Determining Likelihood of Confusion with PickFu

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Say you’re a coffee business and you want to create an iced, blended coffee drink similar to Starbucks’ beloved Frappuccino® Blended Beverage. Be careful what you name it. You don’t want to create likelihood of confusion.

Coffee Culture Cafe, a Canadian coffee franchise, knows this firsthand. Ten years after Starbucks introduced its now-iconic Frappuccino®, Coffee Culture Cafe launched a blended-ice coffee drink called the Freddoccino.

Freddoccino, Frappuccino®. The names and logos are different — but not that different.

Likelihood of confusion: Starbucks Frappuccino vs. Freddoccino
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Starbucks noticed, of course. Long story short, they took Coffee Culture Cafe’s parent company to court for trademark infringement, aiming to prove likelihood of confusion.

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Which One Won? Stranger things make for better fantasy book covers

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Have you ever wondered if pop culture trends can help you create fantasy book covers that sell? This week’s featured poll might help you decide.

An author recently split-tested two fantasy book covers on PickFu, asking a group of fiction readers, “Based on the cover, which epic fantasy novel would you buy?”

In Option A, a skeleton engulfed in birds towers over a person. In Option B, a giant squid-octopus monster rises out of the sea, facing down what appear to be a man and a woman.

  • fantasy book covers Option B

Can you guess which one won?

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Which One Won? Making murder mystery book titles fresh

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There are thousands and thousands of murder mystery book titles in the world. If you’re a mystery writer, this can be disheartening. How can your book find a home in that crowd?

The good thing is that people who love reading mysteries will always want more. You just have to make sure your murder mystery book title stands out.

That’s why one author brought two titles to PickFu for a round of split-testing with the simple question, “Which book would you buy?”

Here are the two options:

  • A Map for Murder, Option A
  • Murder at Packsaddle Mountain, Option B

Can you guess which one won?

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PickFu Thanksgiving Poll: What are you thankful for?

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Thanksgiving is a time for reflection. One of the holiday’s most enduring traditions — in a typical year, anyway — is to ask those gathered around the table what they are most thankful for.

This year is different, of course. Many of us have planned scaled-down festivities that may or may not include turkey and Zoom.

So we posed the question virtually, asking 50 people in a PickFu poll what they are most thankful for this year. Perhaps not surprisingly, being healthy was top of mind for most.

Read on for their responses, and post your answer in the comments below!

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How to Conduct E-commerce Website Testing with PickFu

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It would be terrible to launch your website only to discover hours (or minutes) later that something is wrong. Maybe there’s a glitch in your pricing or a huge typo in one of your product descriptions. The best way to prevent such a headache? Conduct a thorough round of e-commerce website testing.

E-commerce website testing includes functional testing, security testing, performance testing, database testing, usability testing, and mobile app testing. For more on these types of testing, check out this article.

One of the simplest types of e-commerce website testing that can help ensure your site is attractive, clean, and compelling before the world sees it is A/B testing, also known as split testing.

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Your Complete Guide to Monadic Testing

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Monadic testing is a research-based testing concept. But what is it and when should you use it? How should monadic testing complement other kinds of testing, such as focus groups or online surveys? This guide will answer these questions and more.

What is monadic testing?

Monadic testing is showing a product or concept to research respondents in isolation, as opposed to comparison testing where two or more products or concepts are shown to respondents at the same time.

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How to Pitch an App Idea

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Apps have become part of the fabric of our lives. We use them to wake up, read the morning news, seek out breakfast recipe ideas, and connect with friends. When we wait in grocery store lines or doctor’s offices, we play games, read books, or watch our favorite TV shows — all on our favorite apps. They’re so prolific that it seems we should all know how to pitch an app idea…right?

Not quite. They haven’t been around for that long, when you think about it.

We really only started using apps in earnest when the iPhone debuted in 2007.

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Which One Won? Self-help book covers that truly think outside the box

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It’s tough to pick a book cover that isn’t too similar to its counterparts, too bland, or too busy. That’s why PickFu is an excellent place to take your self-help book covers when your brain can’t handle the back-and-forth about which one is best anymore.

One author recently took to PickFu to decide between two book covers for nonfiction titled, The Way of the Intelligent Rebel: Succeed Outside the System, Teach Yourself Anything and Achieve Ultimate Freedom.

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Which One Won? The smart way to choose a pen name

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bell hooks. Mark Twain. Pablo Neruda. Maya Angelou. What do these four famous author and poet names have in common?

They’re all names of authors who decided to choose a pen name. Their “real” or original names: Gloria Jean Watkins, Samuel Clemens, Ricardo Eliecer Neftalí Reyes Basoalto, and Marguerite Annie Johnson, respectively.

Authors use pseudonyms for a variety of reasons. Neruda used a pen name to avoid bringing his family shame — they didn’t approve of his poetry.

bell hooks chose a name that honored her great grandmother, Bell Blair Hooks, but styled it in lowercase to shift attention toward her ideas more than her persona.

Whatever the reason, choosing a pen name can be hard.

PickFu can help.

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Your Guide to eBay Product Sourcing

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You’ve decided to plunge into the world of e-commerce, but there’s a problem: you aren’t sure how to get started with eBay product sourcing.

You might already be familiar with Amazon, but instead of sticking to items that can compete with Amazon’s strong gadget, name-brand toy, and book market, you want to sell items that are a little more obscure: sports cards, first-edition books, comics, or used electronics.

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