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The Stranger's Long Neck Gerry McGovern

The Stranger's Long Neck By Gerry McGovern

The Stranger's Long Neck by Gerry McGovern


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Summary

Every website has a 'long neck' - a small set of tasks that are very important to your customers. If these tasks aren't easy and fast to complete, your customers will go elsewhere. In this book, Web content expert Gerry McGovern offers tried and tested tips to make your website the commercial asset it really should be.

The Stranger's Long Neck Summary

The Stranger's Long Neck: How to Deliver What Your Customers Really Want Online by Gerry McGovern

The Stranger's Long Neck is a practical guide for any manager wishing to improve their organisation's online performance. Web content specialist, Gerry McGovern, explains that all websites have a small set of tasks, or 'long necks', that are important to its customers and that must be easy to complete or customers will go elsewhere. The Stranger's Long Neck shows how to tune in effectively to what your customers want - and then deliver it with aplomb. Understanding customer needs can be a difficult task when customers are 'strangers', in that he or she is always 'on the outside', particularly so in an online environment. Using case studies including Tetra Pak, Microsoft and the NHS, and illustrated with web shots throughout, The Stranger's Long Neck shows how organisations can use the 'long neck' theory to create and manage efficient and user-friendly websites.

The Stranger's Long Neck Reviews

'Our work with Gerry increased understanding across our team... The result is a significant improvement (+20%) in our customers' ability to find what they need in Pinpoint.' Peter Horsman, Global Site Management Lead for Microsoft Pinpoint 'Gerry's customer-centric approach to website development has helped us reshape and dramatically improve Cisco's Partner Central.' Luanne Tierney, Vice President, Worldwide Partner Marketing, Cisco 'We have used Gerry's real customer-centric approach to improve the ability of our employees to solve frequently performed tasks - in one area more than a 50% improvement was achieved.' Gabriel Olsson, e-Communications Director, Tetra Pak

About Gerry McGovern

Gerry McGovern is the author of several influential books, including Killer Web Content (A & C Black, 2006). He is a sought-after speaker at international conferences on Web content management and has worked with many leading organisations, such as Microsoft, Hewlett-Packard and Aer Lingus.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements vi 1. Trading with strangers 1 2. Gut instinct and the information tsunami 14 3. From Long Tail to Dead Zone 20 4. The rise of the Long Neck 26 5. A secret method for understanding your customers 32 6. There are always tasks 45 7. Defi ning tasks at NHS Choices 52 8. Free money: That's what we want 74 9. Organization v. customer thinking 93 10. How the Microsoft Excel Web site dramatically improved customer satisfaction 101 11. A method for managing search 118 12. Deliver what customers want-not what you want 132 13. Measuring success: Back to basics 143 14. Preparing for task measurement 157 15. Carrying out a task measurement 170 16. Those practical, innovative Swedes 180 17. Fox meets chicken 206 Further Reading 213 Index 215

Additional information

GOR004937013
9781408114421
1408114429
The Stranger's Long Neck: How to Deliver What Your Customers Really Want Online by Gerry McGovern
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
2010-06-17
224
N/A
Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
This is a used book - there is no escaping the fact it has been read by someone else and it will show signs of wear and previous use. Overall we expect it to be in very good condition, but if you are not entirely satisfied please get in touch with us

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