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Here you can find tips, tricks, tools and tutorials as well as other musings from Mike Stickney, Web Designer and Online Marketer.

Landing Page Optimization: Humanistic Buyer Modality

Part 3 in a series on Landing Page Optimization and Buying Modalities, today I’ll talk a little more about the Humanistic buyer behavior and how you can optimize your landing pages to target the Humanistic audience.

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Landing Page Optimization: Competitive Buying Modality

This is the second post in a series on Lading Page Optimization and Buyer Modalities. In the first post, I gave a very brief intro to the concept of buyer modalities, and today I’d like to dig a little deeper into the Competitive Buying Modality. Read the rest of this entry »

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Landing Page Optimization and Buyer Modalities

I’m in the middle of reading the book Web Analytics 2.0by Avinash Kaushik (very good book by the way…). In the book, Kaushik (very briefly) brings up the topic of Buyer Modalities, and it reminded me of a project I had worked on a couple years ago around the topic.

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Spitshine Design is now on Twitter

So, I finally stepped into the next level of social media and signed up with Twitter. Check me out at http://twitter.com/spitshinedesign. Read the rest of this entry »

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Online Portfolios – How much is too much?

I’ve been updating my online portfolio the past few days, and have come across the question of what is the right number of portfolio pieces to have on ones site?

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jQuery Video Tutorial Series

I’m pretty new to jQuery, but I’ve recently been more and more interested with it, and been playing around a little bit. Being new, I was looking for some true “beginner” tutorials, and found the perfect series of jQuery tutorials on net.tutsplus.com.

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