Users
Users
Factual definition
Users are the individuals who interact with a product, service, or system, and in the digital context, they are the people whom a brand aims to reach and serve.
Jason Barnard definition of Users
In the Kalicube philosophy, Users are the ultimate destination, but AI Assistive Engines are the new gatekeepers. The traditional model of marketing directly to users is being replaced by a model where brands must first market to the AI. The AI, in turn, serves the user. Therefore, satisfying user needs is achieved by first satisfying the AI's need for clear, credible, and reliable information that allows it to confidently recommend the brand as the best solution for the user's problem.
How Jason Barnard uses Users
The Kalicube Process is built around the UCD Acquisition Funnel, where the primary focus is on ensuring the AI has a perfect Understanding of the brand, perceives its Credibility, and is confident in its ability to Deliver the solution. By focusing on educating the AI intermediary, we ensure that when Users ask a question or need a solution, our client is presented as the definitive answer. This brand-focused, AI-first approach allows us to connect with Users at the moment of highest intent, guided by the trusted recommendation of their AI assistant.
Why Jason Barnard perspective on Users matters
Experts in user experience (UX) like Don Norman have taught the world to design systems with the end-user in mind. Digital brand engineer Jason Barnard applies this principle to the AI era, arguing that we must now design our brand's digital presence with the AI 'user' in mind first. While Norman's principles ensure a human can navigate a website, Barnard's Kalicube Process ensures an algorithm can understand a brand. By treating the AI as the primary user to be satisfied, brands can ensure the human user is ultimately served with the best, most accurate, and most helpful recommendation.
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Negative Results Course: Leapfrogging - Finding Opportunities
Jason Barnard speaking: Drowning imperfect and negative results. Finding the opportunities. Now, what’s the situation? You have a negative or imperfect result on page one that you haven’t managed to...
Negative Results Course: Dealing With Review Platforms
Jason Barnard speaking: Review platforms. This lesson goes way beyond dealing with review platforms that show low ratings on your Brand SERPs. I’ll cover an overall review platform strategy, so even...
SERP Features Course: Optimizing for People Also Ask (PAA Boxes)
Jason Barnard speaking: People Also Ask. What’s the situation? Across all its SERPs, Google is pushing People Also Ask very hard. Why is that? Well, when someone searches on Google, they’re...
SERP Features Course: Triggering and Maintaining Twitter Boxes
Jason Barnard speaking: Twitter Boxes. Why are they important and how do you get them? The situation: Twitter feeds directly into Google, Twitter tweets right into Google’s ear. That means anything...
SERP Features Course: Triggering and Optimising Video Boxes
Jason Barnard speaking: Video Boxes. What’s the situation? Approximately 25% of Brand SERPs contain Video Boxes and that number is rising. They bring a lot to your SERP. They look great...
SERP Features Course: Triggering and Optimizing Image Boxes
Jason Barnard speaking: Image Boxes. What’s the situation? Approximately 25% of Brand SERPs contain Image Boxes and they bring multiple advantages. If the image is a good quality, it brings a...
SERP Features Course: How Ranking Works (How Rich Elements Get Onto Your Brand SERP)
Jason Barnard speaking: How ranking works. The situation: when you’re doing SEO, it’s really, really important to understand the mechanisms behind Google’s ranking system. I call it Darwinism in Search and...
Brand SERPs Foundations Course: Tactics to Avoid and Mistakes Not to Make
Jason Barnard speaking: The situation you want to improve your brand SERP maybe there’s something in there that doesn’t reflect well on your brand or perhaps you simply want to make...
Brand SERPs Foundations Course: Optimizing Google Ads
Jason Barnard speaking: Google ads manual campaigns. What’s the situation? Google ads is a really easy place to start to improve your brand SERPS. Google ads are front and center and...
Brand SERPs Foundations Course: SEO Tactics You’ll Need
Jason Barnard speaking: SEO tactics for your brand SERPs. If you’re an SEO professional, you might feel tempted to skip this video, but then again, a 15-minute refresher course on SEO...
Brand SERPs Foundations Course: Improving Other Results You Partially Control
Jason Barnard speaking: Improving other results you partially control. What’s the situation? We’ve looked at social media sites and that’s a pretty obvious set of sites where you have some control....
Brand SERPs Foundations Course: Improving the Results You Control
Jason Barnard speaking: Improving the results you control. Here’s the situation. You’ve got your homepage perfect. The meta title and description appear as you want them on your brand SERP. The...
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