A few weeks ago Eben Pagan gave away this Psychic Sales Letter program (Psychic SalesLetter - Download)

It's a cool piece of software, but takes some hacking to get it to work with awebber. Has anyone here figured out how to get this thing to work with other autoresponders bedsides the default Getresponse?

I would strongly suggest that you don't use any kind of software for any content creation. Softwares might sound promising and helpful but they're not, all are utterly useless!!

Mimouc,

You obviously have NO idea what Psychic Sales Letter even does...

It doesn't "create" a sales letter for you..it lets your visitors take a quiz on a squeeze page and sends them customized results according to their results.

But YOU create the content.

Nick,

I'm actually in the process of creating a page right now. It seems like it'd work fantastic and I've heard that squeeze pages with a quiz on it can convert as high as 85%

However well this works, this is an example of taking advantage of what the web does best.

There should be much more sophisticated uses of interactivity to boost response. This more than "salesmanship in print" sales letters, which are essentially monolog. Actual salesmanship gets its power from dialog with prospects.

Having the ability to have the visitor signal how they should be pitched is powerful.

Offline marketers I listen to would beg to differ.

Maybe a sucky letter does. Well written ones get prospects to have their own dialogue as trigger after trigger is touched.

Again. Face-to-face sales pros would likely differ. It's more the skill and acuity of the salesperson. Feedback is good but it's better when it's directed not freewheeling let them say whatever they want. i.e. Get them to say yes.

I agree and good sales people know how to do this. I've been pitched to by some excellent face-to-face salespeople and they didn't learn it, nor do I think they can be replaced by, software.

For the record I'm heavily into tech so I'm not anti-tech. I just recognize real skill when I see it and I've never ever ever seen a multi-one-line post or letter or a software program trance me into buying what they're selling. In fact, I usually just ignore them or leave the page immediately.

On the other hand, I've spent over $100K on courses, business training, consulting/mentoring, etc. I graduated from Pitch Skeptics College with high honors yet I have also been one of those people who listened to a live speaker, doing one of those "monologues", and literally leaped over a row of chairs to spend $2500. There isn't a psychic anything that can get me to do that.

Just some thoughts. Good luck with the psychic thing.

Cheers

Theory, theory guys...

Think about it!

Pagan has a MASSIVE email list for doubleyourdating.com which continuously drives interest to his sales page. What a BRILLIANT idea to create a quiz and then present sales content proportional to people's answers.

You think he hasn't tested this before releasing?

Pagan is absolutely KING for showing this kind of openness and transparancy.

If your business is anything like his, you have just been given free money - a lot of it.

I'm into tech as well, and seen how poorly the human factors are handled. It's really not a technology issue, but a world view poor on human factors and human insights at fault.

So yes, this one might not be the answer. However, it's probably something which needs to be encouraged.

I would rank this general concept at the same level of maturity as sales letters were roughly one hundred years ago. I'm not sure what version two is like, but it's probably going to be more interesting around version five or so.

You're putting words into my mouth. Didn't say anything about letting the conversation stray all over the place. And, for a program it would be pretty close to impossible, barring an artificial intelligence breakthrough.

I know face-to-face pros. I've observed them on sales calls. They dialog, but maintain control of the dialog.

The real point is, this would be best looked at as a form unto itself -- unlike a long form single page sales letter. And a rather young form, with all that implies.

Plenty of high tech widgets and fads do terrible things to response. Given some caution, and testing, this (or something along the same idea) could be worth looking into.