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Rand Blair

Rand Blair, Consultant: Digital Strategy and Optimization - Adobe Test&Target Blair works with some of the largest media and publishing firms in the space to help shape their web optimization programs. He is a subject-matter expert for cross-product integrations.  Blair's optimization experience is focused on finding ways to monetize media-based testing to produce actionable results.

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Testing Resolutions for 2013

Conversion Optimization, Media & Entertainment · By Rand Blair On January 22, 2013 · Add Comment
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With a new year comes the oppor­tu­nity to review what we accom­plished the pre­vi­ous year and pon­der what we hope to achieve in the new year. In an effort to rec­on­cile that dif­fer­ence we often make res­o­lu­tions for what we will change.

“I will read one book each month.“
“I will go to...

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Integrating Your Test&Target Campaigns into SiteCatalyst: Don’t Be a Party Pooper

Analytics, Conversion Optimization, Media & Entertainment · By Rand Blair On September 18, 2012 · Add Comment
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One of the most chal­leng­ing aspects of host­ing a party is some­times you end up invit­ing friends and col­leagues from two mutu­ally exclu­sive cir­cles of friends. Under one roof you have your col­lege bud­dies min­gling with your boss and his or her sig­nif­i­cant other. Those are two dis­tinct groups that rep­re­sent dif­fer­ent real­i­ties of...

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Monetizing Media: Are You Just Eating Empty Calories?

Conversion Optimization, Media & Entertainment · By Rand Blair On August 21, 2012 · Add Comment
Sumo

A while back I pub­lished a post on find­ing ways to mon­e­tize test­ing on media-based and pub­lish­ing sites. In that post I dis­cussed the basic “page views per visit” engage­ment met­ric baked into Test&Target and then briefly touched on the con­cept of Page Score. In today’s post I want to dive a lit­tle...

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Monetizing Media — Cracking Media’s Testing Nut

Conversion Optimization, Media & Entertainment · By Rand Blair On July 11, 2012 · Add Comment
SolutionFit

In the last two weeks I have taken my car to the shop twice. The first visit was to get the oil changed, and just yes­ter­day I had new tires put on. Hav­ing paid for both of these main­te­nance items so close together, I can say that get­ting new tires was much more grat­i­fy­ing than...

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Avoid Local Maximums: Test For Best, Not Better

Conversion Optimization, Media & Entertainment · By Rand Blair On May 22, 2012 · Add Comment
Are You at a Local Maximum?

One mis­take I see a lot of com­pa­nies mak­ing is run­ning a test to find a win­ner, instead of run­ning a test to learn some­thing. The two-recipe test is a symp­tom of this. Often the test includes a com­plete redesign plot­ted against the incum­bent default. In this sce­nario, the redesign may edge out the default....

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Analytics and Optimization: Understanding the Difference

Analytics, Media & Entertainment, Personalization · By Rand Blair On April 10, 2012 · 2 Comments

Frank’s Folly
After 12 long years of man­ag­ing his plant’s mate­r­ial inven­tory, Frank was rewarded with a long-awaited pro­mo­tion to gen­eral man­ager where he would over­see all plant oper­a­tions includ­ing sales.  Just two months into his tenure as gen­eral man­ager, Frank returned from lunch to find the company’s global sales man­ager wait­ing in Frank’s...

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New To A/B Testing? A Layout Test Is a Great Place to Start.

Media & Entertainment · By Rand Blair On March 27, 2012 · Add Comment
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As an ana­lyt­ics pro­fes­sional at a media com­pany, you have just received your login to Adobe Test&Target. You ner­vously enter your pass word and you are in. There before you is a shiny, yet for­eign inter­face. Now what?  It took you two years to become a pro with Site­Cat­a­lyst and now you feel com­fort­able quickly cruis­ing...

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