2 Simple Sales Letter Writing Techniques For Quick And Easy Profi
Sunday, August 3rd, 2008
A good sales letter can be compared to a sales representative, except you don’t have to pay your sales letter or give it time off for vacation. A sales letter instead is your 24-hours/day, 7-days/week and 365-days/year tireless virtual sales rep whose laser-focused to accomplish three things: represent you, your business and your product or service without fail. However in order for your sales letter to be successful, it must be persuasive, compelling, thought-provoking and high-converting. It must also be written to target a specific market of consumers. If you are someone who is selling a product or service, you need to learn how to write a sales letter based on the above criteria in order to be successful.
But why do so many marketers struggle with writing a sales letter for their product or service? The short and sweet answer to this question is that most people, especially marketers, hate to write. A more concise explanation is that while there is reams of information available to assist marketers in writing sales letters, most of these resources are written under the assumption that the marketer already knows how to write a sales letter. When faced with all of these obstacles, the average marketer soon becomes overwhelmed and throws in the towel.
Then comes along the marketer who has been online for a while and knows where to look to find solutions such as sales letter software and templates to help him with automating the task of writing a sales letter. But after lauching the sales letter software and perusing the template, he soon realizes that he is no better off than he was before. Why? Because very often the vendor who wrote the information described in the previous paragraph, also wrote the software based on the assumption that the marketer is already familiar with writing a sales letter.
So how do they do it? How can other marketers put together compelling, persuasive and thought-provoking sales letters that sell their products and services like crazy but without using sales letter software and templates? It’s simple, these marketers are either experienced copywriters themselves who write their own sales letters or they have adequate resources to hire the job out. But before you consider hiring a pro copywriter to construct a sales letter for your product or service, consider this. Most copywriters will charge you between $5,000 up to a whopping $20,000 per sales letter! If you decide to go this route, you better be sure that your product or service is in great demand so that you can absorb this expense.
If you know for certain that your product or service is in high demand and that you can overcome the cost of hiring a pro copywriter to craft a sales letter custom-tailored to sell your product or service then by all means, go for it. If not, you can save yourself some money and write your own profitable sales letter at no cost by adopting the writing styles of other successful marketers sales letters in your niche.
For example, launch your browser and visit Google (www.google.com). Key in the phrase “allintitle:cars that run on water” (minus the quotes) into the search field, click the search button and wait for your results to appear. Examine your results to see if anything grabs your attention. If so, click on that result and if its a sales letter that meets all of the criteria described earlier, copy the text of the sales letter into your favorite word processor or text editor. Thoroughly re-write the content of the sales letter and make sure that it is relevant to your product or service. Save your revised sales letter and shut down your computer for the day. Re-visit it the next day with fresh eyes to polish up your sales letter.
In addition to the sales letter writing technique above, you can also subscribe to the mailing lists of gurus who sell the same or similar products or services as yours. After a short while, you’ll start receiving sales pitch emails in your inbox recommending one thing or the other. But instead of deleting these emails, glance over the subject lines to see if any of them grab your attention. Do any one of the subject lines make you want to click through and read the email? If so (and if there is a promo link inside the email), click the link inside the email to load the sales letter into your default browser. Repeat the steps as outlined in the previous paragraph to re-write your sales letter. Use this and the technique mentioned earlier for a month to learn how to write a winning sales letter and before you know it, you’ll have as much experience as you’ll ever need!
Taking the time to learn how to write a sales letter to sell your product or service can prove to be the most profitable skill you’ll ever master. Why? Because you only have one chance to make a good first impression. If your sales letter is persuasive, compelling , thought-provoking, high-converting and consists of the six essential elements, then you can expect to generate day job replacing income for many years to come. If not, then you may as well get used to working a 9-to-5 for the rest of your life. In our next article, we’ll dissect a sales letter into its six essential parts and show you exactly what makes up a successful sales letter that will sell your software, info product or service like crazy!
But is there an easier way? Is it possible for you to write a sales letter without having to use the above techniques or remember everything that goes into writing a profitable sales letter? Yes, there is a much easier way and it requires very little knowledge or effort on your part. This tool includes everything you need to start writing a sales letter for whatever product or service you want to sell. It includes a built-in pre-written sales letter template and a headlines swipe file database that contains well over 900+ winning headlines for you to choose from all in one compact tool.