{"id":5432,"date":"2012-02-27T06:00:31","date_gmt":"2012-02-27T14:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/?p=5432"},"modified":"2012-02-27T06:00:31","modified_gmt":"2012-02-27T14:00:31","slug":"internet-shocker-how-split-testing-ads-hurts-your-sales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/internet-shocker-how-split-testing-ads-hurts-your-sales\/","title":{"rendered":"Internet Shocker! How Split Testing Ads HURTS Your Sales"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hey, so this should rile up the goo-roo fanboys&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Check this out:<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m going to do an unusual test on my capture pages this week I anticipate will drive up my opt-ins quite a bit over time.<\/p>\n<p>What makes it unusual?<\/p>\n<p>Because this test involves LEAVING the losing pages up!<\/p>\n<p>Yes, mi amigo, you read that right.<\/p>\n<p>I learned it from my computer scientist pal.<\/p>\n<p>(The one I&#8217;ve been telling you about lately.)<\/p>\n<p>He LAUGHS at traditional split testing.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, here&#8217;s how he put it:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>&#8220;A lot of gurus who talk about their split tests, it is parroting in the first place because someone else told them they ought to be split testing. They don&#8217;t really split test. They run one test once and then they go, &#8216;We tested&#8230;and this big yellow frickin&#8217; button is the best-performing button out of all the buttons we tested.&#8217; The reality is they don&#8217;t even understand the basic thing about the way they&#8217;re measuring the split test. They don&#8217;t understand the statistics behind it. They don&#8217;t have any proper grasp of the scientific rigor that would go into an actual real scientific experiment, the procedure you go through to make sure that when you come to a conclusion, this really is correct, not just some radical guesswork that you justify.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Amusing, isn&#8217;t it?<\/p>\n<p>But don&#8217;t let his science talk scare you.<\/p>\n<p>The method he DOES use is actually easier in many ways than the split testing everyone else does.<\/p>\n<p>Perfect for newbies and luddites alike.<\/p>\n<p>And it&#8217;s great for both squeeze and sales pages.<\/p>\n<p>Want to learn it?<\/p>\n<p>Then get ye bootyus on the &#8220;Email Players&#8221; list.<\/p>\n<p>The above is an excerpt from the March issue&#8217;s bonus interview transcript with that computer scientist, and he goes into detail about how to do a proper online test.<\/p>\n<p>(And it ain&#8217;t hard at all.)<\/p>\n<p>But time is short, mi amigo.<\/p>\n<p>No dawdling allowed.<\/p>\n<p>This bad-boy goes to the printer in a couple days.<\/p>\n<p>If you want it in time, hurry.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe at this link:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.EmailPlayers.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.EmailPlayers.com<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ben Settle<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hey, so this should rile up the goo-roo fanboys&#8230; Check this out: I&#8217;m going to do an unusual test on my capture pages this week I anticipate will drive up my opt-ins quite a bit over time. What makes it unusual? Because this test involves LEAVING the losing pages up! Yes, mi amigo, you read [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,9,14],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-5432","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-copywriting-and-sales-letters","7":"category-email-marketing","8":"category-sales-marketing"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5432","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5432"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5432\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}