Is performance advertising just a scam? Isolate tests or run in parallel? (+3 more)
Lots of exciting stuff today!
An analysis of a single ad that took a campaign from $1.5k to $8k...
A typical customer journey, How to tell a brand story, How to test emerging acquisition channels (+2 more)
There’s a world of difference between how businesses think a typical customer journey looks like and how it really looks like. A detailed...
Beauty industry trends, Site search to uncover user intent, Creating a measurement framework (+2 more)
2021 Beauty Industry Trends & Cosmetics Marketing
This exhaustive report covers:
Statistics: Beauty Industry Market...
Mobile vs. Desktop in 2020, eCommerce 2020 Report, Complete list of Google penalties (+2 more)
The Complete Checklist for Managing Campaigns on Facebook That Will Solve More Than 90% of Your Problems
Facebook’s...
Growth Marketing Handbook, eCommerce Case Studies, Mobile eCommerce (+2 more)
21+ High Quality eCommerce Case Studies
A curation of the best eCommerce case studies you need to read...
Rotten state of online advertising, User research tool, Don’t offer a free plan (+2 more)
Something is Rotten in Online Advertising
Rand Fishkin, ex-CEO of Moz, analyzes what’s wrong with online advertising. Turns out,...
What happens when your article is mentioned in the Morning Brew newsletter, Digital agency red flags (+3 more)
What happens when your article is mentioned in the Morning Brew newsletter?
A couple of weeks ago, I wrote...
How to find market opportunities, $100m ad swindle (+3 more)
10 Questions for Teasing Out Market Opportunities 💡
What established companies are resting on their laurels?What products...
Which marketing channels are best and when, 120 resources to learn enterprise sales (+3 more)
I usually write you on Thursdays but tomorrow is Christmas and I’d imagine you have better (or more urgent) things to do on Christmas...
Top user frustrations on the web, growth marketing tactics, post-purchase emails (+2 more)
Top 10 User Frustrations on Web
The article contains a list of the ten most critical frustrations in 2020, with examples, and shares practical tips...
Survey questions you should ask, boosting email signups, popups (+2 more)
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Survey Questions You Should Ask Your Visitors / Customers (Sander Volbeda)
User surveys are one of the best tools to collect useful data...
Research is only as good as the action it enables
There’s long been a debate in the design community about quantitative vs qualitative research, and which is thought of as “better”. Both quant and...
78 marketing questions to ask (for user testing, A/B testing)
Spectacular marketers are the ones who are always asking the right marketing questions. They’re the ones who always have a brilliant campaign idea up...
The author of “Don’t Make Me Think” discusses UX design evolution
Steve Krug’s classic book on web design, Don’t Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability, now 20 years old and in...
Analyzed: 1+ billion popups. Here are the findings (2020)
If you’re an online retailer, you’re likely using popups to grow your email list and recommend popular products.
But what you might not know is...
According to a study…
Studies (usually done by scientists) and case studies (usually done by marketers) are often taken too seriously. Especially with the latter, it should serve...
First rule of usability? Don’t listen to users.
In the past, one of the great usability barriers was the ubiquity of cool design. As a result, billions of dollars were wasted on...
E-commerce search: The 8 most common query types
In this article, you’ll find 8 types of search queries identified during Baymard Insititute’s large-scale usability study. Their usability testing reveals that these 8 types...
Why do you keep f***king up your user testing?
The first thing you have to do before any user test is to assume that you know nothing.
Having that mindset will help you not...
What’s a good bounce rate? (Here’s the average bounce rate for websites)
It’s such a common question, some Analytics pros are tired of hearing it. When the boss or a client asks “What’s a good bounce...
17 must-read books for Product and UX Designers
There are plenty of design books out there, such as the classics Don’t Make Me Think or Design of Everyday Things. And there are so many more...