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Re:Adding a picture of me to your site will improve conversi... by patio11 on Monday October 24, 2011 @06:57PM (#3151996)
I'm going to sound like a broken record but I have to: if this had been A/B tested, either a) it would have been averted or b) we would have good reason to know, with statistical confidence, that despite that X came before Y, X did not in fact cause Y.

Anecdotally, faces have worked really, really well for some people. (Specific example coming at my Business of Software talk tomorrow, so I can't spoil it, but it will be livestreamed and have slides posted.)

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Re:Adding a picture of me to your site will improve conversi... by jaylevitt on Monday October 24, 2011 @07:51PM (#3152135)
Jimmy Wales Solemnly Looking At You raised $47,000 against three other ads totalling $6500. Faces work. See October 26:

http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fundraising_2010/Banner_testi...

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Re:Adding a picture of me to your site will improve conversi... by chc on Tuesday October 25, 2011 @12:13AM (#3152786)
For any West Coasters who want to watch the livestream of Patrick's talk, you should probably know that it starts at 6 a.m.
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Re:Adding a picture of me to your site will improve conversi... by pbhjpbhj on Tuesday October 25, 2011 @07:12AM (#3153630)
You mean West coast of India, right? And it's 6am GMT+9 ?
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Re:Adding a picture of me to your site will improve conversi... by sethg on Tuesday October 25, 2011 @09:37AM (#3153990)
In fairness, I think the circumstances leading up to the layoffs were not something that a better Web site could have prevented. The company was trying to expand into new markets with very different requirements than our previous customers, but it was spending more to acquire the new customers than it was actually receiving from them in revenue. Then the recession hit, and the investors decided that they would rather cash in their chips than double-down.
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Re:Adding a picture of me to your site will improve conversi... by kayhi on Tuesday October 25, 2011 @02:25AM (#3153086)
Link: http://businessofsoftware.org/

For those that want to see the stream (looks like an email is required).

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