Copy Vs. Design: Which Is Most Important To Conversion?
Two very different sites: one “dated, awkward, wordy;” the other “newer, looks better, better organized." So why was the "dated, awkward, wordy" winning the conversion game so handily?
Brian Massey is the Conversion Scientist at Conversion Sciences and author of Your Customer Creation Equation: Unexpected Website Forumulas of The Conversion Scientist. Follow Brian at The Conversion Scientist blog and on Twitter @bmassey
Two very different sites: one “dated, awkward, wordy;” the other “newer, looks better, better organized." So why was the "dated, awkward, wordy" winning the conversion game so handily?
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