Good Intentions Gone Wrong: 7 Worst Practices in PPC
What most saa s marketers miss when split testing
1. What most SaaS marketers miss when
split testing
#SaaStest
2. Who are we?
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Elizabeth Yin
○ Co-founder LaunchBit, customer
acquisition platform for SaaS companies
○ ex Google marketer
○ BSEE Stanford
○ MBA MIT Sloan
3. Who are we?
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Josh Ledgard
○ Co-Founder KickoffLabs: Lead
generation with landing pages and email
marketing with a viral boost.
○ Former development Group Manager at
Microsoft
° Struggling Artist
○ Vanderbilt University
4. Today’s talk is on ...
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How to get more clicks at a cheaper price
in CPC ad networks
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What to split test
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How to test headlines for free
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Before you split test (landing page basics)
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Split testing best practices
5. How to get more clicks than your
competitors at a cheaper price in CPC
ad networks
Thursday, January 16th, 2014
12. Ok, so how do you improve click-through-rate?
digitalorganics.com.au
13. There are lots of things you can test...
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Copy, text, headlines
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Ad placement
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Color and images
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Text-only ads v. text and display
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Time of day, week, or month
19. Test your demographics
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Test your different ad creatives for different
demographics
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Determine which demographics give you
more clicks, impressions, and conversions
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Higher ROI and optimize your campaign
based on demographics
22. A #Twitter experiment
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Split tested headlines on twitter to see which ones got
higher CTRs
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Drove traffic to landing pages with tweets
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Tweeted two different headlines at the exact same times
on two different days
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Set up tweets in Buffer at specified, high engagement
times
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Which headlines did best?
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24. #Twitter experiment key takeaways
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Split testing is really HARD
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Most headlines didn’t yield statistically
different results
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You need to use statistics OR splittester.com
to find headlines that are statistically better
25. Best practices for building & testing
landing pages
Thursday, January 16th, 2014