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Casey Brown introduces himself and his experience working at Build Grow Scale doing conversion rate optimization for large clients. He emphasizes the importance of user testing, calling it the "cornerstone" and the "AK-47" of revenue optimization. User testing reveals customer psychology, objections, value propositions, comparisons to competitors, bugs, doubts, dislikes, and offensive content. Proper analysis of quality user testing allows sites to be optimized. This course teaches how to:

- Brainstorm questions and tasks for testers

- Find and vet quality testers

- Create clear instructions for good feedback

- Get refunds from bad testers

- Analyze and extract insights

- Identify issues to fix on the site

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User testing is when you find users that match your target customer profile (customer avatar) to test your website. You ask them to browse your site while recording their screen, and have them perform tasks and answer questions to get feedback.

Your customer avatar is your ideal target customer. Defining this helps you find appropriate testers. For example, for a dog harness site, the avatar was women in their 40s-50s living alone in the Midwest with multiple dogs.

User testing uncovers usability issues, needs for improvement, and customer reactions. Recommended number of testers is 5-10 people. Popular service TryMyUI charges around $35 for a desktop test.

Most advice says purely observe how testers perform tasks, but the narrator also likes asking direct opinion questions. This can provide additional insights, but negative opinions from a vocal minority should be taken with a grain of salt.

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TryMyUI is a service that recruits people to take user tests. You can refine to find specific demographics. The narrator creates a new test for the Layson Skincare website.

There is a new "live video call" option where the narrator can verbally provide instructions during the test. The narrator decides to use the standard unmoderated option where testers record themselves on their phones performing tasks.

The narrator sets up a test targeting women ages 35-55 interested in skincare, with higher income, in North America. A verbal screener requires testers to be interested in skincare products.

The narrator pastes in 12 tasks asking questions about the website and what it sells. Tasks also rate usability. Too many tasks can be annoying so 6-15 is ideal.

One tester is purchased for $25. Results come by email later. The narrator will analyze recordings in the next module.

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John explains how he promoted his book and funnel. The best promotion was an email campaign to SmartBlogger subscribers - over 2,000 of the 3,100 books sold came from this. He also appeared on podcasts like James Altucher and Entrepreneur on Fire, which sold hundreds more. Cold outreach to podcasts can work by focusing on his expertise rather than the book. He reached out to Marketing Gets the Grain but is still waiting. Outreach takes persistence but builds authority and sells books. He plans to try Facebook ads next.

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The narrator shares proof that using very long video sales letters (VSLs) to advertise products online can result in huge profits. He shows examples of $40 million in sales from VSLs and $80,000 profit days. Companies using this model are very valuable acquisition targets.

The key is running direct 30+ minute VSL ads on Facebook and YouTube. People will watch if captivated by a solution to their problem from an authority figure. The narrator shows examples of other top performing ads that are very long.

Initially the narrator tried short videos, but found longer ones sell more expensive back-end products, boosting average order value. Longer videos inspire people to purchase multiple items upfront. Adding an 8-minute close doubled his average order value.

For higher priced products like supplements, which often have $200+ order values, 40+ minute VSLs work best. The narrator sold $15 million in one supplement using a 40-minute VSL.

The key action is creating one highly profitable VSL that returns 3X or more on ad spend. This VSL masterclass aims to teach how to create such high-converting VSLs.

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