A/B Testing is DEAD! Ask a HiPPO Instead…

Thought you had web page optimization and testing all found out? Suppose once more rockstar. It appears the tide is popping again in favour of opinion based mostly design.

In line with a bunch of notable trade consultants (together with Rand Fishkin, Dan Martell, David Hauser and Chris Goward), A/B testing is outwardly no higher … “statistically talking” … than the subjective opinion of your common CEO or company “design by committee” session.

A/B Testing is DEAD! Long Live the HiPPO...

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This jogs my memory of what anyone coined as a “HiPPO” – the Highest Paid Individuals Opinion (therefore my stunning paintings above). Basically, which means regardless of your coaching and scientific methodologies, on the finish of the day, all necessary choices are nonetheless made by the boss.

“We simply fired our Optimization Strategists. Because it seems, guessing works simply in addition to testing.”

— Chris Goward, CEO of Wider Funnel Marketing Optimization

What’s weirder is {that a} group of individuals truly thought it was price spending the time to discredit A/B testing (and I assume which means multivariate is lifeless too). Anyway, touchdown pages are nonetheless cool – simply not the way in which you select what they need to do or say.

Regardless of being unhealthy information, we’re not afraid of a problem. So we truly attached with the group in query and put collectively an preliminary panel of professional CEO’s (the HiPPOs because it had been) which you could ask some conversion recommendation from.

You’ll be able to ask them a query right here: www.AskAHippo.com

— Oli Gardner

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About Oli Gardner

Unbounce co-founder Oli Gardner has seen extra touchdown pages than anybody on the planet. He’s obsessive about figuring out and reversing unhealthy advertising and marketing practices, and his disdain for entrepreneurs who ship marketing campaign site visitors to their homepage is famous, leading to touchdown web page rants that may peel paint off an unpainted wall. A prolific worldwide keynote speaker, Oli is on a mission to rid the world of selling mediocrity by utilizing data-informed copywriting, design, interplay, and psychology to create a extra pleasant expertise for entrepreneurs and prospects alike. He was not too long ago named the “The 2018 Marketer to Watch,” within the beneath 46 class, by his mom.