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The Pre-Send Email Testing Checklist
The five minutes before you press send are the cheapest quality control in marketing. This is the checklist, in the order that catches the most problems soonest.
Oct 14, 20265 min read
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The five minutes before you press send are the cheapest quality control in marketing. This is the checklist, in the order that catches the most problems soonest.

Most email A/B tests are too small to detect the difference they claim to have found. Here is how to run tests whose results you can actually act on.
Most email A/B tests are not tests — they are noise read as signal. This guide covers writing a real hypothesis, choosing variables by impact, splitting the list correctly, the sample sizes needed to detect a given difference, why open rate is the wrong success metric, and how to build a testing program instead of a testing habit.