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Default Please tell me why my copy is crap. - 01-05-2008, 11:53 AM

Hi

Thanks.

(Copy has been removed. See good replies below.)

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Default Re: Please tell me why my copy is crap. - 01-05-2008, 03:44 PM

The TWO MOST powerful words in marketing today.

Ya
Sure.


Take note of people like Trump, who rarely mention how "bad" and "Famous" they are. If you read your letter as if it was coming from nobody you knew, would you allow this person in your attention span for 5 seconds? 3 seconds? .5 seconds?

Here are some of the best sales letters on the net in my library. Check them out.

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Default Re: Please tell me why my copy is crap. - 01-05-2008, 04:00 PM

I'll just attack the headline, I think that's where most people will get stuck.

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Quickly build your E-mail lists at New Dual Matrix Viral speeds Filling your pockets with e-mail names and hot referral bonuses
New Dual Matrix Viral... huh?
Filling my pockets with e-mail names and hot referral bonuses?

These are both confusing sentences that raise more questions than anything else. It's 21 words that essentially could have been said in 4 -- "build your email list"

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Simply by sucking the seamlessly bottomless pit,
of extremely hot prospects… right out of the
Wild West Cowboy Lands of List Bandit
Simply by sucking the seamlessly bottomless is a tongue twister and tells me nothing. It's 7 words of fluff.

Wild West Cowboy Lands of List Bandit? Again more questions than answers.

Again, 22 words of fluff. This could have been said in 5 words.

And the puncuation messes it up worse.

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Like the gold rush all over again
It's time you get in your riches now!
This doesn't really make sense nor does it flow well from the previous headlines.

If the rest of the letter goes on like this I think your biggest problem is hype. So many words saying so little. Forget all the fluff and focus on what's real.
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Default Re: Please tell me why my copy is crap. - 01-05-2008, 06:18 PM

Thank-you very much for your time giving your comments.

I mean it. (Please take my thanks as your Paypal payment - sorry) Thanks.

Jim

P.S. Thanks - got it. Feeling pretty powerful now. Thanks.

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