Basics of Writing a Winning Sales Letter

You can write a great sales letter. Sure, you mayHow to teach math so that students learn the
have to learn some new skills. But keep in mind,fastest
the great copywriters of today weren't bornWhat every teacher needs to know about
writing great sales letters. They started rightdiscipline
where you may be--having never written a salesNotice that these bullets promise a benefit to the
letter. Or maybe you've written a few salesreader. Bullets are designed to draw the reader to
letters, but they have disappointed you. Takepurchase the product, so that they can receive
heart. In this article, I will show you step by stepthe benefits of the product. These bullets reveal
what you need to put in your sales letters to givethe benefits to the purchaser.
them the structure and persuasiveness you mayGuarantee: Especially when selling online, you must
desire.include a specific guarantee. Online purchasers are
Every sales letter has a basic structure. Now,already skeptical of purchasing an information
each sales letter may insert these basics inproduct. By offering a money-back guarantee,
different orders or using a different method, butyou assure the buyer that if the product isn't
generally all sales letters will include these basics:what you say it is, they can receive a refund.
Headline: Every winning sales letter should have anYour responsibility, of course, is to make
attention-grabbing headline, one that draws theabsolutely sure that the product does everything
reader into your sales letter. If they don't readyou say that it does. If you do that, you will have
your letter, they won't buy your product. Theyfew returns. Here is an example of a guarantee:
must read the sales letter first.Your complete satisfaction guaranteed: If for any
Make your headline exciting. What will yourreason during the first 30 days after you
product do for the user? For example, if you sellpurchase this product, you are not completely
a product that helps the user find discount travelsatisfied for any reason at all, simply return the
packages, a few strong headlines could be:product and we will cheerfully refund your
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IncomeObviously that guarantee should be modified to
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Try to write some similar headlines for youryou should sell far more units than without the
product. Simply substitute your product andguarantee.
benefit for the keywords in those headlines. TryClose and ask for the sale: This step is critical! No
to write 20 or 40 or so headlines---some of themmatter how good a job you do describing the
will be lousy, but some of them may surprise you.product, it will not sell itself. You MUST ask for
One thing about writing is that you will get morethe sale. Tell the customer to buy. Give them an
creative and efficient as you spend more timeeasy link to your order or shopping page. If you
writing. Practice, practice, practice.don't ask for the sale, you won't sell much.
Benefit Bullets:Try to write your first sales letter using this
These bullets will be key points about yourtemplate. Write comfortable, as if you were
product. For example, if you are selling a producttalking to someone at lunch. A sales letter should
geared towards grade school teachers, yourbe easy to read and feel like a friend discussing
bullets might be:the product. It should not have stilted or awkward
Learn to manage your classroom with no effortlanguage, but should flow naturally---just write the
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