Posts filed under “Judy’s Book”
Build for the Long Term (via Good Experience)
Mark has a great post (read it – good info in the comments too) about building for the long term interest of the user. Couldn’t agree more: In other words: a strategic focus on creating a good customer experience – that is, acting in the long-term movie unstoppable online best interest of the customer – [...]
Lowering Barriers to Product Entry
Jeff Atwood has a great post on his blog called ‘Reducing User Friction’ in which he talks about counting the number of steps needed to accomplish a goal in your application. He also mentions Reddit about having one of the smoothest signup processes around. I completely agree. I remember the first time I tried to [...]
More on Happy Vs. Willing
Chris jumped in and took this mapping off my plate. Thanks a ton, Chris. This time I was happy that you were willing. This is one of the things I love about Judy’s Book – everyone’s happy to roll up their sleeves and make things happen. shutter island film download part
Is anybody out there? (Why replies matter)
Alex Krupp has a great post on his blog about the role that responses play in encouraging repeat participation from members in online communities. I recently saw Bob Kraut present a paper on the mediating variables for Usenet participation. The study looked at how getting a reply affected the chance that a poster would return [...]
Big Release Week
Last week was a big one at Judy’s Book from a release perspective. We launched a new home page (existing members will have to sign out and clear cookies to see it), put more local offers in the system, and pushed out a host of bug fixes. There were a couple of cool improvements that [...]
Happy vs. Willing
A basic truth of startups is that there are many important tasks that aren’t always fun to do. Another basic truth is that no matter what role you play in the organization, you’ll find yourself doing a lot of these. One great example is partner category mapping. One of the really fun parts of aggregating [...]
The Opportunity in Local
Tom Evslin has a great blog and I just came across his post about the opportunity in the local internet. While I’ve written before about the challenges in building a local business that scales, Tom makes some great points about why the potential in local online is so great. grown ups full hd Tipping points [...]
Great Post on Social Bargain Hunting (via Probargainhunter)
I just came across this great post on ProBargainHunter about Modoshi and Dealspl.us. Yan talks about the time needed for community building and the commission vs. the flat fee approach to getting users to submit and scrub deals on the site. There are some great ideas in this post that are especially topical given that [...]
How to make your site better
The best way to figure out what works and doesn’t work in your product is to watch a member of your target audience using it. Prior to our recent release we conducted a number of simple focus groups at Judy’s Book where we had people come into the office for individual 30 minute sessions with [...]
Drag a map around and see where the deals are
Last week, we released an update to the site that makes Valpak coupons mappable and searchable. The coolest part of this for me was navigating to the Seattle Restaurants page and dragging the map around and seeing which restaurants had deals in the neighborhood I was browsing. I’ve never paid any attention to the Valpak [...]