All of your observations, trends and test results will form a picture of what your audience does or doesn’t want from you.

At this point, you have a choice, take what you believe to be true from these and implement them all immediately. If you have a small team, or you are the only one who works on your social channels, this could be the most efficient path for you. However, you won’t be able to track exactly which change has been the contributing factor.

Alternatively, you can treat them as a hypothesis to test, before implementing them. This way you will address each variable at a time, stress testing how reliable the change in performance is.

The hypotheses’ that you create will inform your ongoing test plan.

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