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Leadership

How to Handle Mistakes

Trite as this sounds, the best you can hope for is to learn from your own mistakes and teach others your mistakes, so they won’t have to learn them first-hand.

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Copywriting

Transforming product detail copy into compelling stories

Just a few product descriptions I’m justifiably proud of… https://www.diversdirect.com/p/freestyle-shark-classic-black-fast-strap You may be thinking, “Hey – isn’t this the watch Johnny Utah checked before jumping out of the airplane in Point Break?” Yep. Because Freestyle’s Shark Classic watches were what EVERY surfer wore – and because this one’s ninja-black, it’s perfect for an undercover FBI […]

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Copywriting

Should you tell jokes?

Thoughts on humor in copywriting

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UX Fails

Maybe this is a test?

Pro tip to front-end developers, QA, and anyone who builds anything for public consumption: make sure your numbers match. The instructions are pretty clear: list three professional references (please). Everything after that falls apart. Though user’s directed to enter 3 references, the site only provides 2 forms. Though user’s instructed to enter professional references, the […]

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UX Fails

UX puzzle: what is grayed out?

The squalid saga of #444 and #aaa’s battle over #fafafa

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Copywriting

Product detail copy: before and after

Beyond feature: benefit.

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Leadership

Are you pivoting or thrashing?

Productivity, panic buttons, and responding to emergencies.

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Online Marketing

Ecommerce, commodities, and the race to the bottom

Virtually every product on Amazon will inevitably collapse into non-viability. Here’s how to make one that lasts.

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Conversion Rate Optimization University

CRO Review: Arteza.com

Update – they listened! Sorta.

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Online Marketing

PDFs still unfit for human consumption, 20 years later

Turns out page 2 of Google is in fact the second best place to hide a dead body…