Has the rise in anti-Asian violence changed your behavior?

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PickFu poll trending topic: how has anti-Asian violence changed your outlook or behavior?

A rise in anti-Asian harassment and violence since the start of the pandemic has left many Asian Americans on edge across the nation.

Snippets of some of these attacks have gone viral. Thousands more have happened outside of the public eye — nearly 3,800 reported incidents since March 2020, according to the advocacy group Stop AAPI Hate.

This alarming trend hits close to home for our team at PickFu, an Asian American-led company. We wonder how others beyond our respective communities are feeling. How have the attacks affected their psyches? Their daily lives?

In an open-ended PickFu poll, we asked 50 Asian respondents this question: “Has the recent uptick in anti-Asian violence and harassment changed your behavior or outlook? If so, how?”

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How Mojiworks created a recipe for content success with Ready Chef Go!

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PickFu customer stories: Mojiworks' mobile game Ready Chef Go!

There’s only one speed in the Snapchat cooking game Ready Chef Go!: fast. Players have to move quickly in the virtual kitchen if they want to sauté their way to victory.

The same could be said of Mojiworks, maker of Ready Chef Go!. As one of only a handful of third-party developers on Snap Games, Mojiworks is intimately familiar with the nonstop pace and ever-changing demands of the social app and gaming landscape.

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Good dog! For this book cover, three Dobermans are better than one

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Which One Won: book cover for guide to Doberman pinschers

Can a book about Doberman pinschers, a dog breed with a reputation for being aggressive, give readers the warm fuzzies? It can with the right cover, according to this PickFu poll.

The poll asked 50 dog owners to rank three cover designs for a book titled, The Complete Guide to Doberman Pinschers, from most to least appealing. Options A and C feature a single dog, while Option B shows three Dobermans lying down and looking the camera. All of the images are outdoors.

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5 ways to attract baby boomers to your Amazon store

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Marketing to baby boomers

Thanks to Jake Rheude of Red Stag Fulfillment for this guest post on how baby boomer marketing can help drive traffic to your Amazon store.

Let’s not pretend that 2020 was sunshine and daisies; it sucked. But from an economic perspective, it catalyzed the transition from retail to e-commerce, by some estimates squeezing up to 10 years’ worth of growth and adoption into those first few critical lockdown months.

Millennials and Gen X consumers preferred e-commerce over in-store shopping long before COVID-19 was a thing, and now it appears baby boomers are following their lead. A few months into the pandemic, more than half of baby boomers said they were spending more money online.

Now that boomers are becoming more comfortable with e-commerce, it’s time for retailers, and Amazon sellers in particular, to reevaluate the online shopping experience with a focus on baby boomer marketing.

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User testing vs. usability testing: Removing the ‘guess’ from guesswork

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Since the dawn of time, humanity has been asking the big questions: why are we here? What is the meaning of life? If we put the sign-up button in the corner, will users notice it or give up looking? 

We can at least answer that last question. Thanks to user testing and usability testing, much of what we had to guess or estimate when developing mobile apps and websites can now be rectified with concrete, empirical data — anything from the controls people use to which colors they want to see. 

If you’re unfamiliar with user and usability testing, you probably have more questions. This guide will answer them, starting with the big one: what’s the difference between user testing and usability testing? 

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Which One Won? A tagline that puts pets in their rightful place

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Which One Won: pet supplement tagline

Our pets are living their best lives. Pet owners in the U.S. spend nearly $100 billion annually on their furry friends. That’s a lot of kibble and chew toys, not to mention competition on pet store shelves.

A good product tagline cuts through the fluff (or fur). Who better to weigh in on a tagline for a pet health supplement than the people who buy them?

In this PickFu poll, the user presented four tagline options under the BestLife4Pets brand logo to an audience of 50 dog and cat owners.

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How to launch a successful crowdfunding campaign

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How to launch a successful crowdfunding campaign

No one had heard of the term crowdfunding when an entrepreneur named Michael Sullivan first used it in 2006. Since then, crowdfunding has grown into a multibillion-dollar global industry. The word and the concept are part of our daily lives. Scores of entrepreneurs take their ideas to Kickstarter, Indiegogo, GoFundMe, and other crowdfunding platforms with one goal: to raise enough money to turn those ideas into reality.

Success in crowdfunding hinges on the support of the crowd — your future customers. In this article, we’ll delve into how to create and launch a successful crowdfunding campaign.

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Video: To optimize your listing, leave no questions unanswered

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Daniela video: crowdsource questions to optimize your listings

The product: ICEWRAPS reusable gel ice packs.

The problem: A product listing that says a lot, but still not enough.

You’ve done everything to make your product listing the best it can be.

You created stellar images, researched pricing, and edited your bullet points. Traffic is good, but conversions are down. What’s going on?

Your listing might be leaving customers’ questions unanswered, says Daniela Bolzmann of Mindful Goods, a one-stop shop for Amazon listing optimization.

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Which One Won? A business book with a unicorn hook

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While STEM-based everything dominated the 2010s, the creative side hustle is fast becoming the theme of this decade.

Consider the title of the book featured in this PickFu poll: Creative Millionaire: Leveraging Your Passion into Profit. The user wanted to know which of two cover designs best expressed the idea behind the title.

Option A features a teal cover with a unicorn made of dollar bills. Option B ditches the unicorn for a generous splash of color. Can you guess which one won?

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What response bias is and why it matters

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Do we truly have control over our decisions? Or are we influenced by our social and economic environment? Psychologists have been hashing this out for years, but it’s also an important consideration in business.

When you conduct market research surveys to gather information and make decisions about your business, response bias almost certainly influences the results.

Put simply, response bias occurs when survey respondents aren’t entirely truthful in their responses — whether they realize it or not.

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