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Hub You - Taghuchi Testing: Double Your E-Newsletter Conversions
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The trouble with this approach is that the number of different test panels needed rapidly gets out of hand. Even for th
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What’s more, if you’re like most people you’d be happy to improve those conversions a few percentage points on each e-newsletter. Well, what if there was a way to double or triple the number of conversions you receive?
Impossible?
There is way and the secret is to vastly improve your ability to test e-newsletter elements efficiently and effectively. The way to do that is Taghuchi design.
As a case study let’s consider putting a sales panel in your next e-newsletter to promote a new product or service. In trying to maximise conversions you have lots of options that you could test. You could test different subject lines, panel on left or right, top or bottom of newsletter, different panel headline, different panel images and different features promoted.
To do the testing direct marketers would traditionally have performed split mailings. That is, they would create a different test panel for each version of each option. Then send each different test panel to a different test cell before finally comparing results and selecting the best for the final mail-out.
The trouble with this approach is that the number of different test panels needed rapidly gets out of hand. Even for thi
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What’s more, if you’re like most people you’d be happy to improve those conversions a few percentage points on each e-newsletter. Well, what if there was a way to double or triple the number of conversions you receive?
Impossible?
There is way and the secret is to vastly improve your ability to test e-newsletter elements efficiently and effectively. The way to do that is Taghuchi design.
As a case study let’s consider putting a sales panel in your next e-newsletter to promote a new product or service. In trying to maximise conversions you have lots of options that you could test. You could test different subject lines, panel on left or right, top or bottom of newsletter, different panel headline, different panel images and different features promoted.
To do the testing direct marketers would traditionally have performed split mailings. That is, they would create a different test panel for each version of each option. Then send each different test panel to a different test cell before finally comparing results and selecting the best for the final mail-out.
The trouble with this approach is that the number of different test panels needed rapidly gets out of hand. Even for th
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There is way and the secret is to vastly improve your ability to test e-newsletter elements efficiently and effectively. The way to do that is Taghuchi design.
As a case study let’s consider putting a sales panel in your next e-newsletter to promote a new product or service. In trying to maximise conversions you have lots of options that you could test. You could test different subject lines, panel on left or right, top or bottom of newsletter, different panel headline, different panel images and different features promoted.
To do the testing direct marketers would traditionally have performed split mailings. That is, they would create a different test panel for each version of each option. Then send each different test panel to a different test cell before finally comparing results and selecting the best for the final mail-out.
The trouble with this approach is that the number of different test panels needed rapidly gets out of hand. Even for th
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To do the testing direct marketers would traditionally have performed split mailings. That is, they would create a different test panel for each version of each option. Then send each different test panel to a different test cell before finally comparing results and selecting the best for the final mail-out.
The trouble with this approach is that the number of different test panels needed rapidly gets out of hand. Even for th
It is estimated that Americans gave total charitable contributions of $260.28 billion for 2005, up 6.1 percent from the previous year. Individuals give the lion’s share, but at this time of year many companies dig deep to make charitable donations, too.Not only is it the right thing to do, it is also the smart business thing to do. But before you go off half-cocked in a charitable frenzy, let’s take a moment to calmly consider how best to proceed.Step one is to consider what you want your contributions to accomplish. I recommend tying giving to your
The trouble with this approach is that the number of different test panels needed rapidly gets out of hand. Even for this simple case, if we assume two versions of each option, we need to create 64 (2 x 2 x 2 x 2 x 2 x 2) test panels and have 64 test group cells. Even if you have enough test groups available, the time and effort to coordinate the process is very high.
Enter a new, old, approach. For many years engineers have had similar issues when trying to optimize manufacturing processes. For instance, what is the best combination of speed, pressure and temperature to achieve a specific thickness of metal coming out of a rolling machine? Rather than testing all of the possible combinations, engineers often use an approach called Taguchi design were you only test a few, carefully selected, versions and combinations. Using the results from these tests you can determine the best combination of all the versions of all the factors.
In our example that means rather than needing 64 test groups and test panels you could get away with as few as eight. Where’s the catch I hear you ask – well it has to do with the interaction of options. With just a few test cells you don’t get very much information on how headlines interact with locating the box on the left or the right. In many marketing cases the interactions between options is minimal so it is often not an issue.
On the upside, using Taguchi designs means you can substantially
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