Remember you're speaking to ONE PERSON in copywriting

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I've been reading some sales letters on here recently, and this is something I find most marketers overlook and forget, but it's extremely important.

Most of the sales pages I read sound like s someone on a stage yelling at 100,000 people, rather than a conversation between ONE PERSON and YOU (which is, digitally speaking, exactly what you're doing in a sales letter).

When you're writing, remember that one person is reading your sales page, and to you're trying to build a ONE-ON-ONE relationship with them, so in your writing a very powerful technique is to make sure that you're talking to them like a friend, not some slick-oiled salesman trying to sell them something with generic lines, tactics, or maneuvers... marketing is really as simple as being HONEST and telling another person you can give them what they're looking for, and if people can feel like you're writing specifically to them, and care about specifically them (for example, telling people as an one individual to another in your sales letters that you care about their success, like you'd tell a friend), makes them feel like you're not just "hyping" things, or trying to sell, but also dropping the "sales act" and talking to them like a real person, friend, and letting them know that you're talking to them on an individual, personal level as a human, rather than looking like you're just talking at them.
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  • Profile picture of the author Mark Andrews
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    Originally Posted by chrisnos View Post

    I've been reading some sales letters on here recently, and this is something I find most marketers overlook and forget, but it's extremely important.

    Most of the sales pages I read sound like s someone on a stage yelling at 100,000 people, rather than a conversation between ONE PERSON and YOU (which is, digitally speaking, exactly what you're doing in a sales letter).

    When you're writing, remember that one person is reading your sales page, and to you're trying to build a ONE-ON-ONE relationship with them, so in your writing a very powerful technique is to make sure that you're talking to them like a friend, not some slick-oiled salesman trying to sell them something with generic lines, tactics, or maneuvers... marketing is really as simple as being HONEST and telling another person you can give them what they're looking for, and if people can feel like you're writing specifically to them, and care about specifically them (for example, telling people as an one individual to another in your sales letters that you care about their success, like you'd tell a friend), makes them feel like you're not just "hyping" things, or trying to sell, but also dropping the "sales act" and talking to them like a real person, friend, and letting them know that you're talking to them on an individual, personal level as a human, rather than looking like you're just talking at them.
    Similarly when you're giving advice here try and do the same.

    You need to make use of a lot more white space and make your posts more readily readable to the audience you're trying to reach.

    For example, your last sentence is hellishly long.

    Is this how you would naturally talk to someone one on one?


    Mark Andrews
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    • Profile picture of the author chrisnos
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      • Profile picture of the author Mark Andrews
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        Way to go fella.

        If I was asking you for advice for my website, I'd ask for it. I wasn't.

        If you can't take a simple piece of advice on the chin, you have a problem.

        Enough.


        Mark Andrews

        P.S. Don't contravene my copyright again. My website is copyright. You do not have my permission to quote any part of it here or elsewhere without my express written permission.
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          • Profile picture of the author Mark Andrews
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            Oh boy oh boy, another one. Here we go again.

            My initial reply to you wasn't a criticism, it was just helpful advice.

            Look left, look at the Thanks ratio to my number of posts. There's a reason it's that high. It's called being kind towards other people. Earning respect.

            Yet your retort was to instantly go to my copywriting website, tear it apart and without permission quote parts of it here to make yourself look good.

            Stealing my content to make a fool out of me, I can assure you, is not the way to go on this forum.

            Read the rules.


            Mark Andrews
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            • Profile picture of the author chrisnos
              Originally Posted by Mark Andrews View Post

              Oh boy oh boy, another one. Here we go again.

              My initial reply to you wasn't a criticism, it was just helpful advice.

              Look left, look at the Thanks ratio to my number of posts. There's a reason it's that high. It's called being kind towards other people. Earning respect.

              Yet your retort was to instantly go to my copywriting website, tear it apart and without permission quote parts of it here to make yourself look good.

              Stealing my content to make a fool out of me, I can assure you, is not the way to go on this forum.

              Read the rules.


              Mark Andrews
              You know what, you're right, we all have different opinions I guess, and arguing will never lead anywhere.

              I just wish you hadn't criticized my writing format, which had nothing (or at the very least, little) to do with the advice I was offering, that was what actually bothered me, but in truth your advice was just a helpful suggestion, and you're right about using more white space to make text easier to digest.

              I apologize.
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  • Blimey I just heard the news. Mark and Christnos are thinking about a copywriting alliance.

    The statement read "Our styles have such parity, and as we get on so famously well, we feel it might be beneficial to join forces"


    Steve
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  • There you go - a bit of a spat - it happens.

    A good apology - well done christnos.

    Now shall we move on?

    Steve
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    • Profile picture of the author chrisnos
      Originally Posted by Steve The Copywriter View Post

      There you go - a bit of a spat - it happens.

      A good apology - well done christnos.

      Now shall we move on?

      Steve
      Yes, let's.

      I read what back what I wrote, and realized the whole point of a forum is to help each other and spread useful advice, and if have something to give you give it so someone who was in the shoes you were once in can benefit and not go through the stumbling blocks you went through; no use for pointless hate anywhere in that mission
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      • Profile picture of the author Mark Andrews
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        Apology accepted.


        Mark Andrews
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    MVP of this Thread = Steve
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  • Profile picture of the author TheSalesBooster
    The amount of self entitlement on this forum makes me sick.
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