Conversion Optimization: The Art and Science of Converting Prospects to Customers

Screen Shot 2013-07-04 at 8.06.48 AMIn the early days of World Wide Web the mare presence of a webpage with the info about your products or content was considered sufficient for the promotion and success of your online business. However, most people soon realized that bringing customers or content viewers to the website was not enough to assure sales or other metrics of success. The exact layout, navigation, and other elements of the website architecture all need to be fine-tuned in order to increase conversion rates. In the early days conversion optimization was somewhat of a dark art, but over the past decade or so there has been an enormous increase in our understanding of what motivates consumers online and how those insights can be translated into desired actions.

“Conversion Optimization” is as close as one can get to a textbook on this subject. The book is extremely thorough, full of valuable insights, and it provides many useful examples and suggestions that can be easily implemented by almost anyone on their own. Conversion optimization is a data driven enterprise, and there is plenty of data and other useful information in this book that can best illustrate the points that are being made. The book provides a snapshot of most important website analytics concepts, tools, and measures. It highlights somewhat different definitions that are in use for the measurement of, for instance, bounce rates. The book emphasizes the importance of testing various different site designs, but it also shows the limits of this approach. Only the highly visited sites can gather enough information on user behavior that will be statistically relevant and informative for the purposes of conversion optimization.

Conversion optimization is still as much of an art as it is science, but informative, systematic and pedagogical books like this one go a long way towards shedding some much need light onto this field.

 

Bojan Tunguz

Bojan Tunguz was born in Bosnia and Herzegovina, which he and his family fled during the civil war for the neighboring Croatia. Over the past two decades he has studied, lived and worked in the United States. He is a theoretical physicist with degrees from Stanford and University of Illinois. Tunguz has taught physics at several prominent liberal arts colleges and has been writing about physics, science and technology for more than a decade. He also has a wide spectrum of interests, and reads and writes about current events, society, culture, religion and politics. Over the years he has reviewed many of the books that he has read, and posted his reviews on various online outlets. In 2011 he had become a top 10 reviewer on Amazon.com, where he continues to be very active. Aside from reading and writing, Tunguz enjoys traveling, digital photography, hiking, and fitness. He resides with his wife in Indiana. You can follow my review updates on the following pages as well: Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/tunguzreview Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/tunguzreviews Google+: https://plus.google.com/u/0/104312842297641697463/posts

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