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10 Product Recommendation Techniques to Improve UX and Conversions

ConversionXL

Nowadays nearly every online shop utilizes some sort of product recommendation engine, which is no wonder, as these systems, if set up and configured properly can significantly boost revenues, CTRs, conversions, and other important metrics. There are plenty of places where recommendations can be displayed on an eCommerce or content site.

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Start-ups are all Naked in the Mirror

Both Sides of the Table

I started my first company in 1999 in London at the height of the dot com craze. As the economy soured and people grew wary of buying Internet software (we were SaaS as early as 1999 – our buyers were certainly “early adopters&# ) and life grew more difficult. Having a conversation. I acknowledge it was a mistake.

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First Impressions Matter: Why Great Visual Design Is Essential

ConversionXL

People have a fixed idea of what an ecommerce site should look like. From what I’ve noticed, this is for two main reasons: The internal conversation about design aesthetic devolves into one about features, rather than developing a distinct visual identity. Key takeaway: Make your web design simple and familiar. Follow conventions.

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How Your Customers Actually Read Your Emails

ConversionXL

No matter whether you run a blog, a SaaS business, an eCommerce store or any other company that sends emails you will be able to learn something from the tips below and apply them to your own email marketing strategies! Subject line like it’s 1999! Setting the scene. Not much to go on really, is it? P.S – Made you look ;).

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Bazaarvoice Launches Social Commerce Insights

Austin Startup

Through Social Commerce Insights, marketers can now easily uncover and measure the contribution of customer conversations at every stage of the purchase path, gaining “at-a-glance” results on KPIs for customers who engage with social commerce via Bazaarvoice’s solutions versus those who do not. “I

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Why Content Personalization Is Not Web Personalization (and What to Do About It)

ConversionXL

In 1999, David Weinberger, a technologist and co-author of The Cluetrain Manifesto , wrote, “Personalization: the automatic tailoring of sites and messages to the individuals viewing them so that we can feel that somewhere there’s a piece of software that loves us for who we are.” Does it actually impact conversion rates?

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Learn your Austin ABC’s and become a local super-connector

Austin Startup

Ben previously co-founded Simply Interactive, Chaotic Moon, and Conversable leading all of them to successful exits. He is an ecommerce innovator with first Coremetrics and then Bazaarvoice, a very active angel investor, and currently Founder and CEO of data.world. He’s also on the board of the Planetary Society and the Arch Mission.

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