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The Marketing Rebel Team wrote a new post 14 years, 4 months ago
In this video John breaks down a letter he wrote for Rodale… an otherwise staid, conservative company which decided at one point to go after the sex market.
He talks about how he had to fight tooth and nail to […] -
The Marketing Rebel Team wrote a new post 14 years, 4 months ago
In this video John Carlton discusses using money attached to a letter to both enhance the story behind a product and capture a prospect’s attention. The topics include using personalization, sales detective work, […]
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The Marketing Rebel Team wrote a new post 14 years, 4 months ago
License to Steal: The Amazing Discovery This video is a discussion of a golf sales letter. The topics include how to define and create a “hook” for a product, writing headlines, and […]
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The Marketing Rebel Team wrote a new post 14 years, 4 months ago
This video is an overview of John Carlton’s famous “One-Legged Golfer” sales letter. The topics discussed include getting the story behind a product, the definition of a “control” in copywriting, bonding with your […]
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The Marketing Rebel Team wrote a new post 14 years, 4 months ago
This video is an overview of a sales letter directed at chiropractors.
The topics discussed include continuity programs, mailing lists and list brokers, the use of testimonials for a niche market, defining […]
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John Carlton’s Best Ads: One-Time-Only Market Test
I first learned the "market test" concept from Jay Abraham. He had convinced a major publisher of financial newsletters to offer a dozen of them for, like, $19. Normally, each subscription would have separately cost as much as $200 or more. So this was giving away...
John Carlton’s Best Ads: The Amazing Secrets Of A Short, Desperate Nerd From Pomona
The book being touted in this ad was written by a nice young Catholic boy who married the first girl he ever kissed. It's true. I couldn't make this stuff up. The client actually had the goods -- he had learned some pretty remarkable insights and tactics in the mating...
John Carlton’s Best Ads: Hyper-Effective Cover Letter #2: I Got a Hole-In-One
One of the biggest mistakes marketers make... is to get tired of their own advertising before the ads are actually dead. Sometimes, they pull ads that are still cooking at peak efficiency. They see the ad every day, they get tired of it, bored with it,...
John Carlton’s Best Ads: The Fifty Bucks Letter
Sometimes we all like to pretend we're not motivated by money. That's fine to believe if you want...but you cannot afford such delusions if you are a marketer. People respond to money at a visceral level They almost never receive money for free, and especially not in...