A sales letter that is cleverly-written is similar to a sales person in a department store except you don't have to provide benefits for or compensate your sales letter! Your sales letter instead works tirelessly around the clock, year-in-and-year-out, representing you, your business, your product or service and generating sales. But before you can reap the many benefits of a winning sales letter such as this, you must first learn how to construct a sales letter that is persuasive, compelling, thought-provoking and high-converting. Furthermore, your sales letter should be written with your target market in mind.
But what are the main reasons why marketers have a hard time writing a sales letter for their product or service? In short, most people who are inexperienced with writing in general, hate to write and marketers are no exception to the rule. A more detailed explanation is that because there is a wealth of information online on the subject of how to write a sales letter, most marketers soon become overwhelmed with information and give up. Not to mention the fact that most of this information was written under the assumption that the marketer (you) already knows how to write a sales letter.
Then there is the smart marketer who is more experienced and searches for automated solutions like sales letter software and templates to help him with writing a sales letter. But after using these inferior tools for a short period of time, the marketer soon decides that these tools are not helpful at all and he is right back where he started from. Why? Because most often times the individual or business who wrote the materials mentioned earlier, also wrote the software based on the assumption that the marketer is already experienced 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 without a shadow of a doubt that your product or service is in demand, are certain that you can afford to invest the money and are capable of absorbing the expense as a result of your sales, then go ahead and hire a copywriter. If not, then you can keep your money in your wallet and construct a profitable sales letter free-of-charge by leeching off the success of other marketer's sales letters in your niche. Am I insinuating that you just copy someone else's sales letter and claim it as your own? Not at all. That's considered plagiarism and can get you into a whole lot of trouble. Instead, the easiest way to master the art of writing a sales letter is to conduct a search on your favorite search engine for products or services exactly like or similar to yours.
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!
Sacrificing time to learn how to write a sales letter to sell your product or service can prove to be quite lucrative and the most valuable skill you will ever learn. Why? Because without this skill, your product or service will not sell. No sales means no money in your wallet! As you have learned earlier, if your sales letter is written persuasively, is compelling, thought-provoking, high-converting and consists of the six essential elements, then you can expect to generate a growing customer base for many years to come. If not, then you may as well resign to the fact that your business will not be successful or survive for long. 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 are there other alternative solutions available that can make the task of writing a sales letter a little easier? Yes, there is a sales letter tool readily available that will help you save time by automating 90% of the process of writing a sales letter. In fact, this tool includes a pre-written built-in sales letter template and headline swipe file database that consists of well over 900+ winning headlines for you to use to improve your sales letter conversions and sales.
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James Williams writes regularly about html related topics. I hope you enjoy this article.
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