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Creative testing: change one thing at a time

Most creative testing teaches you nothing, because too much changes at once. A simple structure fixes that.

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Launching five completely different ads and keeping the one that wins feels like testing. It tells you which ad won. It does not tell you why, so the next round starts from scratch.

Isolate a single variable

Decide what the round is for. The hook, the angle, the format, the offer or the audience. Hold everything else steady. When one version wins, you know what made the difference.

Write down what you expected

A test without a hypothesis is only a launch. Note what you think will happen and why. Being wrong is useful, provided you recorded what you believed beforehand.

Feed winners into the next round

The winning hook becomes the baseline for the next test of angles. The winning angle becomes the baseline for formats. Each round stands on the last one, which is how results compound instead of resetting.

Judge by business results

Click-through rate tells you an ad earned attention. Only new-customer cost and revenue tell you it earned its place in the budget.

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