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Receiving responses and analyzing results

Receiving responses and analyzing results

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Receiving responses and analyzing results

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- [Instructor] You can start analyzing results as soon as they come in. Here are some questions to ask yourself. Am I getting any requests for full or partial manuscripts? Or am I getting nothing but rejections and passes? If I am getting requests for material, which query letter was used to get those requests? Is one query letter proving to be more effective than the other? If there's a clear winning query letter, move forward with that one on your next batch. Or test it against a third query letter, version C, to collect more data. If the results are split and there's not a clear favorite, you can certainly continue to keep submitting both until you gather more results. Or if neither version A or version B seems to be working, it might be time to go back to the drawing board and draft out another query letter or two. Check out the exercise called Recording Responses and Analyzing Results to help you analyze your results and decide how to move forward with your next batch of queries.…

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