Are you tired of mediocre open rates from your email campaigns? What if you could eliminate the frustration of guessing at subject lines and content that will gain the attention of your subscribers? Imagine getting great results the first time you send out an email. When it comes to email marketing split testing is a no brainer. Using this powerful tool, you can put your marketing strategies in overdrive.
Split testing sounds like a complicated procedure, but it is really quite simple to understand. The first step is taking a look at the information you are seeking to convey to your subscribers. You take that information and create two similar emails that are almost (but not quite) identical. Perhaps you slightly change the subject heading or alter the phrasing of a campaign slogan. The split comes when you send the two different versions of the email to a small sampling of your mailing list to see which campaign performs the best. Once you know which email receives the most favorable response you send the best performing campaign out to the remaining recipients.
The novelty of split testing is that you can take the results from your tests and evaluate which strategies were the most effective. Let’s say you varied your two emails by including a graphic in one that you did not include in the other. If the email including the graphic receives the most favorable results then you know that your readers respond to the graphic. You can then go on to include more graphic elements in future emails.
The more you split test, the more effective your email marketing will be. Don’t stop with just one test. Once you receive the results of the first one, immediately begin a new test that builds on the information you gathered. The more you learn about your subscribers’ tastes, the more your marketing will reflect the strategies that cater to them. This will increase traffic and encourage more effective marketing.
Today, split testing is being used in more ways than just email marketing. It is so effective that now people use it in website design and online advertising, as well. The usefulness of being able to test out different strategies before fully launching a campaign is invaluable. Don’t be left behind, eConnect Email has built split testing into our application so make use of it.
How do you go about split testing within eConnect Email 3.0?
1) First create the two variations of your email campaign which you would like to test
2) Now select “Create Split Test” from the “Email Campaigns” tab
3) Give you Split Test a name
4) Choose the two versions of the emails campaigns to use for testing
5) Select how a winner is chosen
6) Finally, select what kind of test to run
7) Now sit back, kick your feet up and let technology work for you.
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