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...
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...
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...
Marketers can and should test every individual campaign to see where they can improve customer response and learn important information for the future. By testing only one variable (such as teaser copy, price, offer or format), you can see what makes a difference, and...
The fact is that the internet offers an easy and fairly inexpensive venue to try out everything — from a bold new concept, to comparing headlines, to very subtle little changes to see how they will affect response. We know of many marketers who routinely use their...
Sometimes even a few cents can have a big impact on sales. Case in point: American Express Publishing tested three price points for one of its publications. Three of the prices were within 5 cents of each other. The biggest range in price was 50 cents. But the results...
