{"id":436,"date":"2009-05-26T16:27:54","date_gmt":"2009-05-26T21:27:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bly.com\/blog\/general\/pre-testing-copy-on-your-blog\/"},"modified":"2009-05-26T16:27:54","modified_gmt":"2009-05-26T21:27:54","slug":"pre-testing-copy-on-your-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bly.com\/blog\/general\/pre-testing-copy-on-your-blog\/","title":{"rendered":"Pre-Testing Copy on Your Blog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am not a huge fan of copy pre-testing with focus groups, surveys, or other methods soliciting subjective opinions.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not that these opinions aren&#8217;t interesting. They are. It&#8217;s that what people SAY they like in advertising vs. what they actually respond to are two different things.<\/p>\n<p>But let&#8217;s try it. Below are 3 possible headlines for a course on getting started in Internet information marketing. <\/p>\n<p>Which do you like best &#8212; and why? <\/p>\n<p>A&#8211;Make $4,000 a week on the Internet.<\/p>\n<p>B&#8211;Make $1 million a year on the Internet.<\/p>\n<p>C&#8211;Make $1 million on the Internet in just 36 hours.<\/p>\n<p>Or would you completely rewrite, and if so, what would  YOUR headline be?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am not a huge fan of copy pre-testing with focus groups, surveys, or other methods soliciting subjective opinions. It&#8217;s not that these opinions aren&#8217;t interesting. They are. It&#8217;s that what people SAY they like in advertising vs. what they actually respond to are two different things. But let&#8217;s try it. Below are 3 possible [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1848"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}