You get an email from a potential client asking for a web page. You’re smart. You don’t instantly email back with a price and a delivery date. That would be stupid. Instead, you do some digging. You ask: …what action do you want visitors to take? …what’s the traffic source? …what’s your current conversion rate? […]
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2 Easy Ways to Make Leads More Profitable (without Spending an Extra Cent on Traffic)
Advertising is getting darned expensive. If the rumours are true, heavyweights like Clickfunnels and Digital Marketer now spend $10 just on getting a LEAD. That’s right, a LEAD, not a sale. With millions of marketers ploughing their ad budget into Facebook and Instagram, click costs are getting out of control. This is why it is […]
Sir Winston Churchill’s ‘4 Iron Clad Rules’ of Persuasive Copywriting
Sir Winston Churchill is famed for being the ‘British Bulldog’ whose speeches galvanized a nation against seemingly insurmountable odds. He was also a writing workhorse. Over his lifetime, he wrote more words than Dickens and Shakespeare combined. His published speeches stretch to eighteen volumes, while his memos and letters run into the millions and fill over 2,500 boxes. […]
8 Ways to Spice Up Stories About Your Product
“Grab a cushion and gather round. I have a story to tell.” Everyone has fond memories of story time as kids. And the love of a good tale, of heroes, villains and victory against the odds, never dies. For this reason, stories are marketing gold. They swoop under people’s anti-sales radar to deliver a payload of emotion, […]
Would You Love to Earn $1,500 for a SINGLE Email? Find out how in my 80/20 Email Copy Review
In my 80/20 Email Copy review, I cover whether it really can enable you to pump out high converting emails in record time, and be able to charge $100, $200, or even the $1,500 Ian Stanley charges per email. Ryan Deiss calls his the ‘Invisible Selling Machine’. Andre Chaperone has his ‘Soap Opera Sequence’, while […]
The Simple Way to Write Copy
People often ask me what it takes to become a copywriter. What I tell them is this… to be a great (or just good) copywriter you don’t need to be able to write like Hemingway. But you DO need to be understood. Your writing needs to be easy to read. And it’s the strength of […]
Why VSLs are the Fastest Way to Build a Six Figure Business (SEO agencies hate me for sharing this advice)
If you’re happy spending thousands on SEO, social media marketing or ‘branding’ each month with very little to show for it, read no further. Because I’m about to reveal how six figure businesses can be built in weeks (or even days) without spending a cent on any of these methods. What I’m referring to is […]
Don’t Read this If You Are Happy Getting Mediocre Results from Email
Email marketing is the most profitable channel. See how I said that unequivocally. The reason is because study after study proves that it’s true: When it comes to purchases made as a result of receiving a marketing message, email has the highest conversion rate (66%), when compared to social, direct mail and more. – DMA Social […]
Final Week to Register for Copyhour in 2016
What’s the best way to get good, nay, an expert at writing copy? Copy that harnesses time proven persuasive techniques, emotional storytelling and buying triggers that send conversions to the moon? You could read all the classics by Hopkins, Bly, Ogilvy, Kennedy and, of course, Schwartz (if you’re lucky to get a copy) – over and over […]
HIPS – A Simple Storytelling Formula
You hear all the time that the best way to sell is with stories. They’re instantly engaging and people think they’re being entertained, rather than sold to, and their cloak of cynicism is temporarily lowered. But how do you write them? That’s the tricky part. A good place to look for inspiration is forums and […]