I bought Jim Stone's Split Test Accelerator back in late 2005.
Most likely one of the most important investments in my own marketing self-education I could have made…
Why?
Because conducting multivariate true taguchi split tests on landing pages and sales pages gives you a genuine experience of the optimisation process that no academic text book or random trial and error marketing promotions can ever give you.
These are questions as business owners we should know. I learned a lesson from a successful business guy many years ago who said to me ‘Treat it like a hobby — and you’ll get a hobby income. Treat it like a business — and you’ll get a business income’
My Financial Services client had a customer list of 30,000 names for a back-end (selling to existing customers) promotion. This particular promotion was loans for homeowners. The average size loan was £10,000. Up to that point they had been sending a similar email with no personalisation or compelling appeal that a good direct response copywriter [...]