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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.
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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: The Most Important Letter You’ll Ever Read
Finally, here is a great example of a completely "blind" letter. Nowhere in the entire four pages of copy is there a hint of what, exactly, you will find in the product. It's all tease. Like the little strumpet at the local watering hole giving you a big come-on......
The 4 Best Ways to Multiply Your Copywriting Success
by David L. Deutsch You can read all the best books ever written about flying. But that doesn’t mean you can pilot an airplane. Similarly, if you want to soar to your fullest potential as a copywriter, it takes more than knowledge of copywriting. I have found four...
John Carlton’s Best Ads: Everything And The Kitchen Sink – #1 – Give Any Man Exactly What He Really Wants
Another Rodale piece-- this time, they got impatient selling individual books about the various parts of men's lives... and decided to just lump everything together in one gargantuan volume. So I have to cover better sex... weight loss... earning more money......
John Carlton’s Best Ads: Hey Guys, Watch This!
This letter was purposely written to cover a glaring oversight I'd missed in all my other golf ads. Namely... identifying where the reader is now in his game. The audience is full of young guys... old guys... and rookie duffers of all stripes. One of the main...