My goodness Donald is incredible. I love his book but he's even more impressive speaking live. Awesome!!!

Thank you for posting this. His breakdown of the websites was invaluable. Good stuff!

Super video. Thanks! I looked up every website analyzed in this video and of the 4 sites featured, only one of them made the suggested edits (The first one), 1 switched to a corporate site and 2 did not make any of the suggested changes. That's kind of shocking, considering they were willing to have their websites reviewed, publicly, by Don and posted on KZfaq!

I'm late to the party with this guy but love it! These are the extra tips I needed.

This was so helpful! I really needed to hear all those examples and your suggested revisions. The book is great too.

Donald Miller is brilliant.

As of today, June 8, 2019, Victoria Clausen has indeed applied the Storybrand advice to her website, and I personally think it's better now! The only thing she did not do is differentiate quickly that she does not do catering and entertainment. However, it seems like people visiting her site would know that. She also has an extensive "what we do not to" section that Mr. Miller didn't like but that really clarifies things to the potential customer that will be reading the paragraphs on that webpage. (It is a bit wordy, but I think they'll read it anyway.) The Womble Company is ... I don't know what happened to their website. There is a Womble company that deals in metal pipes. The Womble company that deals in Pella Windows only showed up after I added windows to my search. However it took me on a wild goose chase through the BBB, some construction business association, on and on... but I think they took their website down and just work directly for Pella now. They were involved in winning a national Pella award for a submitted new-build so they are indeed good and they seem to still be in business. Metrogroup.com applied nothing of his advice. I don't understand why they submitted their website to be reviewed. Maybe for the free exposure of his local scrap recycling company to a national audience. (?) The site does rotate the "real estate" picture with two others, highlighting services they provide and why these services help companies. So that was good. The bad thing is that the pictures rotate (there are 3) faster than it takes to read the text. ForceSecurity.com literally did nothing that he suggested. There are a lot of words on their website, but since this is B2B perhaps this is why there isn't such a feeling of urgency to have "what we do and why this will help you" in a prominent place on the Home page.

I find it very interesting that none of these people took the advice - their sites all look the same 3 years later...... how could they not see the value? Apparently, they know more about marketing than Donald does I guess!

Mind-boggling. So, I was curious to see what their site(s) looked like now. Other than the floral lady, not one of these people made a single change Donald recommended to their website. The floral lady only made one change he recommended, completely negating the others.

it blows my mind how this business owners got a website review from Donald Miller and didn't make any change to their sites. It shows how ignorant they are about business and also arrogant, thinking they know better. I am so tempted to even write to them, to ask WHY?! that's why some businesses grow, some don't!

- Great Content from the Brilliant Donald! I like his teaching approach! . But to be precise about the Curse of knowledge Concept, I may add something here... " The Curse of Knowledge" was mentioned first by the Brothers Heath in their Valuable book " Made to Stick " Even the author of the book mentioned by Donald " The Art of Explanation", Lee Lefever wrote the following : . " ... To understand our problems in making assumptions, we can look at our decisions through the lens of the curse of knowledge, which is described in a book called Made to Stick by Chip and Dan Heath. The idea behind the curse of knowledge is that when we know a subject very well, we have a difficult time imagining what it is like not to know it ... " and then he continued: . " ... Here is an excerpt of an article by the authors from the Harvard Business Review: In 1990, a Stanford University graduate student in psychology named Elizabeth Newton illustrated the curse of knowledge by studying a simple game in which she assigned people to one of two roles: ‘‘tapper’’ or ‘‘listener.’’ So even the Authors referred the concept to Elizabeth Newton as Mentioned... . . I did a little research in Wikipedia about the origin of the term, and I found the following "The term "curse of knowledge" was coined in a 1989 Journal of Political Economy article by economists Colin Camerer, George Loewenstein, and Martin Weber. The aim of their research was to counter the "conventional assumptions in such (economic) analyses of asymmetric information in that better-informed agents can accurately anticipate the judgment of less-informed agents".[4] Such research drew from Baruch Fischhoff's work in 1975 surrounding hindsight bias, a cognitive bias that knowing the outcome of a certain event makes it seem more predictable than may actually be true.[5] Research conducted by Fischhoff revealed that participants did not know that their outcome knowledge affected their responses, and, if they did know, they could still not ignore or defeat the effects of the bias. " . . thank You for the content :)

This is amazing! So helpful, practical, and immediately useful.

This was a brilliant breakdown! Don is impressive!!!

excellent content, learned more in 32 minutes of the video than hours listening to internet gurus 😉

This is so great! I love Donald's reviews! Thanks for this!

How does this not have more views?

i just looked at all those sites in 2024 and those businesses look elevated.

Fantastic explanation on what we should do on a website.

The last security company website owner was like "f**k you, I ain't gonna change shit". 3 years after, the website is the exact same.

Only the first website made any changes, the rest just left it as is. What a missed opportunity!

Great info! Ordered the book, already implementing changes.

Great interview! thank you

Donald is awesome! Thanks!

Excellent insights, there are some great concepts here that every business can learn from.

Fabulous take- away. Thank you.

Love EntreLeadership and Donald Miller Question: Donald Miller said " make sales funnels different for contractors, different for architects" at 22:10 on video. How do those different sales funnels look on 1 website? What must be done differently??? Thanks

Thanks, it was really helpful watching the reviews.

I found this so helpful thank you guys so much

What kind of information do you guys suggest in the lead generator pdf?

What should I say for the 3 step plan for a funeral home website please?

Great video

I just checked these websites and it appears none of them really took his advice...

Genius

Hi i really need this check-list for building thé rank and rent model . Could you provide me thé template . It could be à great ressource for me . Thanks

Don’t equate Ramsey and Miller as being equal. Ramsey is a pure marketer and often offers misguided advice. Miller’s guidance is dead on.

Wow, still only one person changed their site [slightly], by changing one button. No one else changed a single thing. Probably because they spent thousands if not tens of thousands of dollars on site design and are locked in to spending more just to implement the changes. Better to stick with the devil you know regardless of how mediocre it may be.

I thought his reviews were half-fast. He didn't get into the branding or story at all. These are reviews that almost any web guy on craigslist could give. I wish he didn't talk so much.