Does anyone here manage a website?
What is your website about?
Does your website allow your customers to log in?
Do you measure the login rate?
Do you measure the password-reset rate? Why? Why not?
Let me introduce my friend, Jim. He worked as an online marketing manager for a local company.
Last year, his major project was to launch a website for his company.
He was very dedicated to his work. He started his project by gathering requirements from the business stakeholders.
He drew the website structure, came up with a list of functions and a lot of content for the website.
Then, Jim asked several web design companies for proposals. He evaluated their portfolio carefully.
Last year, his major project was to launch a website for his company.
He was very dedicated to his work. He started his project by gathering requirements from the business stakeholders.
He drew the website structure, came up with a list of functions and a lot of content for the website.
Then, Jim asked several web design companies for proposals. He evaluated their portfolio carefully.
Last year, his major project was to launch a website for his company.
He was very dedicated to his work. He started his project by gathering requirements from the business stakeholders.
He drew the website structure, came up with a list of functions and a lot of content for the website.
Then, Jim asked several web design companies for proposals. He evaluated their portfolio carefully.
Last year, his major project was to launch a website for his company.
He was very dedicated to his work. He started his project by gathering requirements from the business stakeholders.
He drew the website structure, came up with a list of functions and a lot of content for the website.
Then, Jim asked several web design companies for proposals. He evaluated their portfolio carefully.
He finally chose this reputable web design company to design his website.
Jim passed the website structure that he designed, functions which he needed and content which he gathered to the web design company.
The web design company built the website based on Jim’s information.
The web design company decorated the website with very beautiful graphic and photos.
Everything seemed so perfect.
Jim passed the website structure that he designed, functions which he needed and content which he gathered to the web design company.
The web design company built the website based on Jim’s information.
The web design company decorated the website with very beautiful graphic and photos.
Everything seemed so perfect.
Jim passed the website structure that he designed, functions which he needed and content which he gathered to the web design company.
The web design company built the website based on Jim’s information.
The web design company decorated the website with very beautiful graphic and photos.
Everything seemed so perfect.
Jim passed the website structure that he designed, functions which he needed and content which he gathered to the web design company.
The web design company built the website based on Jim’s information.
The web design company decorated the website with very beautiful graphic and photos.
Everything seemed so perfect.
However, after launching the website for 3 months, the website did not seem to generate a lot of visitors and revenue.
However, after launching the website for 3 months, the website did not seem to generate a lot of visitors and revenue.
So, Jim asked his friends and colleagues for solutions. They recommended him to implement search engine optimization (SEO) for his website.
Jim asked his boss for some money to implement SEO.
SEO was able to bring a lot of visitors The website actually was a bit slow when the traffic was high.
However, the increased number of visitors did not increase the revenue significantly.
So, Jim asked his friends and colleagues for solutions. They recommended him to implement search engine optimization (SEO) for his website.
Jim asked his boss for some money to implement SEO.
SEO was able to bring a lot of visitors The website actually was a bit slow when the traffic was high.
However, the increased number of visitors did not increase the revenue significantly.
So, Jim asked his friends and colleagues for solutions. They recommended him to implement search engine optimization (SEO) for his website.
Jim asked his boss for some money to implement SEO.
SEO was able to bring a lot of visitors The website actually was a bit slow when the traffic was high.
However, the increased number of visitors did not increase the revenue significantly.
This time, Jim wanted to know which parts of his beautiful website had gone wrong.
He asked his boss for more money, and implemented web analytics for his website.
He tracked down where the visitors abandoned the website.
However, looking at the problem webpages, he did not know what were wrong with them. Was it the graphic design? Was it the copywriting? Was it the button?
He asked the web design company to redesign the problem webpages. The number of page visits increased a bit and the revenue increased a bit only.
This time, Jim wanted to know which parts of his beautiful website had gone wrong.
He asked his boss for more money, and implemented web analytics for his website.
He tracked down where the visitors abandoned the website.
However, looking at the problem webpages, he did not know what were wrong with them. Was it the graphic design? Was it the copywriting? Was it the button?
He asked the web design company to redesign the problem webpages. The number of page visits increased a bit and the revenue increased a bit only.
Jim could not ask for his boss for any more money.
To further investigate his website’s problems, he asked for the customers’ feedback using survey and services like GetSatisfaction.
However, only a few customers completed the survey and the comments on GetSatisfaction did not help design. They were things like “your website is slow” and “I can’t submit your form.”
Jim could not ask for his boss for any more money.
To further investigate his website’s problems, he asked for the customers’ feedback using survey and services like GetSatisfaction.
However, only a few customers completed the survey and the comments on GetSatisfaction did not help design. They were things like “your website is slow” and “I can’t submit your form.”
Does anyone have any suggestion for Jim?
If you were him, what would you do?
How to increase sales?
Do you face problems which are similar to Jim’s?
Now, I would like to show you how a website tackled the sales problem.
How to increase sales?
Do you face problems which are similar to Jim’s?
Now, I would like to show you how a website tackled the sales problem.
It was an eShopping website in the US.
The design was quite main common.
It displayed a lot of products. When the visitor liked a product, he added it to cart.
It was an eShopping website in the US.
The design was quite main common.
It displayed a lot of products. When the visitor liked a product, he added it to cart.
When the visitor was ready, he checked out online.
There were two options in the checkout process.
For customers who have accounts, they can login. If they forget their passwords, they can use the “forgot password” function.
For new customers, they can register.
Do your website work in a similar way? quite main stream.
There were two options in the checkout process.
For customers who have accounts, they can login. If they forget their passwords, they can use the “forgot password” function.
For new customers, they can register.
Do your website work in a similar way? quite main stream.
This website’s owner asked a consulting company to conduct usability testing to see who he could increase sales.
Have you heard of usability testing?
What is it?
Has your website gone through usability testing?
Essentially, the consultant invited some shoppers to shop on the website. The consultant observed the problems which the shoppers faced in the process.
Essentially, the consultant invited some shoppers to shop on the website. The consultant observed the problems which the shoppers faced in the process.
Essentially, the consultant invited some shoppers to shop on the website. The consultant observed the problems which the shoppers faced in the process.
Essentially, the consultant invited some shoppers to shop on the website. The consultant observed the problems which the shoppers faced in the process.
Let’s see what problems usability testing were able to find.
First of all, new shoppers did not want to register.
They thought that they were here to buy something, not to enter a relationship.
Second problem. The shoppers could not remember if they had registered for accounts on the website before. Some of them tried to log on using their common or favorite emails and passwords.
After several trial-and-errors, some shoppers concluded that they did not have accounts on the website.
They clicked on the “Register” button with despair. They expected that the website would use their personal information for marketing purposes. They would be bombarded with a lot of marketing email very soon.
How about the existing shoppers? What did usability testing find out?
Usability testing found that existing shoppers forgot the email addresses and passwords that they used to register for accounts.
They could not log in, and the “forgot password” function did not help because they did not know what email address was used to register.
Later on, by checking the web log, it was found that the website had 160,000 forgot-password requests every day. 45% of the requests did not try to complete the purchases after submitting the requests.
Usability testing found that existing shoppers forgot the email addresses and passwords that they used to register for accounts.
They could not log in, and the “forgot password” function did not help because they did not know what email address was used to register.
Later on, by checking the web log, it was found that the website had 160,000 forgot-password requests every day. 45% of the requests did not try to complete the purchases after submitting the requests.
Usability testing found that existing shoppers forgot the email addresses and passwords that they used to register for accounts.
They could not log in, and the “forgot password” function did not help because they did not know what email address was used to register.
Later on, by checking the web log, it was found that the website had 160,000 forgot-password requests every day. 75% of the requests did not try to complete the purchases after submitting the requests.
Given the above usability problems, what is the solution?
The website dropped the registration requirement. Shoppers were allowed to check out without accounts.
What do you think implementing this solution did for the website?
Shoppers who purchased increased by 45%.
Shoppers who purchased increased by 45%.
Shoppers who purchased increased by 45%.
With the increased shoppers, 15 million US dollars more revenue was generated in the first month.
With the increased shoppers, 15 million US dollars more revenue was generated in the first month.
With the increased shoppers, 15 million US dollars more revenue was generated in the first month.
And, 300 million US dollars more revenue was generated in the first year.
If you were a friend of Jim, the marketing manager whom I introduced a few minutes ago, would you recommend him to conduct usability testing for his website?
It’s not just for Jim. You can conduct usability testing for your website to increase sales, too.
And, 300 million US dollars more revenue was generated in the first year.
If you were a friend of Jim, the marketing manager whom I introduced a few minutes ago, would you recommend him to conduct usability testing for his website?
It’s not just for Jim. You can conduct usability testing for your website to increase sales, too.
And, 300 million US dollars more revenue was generated in the first year.
If you were a friend of Jim, the marketing manager whom I introduced a few minutes ago, would you recommend him to conduct usability testing for his website?
It’s not just for Jim. You can conduct usability testing for your website to increase sales, too.
And, 300 million US dollars more revenue was generated in the first year.
If you were a friend of Jim, the marketing manager whom I introduced a few minutes ago, would you recommend him to conduct usability testing for his website?
It’s not just for Jim. You can conduct usability testing for your website to increase sales, too.
And, 300 million US dollars more revenue was generated in the first year.
If you were a friend of Jim, the marketing manager whom I introduced a few minutes ago, would you recommend him to conduct usability testing for his website?
It’s not just for Jim. You can conduct usability testing for your website to increase sales, too.
And, 300 million US dollars more revenue was generated in the first year.
If you were a friend of Jim, the marketing manager whom I introduced a few minutes ago, would you recommend him to conduct usability testing for his website?
It’s not just for Jim. You can conduct usability testing for your website to increase sales, too.
And, 300 million US dollars more revenue was generated in the first year.
If you were a friend of Jim, the marketing manager whom I introduced a few minutes ago, would you recommend him to conduct usability testing for his website?
It’s not just for Jim. You can conduct usability testing for your website to increase sales, too.
The campaign will pick a part of a poorly-design website and apply usability to redesign it.
To introduce the great importance of usability in web design, AddiThink and Beansbox would like to announce the Save Our Sites (SOS) campaign today.
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We also welcome you to nominate poorly-designed websites for redesign.
As for your websites, for each participant here today, we will offer a free one-hour UI and social media clinic. In this way, we can how to increase the revenue of your websites individually.