Hi,

Where can I get the script or program that'll write those eye-catching handwritten border notes that can supercharge the buy rate. They usually have a hand-drawn arrow that goes along with them, too.

The best to you.

Kelley Eidem
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Can you post a link to an example? Then I might be able to tell you where to find one.

There's a couple on this website:
The Copywriter's Toolkit

Kelley Eidem

Try here. This sounds like what you're looking for.

Or you can spend $35 on a graphics tablet and create all you want that say exactly what you want them to say. Just save them as gif's with the background transparent.

It's just an image. And in the other example, that, too, is an image. You can write it and scan it and save it as a .jpg.

Or you can use a "handwriting font" in photo shop and make a note. Max handwriting is one font and it's free. You download it and install it in your font file. Then you can make a note in the photo editing program.

See the one on a post it below.

Cool effect, I'd maybe split test it. Just use either a different site or a script to alternate showing the note. It's technical.

If you go the image route apply a style to the image tag either through an id (e.g. note1) and use a css file:

#note1 {
position: absolute;
left: 120px;
}

Or just put those parameters in the img tag directly like:
<img src="note1.gif" style="position:absolute;left:120px;">

Just an FYI. Over at Warrior Forum, copywriter Mike Capuzzi has a one-week special on the new edition of CopyDoodles.

Here's a link to that special:

http://www.warriorforum.com/forum/to...OPIC_ID=249950

Hope that helps,

Mike

Hi Anne,

Where do you download the Max font?

Incidentally, other folks call these things scruffies and an IM'er was recently selling a whole passelful of them for $17.

Just to underscore what I think someone said --
You can make your own.

Just write 'em out, scan 'em in and you make the background of the graphic "invisible.

Ultimately it comes down to speed and convienence. Yes, I know how to make my own handwritten notes... but should I bother? I can pick something already made that fits my needs in about 60 seconds or less.

My billable time as a copywriter is significantly higher than what any of the commercial hand-drawn graphic note products are priced at.

Example: If it takes you 40 hours (including research) to write a sales letter from scratch and you charge $4K for the project, then you're making $100/hour.

I'd suggest outsourcing as much as you can.

Take tasks like audio editing. I know how to do it myself but why should I? I can easier outsource to someone who's even better at it then me and charges $20-25/hour. And while they're working on that, I can focus my time and energy on more profitable tasks.

By outsourcing as much as I can and focusing on maximizing my billable copywriting time, it has made a tremendous increase in my income every year.

Hope that helps,

Mike