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🗓️ 20 May 2013
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YNAB's (very successful) headline on the homepage sends the message of "control," but most people say they don't like budgets because they feel controlled. Which is it?
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0:00.0 | Hello, whinabbers. My name is Jesse Meekham, and this is |
0:15.0 | podcast number 83 for you need a budget, where we teach you four rules to |
0:19.6 | help you stop living paycheck to paycheck, get Get Out of Debt and Save More Money. |
0:25.0 | Wienab has on our homepage, let me pull it up to make sure I get the headline exactly right, |
0:30.3 | although I probably haven't memorized, I do. The headline on our home page says, |
0:34.6 | gain total control of your money. A sub headline, stop leaving paycheck to paycheck, |
0:40.0 | get out of debt, and save money faster with Wine. That headline, gained total control of your money, has |
0:46.1 | been our headline for, I think, four years, maybe five. |
0:53.3 | I ran other headlines in the past, |
0:54.9 | four secrets to help you manage your money more effectively. |
0:58.8 | A lot of it had to do with managing money |
1:00.8 | guaranteed four rules to help you break the paycheck to paycheck cycle anyway. |
1:07.0 | I did a survey years ago and asked people what was the one benefit they got from the budget described in one word and the |
1:16.4 | winning word was control. |
1:19.7 | And that was what tipped me off on the headline. |
1:21.4 | So when we were split testing new headlines, split |
1:23.6 | testing is where visitor A sees one version, you know, one headline, visitor B sees |
1:29.8 | another headline and you compare their behavior based on those two headlines like we would want |
1:35.5 | them to try our free trial. |
1:38.5 | And then you see which headline performs better. |
1:40.8 | Headlines matter. |
1:42.3 | I have not been able to write a headline that beats this |
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