This episode covers the following chapters from the book:
- SECTION 1 (CONTINUED): WHY MOST WEB DESIGN IS DONE WRONG—AND HOW TO DO IT RIGHT, LIKE THE WINNERS
- Why doubling a website’s conversion rate is easier than it sounds
- Choose your role models wisely: Take inspiration from this awe-inspiring story of how one of our clients went from zero to half a billion dollars
- Why the world’s top websites are winning (and how yours can too)
- Why you should avoid meek tweaking (and not just because it sounds creepy)
- DiPS (Diagnose → Problem → Solution) thrashes meek tweaking
- SECTION 2: DIAGNOSIS. THE ULTIMATE GUIDE TO TOOLS AND TECHNIQUES TO UNDERSTAND HOW YOUR WEBSITE CAN BE IMPROVED
- A goldmine of techniques
- Why it pays to understand your visitors
- Techniques for low-traffic websites
- Installing a tag manager (to help you activate and deactivate tags without having to speak with your IT department each time)
- Diagnose by…using web analytics (to track where your visitors came from, and which links they clicked on)
- Diagnose by…capturing easy-to-interpret click maps (to see exactly where visitors clicked—even if it wasn’t on a link)
- Diagnose by…using session-recording tools (to see videos of visitors’ screens and more)
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