com/pc3c&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;submit your page&lt;/a&gt; and we&#39;ll let you know.&lt;/p&gt;  </content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://customerchaos.blogspot.com/feeds/8393014174589670843/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://customerchaos.blogspot.com/2008/10/best-buy-personas-irritate-blogger.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10592935/posts/default/8393014174589670843'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10592935/posts/default/8393014174589670843'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://customerchaos.blogspot.com/2008/10/best-buy-personas-irritate-blogger.html' title='Best Buy&amp;#39;s Personas Irritate Blogger'/><author><name>Brian Massey</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04046124512823741822</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirF35eB3wXPMcjWvIeKZbuidNCzwGR98Pm5kEknwq2-iQNS4SS6nxuXW4QC5cjT5mUKqO99qwDXN2EIRetdIz2ZccrHVqioAABz9FcJaCsevzybTfDjO9u-AEcyYbUIg/s220/BAM-Cropped-150x150.png'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10592935.post-8611909596559945739</id><published>2008-10-23T12:33:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2008-10-24T14:48:04.839-07:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Case Studies"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="ConversionCast"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Spontaneous"/><title type='text'>Our Newest Experiment in Conversion: The ConversionCast</title><content type='html'>&lt;h4&gt;Technology and opportunity can create an &lt;a title=&quot;Wikipedia: Exothermic Reactions&quot; href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exothermic_reactions&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;exothermic reaction&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/h4&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a title=&quot;ConversionCast: Dallas Summer Musicals&quot; href=&quot;http://budurl.com/vh75&quot;&gt;&lt;img style=&quot;margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px&quot; src=&quot;http://conversionscientist.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/image.png&quot; align=&quot;left&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; When you&#39;re in the science business, things can get quite dull for long periods of time. Much of the time, you&#39;re just waiting for an experiment to end, washing test tubes, or inhaling the fumes from the &lt;a title=&quot;Wikipedia: Nitrous Oxide&quot; href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nitrous_oxide&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Nitrous Oxide&lt;/a&gt; experiment.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;And then &lt;strong&gt;WHAM&lt;/strong&gt;. You mix a couple of ingredients just right and you&#39;re scrambling for the fire extinguisher. What is left behind is often a ball of melted glass and metal.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;But, on rare occasions what is left is something of &lt;strong&gt;beauty and usefulness&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Such is the case with the &lt;a title=&quot;ConversionCasts&quot; href=&quot;http://budurl.com/5paf&quot;&gt;ConversionCast&lt;/a&gt;. By carefully combining one part &lt;a title=&quot;Get Your Website Reviewed&quot; href=&quot;http://www.customerchaos.com/2008/09/get-your-web-site-reviewed-live.html&quot;&gt;Live Conversion Review&lt;/a&gt; and one part &lt;a title=&quot;The Jing Project&quot; href=&quot;http://www.jingproject.com/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;screen capture software&lt;/a&gt;, and several crayons, I&#39;ve created an explosive mixture resulting in the &lt;strong&gt;passing of knowledge at an alarming rate&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a title=&quot;ConversionCast: DallasSummerMusicals.org&quot; href=&quot;http://budurl.com/vh75&quot;&gt;Our first ConversionCast&lt;/a&gt; is up. It isn&#39;t perfect, but we&#39;ll get there. After all, I&#39;m a scientist.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.majorinlife.com/ftp/SearchMarketingPhilosophyIftheycometheyw_F53C/Ink082398980000.png&quot; /&gt; &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;P.S.&lt;/strong&gt; The ConversionCast is hosted on the &lt;a title=&quot;The New Conversion Scientist Blog&quot; href=&quot;http://budurl.com/5wux&quot;&gt;New Conversion Scientist&lt;/a&gt; blog. What do you think?&lt;/p&gt;  </content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://customerchaos.blogspot.com/feeds/8611909596559945739/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://customerchaos.blogspot.com/2008/10/our-newest-experiment-in-conversion.html#comment-form' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10592935/posts/default/8611909596559945739'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10592935/posts/default/8611909596559945739'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://customerchaos.blogspot.com/2008/10/our-newest-experiment-in-conversion.html' title='Our Newest Experiment in Conversion: The ConversionCast'/><author><name>Brian Massey</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04046124512823741822</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirF35eB3wXPMcjWvIeKZbuidNCzwGR98Pm5kEknwq2-iQNS4SS6nxuXW4QC5cjT5mUKqO99qwDXN2EIRetdIz2ZccrHVqioAABz9FcJaCsevzybTfDjO9u-AEcyYbUIg/s220/BAM-Cropped-150x150.png'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10592935.post-1749616939741468571</id><published>2008-10-21T18:52:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2008-10-21T20:49:05.334-07:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Competitive"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Content is Important"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="The Patterns of Web Marketing"/><title type='text'>Win Customers by Filling in the Blanks</title><content type='html'>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a title=&quot;Fill in the blanks for your visitors&quot; href=&quot;http://www.conversci.com&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;&lt;img style=&quot;margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px&quot; height=&quot;180&quot; alt=&quot;image&quot; src=&quot;http://lh6.ggpht.com/bmassey/SP6HaUrqFhI/AAAAAAAAAGw/YDD72swR6oE/image%5B10%5D.png?imgmax=800&quot; width=&quot;240&quot; align=&quot;left&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; When we don&#39;t anticipate our visitors&#39; needs and only present features and benefits on our site were asking them to fill in the blanks about how our solution solves their problem.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Every visitor is trying to solve a problem. Period.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Tell your visitors how they will will solve their problems with your product, and they will turn into buyers.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Your competitors are afraid to do this&lt;/strong&gt;. In this post were going to explore some new ways of looking at your visitors so that you can speak to their problems.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;h4&gt;You Don&#39;t Have To Solve All Problems&lt;/h4&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Businesses are afraid to talk about specific problems because afraid they might miss some. The thinking is, &amp;quot;we can&#39;t anticipate every need so we will let the reader figure out.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;So, is it your decision to solve nobody&#39;s problems because you can&#39;t solve them all?&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;h4&gt;Be Smart About Who You&#39;re Targeting&lt;/h4&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Since you can&#39;t solve everybody&#39;s problem you&#39;ve got to be smart about whose problems you &lt;em&gt;are &lt;/em&gt;going to address. Here are some questions that will help you select the right customers to target.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;ul&gt;   &lt;li&gt;What is the &lt;strong&gt;most common&lt;/strong&gt; problem your visitors are trying to solve? &lt;/li&gt;    &lt;li&gt;Who are the &lt;strong&gt;most profitable&lt;/strong&gt; prospects coming to your site? &lt;/li&gt;    &lt;li&gt;Who are the &lt;strong&gt;easiest to close?&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/li&gt;    &lt;li&gt;Which customers have the &lt;strong&gt;longest lifetime value&lt;/strong&gt;? &lt;/li&gt; &lt;/ul&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Every business will have their own definition of the right customer. Of course you should only consider prospects that will be coming to your Web site.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;h4&gt;If you can solve their problems, tell them&lt;/h4&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Now you can dive in and tell your visitors exactly how you&#39;re going to solve their problem. Don&#39;t ask them to fill in the blanks. Draw a clear line of reasoning between their problem and your solution. It&#39;s no longer necessary to simply describe your features and benefits. Tell them how your company is going to &lt;strong&gt;give them what they want &lt;/strong&gt;at a price that is more than fair.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;h4&gt;Don&#39;t Wimp Out&lt;/h4&gt;  &lt;p&gt;As you create content that is specific, compelling and invites people to act, you&#39;ll inevitably feel that you&#39;re being too specific. Don&#39;t wimp out. If you start to worry about what your less important visitors will think, you&#39;ll find yourself creating the mishmash of ineffective, unfocused content that will give you exactly what you don&#39;t want: &lt;strong&gt;more traffic for your competitors&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Your bravery in the face of specificity will pay off.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;As this series progresses we&#39;ll talk about the tools you&#39;ll need to uncover your key visitors&#39; stories and identify the content they&#39;ll need to &lt;strong&gt;feel confident taking action&lt;/strong&gt; on your site. We&#39;ll also talk about how to avoid the organizational pitfalls that can lead to ineffective content.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a title=&quot;Subscribe by email to The Conversion Scientist blog&quot; href=&quot;http://budurl.com/v9kg&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Don&#39;t miss a post&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a title=&quot;Connect with Brian Massey&quot; href=&quot;http://budurl.com/559x&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.majorinlife.com/ftp/BuildBuzzwithYourProductorServicePREPOST_B9A1/Ink461150070000.png&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;photo courtesy &lt;a title=&quot;satty4u is on stock.xchng&quot; href=&quot;http://www.sxc.hu/profile/satty4u&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;satty4u via sxc.hu&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  </content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://customerchaos.blogspot.com/feeds/1749616939741468571/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://customerchaos.blogspot.com/2008/10/win-customers-by-filling-in-blanks.html#comment-form' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10592935/posts/default/1749616939741468571'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10592935/posts/default/1749616939741468571'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://customerchaos.blogspot.com/2008/10/win-customers-by-filling-in-blanks.html' title='Win Customers by Filling in the Blanks'/><author><name>Brian Massey</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04046124512823741822</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirF35eB3wXPMcjWvIeKZbuidNCzwGR98Pm5kEknwq2-iQNS4SS6nxuXW4QC5cjT5mUKqO99qwDXN2EIRetdIz2ZccrHVqioAABz9FcJaCsevzybTfDjO9u-AEcyYbUIg/s220/BAM-Cropped-150x150.png'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://lh6.ggpht.com/bmassey/SP6HaUrqFhI/AAAAAAAAAGw/YDD72swR6oE/s72-c/image%5B10%5D.png?imgmax=800" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10592935.post-3078191263048785592</id><published>2008-10-17T08:46:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2008-10-17T08:46:58.997-07:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Competitive"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="personas"/><title type='text'>Let Joe the Plumber Give You Control of Your Site</title><content type='html'>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a title=&quot;Joe the Plumber: Reality Check&quot; href=&quot;http://budurl.com/vlga&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;&lt;img style=&quot;margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px&quot; height=&quot;180&quot; alt=&quot;Joe the Plumber is a Persona. You need to know the Joes in your business.&quot; src=&quot;http://lh6.ggpht.com/bmassey/SPizXyp64xI/AAAAAAAAAGs/AMPdq7ohjkk/image%5B10%5D.png?imgmax=800&quot; width=&quot;240&quot; align=&quot;left&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; John McCain gave us a powerful tool for making decisions that you can use to create a Web site that converts traffic to customers.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;McCain introduced us to &amp;quot;Joe the Plumber&amp;quot; in the presidential debate this week. McCain used Joe to illustrate his debate points more clearly and effectively. So powerful was this device, that Barack Obama couldn&#39;t help himself. He began talking about Joe too.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Now everyone is talking about Joe the Plumber, using him to frame discussions and, ultimately, to help them choose how to vote.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;In this post, I&#39;m going to tell you why this tool -- called a Persona -- is so powerful, and show you how you can use your own Joes to pick the online strategies that work for your business.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;h4&gt;It&#39;s Not About Demographics&lt;/h4&gt;  &lt;p&gt;When McCain introduced us to Joe the Plumber, he told us very little about him.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;ul&gt;   &lt;li&gt;Joe is a plumber. His name is Joe Wurzelbacher.&lt;/li&gt;    &lt;li&gt;Joe is male.&lt;/li&gt;    &lt;li&gt;Joe wants to buy the business he&#39;s been in for &amp;quot;all these years.&amp;quot;&lt;/li&gt;    &lt;li&gt;Joe works ten to twelve hours a day.&lt;/li&gt;    &lt;li&gt;Joe had an encounter with Barack Obama.&lt;/li&gt; &lt;/ul&gt;  &lt;p&gt;How can an entire country relate to Joe the Plumber without detailed demographic data on him? We don&#39;t know any of the things that marketing consultants tell us we need. We don&#39;t know his age, ZIP code, marital status, family size, buying habits, or his boxer/briefs preference. Yet, today he is galvanizing discussions in the media, pundits and voting public.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;How could you harness such power in your decision-making process?&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;h4&gt;Put Joe to Work on Your Web Site&lt;/h4&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Think about the customers that are most important to your business. Why are they coming to your Web site right now? What problem are they trying to solve? &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;When you know this, you know what they want from your Web site.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Add some more detail. Are they a man or woman? What do they do for a living? Are they in a hurry or will they take their time on your site? &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Suddenly, all of the decisions that your Web site requires become much easier to answer.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Take a moment and picture one of the customers for your business.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;What headings and offers would get their attention?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;What kind of information would they trade their email address for?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Could your Web site provide a service to help them solve a problem?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;h4&gt;Let Joe Give You Control of Your Web Strategy&lt;/h4&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Joe will help you avoid one of the biggest mistakes businesses make: letting the designer and Web developer create their site. You will be able to make many more decisions when you change the way you ask the questions. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;For example, which of the following questions is most likely to result in the right decision?&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;Should we do a blog?&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;OR&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;Would Joe read a blog if we had one? If so, what kind of content would he want to see?&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;This puts the power back in your hands and ensures that the people creating your Web site deliver for your customers.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;I&#39;ll show you how to create and fill out your own personas as this series progresses. &lt;a title=&quot;Subscribe to The Conversion Scientist&amp;#8482; by email.&quot; href=&quot;http://budurl.com/v9kg&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Don&#39;t miss a post&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Next time we&#39;ll talk about why visitors to your Web site don&#39;t &amp;quot;get&amp;quot; what you&#39;re clearly telling them.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a title=&quot;Connect with Brian Massey, The Conversion Scientist&quot; href=&quot;http://budurl.com/559x&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.majorinlife.com/ftp/ILaunchedaFacebookApplication_EB38/Ink726239330000.png&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Photo courtesy &lt;a title=&quot;johnnyberg via stock.xchng&quot; href=&quot;http://www.sxc.hu/profile/johnnyberg&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;johnnyberg via stock.xchng&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;  </content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://customerchaos.blogspot.com/feeds/3078191263048785592/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://customerchaos.blogspot.com/2008/10/let-joe-plumber-give-you-control-of.html#comment-form' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10592935/posts/default/3078191263048785592'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10592935/posts/default/3078191263048785592'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://customerchaos.blogspot.com/2008/10/let-joe-plumber-give-you-control-of.html' title='Let Joe the Plumber Give You Control of Your Site'/><author><name>Brian Massey</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04046124512823741822</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirF35eB3wXPMcjWvIeKZbuidNCzwGR98Pm5kEknwq2-iQNS4SS6nxuXW4QC5cjT5mUKqO99qwDXN2EIRetdIz2ZccrHVqioAABz9FcJaCsevzybTfDjO9u-AEcyYbUIg/s220/BAM-Cropped-150x150.png'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://lh6.ggpht.com/bmassey/SPizXyp64xI/AAAAAAAAAGs/AMPdq7ohjkk/s72-c/image%5B10%5D.png?imgmax=800" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10592935.post-4272951093345540228</id><published>2008-10-14T16:04:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2008-10-14T16:13:39.377-07:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Competitive"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="The Patterns of Web Marketing"/><title type='text'>Is Your Site a Traffic Trampoline?</title><content type='html'>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://lh4.ggpht.com/bmassey/SPUlk3Uv7dI/AAAAAAAAAGk/gJj3XfFI-84/s1600-h/image%5B4%5D.png&quot;&gt;&lt;img style=&quot;margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px&quot; height=&quot;180&quot; alt=&quot;image&quot; src=&quot;http://lh6.ggpht.com/bmassey/SPUllbQ3ImI/AAAAAAAAAGo/ZEq26bw_7e0/image_thumb%5B2%5D.png?imgmax=800&quot; width=&quot;240&quot; align=&quot;left&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; Do you hear it? &amp;quot;Boing, boing, boing boing.&amp;quot; That is the sound of traffic bouncing off of your site. It&#39;s the sound of search advertising dollars jumping off into the ether. It is the sound of a Web site that doesn&#39;t convert traffic to leads and sales.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;It is the sound of good prospects finding your competitors. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Don&#39;t worry. You can fix this, and with this series of posts, I&#39;m going to tell you how. Stay tuned, and I&#39;ll show you how to:&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;ul style=&quot;clear: left&quot;&gt;   &lt;li&gt;Know &lt;strong&gt;what kind of site&lt;/strong&gt; your customers need &lt;/li&gt;    &lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Implement strategies&lt;/strong&gt; that give visitors what they need &lt;/li&gt;    &lt;li&gt;Give you the &lt;strong&gt;best practices for converting&lt;/strong&gt; visitors to customers &lt;/li&gt; &lt;/ul&gt;  &lt;h4&gt;Your Site is Different&lt;/h4&gt;  &lt;p&gt;The first thing you need to realize is that your site isn&#39;t like every other site. Your customers don&#39;t want the same things from you that most Web sites offer. They&#39;re trying to solve a different problem.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Fortunately, I can tell you what &lt;em&gt;pattern&lt;/em&gt; your Web site matches. From there it&#39;s relatively easy to know what you should be doing to keep visitors from bouncing like a bad email.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;h4&gt;Finding Your Site Pattern&lt;/h4&gt;  &lt;p&gt;I&#39;ll spell it out for you here: There are five basic kinds of Web site, and I guarantee that your site fits into one of them. They are:&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;1. The Brochure or Sales Support Site&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;2. The Portal or Thought-leadership Site&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;3. The Classic eCommerce Site&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;4. The Considered Purchase Site&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;5. The Site is the Product Site&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Do you know which of the five your site matches?&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;h4&gt;You Don&#39;t Get a Vote&lt;/h4&gt;  &lt;p&gt;The truth is, you can&#39;t know which type of site you should have because you don&#39;t get a vote. Your visitors determine what pattern you should follow. They&#39;re the ones trying to solve a problem. They&#39;re the ones who know what their looking for.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;If you can put aside what you think you understand about your site for just little a while, you&#39;ll soon be given new eyes with which to make decisions. You&#39;ll soon understand what you need to do to stop that irritating sound.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Boing, Boing, Boing.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;h4&gt;The Series Continues&lt;/h4&gt;  &lt;p&gt;I&#39;ll next talk about why your demographic research won&#39;t help, but show you what information you do need to understand your visitors.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.feedburner.com/fb/a/emailverifySubmit?feedId=46423&amp;amp;loc=en_US&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Subscribe to this series&lt;/a&gt; now and you won&#39;t miss a post.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.majorinlife.com/ftp/10AreYouBraveEnoughtoGiveWebVisitorsWhat_122CA/Ink579902880000.png&quot; /&gt; &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;photo courtesy &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.sxc.hu/profile/samagee85&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;samagee85 via sxc.hu&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  </content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://customerchaos.blogspot.com/feeds/4272951093345540228/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://customerchaos.blogspot.com/2008/10/is-your-site-traffic-trampoline.html#comment-form' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10592935/posts/default/4272951093345540228'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10592935/posts/default/4272951093345540228'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://customerchaos.blogspot.com/2008/10/is-your-site-traffic-trampoline.html' title='Is Your Site a Traffic Trampoline?'/><author><name>Brian Massey</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04046124512823741822</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirF35eB3wXPMcjWvIeKZbuidNCzwGR98Pm5kEknwq2-iQNS4SS6nxuXW4QC5cjT5mUKqO99qwDXN2EIRetdIz2ZccrHVqioAABz9FcJaCsevzybTfDjO9u-AEcyYbUIg/s220/BAM-Cropped-150x150.png'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://lh6.ggpht.com/bmassey/SPUllbQ3ImI/AAAAAAAAAGo/ZEq26bw_7e0/s72-c/image_thumb%5B2%5D.png?imgmax=800" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10592935.post-286655003842964160</id><published>2008-10-07T11:11:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2008-10-07T11:14:49.811-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Why Would This Site Have a High Conversion Rate?</title><content type='html'>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://lh6.ggpht.com/bmassey/SOumLSvl30I/AAAAAAAAAGM/aIzl6k6Tmmw/Radiosity3000Home4.png?imgmax=800&quot;&gt;&lt;img style=&quot;margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px&quot; height=&quot;240&quot; alt=&quot;Radiosity3000Home&quot; src=&quot;http://lh5.ggpht.com/bmassey/SOumM3jegaI/AAAAAAAAAGQ/bxwYdd-F6lQ/Radiosity3000Home_thumb2.png?imgmax=800&quot; width=&quot;175&quot; align=&quot;left&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Recently, a group of about 50 us got together and reviewed Web sites, looking for ways to increase their conversion rates. This was part of &lt;a href=&quot;http://budurl.com/fsts&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Laura Alter&#39;s regular Austin Internet Marketing Meetup&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;It&#39;s a good group. Get on the list.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;After working through five sites, the &lt;a title=&quot;Radiosity 3000 site reviewed by Conversion Sciences&quot; href=&quot;http://www.radiosity3000.com&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Radiosity 3000&lt;/a&gt; site ended up having the best potential, in my opinion.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;You wouldn&#39;t know it to look at it.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;The site was built and is maintained by Mark Chutich, the owner of Radiosity and one of the guys who does installations. He&#39;s not well-versed in HTML nor design. He has no budget for the site. But, Mark has an advantage over his competitors: the knows his audience. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Here are some reasons Mark&#39;s site kicks ass.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;h4&gt;No Lame Stock Photography&lt;/h4&gt;  &lt;p&gt;If your site relies on stock photography of anonymous, beautiful, happy people, you&#39;re just not trying hard enough. Most designers would call the stick house drawing on Radiosity3000.com &amp;quot;unprofessional,&amp;quot; but it communicates all the ways that the product can be used &lt;strong&gt;at a glance&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;As a responsible marketer, you can&#39;t really make the case that pretty, smiling strangers support your brand better than images that convey meaning--even if it isn&#39;t highly produced.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;There is no better way to build your brand than to help people understand how they can solve &lt;strong&gt;their&lt;/strong&gt; problems with &lt;strong&gt;your&lt;/strong&gt; product.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;img style=&quot;margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px&quot; height=&quot;324&quot; alt=&quot;The Temperature Reads 102 degrees F!!&quot; src=&quot;http://radiosity3000.com/Photos/Rachel1.jpg&quot; width=&quot;432&quot; align=&quot;right&quot; /&gt;Take a look at the image of this non-model reclining on a hot tin roof. This is probably the bookkeeper at Radiosity, and the picture was most likely taken with a point and shoot camera.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Does this one image leave any doubt in your mind about how well this product works?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;h4&gt;Lots of Problem-solving Content&lt;/h4&gt;  &lt;p&gt;The site is flat as a board, and once you get past the home page, you will find an abundance information to help visitors make a decision.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;For the property owner there are examples of how the product is used in roofs, walls and attics complete with pictures.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;There is a &amp;quot;Contractor Page&amp;quot; that details what equipment is needed to apply the product. With FAQs, mixing instructions, and a list of retail outlets, visitors have the opportunity to move all the way through the buying process--from Awareness through Consideration, to Purchase.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Isn&#39;t this what we all want to happen?&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;h4&gt;Support for Conversion&lt;/h4&gt;  &lt;p&gt;For Radiosity, the purchase is made offline. For Radiosity3000.com, conversion occurs when the visitor contacts a contractor, or a contractor contacts a paint store that sells the product.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;The site actively supports both.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;In addition to a list of retailers that carry the product, the site offers a searchable database of installers indexed by ZIP code. That&#39;s right. Mark has a Web 2.0 SaaS (Software as a Service) site.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Be embarrassed if you don&#39;t offer something like this to your visitors. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Be glad you don&#39;t compete with Mark Chutich.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;h4&gt;Focus Your Time and Budget&lt;/h4&gt;  &lt;p&gt;There are a number of things I would change about Mark&#39;s site. I am aware, however, that better copy and a more a professional design may actually reduce conversion. As a scientist, I can only hypothesize and test. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;We&#39;re instrumenting Mark&#39;s site to see how well the site actually converts. Nonetheless, you have to question some of the decisions we make every day across the Web when designing our sites:&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;ol&gt;   &lt;li&gt;Design is the most important aspect of our site and is the place to start when building or revising. &lt;/li&gt;    &lt;li&gt;We need a multi-tiered navigation scheme with fly-out menus. &lt;/li&gt;    &lt;li&gt;It takes a big budget to create compelling images for our business. &lt;/li&gt;    &lt;li&gt;Our Web site is a collection of pages, not an application. &lt;/li&gt; &lt;/ol&gt;  &lt;p&gt;The immediate ROI of knowing (and profiling) your visitors is that you don&#39;t spend your marketing budget on stuff that won&#39;t move the needle on conversion. I&#39;m happy to &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.conversci.com&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;introduce you to your visitors&lt;/a&gt; and help you decide where to invest.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://claimid.com/brianmassey&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;Brian Massey is the Conversion Scientist at Conversion Sciences&quot; src=&quot;http://www.majorinlife.com/ftp/SearchMarketingPhilosophyIftheycometheyw_F53C/Ink082398980000.png&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;P.S. Would you like me to &lt;a href=&quot;http://budurl.com/?manage/budurls/1458/display&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;review your site for blocks to conversion&lt;/a&gt; for free? &lt;/p&gt;  </content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://customerchaos.blogspot.com/feeds/286655003842964160/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://customerchaos.blogspot.com/2008/10/why-would-this-site-have-high.html#comment-form' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10592935/posts/default/286655003842964160'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10592935/posts/default/286655003842964160'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://customerchaos.blogspot.com/2008/10/why-would-this-site-have-high.html' title='Why Would This Site Have a High Conversion Rate?'/><author><name>Brian Massey</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04046124512823741822</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirF35eB3wXPMcjWvIeKZbuidNCzwGR98Pm5kEknwq2-iQNS4SS6nxuXW4QC5cjT5mUKqO99qwDXN2EIRetdIz2ZccrHVqioAABz9FcJaCsevzybTfDjO9u-AEcyYbUIg/s220/BAM-Cropped-150x150.png'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://lh5.ggpht.com/bmassey/SOumM3jegaI/AAAAAAAAAGQ/bxwYdd-F6lQ/s72-c/Radiosity3000Home_thumb2.png?imgmax=800" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10592935.post-8655795400471999953</id><published>2008-09-30T14:33:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2008-09-30T14:36:26.388-07:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Content is Important"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Ideas"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="SEO"/><title type='text'>Wordle Provides Insight into Your Content</title><content type='html'>&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a title=&quot;Wordle: The Conversion Scientist&amp;trade; Blog&quot; href=&quot;http://budurl.com/zbt4&quot;&gt;&lt;img style=&quot;border-right: #ddd 1px solid; padding-right: 4px; border-top: #ddd 1px solid; padding-left: 4px; padding-bottom: 4px; margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px; border-left: #ddd 1px solid; padding-top: 4px; border-bottom: #ddd 1px solid&quot; src=&quot;http://wordle.net/thumb/wrdl/218482/The_Conversion_Scientist%E2%84%A2_Blog&quot; align=&quot;left&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;As a Conversion Scientist, I&#39;m always interested in new ways to gauge the effectiveness of content. That is borne out by an interesting application called &lt;a title=&quot;Wordle Word Clouds&quot; href=&quot;http://www.wordle.net&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Wordle&lt;/a&gt; that creates a word cloud for your content from any RSS feed. Here&#39;s the &lt;a href=&quot;http://budurl.com/zbt4&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Wordle for The Conversion Scientist&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Planned randomness creates some interesting word combinations:&lt;/p&gt; &lt;blockquote&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;Arial&quot;&gt;think &lt;font size=&quot;5&quot;&gt;content&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;Arial&quot;&gt;&lt;font size=&quot;5&quot;&gt;content&lt;/font&gt; inside&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;Arial&quot;&gt;conversation &lt;font size=&quot;4&quot;&gt;Marketing&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;font size=&quot;4&quot;&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;Arial&quot;&gt;Marketing &lt;font size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;response&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;Arial&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Irrational questions&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;Arial&quot;&gt;Now coming. &lt;strong&gt;&lt;font size=&quot;4&quot;&gt;really&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;Arial&quot;&gt;Blog company&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;Arial&quot; size=&quot;4&quot;&gt;Right site&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;Arial&quot;&gt;got leads?&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;Arial&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;LIVE&lt;/strong&gt; experiments&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;Arial&quot;&gt;&lt;font size=&quot;4&quot;&gt;company &lt;/font&gt;better&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;Arial&quot; size=&quot;4&quot;&gt;Decision close&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;font size=&quot;4&quot;&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;Arial&quot;&gt;&lt;font size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;truly ever-knowledgeable &lt;/font&gt;decisions&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;font size=&quot;4&quot;&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;Arial&quot;&gt;Can &lt;font size=&quot;2&quot;&gt;Generation&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;Arial&quot;&gt;...and my favorite:&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;blockquote&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;Arial&quot; size=&quot;4&quot;&gt;think&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.avisocomm.com&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;My compadres&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.apogee-search.com&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;in the SEO world&lt;/a&gt; will have to tell me if this is any help in ensuring that you&#39;re using good keywords in your content.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Share your &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.wordle.net&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Wordle&lt;/a&gt; with us.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.majorinlife.com/ftp/ILaunchedaFacebookApplication_EB38/Ink726239330000.png&quot;&gt; &lt;a title=&quot;Wordle: The Conversion Scientist&amp;trade; Blog&quot; href=&quot;http://wordle.net/gallery/wrdl/218482/The_Conversion_Scientist%E2%84%A2_Blog&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  </content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://customerchaos.blogspot.com/feeds/8655795400471999953/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://customerchaos.blogspot.com/2008/09/wordle-provides-insight-into-your.html#comment-form' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10592935/posts/default/8655795400471999953'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10592935/posts/default/8655795400471999953'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://customerchaos.blogspot.com/2008/09/wordle-provides-insight-into-your.html' title='Wordle Provides Insight into Your Content'/><author><name>Brian Massey</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04046124512823741822</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirF35eB3wXPMcjWvIeKZbuidNCzwGR98Pm5kEknwq2-iQNS4SS6nxuXW4QC5cjT5mUKqO99qwDXN2EIRetdIz2ZccrHVqioAABz9FcJaCsevzybTfDjO9u-AEcyYbUIg/s220/BAM-Cropped-150x150.png'/></author><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10592935.post-3322286472470586619</id><published>2008-09-19T14:52:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2008-10-01T09:17:19.923-07:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="conversion"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="events"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="personas"/><title type='text'>Get Your Web Site Reviewed - LIVE</title><content type='html'>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.majorinlife.com/ftp/GetYourWebSiteReviewedLIVE_BFB1/GenooHomePageReview300w.png&quot;&gt;&lt;img style=&quot;margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px&quot; height=&quot;172&quot; alt=&quot;GenooHomePageReview-300w&quot; src=&quot;http://www.majorinlife.com/ftp/GetYourWebSiteReviewedLIVE_BFB1/GenooHomePageReview300w_thumb.png&quot; width=&quot;193&quot; align=&quot;left&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;You can&#39;t see your Web site from the inside. I&#39;m sorry, you just can&#39;t. You&#39;re too close to your company to think objectively, like a visitor.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;That&#39;s why you have me and the Austin &lt;a title=&quot;The Conversion Meetup for October-Austin&quot; href=&quot;http://budurl.com/fsts&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Conversion Meetup&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;a title=&quot;Submit your homepage or landing page for the Conversion Scientist&quot; href=&quot;http://bmassey.wufoo.com/forms/how-bouncy-is-your-site-find-out/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Submit your home page or landing page&lt;/a&gt; to be reviewed LIVE by a real lab-coat wearing Conversion Scientist. I&#39;ll bleed on your page, live, on screen, answering questions about what keeps your visitors from turning into leads and sales.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style=&quot;clear: left&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;When&lt;br&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;October 1 (Wednesday)&lt;br&gt;6:00pm&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt; &lt;dt&gt;&lt;strong&gt;NEW Location&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;dt&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://budurl.com/3yjw&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Spaghetti Warehouse&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;dt&gt;117 W 4th St &lt;dt&gt;Austin, TX 78701 &lt;dt&gt;512-476-4059 &lt;dt&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://seo.meetup.com/107/venue/243163/?eventId=8790958&quot;&gt;&lt;strike&gt;Buffalo Billiards&lt;/strike&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;strike&gt;201 E 6th St&lt;br&gt;Austin, TX 78701 &lt;br&gt;512.479.7665&lt;/strike&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Register at Meetup.com: &lt;a title=&quot;http://budurl.com/fsts&quot; href=&quot;http://budurl.com/fsts&quot;&gt;http://budurl.com/fsts&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/dt&gt;  </content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://customerchaos.blogspot.com/feeds/3322286472470586619/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://customerchaos.blogspot.com/2008/09/get-your-web-site-reviewed-live.html#comment-form' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10592935/posts/default/3322286472470586619'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10592935/posts/default/3322286472470586619'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://customerchaos.blogspot.com/2008/09/get-your-web-site-reviewed-live.html' title='Get Your Web Site Reviewed - LIVE'/><author><name>Brian Massey</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04046124512823741822</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirF35eB3wXPMcjWvIeKZbuidNCzwGR98Pm5kEknwq2-iQNS4SS6nxuXW4QC5cjT5mUKqO99qwDXN2EIRetdIz2ZccrHVqioAABz9FcJaCsevzybTfDjO9u-AEcyYbUIg/s220/BAM-Cropped-150x150.png'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10592935.post-4464787672570122902</id><published>2008-09-08T15:40:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2008-09-08T15:48:39.799-07:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="conversion"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="generations"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="marketing"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="personas"/><title type='text'>The Case For Personas</title><content type='html'>&lt;p&gt;Can you use personas to help you make better decisions about your site, strategy and content even if you&#39;re not a Conversion Scientist?&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Well, I think so.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;a title=&quot;Brian Massey, Joe Pulizzi, Joel Granoff&quot; href=&quot;http://www.conversci.com/resources/RightContentRightResponse-TheCaseForPersonas.mp3&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;This is a short excerpt (13 minutes) from our Webinar &lt;em&gt;Right content. Right response.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; I think you could use the Decision Mode and the Generation of your most important visitors to craft more engaging content on your site.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;It&#39;s worth 13 minutes to find out, isn&#39;t it?&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;The slides that accompany the discussion are:&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.majorinlife.com/ftp/TheCaseForPersonas_F88A/PersonaProfiles17.jpg&quot;&gt;&lt;img style=&quot;border: 0px none ;&quot; alt=&quot;PersonaProfiles-17&quot; src=&quot;http://www.majorinlife.com/ftp/TheCaseForPersonas_F88A/PersonaProfiles17_thumb.jpg&quot; width=&quot;244&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; height=&quot;185&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.majorinlife.com/ftp/TheCaseForPersonas_F88A/GenerationalProfiles18.jpg&quot;&gt;&lt;img style=&quot;border: 0px none ;&quot; alt=&quot;GenerationalProfiles-18&quot; src=&quot;http://www.majorinlife.com/ftp/TheCaseForPersonas_F88A/GenerationalProfiles18_thumb.jpg&quot; width=&quot;244&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; height=&quot;184&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.majorinlife.com/ftp/TheCaseForPersonas_F88A/DecisionMode19.jpg&quot;&gt;&lt;img style=&quot;border: 0px none ;&quot; alt=&quot;DecisionMode-19&quot; src=&quot;http://www.majorinlife.com/ftp/TheCaseForPersonas_F88A/DecisionMode19_thumb.jpg&quot; width=&quot;244&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; height=&quot;185&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.majorinlife.com/ftp/TheCaseForPersonas_F88A/InformationPath20.jpg&quot;&gt;&lt;img style=&quot;border: 0px none ;&quot; alt=&quot;InformationPath-20&quot; src=&quot;http://www.majorinlife.com/ftp/TheCaseForPersonas_F88A/InformationPath20_thumb.jpg&quot; width=&quot;244&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; height=&quot;184&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.majorinlife.com/ftp/TheCaseForPersonas_F88A/ContentEffectiveness21.jpg&quot;&gt;&lt;img style=&quot;border: 0px none ;&quot; alt=&quot;ContentEffectiveness-21&quot; src=&quot;http://www.majorinlife.com/ftp/TheCaseForPersonas_F88A/ContentEffectiveness21_thumb.jpg&quot; width=&quot;244&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; height=&quot;184&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</content><link rel='enclosure' type='audio/mpeg' href='http://www.conversci.com/resources/RightContentRightResponse-TheCaseForPersonas.mp3' length='0'/><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://customerchaos.blogspot.com/feeds/4464787672570122902/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://customerchaos.blogspot.com/2008/09/case-for-personas.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10592935/posts/default/4464787672570122902'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/10592935/posts/default/4464787672570122902'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://customerchaos.blogspot.com/2008/09/case-for-personas.html' title='The Case For Personas'/><author><name>Brian Massey</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04046124512823741822</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirF35eB3wXPMcjWvIeKZbuidNCzwGR98Pm5kEknwq2-iQNS4SS6nxuXW4QC5cjT5mUKqO99qwDXN2EIRetdIz2ZccrHVqioAABz9FcJaCsevzybTfDjO9u-AEcyYbUIg/s220/BAM-Cropped-150x150.png'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry></feed>