About James Paden

James Paden is an e-commerce and conversion expert with over eight years of e-commerce development and marketing experience. He is the founder of Vibrant Solutions where he works with organizations to create and improve their online retail strategies.

Easy Usability Testing with UserTesting.com

An important, but unfortunately too-often overlooked, aspect of web design is usability. Most experienced web designers understand the basic concepts and principles of usability, but the more complex a website, the more important usability testing becomes. E-commerce websites are especially important to test because one small bump in your checkout process or design could substantially decrease your profits. Typically, I recommend some form of testing if there is any process or series of steps necessary on the website. There are … Continue reading

The Power of Conversion Optimization

I’m beginning to think there are two kinds of internet marketers – those that are aware of conversion optimization and those that aren’t. Fortunately, the number of marketers that are aware of this key tool/process/methodology is quickly increasing. If you’re not familiar with the extreme power of conversion optimization on a website’s bottom line, check out the following: 151% more sales – Optimize Software 21% more signups – Gyminee 18.5% more revenue per visitor – Skype 22% more sales – … Continue reading

The Scariest Analytics Solution I’ve Ever Seen

If you’ve ever wanted to look over the shoulder of someone visiting your website, you can.  ClickTale’s (affiliate version) tagline is “Record. Watch. Understand.” and they literally record a video of a user’s browsing session including: The movement of the mouse The click of the button The scrolling of the page The typing of form data The only piece of data missing from the equation is where the user is actually looking. A video on their homepage provides a quick summary … Continue reading

Permuto Launches Intent-Based Targeted Ad Serving

Permuto, a new company bringing the same level of performance and measurability of search engine marketing to display advertising, officially launched today at the Shop.org conference. Shaukat Shamim, CEO and co-founder of Permuto, spoke with Doug for about an hour on Tuesday and you could tell they were launching something special. Currently, ad serving models are fairly dumb when you’re shopping online. Large indexes of product are inventoried and classified utilizing keywords… then magically appear when you land on a … Continue reading