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We usually hear about a/b and multivariate testing hen referring to UX/UI improvements, user engagement and conversion optimization. These are obvious applications for these tools, allowing users to actually test changes in real time, or even before a crucial functionality roll-out.

However, for those cases in which there is no crm backing up the pricing strategy and generating some kind of pricing insight, we can actually use these tools to find out the right price range yelding the highest revenue per clic, thus helping us to maximize our ROI and online advertisement spending. I focus on this kpis because that very price, if referring to on/offline business, could not provide the same advantages in a offline environment: revenue per visitors refers strictly to the online side of the business, linking online advertisement spending to actual conversions.

In this chart we relate revenue per visitor with the price of the product adquired through the online channel. We tested different prices on a 2$ increase scale, and tracked down revenue per visitor. Considering that a lower price generates a higher conversion rate, revenue per visitor goes up, until elasticity to price seems almost irrelevant. Then prices still goes up, but the conversion rate decreases and so revenue per visitor.

Tracking the correlation in between price and revenue per visitor we can actually maximize overall profit, finding the right price (or the right price range) yelding the maximum ROI per visitor, hence giving us a pretty clear idea on the elasticity to price of our prospect.

Base price and upselling optimization
However this can turn pretty tricky if we consider a base price and and upselling price. The right price range for your base product might not be the same for the total upselling price. This case is pretty common in all those industry which strongly relies on ancillary revenues (travel and accomodation) and generic upselling (banks, insurance). In all these cases, there’s a different elasticity to price depending on product category and purchase intent, so this can affect directly your pricing strategy.

As for this chart, the optimal price range for the base product it is not the same as for the total upselling product. All this can be achieved pretty easily with a multivariate testing. At least a few hundreds of conversion might be necessary to achieve some statistical relevance, however most a/b testing tools already take care of this.

This video show how serious Google takes the performance optimization issue with webpages. This is basically a comprehensive explanaition of the methodology on how build quicker mobile website There’s also some really valuable insight which confirms the correlation between loading times and conversion rate, pointing out web performance as a crucial factor in increasing revenues.

Besides that, it makes you understand quite well the strong drive Google employees have for constant optimization, something you don’t see in that many companies after all…

Here’s the full presentation: building faster mobile websites

I’ve been researching a bit the topic on my own and the bottom line is: NO.

In the last two months the value has increased by 10-fold and in the last year the value has increased by nearly 100-fold. Bitcoins are exhibiting tell-tale signs of a bbubble, just like the Tulip Bulb Mania in the 1600s and other countless bubbles since then.

We are currently at the point where average people re starting to take notice and think, “Maybe I should get in on this too” and start investing money into it, further perpetuating the bubble and giving it it’s last big expansion before it finally bursts. If you do want to get in on bitcoin don’t do it right now at the end of the mania, wait until it crashes and buy when it’s low again and everyone who thought they just became near-millionaires are licking their wounds from greedily holding on to their bitcoins too long.

References:
Bitcoin Resources
BitCoin Talk
Huge Repository of Bitcoin Resources

Probably because I am right in the process of making quite an important decision, this presentation resonates so well with me right now.

Throughout all our formal education years we grow a distorted and heavily biased vision of life and work, we build up absurd expectations and this eventually leads to equally absurd delusions. I’m referring to the idea that a multinational company might be the best place to work, while you soon discover that a small, agile and hungry for success startup might really be the best place to work, despite salary and other conditions.

This presentation flawlessy explain that, I should definetely go back and read it again every single time I find myself wondering about what might next step should be.

So quite a few months ago, after getting pretty tired of not being able to find a decent sitemap validtor, I decided to code my own. Sitemap Inspector checks your sitemap for errors and generates a new one free from broken links. It also pings all major search engine once it validated your sitemap.