http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCwx14cnG5A

As a copywriter, you probably maintain some kind of swipe file, which is an archive of headlines, phrases, and entire sales letters that contain sales materials that you like, so you can re-use the same strategies in your own sales letters and hopefully hit on some of the same hot buttons as the original copywriter did. But my question to you is, do you maintain the most important swipe file of all, which is the "Made Me Buy" swipe...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QSaS8uZPulE

When you write copy for sales letters, it improves your conversions and keeps prospects on your site longer if you can tell a story while you sell. In the past I have described my two favorite types of stories: the What-If approach (start with the word "imagine" and build up imagery), and the How-To approach, where you turn your ad into an advertorial and try to teach prospects something before you sell to them. My other two favorites...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CK2dYBG3nkI

I have said many times that if your headline sucks, no one will read the rest of your sales letter or your promotional e-mail. No matter what you write, you need a great headline to get attention. So how do you come up with a great headline quickly, even if you are completely uninspired? You use a system for thinking up headlines, and the system I want to share with you today for coming up with an unlimited number of headlines for copywriting...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_bJVnW5k8o

If you know anything about copywriting then you must know at least a tiny bit about storytelling. Personally, I think that cookie-cutter sales letters with headlines, openers, benefit points, a guarantee and call-to-action can sell just fine. But if you already have all the correct selling elements in the right place, you can increase that sales letter's conversion rate by leaps and bounds if you introduce a story to connect the elements...

YouTube - OTC Copywriting Guarantee Formula

Every good sales letter has a guarantee at the end. When you are trying to sell something, no matter how appealing you make it, prospects are always going to have some resistance when it comes time to buy. It does not matter if you sell a $5,000 product or a $7 product, or even if you give away a free product. People are always going to wonder, what happens if I order and I do not get anything in return, or they get a product but it does...