Tested Advertising Methods: The Blueprint for Higher Conversions | #Success - Ep. 113
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remember the time my very first product i created this is even before my potato gun dvd for those who've heard that story but this was my actual first product ever was a software i created called zip brander and i remember creating the site it was up there i was i was driving ads to i was making i was making a couple sales a day and i remember hearing about split testing and then i was an event this guy named michael fortin was speaking he was talking about copywriting talking about split testing he showed tons of results i remember one of the results he had i think it was a red headline versus a blue headline or something i can't remember exactly what it was this is man 20 years ago At the time I had the headline that had lost like the color of mine.
I think mine was red and he said the blue one won or vice versa, whatever. But I remember I was like, I heard Alex Mendoza say, give yourself a raise every day. I heard him say that he split tested two different headline colors and one out beat the other one. So I remember going back that day to my little website. So I set up the two different versions of the page, one with the blue headline, one with the red headline, but the rest of the page was like identical. I started my first little split test. Person number one would see headline blue. Person number two would see headline red. And blue and red, it would just go back and forth and back and forth. And sure enough, just like he had told me, the other color headline won.
And it was crazy because it increased my conversions. If I remember right, 27, 28% increase in conversions. Now, to put that in perspective, that means I made 27% more money every single day. I was still in college at the time. I was thinking, I was like, most people, let's say you're a doctor, right?
What was Russell's first experience with split testing?
And you go to college and then you go to medical school and you graduate with like a million dollars in debt, right? and let's say you're making, you know, it's half a million dollars a year, right? But then if you wanna give yourself a raise, it's like, hey, we have to go back to college for two years to specialize in the thing. And you come back, now you're a specialist. You're another like, you know, half a million dollars in debt, but now you can specialize. So now you can charge $750,000 a year instead of 500,000, right? You gave yourself a raise, but took two years and half a million dollars in debt. I'm like, I just gave myself a raise by changing the color of a headline. And I remember I was just like,
this is the most insane thing ever. And so for me, this is like the science of funnel building for me began was me literally just testing this versus this, this versus this, this versus this. And from that, we invented the two-step order form. Like all these things came from us just coming down and just thinking through this process. Like what are the little tests we can make every single day to make our business better? What's up, everybody? Welcome back to my vault. Today, I'm bringing out another book, and we're going into some advertising today with one of the legends of advertising, John Caples. He's written a lot of really cool books, but my favorite of them all is called Tested Advertising Methods.
This is a first edition. In its original dust cover, I spent $373.12. I'm not sure why that's where they posted it on eBay, but that's what I got it for. And this book is, again, one of the One of the books that most advertising students, when they get into advertising, internet marketing, it's one of the staples that people read to really understand the science about advertising, how the whole industry started. Capels is one of the best and tested advertising methods.
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