Authors Dan Siroker and Pete Koomen, co-founders of Optimizely,
empower online businesses and marketers in a new book A/B
Testing: The Most Powerful Way to Turn Clicks into Customers, widely
available on August 19. (Wiley, August 2013; ISBN: 978-1-118-53609-4;
Hardcover & E-book; $27.95).
The first book on the topic of A/B testing delivers guiding principles
for thousands of companies who are currently testing or interested in
making it an integral part of their business. Through actionable
examples, the book demonstrates the major business impact of A/B testing
on huge enterprises and small businesses. Marketers, product managers,
engineers are encouraged to explore and act on the practices that are
changing the rules of business and democratizing decision-making on the
web. The authors take a close look at individuals’ experiences doing A/B
testing at their companies to find and share the most illuminating
insights for businesses on the web.
A/B testing is a simple and powerful way to test changes to a web page
and determine which ones produce positive results. In the world of
website optimization, it is a method to validate that any new design or
change to an element on your webpage is improving your conversion rate,
before making those changes to the site code.
“A/B testing is our entire business model as far as revenue,” says Zack
Exley, Chief Revenue Officer at the Wikimedia Foundation. “We don’t have
a product we can sell or improve. Our product is built by our users. The
only thing we can do to bring in more money is to change the banner at
the top of the site. A/B testing allows us to do this. It works. Read
the book.”
The market for A/B testing is growing quickly. In terms of adoption by
the top 10,000 websites, Optimizely has grown 400 percent in the last
year. Today, over 5,000 enterprises including Starbucks, Crate &
Barrel, and Disney use Optimizely daily to improve
their websites.
In the book, co-authors Siroker and Koomen share important aspects of
A/B testing including:
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A/B testing testimonials from experts at Netflix, Wikimedia, Digg,
Etsy, Dell, Disney, and more
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How to choose the testing solution that's right for your organization
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A roadmap for how to use A/B testing to personalize customer web
experiences
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Tools to enable non-technical business owners to drive the process of
optimization
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How to assemble an A/B testing dream team
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Why testing is a way of life at companies like Google, Etsy and Netflix
