What works best: text messages or email? Here are some great test results. The marketer is a direct-to-consumer wine company. First, most D2C wine marketers have an email list of around 10,000. The latest test results show an extensive SMS [...]
I’m an ardent advocate for setting quotation marks around your headline. Why? Because they grab attention. They add credibility and a newsy feel. They make you wonder who’s saying this and why? Best of all, they increase response, evidenced by [...]
Headlines make all the difference in your copy. Strong headlines that sizzle and show interest will bring in major response and profits. Bad headlines will kill your response and your sales. Check out this test and find out why some [...]
Everyone is attracted to the word FREE. However, sometimes it takes a little more than just one free offer to get your prospects to bite. Often when I speak at conferences, I’ll offer a free 15-minute consultation or a free [...]
SurfControl is a provider of corporate security software that came to me with a challenge: Help them sell their product, SuperScout, in a competitive market with such heavy hitters as Norton. To set SuperScout apart, we created a magalog that [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Determining price is crucial in your marketing if you are selling a product. A few cents can be the difference between a home run or a strike out. Case in point: American Express Publishing tested three price points for one of [...]
Testing copy is crucial to improving your response. Often, what you assume will generate the highest response is not always the case. I have tested hundreds of headlines in search of the highest return. Time and time again, when I [...]
Will videos on your web page help or hurt your response? Let’s take a look at a test that shows remarkable results: A consumer credit counseling service wanted to optimize its website/landing page subscription sign-up process. A radical redesign tested [...]
