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Default Re: Opinions on salesletter rewrite - 12-05-2004, 12:19 PM

Hi again,

I especially liked the way Willie Crawford's testimonial starts out: "ah's a mighty busy varmint..."

No need to be embarassed people, even though my eyes are watering from chuckling so hard after seeing your reactions.

It seems that the board here has been a little sullen lately so I thought I'd try and cheer a few people up.

There IS a salesletter rewrite in the works though. I've finally decided to take a lot of your expert advice, as well as some of the eye-openers I learned on the Gary Halbert call and test them against my original letter.

The existing letter converts unique visitors to customers at 0.9% and I'd like it to do a lot better. The new letter will use a strong USP, some 'attitude', more bullets, a compelling audio at the top, more powerful testimonials, an "Audio Guarantee", better bonuses and a couple of PS's., etc.

And no, it won't be translated into "Redneck Speak"

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Default Re: Opinions on salesletter rewrite - 12-05-2004, 12:27 PM

Good show Short.

When I saw your page, I had to hold my hand over my mouth, because I was laughing so loudly, I though I might wake the neighbors.

Then, I though, "He put too much work into this for it to be a joke".

My bad.


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Default Re: Opinions on salesletter rewrite - 12-05-2004, 12:49 PM

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Well, Tim it appears you were right. Peter and I both jumped the gun, unnecessarily.
I'm Always Right! (despite common opinion)

Don't listen to Peter...

Homeboy ain't no bangin' bomb... it's time we diss da dog!


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Default Re: Opinions on salesletter rewrite - 12-05-2004, 01:00 PM

Oh gosh, what have I started?

Will this be a turf war between the homeboys and the rednecks?

If so, I's headin fer da mountins! Now wer's ma chewin tabacca...

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Default Re: Opinions on salesletter rewrite - 12-05-2004, 01:03 PM

Did someone say gun?
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Default Re: Opinions on salesletter rewrite - 12-05-2004, 01:16 PM

Click on Peter's link and scroll down a couple of blogs...

The dog packs a bazooka... if you know what I'm sayin'?


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Default Re: Opinions on salesletter rewrite - 12-05-2004, 01:45 PM

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Click on Peter's link and scroll down a couple of blogs...

The dog packs a bazooka... if you know what I'm sayin'?
Hi Tim,

I think everything he writes packs a bazooka. Not to mention the company he keeps

Guys, if you all have blogs, I'd like to encourage you to promote them more so more people are exposed to the killer info you serve up... my blog directory over at http://GetBlogs.com gets a decent amount of traffic - 300+ uniques and around 1400 pageviews a day. The business and marketing blogs category is one of the most popular.

Please drop by and submit your blogs if you haven't already. They'd definitely add a lot of quality to the site and get you all more exposure and inbound links as well. Not to mention the fact that GetBlogs.com is "Hit" by the search engine bots about 4000 times per month.

Most people who list there have their blogs indexed by the search engines within days instead of weeks.

People need great advice and your blogs are the cream of the crop as far as I'm concerned.

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Default Re: Opinions on salesletter rewrite - 12-05-2004, 02:41 PM

I'm sorry Paul. I broke your site. "Too many connections".

Thanks for your offer and kind comments. You don't have to sell me on the idea, but you did motivate me.

If you need glue, rubber bands (binders in Minnesota), or paper clips to put your site right, let me know.



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Default Re: Opinions on salesletter rewrite - 12-05-2004, 02:42 PM

Tim:

I'm laughing so hard at your posts, I can hardly type this!
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Default Re: Opinions on salesletter rewrite - 12-05-2004, 03:18 PM

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I'm sorry Paul. I broke your site. "Too many connections".

Thanks for your offer and kind comments. You don't have to sell me on the idea, but you did motivate me.

If you need glue, rubber bands (binders in Minnesota), or paper clips to put your site right, let me know.

Peter Stone
Sorry Peter,

I had my .htaccess file set to "Disallow Homeboys" so that's probably why you got the errors

It's working fine now though.

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