Gmail recently introduced a powerful new feature called Priority Inbox. The whole goal of Priority Inbox is to help you see your urgent and important emails first — so they don’t get buried in an avalanche of less important offers, newsletters, and subscriptions. I’ve just activated Priority Inbox in my own Gmail account and I […]
Continue readingRight now, I’m toying around with a few different headlines for my Copywriting Code membership site. In fact, my plan is to rewrite the headline and restructure the entire sales letter to be more persuasive. With that in mind, I’ve decided to do something COMPLETELY different. Rather than do a split-test (since the site doesn’t […]
Continue readingOn page 110 of How to Make Your Advertising Make Money, John Caples writes: Techniques change, but basic sales appeals go on forever. Therefore, when you are searching for an idea to sell your product or service, don’t forget to review the ideas that have been successful in the past. I’ve gotten some great ideas […]
Continue readingUnlike my copywriting colleague, Ben Settle, I actually did respond to a Netflix ad. That was a few years ago now. At the time, they were doing a bunch of print advertising. Mostly blow-ins included with the grocery store flyers delivered by mail once a week. Those little ads were brilliant. They demonstrated — in […]
Continue readingJust about all practitioners of direct response marketing know: When a piece is mailed twice, it’s most likely profitable. Well, the same thing is true for email. When you see the same email — with the same subject line — sent out twice, it’s probably a winner. What’s interesting is that almost NOBODY does this. […]
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