by Craig Huey | Apr 25, 2019 | Advertising & Marketing, Blog, Test Results, Website/Landing Page Strategies and Tactics
Your ad isn’t aimed at everybody who sees it—just the prospects for your product. 75% of the success or failure of your digital ads, direct mail piece, landing page, video script is the headline. Use your headline and illustration to grab your prospects’ attention and... 
by Craig Huey | Apr 1, 2019 | Integrated Marketing, Latest Direct Mail, New Strategies and Tactics, Test Results
We recently did a test for a client that verifies what direct mailers already know: Don’t use online generated names for a direct mail campaign. Instead, use direct mail generated names. In this A/B test, direct mail generated names produced a 66% higher response than... 
by Craig Huey | Mar 20, 2019 | Advertising & Marketing, Successful Marketing Campaigns, Test Results, Uncategorized
Specific details get a better response. Your prospects want to see proof of your claim – in the form of statistics and percentages. This applies to your headlines, your body copy and your email subject lines. Take a look at the following test I ran for an email... 
by Craig Huey | Mar 5, 2019 | digital marketing, New Strategies and Tactics, Test Results
Getting a low cost-per-lead is a good indication that your Facebook ads are performing well. For every marketing campaign I run, I test Facebook ads with different images and copy, to see what will work the best for my clients. You might try to guess what will get the... 
by Craig Huey | Feb 5, 2019 | New Strategies and Tactics, Test Results
Testing is the backbone of direct response marketing. Always test. Test your subject line, copy and your graphics. There are hundreds of variables you can test that could help you boost your response. I recently did a campaign for a newsletter called Strategic... 
by Craig Huey | Jan 8, 2019 | digital marketing, New Strategies and Tactics, Successful Marketing Campaigns, Test Results
Testing is vital for email, banner ads, TV… every direct marketing campaign. If you can’t test it, don’t do it! Let’s look at the test results for a magalog – a direct mail piece that looks, feels and reads like a magazine. But it’s not. It’s a sales piece – an... 