Category Archives: experience optimization

Waterfall vs. Optimization

Tom Fishburne nails it again: As he says in the accompanying post, the “waterfall” approach is a terrible fit for web project management: We couldn’t predict all of the potential issues when we first wrote a brief. So, requirements would inevitably change and we’d uncover issues too late to do anything about them. We would [...]

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Will Google's New Music Service Affect Your Business? Surprise: It Might.

When I first moved to Nashville in February of 2003, I was in pursuit of a dream: I wanted to develop my songwriting and write hits. It did not escape my notice that the industry was changing, even then, and that the distribution models that had ensured songwriter royalties were being disrupted, so that I [...]

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Simplicity Sells.

I’m a big fan of Dr. Flint McGlaughlin at Marketing Experiments. I spoke at their Selling Online Subscriptions Summit in ’08 and was invited to attend and listen to all the other speakers; his keynote alone was enough to make the whole conference worthwhile. The thrust of his message is encapsulated, for me, in this [...]

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