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4th February 2023, 10:59 AM
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4th February 2023, 09:39 AM
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Sounds just like an ad you would find if you're using the "I'm Feeling Lucky" button on google.
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Forum: Off Topic Forum
4th February 2023, 03:07 AM
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Views: 115 Re: New here
Or someone who has felines who are overthrowing the free world?
https://media3.giphy.com/media/VbnUQpnihPSIgIXuZv/giphy.gif?cid=ecf05e47hqb96qao9b87pvcvawmj2uyzjjlh5gwx53on9eot&rid=giphy.gif&ct=g...
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Forum: Off Topic Forum
3rd February 2023, 09:42 PM
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Views: 115 Re: New here
Hi, I'm new here too. As in every morning when I wake up I don't have a clue what I'll find here so it's a surprise, a new adventure everyday.
What is your goal in joining? What do YOU want to...
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Forum: Off Topic Forum
3rd February 2023, 05:30 PM
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Views: 115 Re: New here
Welcome, Eric. Have a browse around and make yourself at home.
P.S. Also a little warning : you have entered the one and only dark lair of the devil himself a.k.a Claude. So be on the lookout and...
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Forum: Off Topic Forum
3rd February 2023, 11:27 AM
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Replies: 9
Views: 115 Re: New here
"like me" how? New? Plenty of them - start reading the posts in the beginners section and then branch out from there.
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Forum: Mind Warriors
3rd February 2023, 10:04 AM
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Replies: 42
Views: 1,316 Ultimately, then, how about this?
Does the etc. in your post include inspiration, motivation, empowerment too?
Discourage is the negative side, is it fair to say that Ultimately no one can really motivate you to success? I get...
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3rd February 2023, 08:24 AM
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Forum: Copywriting
3rd February 2023, 08:20 AM
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Replies: 59
Views: 560 Re: Using Bullets On Your Customers...
Steve -
It has been shown that those who comment on my threads are happier, more intelligent, and better looking than those who don't. (according to a study I made up)
But one last thing about...
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Forum: Off Topic Forum
3rd February 2023, 03:55 AM
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Views: 134 Re: Silly Walks Day
I didn't read this thread when it was published. Then I just now went down a rabbit hole where they did some research that shows that walking Mr. Teabags style burns significantly more calories and...
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Forum: Copywriting
2nd February 2023, 04:25 PM
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Replies: 59
Views: 560 Re: Using Bullets On Your Customers...
Max,
You're excellent "Using Bullets on Your Customers" thread has now reached the heady heights of 59 Posts.
My mouse is so relieved you've reached Page 2 - it was squeaking a bit with all the...
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Forum: Copywriting
2nd February 2023, 12:40 PM
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Replies: 59
Views: 560 Re: Using Bullets On Your Customers...
It's the gifts, heirlooms and those other "special" things you miss the most.
(of course - you can keep them)
If you decide on extreme minimalism - remember it can be tough - you really have...
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Forum: Copywriting
2nd February 2023, 10:57 AM
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Replies: 59
Views: 560 Re: Using Bullets On Your Customers...
Yes, you would ....for a few days. Chances are you would think of something you had deleted and obsess over it for a short time. When I moved north eight years ago I got rid of 90-95% of my...
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Forum: Off Topic Forum
2nd February 2023, 10:35 AM
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Forum: Copywriting
2nd February 2023, 09:49 AM
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Replies: 59
Views: 560 Re: Using Bullets On Your Customers...
Steve -
Making the switch to the minimalistic lifestyle can be so stressful though...
If I don't bookmark this, I know I'll need it and won't be able to find it...so I bookmark it...
and...
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Forum: Copywriting
2nd February 2023, 07:17 AM
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Replies: 59
Views: 560 Re: Using Bullets On Your Customers...
Yes, trying to find the crucial “thing” - this instant - which is hiding away in the avalanche of stuff.
Is not easy.
Which takes me back to my Post # 35 waffling on about “Easiness.”
Over...
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Forum: Off Topic Forum
1st February 2023, 07:59 PM
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Forum: Copywriting
1st February 2023, 06:07 PM
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Replies: 59
Views: 560 Re: Using Bullets On Your Customers...
Claude -
Thanks. I think you and Steve are correct.
I have a ton of bookmarks and loads of stuff in Google Drive and it is all organized very professionally.
As a matter of fact, it is so...
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Forum: Off Topic Forum
1st February 2023, 03:16 PM
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Replies: 20
Views: 293 Job Coach for county agency.
As a job coach, I had to help this particular agency's clients perform their jobs when they were hired. One guy got a dishwasher/busser job at a "restaurant". OK, a men's club with entertainment, and...
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Forum: Off Topic Forum
1st February 2023, 01:25 PM
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Forum: Off Topic Forum
1st February 2023, 01:09 PM
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Forum: Copywriting
1st February 2023, 12:47 PM
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Replies: 59
Views: 560 Re: Using Bullets On Your Customers...
Bcs what next?
Always, we all got a NEXT.
& it is a natchtrl flow into an open vestibyool mucha it is a probe.
(I tryin' to be scientific here, steada jus' ragin' filth.)
Thing 'bout...
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Forum: Copywriting
1st February 2023, 12:39 PM
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Replies: 59
Views: 560 Re: Using Bullets On Your Customers...
Claude,
You're not the only one who has discovered sales techniques from a hooker.
I read "Uncensored Sales Strategies" by Dan Kennedy and Sydney Biddle Barrows.
Actually Miss Barrows...
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Forum: Copywriting
1st February 2023, 12:38 PM
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Replies: 59
Views: 560 Re: Using Bullets On Your Customers...
max5ty -
A friend stopped by a couple days ago - he came into my home office and asked 'what are you doing' and I said I'm just reading a forum thread. He's a successful owner of a large...
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Forum: Copywriting
1st February 2023, 12:37 PM
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Replies: 59
Views: 560 Re: Using Bullets On Your Customers...
Claude -
The hooker thing is interesting. Probably written off as a business expense I'm sure.
But, have you ever heard of the book "How To Market And Sell Like A Prostitute"
Don't have the...
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Forum: Off Topic Forum
1st February 2023, 11:46 AM
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Forum: Copywriting
1st February 2023, 11:42 AM
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Replies: 59
Views: 560 Re: Using Bullets On Your Customers...
A quick thought when you have "I've got a great idea!" in the middle of the night.
Or anytime.
For goodness sake - write it down, or record it on your cellular phone.
Or turn it into a...
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Forum: Copywriting
1st February 2023, 11:26 AM
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Replies: 59
Views: 560 Re: Using Bullets On Your Customers...
Steve -
I think I read last year that NYC actually got rid of its last phone booth.
I imagine that was quite a shock for the super heroes that need a quick place to change :)
I love...
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Forum: Off Topic Forum
1st February 2023, 10:42 AM
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1st February 2023, 07:14 AM
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1st February 2023, 06:26 AM
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Forum: Off Topic Forum
31st January 2023, 10:53 PM
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31st January 2023, 08:52 PM
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Forum: Mind Warriors
31st January 2023, 02:32 PM
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Forum: Copywriting
31st January 2023, 09:10 AM
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Forum: Copywriting
31st January 2023, 07:18 AM
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Replies: 59
Views: 560 Re: Using Bullets On Your Customers...
Hey Steve -
By easier I meant...
we don't need to send stuff to the printer and have it typeset...and then if we need to make a change we have to have the printer redo it all to reflect the...
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Forum: Copywriting
31st January 2023, 06:50 AM
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Replies: 59
Views: 560 Re: Using Bullets On Your Customers...
Max,
I think I grasped that you mean - copywriting is made to "appear" easy - but it's really "bad" easy.
(the marketing of how "easy" copywriting is - inevitably results in dreadful copy).
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Forum: Copywriting
30th January 2023, 05:07 PM
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Replies: 59
Views: 560 Re: Using Bullets On Your Customers...
Steve -
Ted Nicholas and Joe Sugarman - 2 of my favorite all-time copywriters.
We've really got things a lot easier these days. This makes the whole copywriting thing seem like a breeze to...
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Forum: Copywriting
30th January 2023, 04:23 PM
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Replies: 59
Views: 560 Re: Using Bullets On Your Customers...
I remember - but many won't know the name... not exactly an interweb "guru."
... Listening to the cassette tapes of a Ted Nicholas seminar - one of the grandads of direct response (I think Dan...
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Forum: Mind Warriors
30th January 2023, 04:16 PM
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Forum: Copywriting
30th January 2023, 02:08 PM
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Replies: 59
Views: 560 Re: Using Bullets On Your Customers...
Claude -
Isn't it amazing some of those old guys actually knew a thing or two about what they were talking about?
Those guys didn't pay 10 bucks for a domain name and another 20 for a monthly...
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Forum: Mind Warriors
30th January 2023, 01:23 PM
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Forum: Copywriting
30th January 2023, 11:01 AM
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Replies: 59
Views: 560 Re: Using Bullets On Your Customers...
Steve -
Very good. I like the appointment thing because it's factual and nudges the reader.
Going back to selling the promise...
Copywriters are taught to sell the benefits over the...
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Forum: Copywriting
30th January 2023, 10:11 AM
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Replies: 59
Views: 560 Re: Using Bullets On Your Customers...
Yes - to reiterate what Max just said... because it IS rather important.
If you've triggered the good prospects physical, emotional or psychological "pain" (or they're already writhing in the...
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Forum: Copywriting
30th January 2023, 09:26 AM
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Replies: 59
Views: 560 Re: Using Bullets On Your Customers...
I do think scarcity is important when used right. It's directly related to urgency. And of course, We've all seen these used wrong in junk sales letters.
A lot of copywriters fail to realize that...
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Forum: Off Topic Forum
30th January 2023, 08:25 AM
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Forum: Copywriting
30th January 2023, 07:40 AM
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Replies: 59
Views: 560 Re: Using Bullets On Your Customers...
[QUOTE=Claude Whitacre;11743323]
In fact, for years, especially selling vacuum cleaners to younger people, I would say "Some might think our problem is selling what we have. Our real problem is...
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Forum: Copywriting
30th January 2023, 05:47 AM
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Replies: 59
Views: 560 Re: Using Bullets On Your Customers...
Ahh yes.
It should be transplanted into every copywriters DNA.
"Scarcity"
(the DNA transfer can be difficult to get hold of...you really should do it now)
I know this can be a touch...
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Forum: Off Topic Forum
29th January 2023, 09:56 PM
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Replies: 8
Views: 191 Re: Jimmy Savile on Netflix...
I admired Bill Cosby for a long time so when the stories came out, his fall came as a big disappointment. He had it all but wanted things he couldn't have so now he is nothing.
Such a waste!
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Forum: Mind Warriors
29th January 2023, 05:24 PM
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Replies: 42
Views: 1,316 Re: Truth...but also context.
The Cheryl's of the world are RARE. I really dont have those type of people in my life - more so now as I have gotten older and "Successful", but ill be damned if I am not that person for anyone I...
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Forum: Copywriting
29th January 2023, 02:34 PM
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Replies: 59
Views: 560 Re: Using Bullets On Your Customers...
Also copywriting is - "Selling In Print."
Maybe just a major difference
The salesperson is "there" - alive in person.
The copy can appear to be "there" - alive "almost" in person.
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Forum: Off Topic Forum
29th January 2023, 01:24 PM
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Views: 106 Re: Is Your Home Cluttered Or Minimalist?
Claude reads a lot of non fiction, science books and the like. Scientific discovery advances very fast and books can to some extent go out of date. Plus, folding over corners would be difficult to...
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Forum: Off Topic Forum
29th January 2023, 12:01 PM
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Views: 191 Re: Jimmy Savile on Netflix...
When I was growing up in the 60s and 70s, Savile was a regular on primetime TV and radio. The story only broke after he died and it seemed clear that the authorities - including those high up in the...
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Forum: Mind Warriors
29th January 2023, 11:32 AM
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Views: 1,316 The Who which is doing the saying.
Thanks Claude, you brought this full circle back to my OP.
But passion doesn't translate to income.
Nor does motivation, inspiration or empowerment alone. They must be coupled with effort....
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Forum: Off Topic Forum
29th January 2023, 11:07 AM
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Views: 106 Re: Is Your Home Cluttered Or Minimalist?
Claude probably has pages folded in books to find reference points with the ideas he found interesting in the past highlighted and personal notes written in the margins. Why use technology . If the...
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Forum: Off Topic Forum
29th January 2023, 10:31 AM
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Views: 191 Jimmy Savile on Netflix...
Watched a docuseries on him as he was a really famous DJ/ personality in Great Britain. But what a true psychopath. Amazing how this monster operated his child predatory scheme right under the nose...
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