The Sales Letter Does Not Matter :-)
During the event I also had the opportunity to continue continue my mentorship with Jeff by joining his private mastermind group, this allows me to have personal access to Jeff when David Raybould and I do a launch for a client.
I met several of of the most successful Internet Marketers and Product Launch Formula students around there. Greg Polous is one of the guys I met, and I have followed his work for a long time because several of my clients promote his launches as affiliates and have done very well. His most recent launch, Forex Income Engine, did well into seven figures with only about 100 affiliates.
I got to talking to Greg, and he had something to say, which I'd like to have your feedback on: "I spend 80% of my time on the story, theme and offer of the launch, and only about 20% on the sales letter and mechanics".
Now, I don't think Greg is saying that the copy is not important, and I know I'm not. I think that every single bit of communication you have with your clients and prospects, from your landing pages, blogs, autoresponders and even tweets needs to be approached as copy -but it's an interesting statement. I have seen myself with several launches I've been involved in that the story and momentum of the launch can carry people into a buying frenzy. I have not had million dollar hours like some of the big name guru's, but I've done close to $100,000 in less time then it takes to read my sales letters.
I think that Jeff's "Sideways Salesletter" approach is brilliant which is probably why I was willing to spend $25,000, and then more on the Mastermind with him to learn more about it.
My own take is that on relatively inexpensive products the sales letter can have a much bigger effect, but that once you get into selling things at a higher price, it becomes more and more important to involve your prospects in an event if you want to turn them into your buyers.
I'd love to have the feedback of all the copywriters here.
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