Jewish Voice Ministries

Insider Insights – Positive (Us) vs Negative (InProv)

Experiment ID: #2879

Jewish Voice Ministries

Experiment Summary

Timeframe: 12/17/2015 - 12/19/2015

We were trying to see if creating a more positive spin of this week’s Insider’s newsletter would create more donations/ increase donation/visitor.

*Because this test was written internally, we did not have the ability to sign the email with Jonathan’s name. Therefore, the positive version was also written using “we” and “us” vs “I”.

Research Question

Will a positive spin, including a prayer, cause more people to donate?

Results

  Treatment Name Conv. Rate Relative Difference Confidence Average Gift
C: Negative version 0.15% $121.21
T1: Positive version 0.13% -16.3% 34.9% $167.92

This experiment has a required sample size of 175,731 in order to be valid. Unfortunately, the required sample size was not met and a level of confidence above 95% was not met so the experiment results are not valid.

Key Learnings

We found that the number of donors was down by a very small margin, but overall brought in more revenue and had a higher revenue/visitor.


Experiment Documented by Jeff Giddens
Jeff Giddens is President of NextAfter.

Question about experiment #2879

If you have any questions about this experiment or would like additional details not discussed above, please feel free to contact them directly.