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3 Real-Life Examples of Incredibly Successful A/B Tests

Hubspot

Whether you’re looking to increase revenue, sign-ups, social shares, or engagement, A/B testing and optimization can help you get there. But for many marketers out there, the tough part about A/B testing is often finding the right test to drive the biggest impact -- especially when you’re just getting started.

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SEO vs. PPC: Differences, pros, cons & an integrated approach

Search Engine Land

Dynamic ad copy Google's responsive search ads have 15 titles and four descriptions providing over 30,000 variations with built-in split testing. Visual product ads Where you sell a product, Google provides the option of visual shopping ads (product listing ads, or PLAs) that can help a user see what they will be clicking on.

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“Content Free” Content

Partners in Excellence

Did they think a pretty picture and an “Enroll” button was a minimum viable product? (I I even tried some experiments to see if I was being subjected to A/B testing–couldn’t see that I was.) ” We all know vaporware, perhaps this is nothing more than vaporware.

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QoS–Quality Of Service

Partners in Excellence

Whether it’s A/B testing, prototyping, lean development, we seem to be the victims of declining qualities of service in so many tools. Some suppliers have adopted a policy of having their products constantly in “Beta” as if that were a reasonable rationale for poor quality. . Performance degrades.

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How to Use Smoke Tests to Validate Your Product or Feature Ideas

ConversionXL

However, instead of being focused on “does it work properly” like programmers, marketers want to know “will it make me money” Trevor Lohrbeer of Teikametrics and Lab Escape defines a smoke test as… Trevor Lohrbeer , Teikametrics & Lab Escape: “A way to test market acceptance before creating a product.” (via

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Why Website Templates Are Not Optimized (and What to Do About It)

ConversionXL

Essentially, sell clients on the customization of a template or theme. Many (such as the aforementioned carousel) have been shown in many A/B tests to hurt your conversion rates. Think of website templates as a minimum viable product. A lot of optimization has to follow for it to be successful.

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7 Key Lessons I’ve Learned Working at CXL

ConversionXL

What’s the value of one A/B test victory if we’re operating in a culture that doesn’t value the experimentation process ? But you can take this idea a bit broader with the idea of minimum viable tests. I’m stealing the concept, of course, from the Minimum Viable Product ethos: Image Source.