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A/B Test Your Email Marketing

How to Get Started, What to Test and 20+ Apps to Help

A/B testing. The phrase itself sounds complicated and time-consuming—something that can really wait for another day. But it doesn't need to be that way. Modern web tools, like the 25 email marketing apps we recently reviewed, are often equipped with features that make A/B testing (also called split testing) as simple as scheduling a campaign or customizing a template.

Though there are all sorts of A/B tests you can run—mainly on the pages of your website—this post focuses on tweaking what ends up in your customers' inbox. Specifically, how to A/B test with the help of an off-the-shelf email marketing app such as MailChimp, AWeber or Campaign Monitor.

Before we show you exactly where to access testing features in your email marketing software—including A/B testing links for 20-plus apps—let's examine the basics of A/B testing: how it works, guidelines to follow, and email characteristics to test.

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• What is A/B Testing?
• How A/B Testing Email Works
• 10 A/B Testing Rules to Follow
• 10 Email Characteristics to Test
• 20+ Email Marketing Apps that Offer A/B testing

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What is A/B Testing?

Pretend you own a restaurant—the Chatterbox Café—and after a few months of flat revenue, you're tempted to change up your menu to see if has an impact on sales. You create a new menu where instead of just text, you include five pictures of your highest-priced items. That's the only change—everything else about the menu stays the same. You then make 25 copies of the new menu, placing them alongside the 25 copies of the original all-text menu, and then split your café down the middle—patrons on one side get the new menu, and everyone else gets the old menu.

After two days, you tally up the revenue and compare the two sides, pleasantly finding that the menus with the five pictures increased the average table ticket by 15%. You have a winner. Next stop: the copy machine.

That is an A/B test. You have variant "A", the menu with text only, and variant "B", the menu with the five pictures. Variant "A" is also often referred to as the "control"—the variant you've been using and keeping stats on. Returning to the example above, it's only because you knew the historical sales of your café's control menu that were you able to confidently say the new picture menu increased sales by 15%.

That example is an A/B test in a café, probably the last place internet marketers would think to apply an A/B test today. You're likely more familiar with testing your company's homepage—slightly changing the copy, picture or button color—with an aim to increase sign-ups or sales inquiries. The same can be done for your marketing emails, too, and it's not as complicated or laborious as it might seem.

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How A/B Testing Email Works

MailChimp's A/B Split Campaigns find the better variant for you and then use that version for the majority of your email list

Let's start with an honest admission: Before I dug into the A/B testing features provided by email marketing software, I fully expected I'd be manually setting up, executing and analyzing A/B tests. That is, I'd split my email list down the middle, send a control to one group, a variant to another, then watch the results come in.

But it's not like that at all. A/B testing just takes applying an extra bit of text to your email body copy, using an extra subject line field or setting up a second email and marking it as variant "B". Once you do that, your email marketing service takes care of the rest.

Here's a brief look inside three popular email marketing tools—MailChimp,AWeber and Campaign Monitor—to demonstrate just how easy it can be to get an A/B test up and running.

A/B Split Test From Names in MailChimp

MailChimp is one of the most widely-used email services in part because of its friendly brand that permeates the software. Its A/B testing tool, officially called "A/B Split Campaign", falls right in line with that branding: it's a convenient shortcut to better versions of your emails.

While some tools will make you conduct an A/B test on your full list, MailChimp lets you pull aside a sample—say, 3,400 emails from your 10,000 subscribers—and conducts an A/B test with just those folks. What percentage should you test? After seeing 7 years of testing results, the team at MailChimp recommends a test segment of 20%-50%—the smaller the list, the higher the percentage, too.

Once you've selected a percentage, MailChimp has you choose which metric it'll use to select the best version, which will be sent to the remaining email addresses on your list after your test reveals a winner.

Finally, you need to enter the details of your test. For this example, let's test thefrom name (the email sender's name). We want to find out which is better: using the company's name or a person's name?

After you've filled out the fields, send the test and let MailChimp take care of deploying the winning email—or use the "Manual" option to pick it yourself. Remember, the only difference between the two emails you've sent will be the "From Name"—a small but possibly important variant. If you had changed up anything else, such as the subject line and the from name, the results would be a mix of those two changes. This is commonly called an interaction effect (or confounding effect). Your stats are only good for that specific setup.

For more on MailChimp's A/B Split Campaign tool, which also allows you to test subject lines and send dates and times, read this MailChimp Knowledge Base article.

Split Test Call to Actions (CTAs) in AWeber

AWeber is another popular email app among marketers because of its ability to easily add contacts via WordPress, PayPal and Facebook. Once you've accumulated a list of more than 100 contacts, the email marketing tool lets you start A/B testing your communications—or as they call it, conduct a "Broadcast Split Tests." 100 contacts, they say, is the minimum to get statistically significant results.

Unlike MailChimp where the ability to A/B test a campaign is offered after you've written and designed your email, AWeber has you select Broadcast Split Test before you begin setting up your campaign.

From there, they give you the ability to create up to four variants—since you're A/B testing though, you'll want to select "2 messages"—and then enter the send percentage for each.

After doing so, you'll indicate which message editor you're going to utilize—the app's "drag and drop email builder", "plain text message" or "code your own HTML"—and then click "Save Split Test". You've now set up your split test structure; all that's left is your campaign's copy, design and scheduling.

At this point—writing and designing your email—you'll want to keep everything the same except for your call to action (CTA) link or button. If you're emailing your restaurant patrons about this month's special, for example, and your aim is to have them click-through and make a reservation, one email's call to action might say "Book a reservation" while the other says "Save a table for me!"

After you send the email, you'll see stats for the two versions roll in, and since you're concerned with subscribers visiting your reservations page, you'll want to pay attention to the "clicked" count. You can use these stats to decide which text is more enticing for your next email.

To see their full tutorial and video overview of a Broadcast Split Test, visit AWeber's Knowledge Base.

A/B Test Subject Lines in Campaign Monitor

Campaign Monitor prides itself on its well-designed and customizable email templates, something you'll get the chance to play around with when using theirA/B testing option.

Like MailChimp, Campaign Monitor does the work for you—after selecting what to test, enter the two versions, select the email content, and then decide on a subset of your list to send this test to. Campaign Monitor recommends sending to 20-30% of your list—in the screenshot below, for example, the marketing team plans to send emails to 17,820 respondents before a winner is named.

Testing subject lines with Campaign Monitor is quite easy, too. After selecting it from the interface above, you'll enter two subject lines in the two provided fields. That's it. Everything else about your email—from the sender name to the CTA text—will remain the same.

When you see the results, you'll want to hone in on open rate—in the test below, "Version A" is the winner.

See Campaign Monitor's A/B testing options by visiting their help documentation.

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10 A/B Testing Rules to Follow

In their A/B testing documentation, Campaign Monitor stresses that it's best to test your emails by either viewing a preview or sending yourself a campaign email.

"It's very important to test and check for errors of any kind before you start an A/B test because you cannot make any campaign changes when an A/B test is in progress," reads their documentation. With Campaign Monitor, that's an easy step to heed since before they allow you to send the emails, they show you acampaign snapshot—similar to a travel itinerary when you purchase a plane ticket—that includes these test options.

This is a good rule to follow when A/B testing, but it isn't the only one. Here are 10 A/B testing guidelines to consider before jumping into a test of your own.

1. Know What You're Testing and Why

What are you trying to improve about your marketing emails? Ask yourself that simple question before proceeding. At Zapier, we'd like to increase the click-through rate on our blog newsletter emails and amp up the open and click-through rates on our new user onboarding emails. If we hit those goals, we'd likely see more unique pageviews on our blog and a higher level of engagement with our app. So our "what" is increase open and click-through rates, and our "why" is to increase engagement.

What are you testing?

For the "what you're testing" question, you have two options—each has been mentioned in this chapter, but let's clearly define them:

Open Rate: This stat tells you how many of your subscribers open a particular email. It's expressed as a percentage and calculated by dividing the number of emails opened by the number of emails sent minus the number of emails bounced—bounced meaning the subscriber's email is no longer valid. A 30% open rate, for example, would mean that if 102 emails were sent and 2 bounced, 30 were opened.

Pay attention to the open rate when you're testing subject lines, sender names and message preview.

Click-Through Rate or Click Rate: Look to this number to learn how many of your subscribers clicked on a link in your body of your email to visit your site. This number is also expressed as a percentage and is calculated by dividing the number of subscribers who clicked a link by the number of emails sent minus the number of emails bounced.

Some email marketing software—such as Campaign Monitor (below)—lets you take this a step further, too, and hone in on a specific link in your body copy. This can be helpful if you have multiple links, such as a text link in the intro and a button link at the bottom, for the same landing page—now you can see which link is most effective. If your email marketing service doesn't offer this feature, rely on Google Analytics to tell you which link gets the most clicks by giving each link unique UTM parameters.

Pay attention to the click-through rate when you're testing call to action text and buttons along with body copy.

Why are you testing?

For the "why you're testing" question, it's really up to you. An increased click-through rate on a call to action in your onboarding email could mean higher revenue next quarter. An improved open rate for your emails could turn into a higher active user count, leading to more feedback on your product. It’s also important to make sure that metric will actually move the needle if influenced.

Also ask yourself what you'd like to learn from your tests. This list of outcomes offered by Campaign Monitor in an A/B testing case study offers some great questions to start with:

• Do long or short subject lines work best for my audience?
• Does including a number in the subject line get my audience to open emails?
• Does subject line personalization work for my audience?
• Should I phrase the subject line as a question rather than a statement?

No matter the objective, just be sure to identify it at the start of your testing.

See the industry norms for open and click-through rates in MailChimp's "Email Marketing Benchmarks" report.

2. Focus on Frequently Sent Emails

Hold up, you want to A/B test your "Happy Holidays!" email? Think again: you'll be waiting 12 months until you can put your results to good use.

A/B testing works best for perfecting frequently sent emails—at Zapier, our frequent emails include blog newsletters, new user onboarding emails, and error alerts. We send hundreds of thousands of those emails weekly; if we can increase the open or click rate by just 1%, that's a major win. So back to that holiday greeting idea—sure you might send it to your full email list of 55,000 email addresses, but what are you going to do with the results? Email services and clients change so frequently, it's unlikely that what you learn can be applied to whatever you send next year. The key challenge with frequent emails is making sure that sample sizes are enough for the inference you’re trying to make, Evan Miller offers a helpful calculator to find your minimum sample size per group.

3. Split Your List Randomly

If your email marketing software doesn't offer A/B testing—or you want to spin up a manual test on your own—remember to split your subscribers randomly. One way to do this is to download your list as a CSV and randomly sort it using Excel. Or, you can simply arrange it alphabetical order with any spreadsheet software, slicing it up from there. Luckily most email marketing apps will handle this step for you.

4. Make Bold Changes

The struggle with A/B Testing in general is having a large enough sample size. However, there’s a lever that can be applied to remedy this problem. The larger the difference in effect between emails, the smaller the sample size can be. Therefore, test highly divergent variants. For example, plain-text versus HTML emails, or "one prominent link" versus "everything is a link." Just try to learn the lay of the land by turning "big knobs"—save finer adjustments for later.

5. Test Just Two Variants

Since sample size is our biggest challenge, we want to avoid things that will explode the necessary participants. Sample size requirements will explode as variants are added, so unless you’re consistently testing over 100,000 in each variant, keep it to two variants.

6. Wait 4-5 Days

In our experience at Zapier, a single email's effect declines sharply, petering out around day 4 to 5 after being sent.* If your email has no effect after 5 days of waiting, it’s not likely to ever have any meaningful difference. 4-5 days is a good rule of thumb, otherwise you might destroy your experiment.

* Statistician's Note: Given the tools being used are Frequentist—they almost certainly are, if not you’ll see the phrase "Bayesian" everywhere—you only get to look at results once. The reason is that the p-value is only valid for one peek at that point it expires (in terms of statistical validity). Zapier’s data scientist Christopher Petersrecommends waiting a "representative time," that amounts to the amount of time you’d be willing to wait.

7. Check if Results are Statistically Significant

You dispatch your A/B test to your 65,000 subscribers and it comes back that 5,400 of them opened the "A" version and 5,500 of them opened the "B" version. B's the winner, right? Not so fast. Just as new reporters have a tough time calling a political race on election night, you too should you be slow to call a winner in your A/B test. The best step to check if your results are statistically significant is to use one of the many free calculators online. Visual Website Optimizer, an app for A/B testing your website, has a simple free significance calculator (pictured) that serves up a quick answer. When using it for email, consider "visitors" as "subscribers".

8. Make Sure It's a Meaningful Effect

Statistical significance is a statement about the repeatability of your result, not the extent to which it moves the needle. It’' very important to ask yourself, will this change really impact an aspect of the business that is cared about? It’s possible to achieve statistical significance while having no real effect on the bottom-line. This might mean new landing pages with more relevance for customers or a better UX on the landing page.

9. Act on Your Results

And the significance calculator says… "yes", your results are statistically significant. Moreover, they're meaningful because you were careful to check that they could be ahead of time. Score! Since hopefully your variants were divergent, you might have learned something big about email marketing. Zapier's Peters suggests trying to replicate the experiment to to see if the effect is repeatable. If you reach this point, you're really onto something. You can install your divergent variant —this is now your "champion." Now repeat with a new "challenger" that is again divergent to the new champ. You're well on your way!

10. A/B Test Again

Customer behavior never stops changing, and neither should your A/B tests. If you've increased your click-through rate, challenge yourself to spike your open rate. If you bumped your open rate with a better subject line, consider changing up the message preview. If your message preview is perfected, change up the sender.

Out of testing ideas? That's what we'll cover next.

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10 Email Characteristics to Test

1. Change the From Name / Sender Name

HubSpot saw a higher email click-through rate when it sent a campaign using a team member's name as the from name—"Maggie Georgieva, HubSpot"—versus their company name.

"Our control generated a 0.73% CTR (click-through rate), and the personalized version generated a 0.96% CTR. With a confidence level of 99.9%, we had a clear winner," says marketer Bryan Harris in a video on the HubSpot blog. "Our conclusion after conducting this A/B test was that emails sent by a real person are more likely to be clicked on than emails sent from a company name."

From Name / Sender Name Variants to Test

• Company - Zapier
• Company newsletter - Zapier Blog
• Company department - Zapier Support
• Team member name - Wade Foster
• Team member name and title - Wade Foster, CEO
• Team member name and company - Wade Foster (Zapier)
• Team member first name only - Wade
• Team member first name and company - Wade from Zapier

2. Try Shorter, Longer and Simple Subject Lines

CoSchedule, a content planning and scheduling tool, used Campaign Monitor to identify the best title length for their popular newsletter, "The Content Marketing Update". What they found, as told in a Campaign Monitor blog post, is that longer titles received higher open rates. Specifically, the blog post stated, "shorter subject lines were less successful for (CoSchedule) than longer ones, and that around between 40 and 50 characters was their sweet spot."

So 40-50 characters? That's a pretty long subject line. <— this is 47 characters

Subject Line Variants to Test

• Length - "Longer email subject lines work better than shorter, here's why" versus "Longer email subject lines win"
• Simple and straightforward versus detailed versus over the top - "Get to the point" versus "See the A/B test that proves once and for all shorter emails are better"
• Answer versus question - "Red call to action buttons works better than blue buttons" versus "Which works better: red or blue call to action buttons?"
• Non-urgent versus urgent - "Save 50% off your subscription" versus "6 hours left to save 50%"
• Negative versus positive - "10 habits that kill productivity" versus "10 ways to boost your productivity"
• Use of numbers - "9 ways to delight your customers" versus "How to delight your customers"
• Use of an exclamation point - "Thanks for signing up" versus "Thanks for signing up!"
• Use of symbols or emoticons - "How to delight your customers" versus "How to delight your customers :)"
• Use of company name, company newsletter name or company department name - "Five new features for you" versus "Five new Zapier features for you"
• Use of company team member name (first last or only first) "A message from our CEO" versus "A message from our CEO Wade Foster"
• Use of customer name (first last or only first) - "Welcome to Zapier!" versus "Welcome to Zapier, Lloyd Christmas!"
• Sentence case versus title case versus all lowercase - "How Zapier writes copy that converts" versus "How Zapier Writes Copy That Converts" versus "how zapier writes copy that converts"

3. Mess Around with the Message Preview / Preheader

The message preview (highlighted above) is an easy to overlook part of an email campaign, one that I'll admit we've missed making the most of on several occasions. The little snippet of text that shows in your inbox—also called the email preheader—is often customizable using your email marketing client. But beware: your email subject lines and message preview could butt heads, depending on the email client your customers are using. Gmail, for example, puts the title first and then the message preview. Mobile email apps, on the other hand, will list the title with the message preview below. Either way, you don't have too many characters to work with.

A/B testing this could be cumbersome, since it might require manual testing, but it will be worth the effort. Think to yourself: how often do you read that little piece of copy to help decide if a new newsletter is worth reading or not?

Message Preview / Preheader Variants to Test

• Pull in the copy from the first line of the email - "Hello there, welcome to Zapier! You're joining thousands of people who use our tool to automate time-consuming tasks …"
• Offer a very short summary - "Welcome to Zapier, I'm excited to show you how you can start automating your work."
• Supply the call to action - "Here are 101 ways you can start automating your work."

4. Give Plain Text a Go

Sometimes simple is refreshing. That can be the case when you get an email in plain-text format, rather than a flashy, over-designed newsletter—plain-text emails feel like something you would get from a friend.

Unbounce points out that the plain-text format worked best for the Obama 2012 team.

"I think it gave the impression that there were real people writing these emails, that it wasn’t focus-grouped to death. It was something more off the cuff," saysAmelia Showalter, the campaign's director of analytics.

5. Personalize the Subject Line or Salutation

Hey reader! If I knew your name, I'd have inserted it there. Unfortunately, I don't, which is one reason I've been cautious of personalizing emails in the past—not all subscribers supply their first and last names. But besides testing emails with names, think about testing personalization in other ways, too.

Email marketing app Vero, for example, personalized an email by employing a term they felt had a better chance of striking their audience.

• A: [Vero] The free trial ending email that works
• B: The free trial ending email that converts

"The word 'converts' resonates more with Vero’s (conversion rate optimization)-focused audience and resulted in a 15% increase in opens and a 50% increase in clicks," writes marketer Siddharth Bharath on the Vero blog.

Personalization Variants to Test

• Use your customer's first and last name in subject line and/or salutation - "Welcome to the Zapier Premium Plan, Jess Byrne!"
• Use your customer's first name in subject line and/or salutation - "Hey Jess"
• A combination of the above
• Use your customer's persona in the subject line - "Why marketers read less"
• User terms that resonate with your audience - "The free trial ending email that converts" (above)
• Use "you" versus don't use "you" - "How you can be more productive today" versus "How to be more productive today"

6. Rework the Body Copy

"Cut the length of your email copy in half. Now cut it in half again."

That's the top-voted piece of advice on a GrowthHackers thread titled, "Ask GH: In two sentences or less, what’s your single best email marketing tip, trick, hack or piece of advice?"—it was offered by Morgan Brown, a marketer at GrowthHackers.

It shouldn't be a surprise to see that recommendation in the top spot. It's a safe bet that you—like the rest of us—don't often care for long emails.

But what else can you do to your email body copy beyond length to start A/B testing it? How about trying a new format? That's what the team from Flightfoxdid—instead of the usual chunks of copy, they used a question-and-answer format.

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The result: Flightfox doubled their conversion rates, according to a case study by Vero, a lifecycle email marketing app.

"The original email had relatively high open and click through rates but was converting at a rate of 1.6%. This was an excellent start but there was certainly room for improvement," Vero states.

"With their new copy, Flightfox have been able to increase their conversion rate to 3.2%. A fantastic result that has an instant effect."

Body Copy Variants to Test

• Shorter versus longer
• Bullet points
• Numbered list
• Question and answer format
• Only one sentence and a call to action

7. Play Around with Images

Which of the above emails draws you in? If you're like the users of Unhaggle, the company behind the featured emails, it's the one on the right. After A/B testing these two, click through rates increased by 378%, according to a case study by Vero.

"Here’s a snapshot direct from Unhaggle’s email provider," Vero's founder Chris Hexton writes on their blog. "The changes they made in the second campaign helped Unhaggle achieve a massive 32.4% click through rate. This is one of the highest click-rates we’ve seen recently"

Hexton credits three items for the success of the email—images that stir up emotions, punchy, short body copy and clear prices to see the savings.

While this is a success story in images, it's also an A/B test case study that can serve as an example of what happens when you change up too many items in an email. If Unhaggle had only inserted images, they could have narrowed in on more images making an impact on click-through rates. Now their results, however, lead them to continue testing to conclude which of the three characteristics impact the most customer decisions.

Image Variants to Test

• One versus multiple images
• Text on image
• Screenshot of a video
• Call to action incorporated in image versus call to action separate of image
• Animated GIF

Pro Tips: Heed the advice of email testing app Litmus: Use JPEG or GIF for the best chance of having your pictures show in your customers' email clients. Be sure to alsoenter ALT text—what shows up in place of an image—just in case the images don't load in your customers' email clients. For more on image formats in emails, see Litmus' post, "PNG, GIF, or JPEG? Which is the Best Image Format for Email?"

8. Modify the Design

3-4 seconds. That's it. That's the length of time Litmus says you have to grab a customer's attention when they open up your email. So what better way to grab it then with a design that appeals to their eye?

Moreover, your design needs to be ready to be viewed on mobile, too. Email marketing app Movable Ink found that an astonishing 61% of brand emails are now viewed on smartphone and tablets. So testing responsive design is almost a must now; larger text and clearer call to actions are good places to start.

Pro Tip: To test every email client that your marketing campaign could ever be viewed in, try out a tool like Litmus.

9. Tweak the Call to Action (CTA)

Try Zapier Now!

or…

Try Zapier Now!

or, maybe…

Start Automating Your Work!

Which one do you want to click? That's your goal here—how many different ways can you write a call to action. Not only write it, but present it, too: should it be text link or a button? Should it go at the top of the email or the bottom? Or both?

Email call-to-action A/B tests conducted by live chat app Zopim found four factors that were present in winning CTAs. Abhiroop Basu, the company's content strategist explained these characteristics in a blog post.

• More than one call to action helps if your email is longer than a few paragraphs - "Ideally, you want to ensure the reader does not have to scroll up or down to find a CTA. In our emails, the ideal number of CTAs was 2, evenly spaced out within the email."
• Call to actions in capital letters worked well - "We didn’t want to spam our readers with ALL CAPS CTAs, but we found that for some reason these performed the best."
• Call to action text should be easily legible - "Another way to put it is to ensure your CTAs don’t have too many characters (90–150 characters is the sweet spot)."
• Call to actions should be concise and to the point. "In our case having 2 words in the CTA worked the best (i.e., “FREE UPGRADE” and “UPGRADE NOW”). Additionally, MathOffice.com found that adding value to the CTA could increase conversion by 14.79%—so make it interesting."

Call to Action Copy and/or Button Variants to Test

• Shorter versus longer - "Go!" versus "Start Automating Your Web Apps!"
• Sentence case versus title case versus all lowercase versus all uppercase - "Try the new feature" versus "Try The New Feature" versus "try the new feature" versus "TRY THE NEW FEATURE"
• Exclamation point or no exclamation point - "Get started" versus "Get started!"
• Italicize versus bold versus underline
• Size of font or button

10. Switch Up the Delivery Day and Time

GetResponse examined 300 million messages to identify the most popular day to send email

What if your received the Zapier blog newsletter every Sunday night at 8 p.m. EST? Would you be more or less likely to open up that message and click the link to read our latest post?

Testing for the optimal day and time is hard—especially as online businesses cater to customers and subscribers around the globe—but the question of when it's best to send emails continues to plague marketers. So there are two routes to take: stick to the stats or follow your gut.

If you listen to the stats, a good place to start is GetResponse's recent look at 300 million messages. It showed that Tuesday is not only the most popular day to send emails, but also the day with the highest open and click-through rates, as well.

If you follow your gut instead, you're in good company. On the Crazy Egg blog, marketer Neil Patel offers this advice:

Everyone wants to know, but precious few actually test it. Save yourself some time, spare yourself some grief, and give yourself a break.

You see, there’s no stock answer to the question “what time is best?” Like everything else in marketing (and life), the true answer is it just depends.

If, for example, you send your email at 7:30 a.m., Patel says, you might think you'll get higher click-through rates because professionals are checking their email. But there's a catch, he warns. "They feel rushed, open your email, but may not have time to respond to your offer. Sure, you get high CTRs, but your conversions are awful."

So instead try 4:30 p.m., when Patel says employees are bored at work, winding down and possibly looking for a distraction. "They may see your email, open it, and be more likely to convert. Fewer opens? Maybe. Higher conversions? Yes."

Delivery Date and Time Variants to Test

• Day of the week
• Time of day

For more testing ideas, see EmailMonday's "150+ fresh A/B email split testing ideas you can use today".

Start A/B Testing Your Emails Today

GetResponse offers multiple options when it comes to A/B testing

You should now have the confidence to go out and conquer any customer's inbox… well, maybe not conquer, but at least A/B test for increased open and click-through rates. To get you started fast, here are quick links to A/B testing features provided by some of the more popular email marketing services.

• ActiveCampaign - Split Testing
• AWeber - Broadcast Split Tests
• Benchmark Email - AB Testing
• Campaign Monitor - A/B testing option
• Constant Contact - Email AB Testing
• Customer.io - A/B Test
• E-goi - A/B split testing
• Emma - Subject line split testing
• FreshMail - A/B split testing
• GetResponse - A/B Testing
• HubSpot - A/B testing
• iContact - Email Split Testing
• Infusionsoft - Split Testing
• Intercom - A/B testing
• Mad Mimi - Compare Stats
• MailChimp - A/B Split Campaign
• MailUp - A/B Test
• Mailigen - A/B Split Test
• Pardot - A/B Testing
• Vero - A/B test
• VerticalResponse - Split Test
• Vision6 - A/B testing

Next

Now that you've got an email marketing tool and a strategy to make great emails that get opened, it's tempting to get right to work and stop reading right here. But don't leave just yet, or otherwise you might end up making one of the many common mistakes that are made with email marketing. In chapter 11, we'll look at21 of the worst email marketing mistakes, and how you can avoid making them in your own work.

Go to Chapter 11!

Written by Danny Schreiber

Image credits: Screenshots from respective app help documentation pages. AWeber results screenshot via Basic Blog Tips. Unhaggle email screenshots courtesy Vero.

resource : https://zapier.com/learn/ultimate-guide-to-email-marketing-apps/ab-testing-email-marketing/

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Need a professional writer? Fiction and non-fiction? contact richard.nata@yahoo.co.id

Let me introduce myself. My name is Richard Nata. I am an author, novelist, blogger and ghost writer. My articles, including short stories have been published in magazines and newspapers since 1994. I have written a lot of books, both fiction and non-fiction. So I was a professional in the field of writing, both fiction and non-fiction.

I was born in Jakarta, August 17, 1968.  

In 1988, at the age of 20 years, I started working as an accounting staff. Age 24 years has occupied the position of Finance Manager. Age 26 years as a General Manager.

In 1994, my articles published in magazines and tabloids.

In 1997, I wrote a book entitled "Buku Pintar Mencari Kerja". This book is reprinted as much as 8 times. Through the book, the authors successfully helped tens of thousands of people get jobs at once successful in their careers. They were also successful when moving to work in other places.

In 1998, I started investing in shares on Bursa Efek Indonesia (Indonesia stock exchange). As a result of investing in the stock market then I can provide consulting services for companies that want to go public in Indonesia stock exchange.

more information :

1. IPO KAN PERUSAHAAN ANDA DI BEI, TRIK TERCEPAT MENJADIKAN ANDA SEORANG KONGLOMERAT. brand, ideas, story, style, my life: IPO KAN PERUSAHAAN ANDA DI BEI, TRIK TERCEPAT MENJADIKAN ANDA SEORANG KONGLOMERAT.

				brand, ideas, story, style, my life: IPO KAN PERUSAHAAN... Jika Bapak/Ibu ingin konsultasi mengenai perusahaan Go Public, dikenakan fee. - lewat email Rp. 300.000,- ( per 1 atau 2 kali email ). Email ketiga dan seterusnya d...
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2. JASA KONSULTAN GO PUBLIC ( IPO ) DI BURSA EFEK INDONESIA. 

brand, ideas, story, style, my life: JASA KONSULTAN GO PUBLIC ( IPO ) DI BURSA EFEK INDONESIA

				brand, ideas, story, style, my life: JASA KONSULTAN GO P... JIKA ANDA INGIN MENGGO PUBLICKAN PERUSAHAAN ANDA MAKA SEBAGAI PERUSAHAAN TERBUKA ANDA HARUS BERSIH DALAM HAL PAJAK.
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In 2015, Richard Nata revise the "Buku Pintar Mencari Kerja" became BUKU PINTAR DAPAT KERJA GAJI TINGGI PINDAH KERJA GAJI SEMAKIN TINGGI

BUKU PINTAR DAPAT KERJA GAJI TINGGI PINDAH KERJA GAJI SEMAKIN TINGGI made by retyping the book BEST SELLER of the author, entitled “Buku Pintar Mencari Kerja”. This ebook available on google play.

In 2015, I had the idea of a startup company where the readers can decide for themselves the next story. WASN'T THIS A GREAT IDEA? IF can be realized WILL BE WORTH billions USD. Because CAN PRODUCE FOR MILLIONS OF DOLLARS even tens of millions USD annually. 

In theory, in 10-20 years into the future, my startup income, amounting to hundreds of million USD annually can be obtained easily. AND IF FOLLOWED BY MANY COMPANIES IN THE WHOLE WORLD WILL THEN BE A NEW INDUSTRIAL worth trillions USD. 

To be honest. Currently I'm not having a lot of money. So I start marketing my startup with blogspot.

My STARTUP :

A story with millions of choices in it - looking investor like you.

Start reading a story with millions of choices in it here. 

Try to imagine this. When you're reading a story on the web or blog, you are given two choices. You can choose the next story based on your own choice. After selecting then you can continue reading the story. Shortly afterwards you will be presented back to the 2 other options. The next choice is up to you. Then you continue the story you are reading. After that you will be faced again with 2 choices. So onwards. The more stories you read so the more options you have taken.

If you feel curious then you can re-read the story by changing your selection. Then you will see a different story with the story that you have read previously. The question now is why is this so? Because the storyline will be varying according to your choice. 

I, as the author is planning to make tens of thousands of articles with millions of choices in it. With tens of thousands of articles then you like to see a show of your favorite series on TV for several years. The difference is while watching your favorite TV series, then you can not change the story. Meanwhile, if you read this story then you can alter the way the story according to your own choice.

You might say like this. Sounds like a book "choose your own adventure". Books I read when I was young.

Correctly. The idea is taken from there. But if you read through a book, the story is not so exciting. Due to the limited number of pages. When a child first you may already feel interesting. But if you re-read the book now then becomes no fun anymore because you don't get anything with the amount of 100-200 pages. 

Have you ever heard of game books?  When you were boy or girl, did you like reading game books? I think you've heard even happy to read it.

Gamebooks are sometimes informally called choose your own adventure books or CYOA which is also the name of the Choose Your Own Adventure series published byBantam Books. Gamebook - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

		Gamebook - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia A gamebook is a work of fiction that allows the reader to participate in the story by making effective choices. The narrative branches along various paths through the use of numbered paragraphs or pages.
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Bantam Books with the Choose Your Own Adventure 

series has produced more than 250 million US 

dollars. While I offer you more powerful than the Choose 

Your Own Adventure. Because of what? Because the 

story that I made much more interesting than the stories 

created by the authors of Bantam Books. You will not get anything just to 100-200 pages. While the story that I created is made up of tens of thousands of articles with millions of choices in it.

For comparison are the books published with the theme "choose your own adventure" produces more than 250 million copies worldwide. If the average price of a book for 5 USD, the industry has produced more than 1.5 billion USD. But unfortunately this industry has been abandoned because the reader begins to feel bored. The last book was published entitled "The Gorillas of Uganda (prev." Search for the Mountain Gorillas ")". And this book was published in 2013.

Based on the above, then you are faced with two choices. Are you interested in reading my story is? Or you are not interested at all. The choice is in your hands.

If you are interested then spread widely disseminated this article to your family, friends, neighbors, and relatives. You can also distribute it on facebook, twitter, goggle +, or other social media that this article be viral in the world. By doing so it is a new entertainment industry has been created.

Its creator named Richard Nata.

The full articles that talks about this: 

1. A Story That Surprised The World.  http://richardnata.blogspot.com/2015/03/a-story-that-surprised-world.html

2. Set yourself the next story.  http://richardnata.blogspot.com/2015/01/tentukan-sendiri-jalan-cerita.html

3. a story with so many choices.  http://richardnata.blogspot.com/2015/02/a-story-with-so-many-choices.html

4. A story with tens of thousands of articles.  http://richardnata.blogspot.com/2015/03/a-story-with-tens-of-thousands-of.html

5. A story with millions of choices in it. http://richardnata.blogspot.com/2015/03/a-story-with-millions-of-choices-in-it.html

6. My story will be written in Indonesian and English. http://richardnata.blogspot.com/2015/04/my-story-will-be-written-in-indonesian.html

7. Similar but not the same. http://richardnata.blogspot.com/2015/05/similar-but-not-same.html

8. You are the main character in the story you are reading. http://richardnata.blogspot.com/2015/02/you-are-main-character-in-story-you-are.html

9. life and death, blessing and cursing, from the main character in the hands of readers. http://richardnata.blogspot.com/2015/03/life-and-death-blessing-and-cursing.html

10. Preparing a story carefully. http://richardnata.blogspot.com/2015/02/preparing-story-carefully.html

11. Read me first ! Guide for readers. http://richardnata.blogspot.com/2015/05/read-me-first-guide-for-readers.html

12. Before starting to write the story, the authors also get a lot of choices. http://richardnata.blogspot.com/2015/04/before-starting-to-write-story-authors_18.html

13. makna mendalam dari logo "ai" usaha gue. ha...7x http://richardnata.blogspot.com/2015/04/makna-mendalam-dari-logo-ai-usaha-gue.html

14. Tip menulis hebat ala richard nata. http://richardnata.blogspot.com/2015/04/tip-menulis-hebat-ala-richard-nata.html

15. How to make a story with tens of thousands of articles? http://richardnata.blogspot.com/2015/03/how-to-make-story-with-tens-of.html

16. Read a story with a lot of choices on the web or blog is far more interesting than reading a book or books. http://richardnata.blogspot.com/2015/02/read-story-with-lot-of-choices-on-web.html

17. In 10-20 years into the future to read the story in a book will be abandoned. http://richardnata.blogspot.com/2015/02/in-10-20-years-into-future-to-read.html

18. Startup with earning millions - tens of millions of dollars annually. http://richardnata.blogspot.com/2015/02/startup-with-earning-millions-tens-of.html

19. Start-up strategy in order to earn millions to tens of millions of dollars annually. http://richardnata.blogspot.com/2015/02/start-up-strategy-in-order-to-earn.html

20. Why do I need startup funds from investors? http://richardnata.blogspot.com/2015/05/why-do-i-need-startup-funds-from.html

21. slow but sure vs acceleration. http://richardnata.blogspot.com/2015/05/slow-but-sure-vs-acceleration.html

  

22. Looking for investors for startup that produces millions to tens of millions of dollars annually. http://richardnata.blogspot.com/2015/02/looking-for-investors-for-startup-that.html

23. Open offer letter to investors. http://richardnata.blogspot.com/2015/04/open-offer-letter-to-investors.html

24. Why should you invest in my startup? http://richardnata.blogspot.com/2015/02/why-should-you-invest-in-my-startup.html

25. Why you should invest your money right now? http://richardnata.blogspot.com/2015/05/why-you-should-invest-your-money-right.html

26. If a story can generate tens of millions of US dollars, then what if made many stories? http://richardnata.blogspot.com/2015/02/if-story-can-generate-tens-of-millions.html

27. Conclusion: In theory, in 10-20 years into the future, my startup income, amounting to hundreds of million USD annually can be obtained easily. http://richardnata.blogspot.com/2015/02/conclusion-in-theory-in-10-20-years.html

28. Summary of my startup. http://richardnata.blogspot.com/2015/03/summary-of-my-startup_48.html

29. Start reading the story here. http://richardnata.blogspot.com/2015/05/start-reading-story-here.html

 Why do I need startup funds from investors?

WHY DO I NEED STARTUP FUNDS FROM INVESTORS? I NEED A LOT OF FUNDS FROM INVESTORS BECAUSE I HAVE TO LOOKING FOR EXPERT PROGRAMMERS(IT).BECAUSE THE DATA IS HANDLED IS VERY LARGE, IT MAY HAVE TO WEAR SOME PROGRAMMERS(IT).

I CAN NOT WEAR SOME FREELANCE PROGRAMMER BECAUSE THE DATA MUST BE MONITORED CONTINUOUSLY FROM VIRUSES, MALWARE, SPAM, AND OTHERS.

IN ADDITION FUNDS FROM INVESTORS IS ALSO USED TO BUY SERVERS WITH VERY LARGE CAPACITY. FUNDS ARE ALSO USED TO PAY EMPLOYEE SALARIES AND OPERATIONAL COSTS OF THE COMPANY.

FUNDS CAN ALSO BE USED FOR ADVERTISING AND OTHER MARKETING STRATEGIES.FUNDS CAN ALSO BE USED TO ADVERTISE MY STARTUP AND OTHER MARKETING STRATEGIES.

IF I GET A VERY LARGE FUND, THE PART OF THE FUNDS USED TO TRANSLATE THE STORY INTO VARIOUS LANGUAGES.With more and more languages, the more readers we get.

WITH MORE AND MORE READERS, THE MORE REVENUE WE GET. 

AS AN INVESTOR THEN YOU DO NOT HAVE TO FEEL ANXIOUS ABOUT YOUR FUNDS. BECAUSE YOUR FUNDS WILL NEVER BE LOST BECAUSE IN 3-5 YEARS YOU HAVE RETURNED THE FUNDS COUPLED WITH PROFIT.

Why should you invest in my startup?

THIS BUSINESS IS ONE AND THE ONLY ONE IN THE WORLD.

If we can make a good story, so that the readers will 

come again and again for further reading the story then 

our earnings will continue to grow and will never 

diminish. This is due to new readers who continued  to 

arrive, while long remained loyal readers become our 

customers.

So that the number of our readers will continue to 

multiply over time. With the increasing number of loyal 

readership then automatically the amount of income we 

will also grow larger every year. The same thing 

happened in yahoo, google, facebook, twitter, linkedin, 

and others when they still startup.

Deuteronomy {28:13} And the LORD shall make thee the 

head, and not the tail; and thou shalt be above only, and 

thou shalt not be 

beneath; if that thou hearken unto the commandments of the LORD thy God, which I command thee this day, to observe and to do [them: ]

Try to imagine this. If I give a very unique story. It was the first time in the world. But the world already know this story even liked it. Because the world love the game books. While the story that I made is the development of game books.

Do you Believe if I dare say if I will succeed because my story will be famous all over the world as Harry Potter?

I believe it. Not because I was the author of the story, but because of the story that I made is unique and the only one in the world. 

Income from my startup :

1. Ads. With millions of unique visitors, the price of the ads will be expensive.

2. Affiliate marketing. In addition to advertising, we are also able to put up some banner from affiliate marketing.

3. Contribution of the readers. If you have a million readers and every reader to pay one US dollar per year then you will get the income of one million US dollars per year. 

If you have a million readers and every reader to pay one US dollar per month then you will get as much revenue twelve million US dollars per year.

4. Books and Comics. After getting hundreds of thousands to the millions of readers of the story will be made in books and the form of a picture story (comics).

5. Movies. If we have a good story with millions of readers then quickly we will be offered to make a film based on the story.

6. Merchandise related to characters. After the movies there will be made an offer for the sale of goods related to the characters.

7. Sales. With millions of email that we have collected from our readers so we can sell anything to them.

Each income (1-7) worth millions to tens of millions of US dollars. 
Because each income (1-7) worth millions to tens of millions of US dollars. Then in 10-20 years into the future, AI will be earning hundreds of million USD annually.

So how long do you think my story that I made could gather a thousand readers? Ten thousand readers? One hundred thousand readers? A million readers? Five million readers? Ten million readers? More than ten million readers?

But to get all of it of course takes time, can not be instant. In addition, it takes hard work, big funds and placement of the right people in the right positions.

By advertising, viral marketing, strong marketing strategies and SEO then a million readers can be done in less than a year. Ten million readers can be done in two to three years.

This is the marketing strategy of my startup.

When hundreds of thousands or millions of readers already liked my story then they have to pay to enjoy the story that I made.

If you are a visionary then you will think like this.

With the help of my great name in the world of business, my expertise in marketing, advertising, marketing by mouth, viral marketing, then collecting a million readers to ten million readers will be easy to obtain. Is not that right?

The question now is what if people like my story as they like Harry Potter? You will get tens of millions or even hundreds of millions of email addresses from readers. With that much email, we can sell anything to the readers.

Since April 2013, Wikipedia has around 26 million articles in 285 languages are written by 39 million registered users and a variety of anonymous people who are not known from other parts of the world.  Web ranked by Alexa, Wikipedia is a famous website number 6 which has been visited by 12% of all Internet users with 80 million visitors every month and it is only from the calculation of America.

resource : http://www.tahupedia.com/content/show/136/Sejarah-dan-Asal-Mula-Wikipedia

If no Wikipedia then need hundreds of thousands to millions of books required to make 26 million articles in 285 languages into books.

With the Wikipedia then people started to leave to read a book or books to seek knowledge about a subject or many subjects.

The same thing will happen. Read a story in a book or books to be abandoned. Read a story with millions of choices on the web or blog is far more interesting than reading a book or books. 

So what happens next? In 10-20 years ahead then read a story in a book to be abandoned. Otherwise my startup will grow and continue to develop into a new entertainment industry.

New entertainment industry, where I was a forerunner startup will continue to evolve. 
Therefore, in 10-20 years into the future, my startup will be earning hundreds of million USD annually.

So do not delay. Invest your money immediately to my startup. Take A Look. There are so many advantages if you want to invest in my startup.

WHY YOU SHOULD INVEST YOUR MONEY RIGHT NOW? .

IF YOU INVEST YOUR FUNDS IN ONE, TWO OR THREE YEARS INTO THE FUTURE, YOU MAY BE TOO LATE.
BECAUSE IN 1-3 YEARS INTO THE FUTURE THEN I'VE GOT THE FUNDS. THE FUNDS CAN COME FROM SOME INVESTORS, LOANS FROM BANKS OR FROM ADVERTISEMENTS POSTED ON MY BLOG.

IF I'VE GOT A LARGE AMOUNT OF FUNDS THEN I'VE NO NEED OF YOUR FUNDS. SO INVEST NOW OR NOT AT ALL.

slow but sure vs acceleration. 

My BLOG started to be written January 11, 2015. TODAY, MAY 30, 2015, THE NUMBER OF CLICKS HAS REACHED 56,750. SO FAR SO GOOD.

If I get big funds from investors then with a quick story that I wrote will spread throughout the world.

So I got acceleration because I can put ads in a large variety of media such as Google AdWords, Facebook, and others. I also can perform a variety of other marketing strategies.

If I do not get funding from investors then my story would still spread throughout the world. But with a longer time, Slow but sure.

So either I get funding from investors or not, the story that I wrote will remain spread throughout the world. Ha ... 7x

So don't worry, be happy.

My advice to you is you should think whether the data that I have provided to you makes sense or not .

If my data reasonable then immediately invest your funds as soon as possible.

Then we discuss how we plan further cooperation.

Thank you.

Lord Jesus bless you.

Amen

P.S. The offer letter I gave also to the hedge funds and 

venture capital and other major companies in the entire 

world. So who is fast then he will get it.

P.P.S. In addition, there is one more thing I want to tell you. If a story can generate tens of millions of US dollars, then what if made many stories? Then why do not you make 2, 3 or many stories? You will get hundreds of million USD annually.