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    The S.W.I.P.E.S Email (Friday December 15th, 2023)

    Swipe📁Wisdom🧠Interesting🧐Picture🖼 • Essay📄Splurge✍
    Edition: Friday, December 14th, 2023
    A fun email for Friday. I hope you enjoy!

     

    🎤 Listen to this email here:

    Swipe:

    In our community site Laurie Bell completed this A/B split test:

    Which of these Facebook ads will do better?
    A: White Background
    B: Black/Green Background

    Take a guess before reading further! 

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    Which of these do you think would do better? A or B?

    Pick your guess. I'll wait....
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    Version A (white background) was the winner! 

    It did about 3x higher conversions:

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    See the full conversion details on Facebook Ads:

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    This test was pulled from inside our forum and performed by @LBellBell Love seeing these types of tests! The full winning ad looked like this:

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    Wisdom:

    I love this quote:

    "Choose a problem, not a product."


    It means that if you're trying to sell a product, don't think "oh this would be a cool product to sell." 

    Rather think: 

    "What's a problem people are having, and is there a way I can solve it, preferably at scale."

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    Solving an actual problem is way better than "just thinking of something cool to sell."

    Interesting:

    I went to a big house out in the burbs of Austin, TX and saw this sign on the gate 😂

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    If you were a burglar, would you break and enter if someone had this sign?? 😬

    Picture:

    I finally saw a CyberTruck up close!

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    I've seen a bunch on the road since they're being manufactured here in Austin, but this is the first up-n-close look I got: 

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    I think this was the CyberTruck Joe Rogan shot with an arrow during an Elon Musk interview as it had a replaced door. 

    Also, this thing looks WAY COOLER IN PERSON than it does on camera. 

    It's hard to explain but it just looks different IRL!
     

    Essay:

    “Copywriting” is associated with writing words on a page, but my definition has always been: 

    “Installing information into another persons head and getting them to take action.”
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    The medium could be:
    - Writing
    - Images
    - Videos
    - Software
    - Combo of all above

    The medium may vary, the concept does not.

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    I hope you enjoyed these Friday tid-bits!
    Sincerely, 
    Neville Medhora

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    I took a screenshot of that sentence when i got the email.

    For my hedonistic products I might reverse-engineer the message from that angle.

     

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    Just subscribed to this after watching a YT video with you in it with Uncle Noah.
    The wisdom bit here:

    "Choose a problem, not a product."
    Really resonated with me, as I just read "When Coffee and Kale Compete" which goes through the "Jobs To Be Done" framework for product development.
    At the end of the day, customers just want to progress their lives in any way, and don't care about how that gets done. They just want the job to be done.
    Say you want to install a bookshelf...you need to install some mounts, and need a quarter inch hole to do so. You go to the hardware store to purchase a drill bit.
    But you aren't really buying the drillbit, you are buying the capability to drill a quarter inch hole.

    Anyways, this is my way of saying thanks.
    Looking forward to hearing more from you, and taking your course sometime soon.

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    Your newsletter is truly engaging. I found the A/B split test
    experiment especially enlightening - it's a great reminder that what
    might seem aesthetically pleasing doesn't always yield the best
    results. It's a fascinating insight into consumer behavior. Keep
    sharing those interesting nuggets of wisdom!

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    Great SWIPES message today! 
    I look forward to reading your SWIPES email every Friday morning THEN listening to the podcast and picturing it in my head as you read and describe it. 
    It's a great review of the material and helps to make it stick in my brain. 
    And since it is only once a week it makes it more compelling not to miss it! 

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    Hey Nick, generally when we see 3x improvement (300% more) on several thousand impressions it'll almost always mean a better result. 

    So yes if this was some large scale test it would need more, but it would be "safe-ish" to say which one won at this point.  

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