Luke Carthy
eCommerce Growth Consultant
Occasional calls to customer service about checkout problems went unresolved for over a year at this niche ecommerce company. Conventional wisdom was that the company's non web-savvy audience was making mistakes. Until Luke looked at the error log files. And yes, this has a lot to do with SEO.
How a “Simple” Point of View Made a £30,000/Day Difference
...prove the commercial value of a problem or task you have. It is easy to report a potential problem or log a request, but unless you can add context to the potential business impacts, your request ends up in a queue, like everything else. Whenever possible, I include the “commercial pain” with my reports, especially real dollar value or customer numbers affected. When it is painful enough, it encourages people to want it fixed right NOW.