Win A Free 3-Point Usability Review!
Recently, I've been testing some new service offerings geared at small businesses. I'm trying to help smaller commercial websites see that usability can be strategic and cost-effective. So, I've decided to enlist a little help from all of you in the form of a contest.Here are the basics: I'm giving away 5 free usability mini-reviews. These will be 3-point reviews covering the 3 most pressing usability issues on your website (and the ones that I think will have the most impact on conversion and ROI).
How to Enter
Leave a comment below with the URL of the site you want reviewed, along with a short (100 words or less) description of why that site needs usability help. Of course, please use a valid email when posting your comment. If you use a fake email, you'll be entered into my fake contest, and may win an imaginary prize. Imaginary prizes will be announced by an invisible leprechaun with laryngitis.I'll keep comments open until Sunday night (March 9, 2008) and then pick 5 winners from the bunch. If I don't have enough viable entries at that point, I'll extend the deadline (if that happens, I'll publicly announce it here on the blog).
What's The Catch?
There's just one. I'd like to be able to post the mini-reviews on this blog for my readers to see. So, by entering, you're giving me permission to publicly repost your 3-point review (of course, I won't post any private conversations or other site details).
BigTequila
· Wednesday, March 5Hi Pete,
I'd like to submit http://www.tablepadfactory.com - they could really use the help.
This site needs usability help because, well, the order process is a nightmare. The analytics data show an abnormally high abandonment rate. This is a mom and pop small business, and they can't afford to hire a usability consultant to tell them exactly what they need to do to improve things. They're losing money right now on an AdWords campaign that's sending traffic into the bottleneck that is their order process.
Thanks,
-Mike
Green Contractor
· Thursday, March 6This is a newly built site and would like an honest review of how we can increase page views and lead conversions.
A friend of mine owns elevateprinting.com and he could defiantly use this analysis.
Thanks and I'm looking forward to hearing from you.
-Chris
David LaFerney
· Monday, March 10I'd like to submit: http://www.advancedinc.org/
This site needs a usability review for two reasons that I see.
1) I don't think that it has any big usability problems, but I'm so familiar with the site that I probably couldn't see them it if did.
2) It's a Mom and pop (Pop being me) business in a low volume niche, and small fluctuations have big effects on the bottom line. In other words, every little bit really counts.
Will Critchlow
· Tuesday, March 4Yo. Pete. Either:
http://reputation.distilled.co.uk
or just
http://www.distilled.co.uk (/blog)
Our sites need usability help because:
(a) we understand the importance of usability, but all our own stuff tends to get built in a hurry, and certainly without proper usability insight
(b) we would love to pass some work your way, and getting a sample of what people would get as a result would help us do that.
(c) I'm not counting words so I've probably gone over and am disqualified ;)
Speak soon.
W