Comments on: Screencast: Does Your Site Appeal to All Buying Modes? http://www.grokdotcom.com/2007/10/12/buying_modes/ Marketing blog focused on marketing optimization, improving website conversion rates, search engine marketing, web analytics, word of mouth, etc. Sat, 07 Nov 2009 05:17:54 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: Genetic http://www.grokdotcom.com/2007/10/12/buying_modes/comment-page-1/#comment-1201991 Genetic Mon, 19 Oct 2009 02:54:23 +0000 http://www.grokdotcom.com/2007/10/12/buying_modes/#comment-1201991 It's new knowledge for me. Thank you very much. It’s new knowledge for me.

Thank you very much.

]]> By: heyrobertdavis http://www.grokdotcom.com/2007/10/12/buying_modes/comment-page-1/#comment-1128718 heyrobertdavis Tue, 06 Jan 2009 01:19:26 +0000 http://www.grokdotcom.com/2007/10/12/buying_modes/#comment-1128718 Hey - the brightcove video no longer loads. Any alternative available? Hey – the brightcove video no longer loads. Any alternative available?

]]> By: How Guinness Might Have Converted One Million http://www.grokdotcom.com/2007/10/12/buying_modes/comment-page-1/#comment-589069 How Guinness Might Have Converted One Million Wed, 19 Mar 2008 18:21:35 +0000 http://www.grokdotcom.com/2007/10/12/buying_modes/#comment-589069 [...] • Tone — Rather than leading off with a "raise your pints!" attitude (not that there's anything wrong with that) and party pictures, they may have benefited from speaking to personality temperaments other than Spontaneous (i.e., Humanistic, Methodical, and Competitive). Other parts of the site do speak to Humanistic visitors by explaining why it's important to make St. Patrick's Day an official holiday, but that sentiment isn't clear on the landing page. Perhaps they could borrow a line or two from the other pages to make the why-you-should-sign argument stronger. (Is your site speaking to each temperament?) [...] [...] • Tone — Rather than leading off with a "raise your pints!" attitude (not that there's anything wrong with that) and party pictures, they may have benefited from speaking to personality temperaments other than Spontaneous (i.e., Humanistic, Methodical, and Competitive). Other parts of the site do speak to Humanistic visitors by explaining why it's important to make St. Patrick's Day an official holiday, but that sentiment isn't clear on the landing page. Perhaps they could borrow a line or two from the other pages to make the why-you-should-sign argument stronger. (Is your site speaking to each temperament?) [...]

]]> By: The Good, The Bad & The Pay-Per-Click Ugly http://www.grokdotcom.com/2007/10/12/buying_modes/comment-page-1/#comment-560754 The Good, The Bad & The Pay-Per-Click Ugly Thu, 06 Mar 2008 17:56:05 +0000 http://www.grokdotcom.com/2007/10/12/buying_modes/#comment-560754 [...] To be truly PPC- and Landing Page-savvy, here's how to appeal to all buying modes. [...] [...] To be truly PPC- and Landing Page-savvy, here's how to appeal to all buying modes. [...]

]]> By: Rishi http://www.grokdotcom.com/2007/10/12/buying_modes/comment-page-1/#comment-332149 Rishi Mon, 19 Nov 2007 21:09:02 +0000 http://www.grokdotcom.com/2007/10/12/buying_modes/#comment-332149 People search like they think. At the store a sales associate can easily unearth the true intent of a question, a software tool can only dream. So one thing retailers could do is bring a search library from their store online. I think your post address that very issue! Rishi People search like they think. At the store a sales associate can easily unearth the true intent of a question, a software tool can only dream. So one thing retailers could do is bring a search library from their store online. I think your post address that very issue!

Rishi

]]> By: Why I Nearly Flaked on the Season Pass http://www.grokdotcom.com/2007/10/12/buying_modes/comment-page-1/#comment-309096 Why I Nearly Flaked on the Season Pass Fri, 09 Nov 2007 19:09:01 +0000 http://www.grokdotcom.com/2007/10/12/buying_modes/#comment-309096 [...] of — or our level of attachment to — the must-have thing du jour, we all buy in different buying modes to match our feelings about it. I typically purchase commodities in a more Spontaneous mode, but I [...] [...] of — or our level of attachment to — the must-have thing du jour, we all buy in different buying modes to match our feelings about it. I typically purchase commodities in a more Spontaneous mode, but I [...]

]]> By: Wallace http://www.grokdotcom.com/2007/10/12/buying_modes/comment-page-1/#comment-286248 Wallace Tue, 30 Oct 2007 13:15:32 +0000 http://www.grokdotcom.com/2007/10/12/buying_modes/#comment-286248 (It doesn't like the 'less than' sign, thinks I'm inserting HTML, sorry again) ...compared to less than 5mb/s for cheap cards), the time between shots was around 1 second or less! Nowhere was this mentioned on any website or manual and no one in the stores mentioned this either. I had to learn this fact on my own - that there are major differences in performance depending on the memory card you choose. As a side note, reviews gave my camera poor marks for videos, which I experienced with the cheap card. When I used the 120x card, my video quality improved substantially. I now use the fastest memory cards I can buy with my camera. Hope this helps! (It doesn’t like the ‘less than’ sign, thinks I’m inserting HTML, sorry again)
…compared to less than 5mb/s for cheap cards), the time between shots was around 1 second or less! Nowhere was this mentioned on any website or manual and no one in the stores mentioned this either. I had to learn this fact on my own – that there are major differences in performance depending on the memory card you choose.

As a side note, reviews gave my camera poor marks for videos, which I experienced with the cheap card. When I used the 120x card, my video quality improved substantially. I now use the fastest memory cards I can buy with my camera. Hope this helps!

]]> By: Wallace http://www.grokdotcom.com/2007/10/12/buying_modes/comment-page-1/#comment-286245 Wallace Tue, 30 Oct 2007 13:14:09 +0000 http://www.grokdotcom.com/2007/10/12/buying_modes/#comment-286245 (oops, exceeded comment length, sorry) ...compared to (oops, exceeded comment length, sorry)
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]]> By: Wallace http://www.grokdotcom.com/2007/10/12/buying_modes/comment-page-1/#comment-286243 Wallace Tue, 30 Oct 2007 13:13:10 +0000 http://www.grokdotcom.com/2007/10/12/buying_modes/#comment-286243 Hey Bryan, this was really helpful. I have a comment unrelated to 'Buying Modes', but still important to you and your brother's digital camera purchase. I bought a camera about a year ago and selected a Casio Exilim model. I have a young daughter and my primary requirement was time to first shot, which is critical for catching impromptu shots. I can relate to your article since I had a hard time finding this spec mentioned. Oh they'll tell you fast start-up time, but just how fast is "fast"? Casio did a wonderful job of breaking this down on their website and this camera has sub-second time to first shot (at the time the fastest on the market). However, the primary reason for my response is not about the camera, but the memory card. Most camera manufacturers (and the stores that sell them) fail miserably to point out the huge difference in memory cards. Using a cheap 1Gb SD card, the camera takes around 3 seconds between shots. When I stepped up to a Kingston 120x SD card (~20mb/s read/write, compared to Hey Bryan, this was really helpful. I have a comment unrelated to ‘Buying Modes’, but still important to you and your brother’s digital camera purchase. I bought a camera about a year ago and selected a Casio Exilim model. I have a young daughter and my primary requirement was time to first shot, which is critical for catching impromptu shots. I can relate to your article since I had a hard time finding this spec mentioned. Oh they’ll tell you fast start-up time, but just how fast is “fast”? Casio did a wonderful job of breaking this down on their website and this camera has sub-second time to first shot (at the time the fastest on the market).

However, the primary reason for my response is not about the camera, but the memory card. Most camera manufacturers (and the stores that sell them) fail miserably to point out the huge difference in memory cards. Using a cheap 1Gb SD card, the camera takes around 3 seconds between shots. When I stepped up to a Kingston 120x SD card (~20mb/s read/write, compared to

]]> By: Aurelius Tjin http://www.grokdotcom.com/2007/10/12/buying_modes/comment-page-1/#comment-256267 Aurelius Tjin Tue, 16 Oct 2007 07:47:55 +0000 http://www.grokdotcom.com/2007/10/12/buying_modes/#comment-256267 That was one question I never have thought of asking myself! Thanks for this very good article. :) That was one question I never have thought of asking myself!

Thanks for this very good article. :)

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