[Foundation-l] Blink tag jokes are now obsolete.

Theo10011 de10011 at gmail.com
Wed Jan 4 00:44:14 UTC 2012


On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 9:45 PM, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton at gmail.com>wrote:

> On 3 January 2012 22:36, Theo10011 <de10011 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > WMF started the email campaign last year for the first time I'm assuming,
> > we used it this year as well. We had a period of several months before
> the
> > fundraiser, that fundraising team conducted tests to replace Jimmy, the
> > fundraiser started and look who showed up back on the first week and all
> > that testing didn't change the biggest revenue draw since the beginning
> of
> > WMF fundraising. Yes, there were more banners but it really didn't take
> > away from Jimmy, I have the impression that you can probably put server
> > kittens and lol cats on the banners, and you would have the same or
> better
> > results than the ones that were tried.
>
> The WMF's conclusions about what banners work best are based on
> extensive testing. What are yours based on?


My guts.

BTW How have those tests worked out? You know the ones that went on for
months before the fundraiser to replace Jimmy.

Regards
Theo



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