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Making Websites Win: Apply the Customer-Centric Methodology That Has Doubled the Sales of Many Leading Websites Kindle Edition
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Most websites lose. Almost all of them.
Many never make a profit. Like chocolate teapots, they look nice but flop as soon as you pour hot customers into them.
Others are successful at first, and then get crushed by competitors.
This book is about how to buck the trend—to make websites that customers love and that are outrageously profitable.
The unique methodology is based on the authors’ award-winning work growing many of the world’s biggest web companies—plus hundreds of smaller, market-leading companies in over eighty different industries. In this book, you’ll get
- What successful web businesses do differently (and others get wrong)
- How to easily identify your website’s biggest opportunities
- A treasure trove of proven solutions for growing businesses
Discover how to grow your profits—by making winning websites that people love.
- LanguageEnglish
- Publication dateOctober 25, 2017
- File size50848 KB
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"Really extraordinary 'off-the-chart' results"
Tom Leung, Google
"Their approach is truly the best I've ever seen"Sean Ellis, Dropbox's first marketer, and founder of Growth Hackers
"They're the best in the business"Rand Fishkin, Moz
"There isn't a company in the world that couldn't benefit from working with these guys"Mike Lee, founder of MyFitnessPal
"About $10 million of increased potential revenue. Before using Conversion Rate Experts, it was a lot of guessing."
Jenny Craig, the leading weight-loss company --This text refers to the hardcover edition.
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About the Author
CRE has worked in over 80 different verticals, in 9 languages, and in 22 countries, helping to optimize the profits of some of the most sophisticated Silicon Valley web companies, as well as many blue-chip enterprises, financial institutions, media companies, and fast-growing startups.
CRE increases the profits of businesses scientifically by analyzing their websites' visitors, creating optimized pages and then A/B testing them to measure the increase in sales. It has generated billions in revenue for its clients and double- and triple-digit improvements are the norm. --This text refers to the hardcover edition.
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- ASIN : B076XSCTB2
- Publisher : Conversion Rate Experts (October 25, 2017)
- Publication date : October 25, 2017
- Language : English
- File size : 50848 KB
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- Sticky notes : On Kindle Scribe
- Print length : 354 pages
- Best Sellers Rank: #328,049 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #112 in Internet Marketing
- #130 in Web Marketing (Kindle Store)
- #143 in Advertising (Kindle Store)
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About the authors
Dr. Karl Blanks and Ben Jesson help websites win. They are the founders of Conversion Rate Experts (CRE), the world’s leading agency for conversion rate optimization
(CRO)—a term coined by the company in 2007.
CRE has worked in over 80 different verticals, in 9 languages, and in 22 countries, helping to optimize the profits of some of the most sophisticated Silicon Valley web companies, as well as many blue-chip enterprises, financial institutions, media companies, and fast-growing startups.
CRE increases the profits of businesses scientifically by analyzing their websites’ visitors, creating optimized pages and then A/B testing them to measure the increase in sales. It has generated billions in revenue for its clients and double- and triple-digit improvements are the norm.
Dr. Karl Blanks and Ben Jesson help websites win. They are the founders of Conversion Rate Experts (CRE), the world’s leading agency for conversion rate optimization
(CRO)—a term coined by the company in 2007.
CRE has worked in over 80 different verticals, in 9 languages, and in 22 countries, helping to optimize the profits of some of the most sophisticated Silicon Valley web companies, as well as many blue-chip enterprises, financial institutions, media companies, and fast-growing startups.
CRE increases the profits of businesses scientifically by analyzing their websites’ visitors, creating optimized pages and then A/B testing them to measure the increase in sales. It has generated billions in revenue for its clients and double- and triple-digit improvements are the norm.
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1. Simple, clear and concise writing.
2. Lots of examples and case studies drawn from their real-world consulting practice.
3. An exhaustive list of books and resources to learn more. Books on writing, Tools for user testing, tools for A/B testing, mobile friendly CRO tools, numerous useful links and websites (like 'This is a Website')
4. Discussion of broader business topics that go beyond simple page optimization e.g. niching for success, fulfilling more of your customers’ needs (to increase lifetime value and amortize acquisition costs), and holistically building the kind of company that is deserving of success (versus treating CRO as a bolt-on afterthought)
5. Karl and Ben's quintessentially British wit and humor!
In the last 8 years I’ve read roughly a new book every week. Only rarely do I come across books that need to be re-read many times to fully internalize the lessons. Eugene Schwartz's Breatkthrough Advertising and John Caples Tested Advertising Methods are such books. To this short list, I now add Karl and Ben’s Making Websites Win. How can I not, with gems like these?
“How can you overcome the curse of knowledge? Design your processes for what you perceive to be a busy, lazy, drunk, amnesiac idiot—what lawyers call a “moron in a hurry” (really). Even geniuses with time on their hands will be grateful that you did.”
“conversion is not an afterthought. Conversion is identifying what type of company your visitors would ideally love to do business with…and then becoming that company.”
“A guarantee can be powerful, like a chainsaw. Used right, it can cut through customer objections. Used wrong, it can cut through profits. In this chapter, we’ll describe how to know if a guarantee would work for your business—and how to design and implement a guarantee that works.”
“Many people agree that they need to focus more. But they think that focus means concentrate. It doesn’t. Focus means neglect. As Steve Jobs said, “Focus means saying no to the hundred other good ideas.” Focusing doesn’t feel empowering; it feels embarrassing, upsetting, and scary. A sign that you are focusing is that you frequently cringe at the things you aren’t doing.”
“The best way to ‘beat your competitors’ is often to redefine yourself so that you have fewer of them.”
The one piece of constructive criticism I could offer is perhaps to introduce the case studies earlier and weave them more thoroughly into all the chapters. E.g. start with the GoHenry case study and then introduce concepts by referring to examples already shown.
When I was a kid, my mom worked with a guy who actually had a sign on his desk that said "Think." I saw it many times. It may seem ironic or silly now that it has been satirized so often, but honestly, I would love it if more people took that admonition to heart. Making Websites Win is packed with techniques for how to actually think about your website, your traffic, and your customers. This isn't some, "change that button from green to red" and you'll be rich kind of book. Frankly, as I've gone through the book, I've thought, "This is harder than I thought it would be," even though it's not really that hard--it's just that we're so used to things being so simple. Don't agree? How fast can you buy a domain name and put up a website? How fast could you do it 15 years ago? Trust me, we're conditioned to "easy." But, what Making Websites Win prescribes is a good kind of hard work. Just reading through the main sections, I'm itching to try this stuff out. It gives me that "this is what I've been looking for" feeling.
What these guys write about is how to create experiences that attract action from your customers. How to really create those experiences, test them, and fix them to make them better. Their chapter on how to write better copy is spot-on, including links to some books that I've never seen before. And I've been writing for a living for over 30 years. Their chapters on UX and testing, even if you have a low-traffic site, are groundbreaking. This is not one of those books that tells you "oh, you need to do eye-tracking studies, have fun..." The authors describe how to perform eye-tracking studies AND how to analyze and understand the results. I just spent 15 minutes going through the full-blown case study at the back of the book too, and it's worth the price of admission. Really.
Honestly, I wish every web designer and web developer read this book and Steve Krug's books, and then implemented just 20% of what they recommend. The Web would be a more enjoyable and more effective place to spend time.
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This is the company who coined the term "Conversion Rate Optimisation" and they taught me a hell of a lot about how to make websites that win. It's very different from how most people approach website design.
At the time, the founders started talking about writing a book to share their methods.
Last week, they finally finished it – it's out!
I had the chance to read a pre-release copy and can confirm that — yes — they're giving away all their secrets.
If you need to know more...
Part 1 covers what CRO is and why it's important (it's not what many people believe it is).
Part 2 reveals all the techniques the team use to get a deep understanding of customers and to diagnose the problems with a website.
Part 3 gives you a boatload of ideas for "treatments" to tackle common diagnoses. The secrets of how to turn your site into a "water chute of customers"
Part 4 is a case study about a FinTech product. They've redesigned the website, the product app, and even the letters – not with a "big bang" approach like a lot of teams mistakenly take, but systematically and based on evidence.


There are chapters on the basics for CRO, Research, marketing, UX and thoughts from leading marketeers, including basic product selling theories and strategy.
This is ideal for new and existing users to recap their skills, there is an expertise in the narrative that is centred around basic intuition of the users, in relation to there audience. - refreshing in a marketplace becoming increasingly specialist.

Since then, they have flagrantly (yet charmingly, if that's not a contradiction) promoted the value of what they do (and with this book, teach) by continuously demonstrating and proving their value to companies the world over, including giant household-name brands.
They were so good at what they do right from the start, that evidence of their work went viral and captured the attention of the world's most important company in digital commerce - Google. That's not trivial or easy to reproduce. Clearly, they know what they're doing, and what it can be worth to those who can leverage it.
With this book as your new secret weapon (now hidden here in plain sight on Amazon) your website and business can rule the internet and dominate your competition. That might seem facetious or like a strong claim, but this is the most comprehensive website optimisation guide ever published, from the best guys in an industry they helped to create.
Most websites aren't designed to make money. Read that again. Most websites aren't designed to make money. Most website designers don't even know that's the only point of a website. But that is your website's only purpose. Now you know that, here's how to fix it.
Getting visitors from online campaigns is only the start of the game. Making money from those visitors through a mutual exchange of value is the next most vital step. I should know, because that’s how my clients make money – and why they pay me. You can find my books about that here on Amazon.
The authors help you continuously test, refine and improve that process - scientifically. Data (and money) is the ultimate proof. In publishing this book, Karl and Ben have rendered their ultimate service - what they do so well, they will teach you so you can too. Now it's up to you to make it so ...


Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on August 9, 2018
Since then, they have flagrantly (yet charmingly, if that's not a contradiction) promoted the value of what they do (and with this book, teach) by continuously demonstrating and proving their value to companies the world over, including giant household-name brands.
They were so good at what they do right from the start, that evidence of their work went viral and captured the attention of the world's most important company in digital commerce - Google. That's not trivial or easy to reproduce. Clearly, they know what they're doing, and what it can be worth to those who can leverage it.
With this book as your new secret weapon (now hidden here in plain sight on Amazon) your website and business can rule the internet and dominate your competition. That might seem facetious or like a strong claim, but this is the most comprehensive website optimisation guide ever published, from the best guys in an industry they helped to create.
Most websites aren't designed to make money. Read that again. Most websites aren't designed to make money. Most website designers don't even know that's the only point of a website. But that is your website's only purpose. Now you know that, here's how to fix it.
Getting visitors from online campaigns is only the start of the game. Making money from those visitors through a mutual exchange of value is the next most vital step. I should know, because that’s how my clients make money – and why they pay me. You can find my books about that here on Amazon.
The authors help you continuously test, refine and improve that process - scientifically. Data (and money) is the ultimate proof. In publishing this book, Karl and Ben have rendered their ultimate service - what they do so well, they will teach you so you can too. Now it's up to you to make it so ...

