Test and Re-test Your Marketing Efforts                 March 2010

Greetings!
 
Is it working?  Often just "doing marketing" is not enough, and does not bring you the results you desire.  Test your marketing plans, see what is working and eliminate what is not.  The following article talks about how to test your marketing strategies so you are using your time and marketing dollars wisely. 
 
Sincerely,
Stephen Fairley
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Not testing your marketing efforts is like going through an entire jury trial but neglecting to hear the verdict.   
 
Here's a great little litmus test to apply to your marketing efforts: 
 
If you can't measure it, you probably shouldn't be doing it.
 
I recommend you try to measure your every marketing effort and if you can't measure it, you probably shouldn't be doing it because you can never be sure about your results other than basing them on a feeling or your intuition.
 
Every marketing effort you make should have at least one to two things you are testing. For example:
 
Let's say you own a business law firm and you want to do some direct mailings to a seminar you are giving. You decide to send out 1000 postcards to prospects on your mailing list to invite them to sign up online.
 
Develop two postcards with two different headlines then divide your mailing list into two groups of 500 each and track the results by putting a different code word on the bottom of each group of postcards.

 

 

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Develop two postcards with two different headlines then divide your mailing list into two groups of 500 each and track the results by putting a different code word on the bottom of each group of postcards.
 
When prospects contact you to sign up ask them for the code word to track which headline produces better results.  You can use a similar strategy for many different marketing tactics.
 
For example, if you use email and Internet marketing strategies, create two different landing pages on your website with two different special reports or offers for a white paper and see which one "pulls in" more prospects to your email list.
 
Always look for ways you can test your efforts, but don't introduce too many variables at once because if you're trying to measure three or more variables you can never be sure which one is responsible for the results.
 
 
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