Why Most Sales Letters Never Convert (And the One Fix That Changes Everything)

If I ask the question, okay, are there specific points that need to be on a sales letter? Like is there a five part, you know, the five part step, the 10 step part, whatever it is, to a new, okay, here it is. What is that? That's one too. I can't even. Those are the building blocks of a great sales. Don't worry. We're back with the king himself, the king of marketing, Jim Edwards. And I'm excited because today is all about the written word, the sales letter. So I'm going to jump right into it and ask the biggest question. What makes a great converting sales letter and how do we get one? Wow. That's a two part question. So what makes a great high converting sales letter is a sales letter that gets the right people to stop what they're doing and pay attention to your message. And then it guides them through a natural save called a sales presentation, a sales argument down to a call to action that they can engage with and pull out their wallet and give you money without you interacting with them at all. That is what you want. In other words, your sales letter is your 24 hour today, seven day a week, 365 day a year sales person that doesn't call in sick, always gives the perfect presentation every single time, doesn't ask for a raise and is all around awesome. That is what a great sales letter is. Now the next question might be, what can you use them for? Can you use them for pretty much anything? And then somebody might say, well, is there a limit on a price point as to what somebody would be able to sell? Like, you know, I can use sales letter all the way up to $676.99 and that that point's got to be a sales call. I will tell you that I personally have had sales letters that the sales letter did the entire sales job and we sold something that was $8,000. Okay, so does that mean $8,000 is the upper limit? No, that means that's the most, if I can, I mean, that's like the highest price thing I've done with a sales letter that required no interaction, like no sales call, no webinar, no nothing. Okay. Yeah. I do. I mean, I could have a and I'm open to saying it, I can have a fixed close mindset on that. I think there is a limit. But I think there's also tons of nuances in there. Like, what, who's the sales letter for? How how, how comfortable, how much are they in your pipeline? What have they done? They got to this newsletter before we get all the way there because I know we're going to dive right in. And I'm just, I'm excited to get right into it. I want to ask you the question too is, as we're thinking about what makes a great sales letter is also, well, what makes a bad sales letter? You know, why would a sales letter not convert as well? Because I think there's a lot of people that write sales letter thinking it's going to change their lives and it does nothing. And there's a fundamental piece before I believe a sales letter that must be met before the sales letter to even work. I'm just wondering your thoughts on that. So what makes a sales letter work is, you know, who your avatar is, you've got your, offer planned out really, really well, and you can answer the question for them inherently. Why the hell should I buy from you? Okay, that's, I mean, if we're really getting basic, it comes down to your avatar, your offer and you. And you got to know their emotional hot button so that you can press the right levers to get them to say yes in the sales letter. You got to have an offer that has a value that's all the way up here and a perceived cash that you're asking for down here with like hell, that's a hell of a deal. And then how you factor into this, you as the attractive character, you as the company. This is where your story ties in, has to make sense to buy from you and also makes sense that you are able to provide and deliver on this offer. I mean, this is just really getting down to basics. And so if you don't know the avatar, you're not going to say the right stuff. So they're going to feel like you're at best, you're talking at them rather than with them. If your offer sucks, well, your offer sucks and nobody's going to want it. Okay, it's like meh. And then if you don't make sense, if it doesn't make sense, something's going to be off. Your story doesn't quite jib. It just doesn't make sense. It's then passed the sniff test. So it's going to translate into all the mechanical crap of, you know, your headline sucks. You're not able to use prom agitate, eliminate solves the right way. Your offer stack, you don't even have one. It's just all the thing, you know, it's too expensive. That's the biggest thing. And it sounds pretty good, but it's too expensive. You know what somebody's actually saying when they say that? Oh, well, in sales, I believe is they, they're, they're, you haven't gotten the justify the value. I mean, if, if, right, right, right. It says if a value exceeds price, you'll never have the objection, right? Correct. 100%. So, so anyway, that's why a sales letter doesn't work. Your headline sucks, your offer sucks, your story sucks, your call to action sucks. Um, pretty much you just suck and need to go work in a billion dollar industry where you put on a hair net stand a window and say, would you like a hot apple pie with that and perhaps some fries or, or the, the new one, which is welcome to Starbucks. What can I get started for you today? So I mean, it's, it's, this is important to learn. I think the first one is, is where I see a lot of business owners, especially in the startup, like guys that are doing 50 K months, even I've seen this where the avatar, they just don't actually understand the avatar they're speaking to. They think they do, but there's like that nuance. There's that, um, ideology is like, do you know the avatars problem more? Can you speak to them like you're like, they are speaking to themselves in their head. And I guess even though people think that they are, they're still, I always, there's like a mismatch just by a millimeter. And as you know, in this, especially competitive world we're in, and we're talking about written word, we're off a millimeter on a long form sales letter that that goes a long way. Yeah. And there's, there's two reasons why people do that. One, they confuse demographics with psychographics. So they say, oh, my avatar is a dentist who's 44 years old, makes $269,000 a year, has 1.2 wives, 2.3 children. I just feel bad for 0.3 Timmy, you know, that, that 0.3 kid is like, he's the shorty. But it's like, no, demographics help you find people, meaning like, how do I find them to put a message in front of them? Psychographics are the emotional hot buttons that get them to, um, that get them to react and get them to engage in a conversation. So what happens though is that they, even if you get into the psychographics, a lot of it is assumed. So they're like, Oh, my, my avatar are dentists with their own practice. Well, they assume a whole bunch of stuff about that, but never express it. And about the only thing they do is they'll, this is the ones who are real crafty. They'll say, well, what makes them wake up in the middle of the night in a cold sweat? Yeah. Okay. Well, that can be a whole bunch of stuff, but, you know, again, it, there's, there's short term desires. There's long term desires. There's problems. There's objections. There's the, the, the, the hidden greedy thing that they really, really, really want. There are questions they need to address. And situationally, depending on what you're selling, depending on what their level of awareness is, you have to know more than just what wakes them up in the middle of the night in a cold sweat. So this is where investing some time upfront and really understanding this can feed you for decades, because you understand them better than they understand themselves, because most people never go below that, the surface level thing. And the problem is, is that most of the AI stuff that you're going to mess around with is only going to be surface level. You know, you go to AI, you know, what are the main, what wakes a dentist up in the middle of the night in a cold sweat AI? And it'd be like, well, his wife finding out about his mistress, that is his receptionist. Well, wait a minute. You know, it's, it's, you know, not making payroll and all this other stuff. You know, the dude. Anyway. Yeah, no, I love it. No, I hear it. I think it's a, it's, we're talking in sales. We're talking, you know, it's almost sounding like what I call is the three levels of pain, right? So there's like the surface level pain. So I always talk about traditional business owner, surface level pain being Facebook ads, all my Facebook ads aren't working. And I say, you can go sell guy on this, Facebook ads are not working. Good luck. Okay. The second layer is their financial business pain, what I say in sales, right? So, okay, their Facebook ads are not working as a result. They're not making the dollars as a result. They're having, you know, having a hard time paying payroll as a result. They can't scale. They can't figure it out. You know, they're frustrated. They're burning dollars, you know, AKA, but the real level, right? Is that personal pain? You get to that personal pain. That's where the sale happens. Well, as a result of the Facebook ads not working and not having the money, right? I'm going to go as extreme here because we're on the podcast, but you know, it's like, how do you sleep at night? You know, what are you, what is your wife know this happening? Like how long does a business have before it ends? Did you ever think that you'd be in a position like this? You didn't know you'd be done in 30 days? Like we get to that personal level where you need to obviously gain trust. Before you get there, that's where the sales made. And I'm, I'm a, how do you feel about the fact that Mark Zuckerberg is the only one making money in your business? Yeah. Well, there you go. Yeah. Right. So I think what I'm getting at is the same thing on maybe on the written word, maybe a little different, but this is where the sales letter comes in. Yeah. You got to be able to hit the stuff that makes them respond. You got it. They have to read that letter and say, holy crap, it's like he knows me. There was a, Ron White did a thing where he's, he tells a story about sitting on a beanbag chair in his underwear in front of the TV and he's eating Cheetos. And the late night preacher comes on and he's like, you know, you're feeling this. It's like, yeah, that's me. It's like, you know, you're a sinner. Yeah, that's me. And it's, and now you want to get up and you want to call us on the phone and give us money on your credit card. And he's like, wow, they almost had me. You know, that, that kind of thing. You, you got to take it all the way to the end so that they're like, yeah, I got it. I got it. Yeah. They know me. That's, it's like this was made for me. And the only way you can do that is to know their hot buttons, know the stuff that makes them respond. And then if you do that, creating the offer is actually a lot easier. See, most people start with a product and go in search of an audience. And that's why they fail. But if you define your audience that you're going to serve, figure out what the real problems are, the real desires are, and all the other things in between, short-term, long-term, all that good stuff, and then make them an offer they can't refuse and then explain why you're the only one who can deliver this in this way. You're ahead of 99% of the people out there because nobody does that. 100%. 100%. All right. It's a guy and it goes to me is like, again, I tell people sell it before you build it. Because if you, so many people build thinking that's going to sell and then they spend money time and then they spend the worst part is because they spent a lot of time building it. They also spend so much time in money trying to sell it because they're doing the loss. There's a word for it. It's the law of some costs. It's on cost fallacy, right? And it doesn't work. So back, I want to get clear because it is news sales letters. If I ask the question, okay, are there specific points that need to be on a sales letter? Like is there a five part, the five part step, the 10 step part, whatever it is to a news, okay, here it is. What is that? That's one too. I can't even. Those are the building blocks of a great sales. Don't worry. I'll, I'll, I'll great sales letter. So how can we, how can we give the audience such a powerful session here that they can be able to understand it and potentially go even start working on their newsletter by the end of this. Sure. So you mean their sales letter, not their newsletter. Sorry, sales letter. So, so here's the thing. You got to understand that a sales letter, okay, what is a sales letter? It's, it's salesmanship in print. How long is a sales letter? You know, those big long sales letters don't freaking work. They're bullshit. Okay. Slow down scooter. A sales letter is as long as it needs to be. All right. So what I'm going to do is teach you the building blocks that go into an effective sales letter and then you can expand or contract. And I say it's like in one of those accordions from the Lawrence Welk show. You know, I probably don't remember Lawrence Welk, but I mean those, those ones where they squeeze them and do, and do the stuff. It can be as long or as short as you need it to be. It just needs to have the following stuff. So the number one thing that a great sales letter needs to have is a headline. Okay. It starts with a headline and really it starts with a headline package. And so the way to think of this is what is the headline package? Well, it's usually a pre-head, a head and a sub-headline. So the pre-head, the purpose of that is to call out to the audience or to call out to a pain or problem. So attention real estate agents, attention, high producing real estate agents, attention, frustrated real estate agents, or you can do regarding your next commission check. Okay. So you can, you're calling out in such a way that people go, oh, shit, that's me. Okay. So now you're going to have the sub-headline, which is a call out to the audience. Then you're going to have the headline, which is typically a call out for the problem or the solution. And this is where you have to know the awareness level of your audience, because if you're talking to people who have no frickin' clue who you are, what you do, or even if there's a solution out there, then you have to call out to the problem that you know that they know that they have. So if I'm selling something, a bunch of realtors that don't know who I am and don't know a possibility, I can say, are you sick and tired of crappy commission checks month after month? Okay. Well, yeah. Okay. That's all I'm trying to do is just move them from one thought to the next to the next. Okay. And then the sub-headline is typically where you are going to introduce or link up with whatever it is the thing is that you're selling. So it would be, you know, attention, realtors frustrated by low commissions. Are you sick and tired of crappy commission checks month after month? New webinar reveals how to massively increase commissions with zero advertising expense. And that would typically be in a parentheses. Okay. Well, now, if you're a real estate agent, I've got you. You're, you're okay. Tell me more. Yeah. At this point, our headline package has done its job. We've stopped the scroll. We've stopped the person. Okay. We've engaged them and we've pre-framed them for what's coming next. So now in your sales letter, this is where you're going to have your intro and depending on how this thing's formatted, it could be, you know, as, as simple as, you know, from the desk of Jim Edwards regarding how I got 52 listings. My first year in real estate was zero ad spend, dear, frustrated real estate professional. Okay. That's got some kind of little intro that the transition from the headline to what I'm going to start telling them. Now that's more of a traditional letter thing. It could even just be as simple as here's how. Yeah. Dot, dot, dot. Okay. So it depends on the verb. It might be, you know, how, but literally as, as easy as this, just transition. Here's how. Hey, let me tell you a quick story. Okay. Typically you're going to have either a shocking statement here or a story. Or both. Okay. And the shocking statement is designed to just further shock them out of their hypnosis, you know, so this would be, you know, most real estate agents are going to die broke, working a part time job at a grocery store. Will you be one of them? I sure hope not. Let me see if we can fix that. I mean, that's like, holy crap. I mean, you know, this is where you punch people in the face. One of the most brutal ones I've ever used was I had a shocking. The first line was it's enough to make you want to puke. Yeah. That was literally my thing. I made like $20,000 with that sales letter in the first two hours selling a $97 product. Wow. Um, this is not an income claim. Your results may vary. So next you want to tell typically you're going to tell a story. Okay. You're going to tell a story either about yourself or about them or about someone else who's like them. Hey, let me tell you a quick story about a guy who had two houses to sell and only 30 days to sell them. He only, he didn't have enough equity to sell with a realtor on one of them. And he was too stubborn to pay the commission on the other one. And he was able through social engineering and using a very specific phone script was able to sell both of those houses in less than 30 days and make a move to Florida, saving $12,000 in commission. But more importantly, he launched a real estate empire. I'm like, do I have your attention still? Are you like wondering what the hell's going on? Yeah. Okay. Well, then I've done what I needed to do with the story. So I want to tell a story that is going to grab their attention and it's going to engage them and set the stage. Okay. So the other headline intro, I just want to make sure we have headline intro, shocking statement and a story. Yeah. Okay. Now at this point, as far as mechanically in here in the middle of this you could have basically right underneath the headline package, you could have a video. And the video would basically, I mean, you see a lot of videos on stuff. Now, the purpose of the video is to sell the high reactors. So this is where you would have a video script that would basically say, hey, if this is you and this is what you want, this is what I got. This is what I got. And by the way, this is who I am and this is why you should buy now. That's literally the, I'm simplifying it, but that's what it is. Okay. If this is you, this is, and this is what you want. This is what I got. This is who I am. This is why you should buy it now. And then there's a button there that will shoot them down the page to see your offer. A traditional VSTL is what you're... Correct. Yes. Okay. Okay. So now we got our story. And then you're going to use, you've heard a problem agitate solve, right? Yes. Okay. Introduce a problem, agitate the problem, introduce the solution. That is actually not the best formula. Okay. It's problem agitate, eliminate, solve. So introduce the problem. Here's the problem. Most real estate agents can't sell their way out of a wet paper sack. Most real estate agents don't understand that their real job is not selling houses. It's finding people consistently who want to either buy or sell a house. That's the problem. Okay. If you're struggling right now, it's because you can't find enough potential buyers and sellers. That's the agitate. Agitate the problem. Yeah. Okay. If you don't solve this problem, you are going to suffer. You are going to, on average, make less money than someone who manages a grocery store. They sold you on the idea of being a real estate agent with high commissions, but what they didn't tell you was all the stuff you were going to have to do that had nothing to do with selling houses. Because it's not about selling a house. It's about pricing it right and putting it in the MLS. If you can do that, you're going to make money. You need to figure out how to find more buyers and sellers or you're going to die poor. Okay. We've agitated that. Now we eliminate. So here's the solution. It's my two extra listing appointments a week. Now we need to eliminate. Not poop, but poop all over them. Eliminate all over them. Now, here's what you need to understand. Most real estate agents think the way to solve this problem is one of the following ways. Run more money, spend more money on ads. Okay. Problem is if ads worked for real estate, there'd be one person in town running ads making all the money. More ads don't work. Some people think it's cold calling. I'm just going to call more people. Problem is with the change in the laws, you call a fizzbo, you might go to jail. Some people think that it's working your sphere of influence, but how many times can you call your friends and family to ask them for a referral before they treat you like an amway salesman and shun you at everything? So if it's not about spending more money on ads, if it's not spending more money cold calling, if it's not more spending more time putting your friends and family in a headlock, what can you or worst of all, doing nothing and hoping things change, which is pretty much is the theme of most real estate agents, what's the solution? Well, luckily for you, there is a solution. So now we introduce the solution and you're like, man, he took like three or four minutes to explain that. Calm down, chuckles. These can be paragraphs or these can be a line or this can be a single sentence. Okay. The important thing is that you're going through. The hoops. You're going through.哎哎哎哎哎哎哎哎哎哎哎哎哎哎哎哎哎哎哎哎哎哎哎哎哎哎哎哎哎哎哎哎哎哎哎哎哎哎哎哎哎哎哎哎哎哎哎哎哎哎哎哎哎哎哎哎哎哎哎哎哎哎哎 for you, there's a solution. You know, something, something, two extra listings a week, whatever thing. Okay. And then you're going to give them four or five bullets of what this does for them. Not what it is, but what it does for them. Okay. So solution plus four to five. Bullets. Bullets of payoff of what they're going to get from it. So then what you're going to do is you're going to tell them, I know that sounds amazing, but it's true. Here's exactly what it is. So this is where you basically explain what the product does for them in more detail. Using bullets. This is after solution. We're now going to detail of what the product will do, what the offer is or what the product will do. No, what the product, what the product is and what it does for them. So it's kind of like, you know, so it's the real estate listing mega kit that you're going to have. Is this like when you're talking about a stack or no? This is not the stack yet. Okay. Yep. Okay. Okay. We're telling them basically what it is. Yeah. Okay. Okay. And we're using feature benefit meaning. Now, they're going to say, as soon as you start telling them all that stuff, after you're done telling them and the ether clears a little bit, it's going to be two questions. Who the hell are you and has this work for anybody beside you? So after I've given you those bullets about the thing, then it's going to be like, hey, now by now you're probably asking, who the hell are you? Okay. Well, I'm Jim Edwards. I've wrote the book for, you know, selling your home alone. I've written copywriting secrets. I took 52 listings my first year in real estate with zero ad spend, you know, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. And, but don't just take my word for it. Take a look at this. And then after you tell them who you are, you show them testimonials. Now, the cool thing about that credibility block is you can flip those either way. So I can tell you, I can also say, hey, you know what? I tell them all the cool things that this thing's going to do. And then I can say, hey, now, but don't just take my word for it. Okay. Take a look at this. And then you have testimonials of, hi, you know, I'm Billy and I was working at Burger King and, you know, I'm now driving a Maserati and I'm on, got my own A&E channel on real estate. You know, I'm Billy. I was an only fans girl and I'm now I'm making, you know, $10,000 check or whatever. Okay. And so you can tell them, don't take my word for it. Look at what they have to say. And then by now you're probably asking, who is Jim Edwards and why should I listen to them? And then I tell him my stuff. So the point is that after we problem agitate, eliminate, solve, okay, where we give them the four or five big bullets and it's like, hey, this is, this is, this is what it is and what it does and why it matters. Now we have to prove credibility with testimonials and then your story, who you are. And after you do that, that's when they're like, okay, sounds good. What exactly am I going to get with all this all sounds good? What the hell am I going to get? So now this is where you do the offer stack. Okay. And the offer stack is basically where you're telling them what's in the box. Okay. You're going to get my amazing training program. You're going to get the Facebook group. You're going to get the software. You're going to get my chat GPT stuff. You're going to get all that. Okay. So this is where you see all the pictures and the graphics and the, you know, it's amazing. You know, you're going to get my right and publish your book blueprint. You're going to get the right and publish your book challenge. You're going to get the launcher book, you know, just all the stuff and you, everyone's got to have a freaking picture too. It's got to have a, and it's got to have a title. It's got to have a description. It's got to have a value. It's got to have a picture. Make it real. Now, at this point, one of the things that you really should do, but a lot of people don't is you have some sort of a section that addresses questions, beliefs and objections. Okay. And it's basically overcome the three to six big negatives that are probably still in their mind. Now, at this point, you might, you know, will it do this and this and this? Yes. Okay. Here's answer that question. What if I tried this before and it didn't work? What other software am I going to need? You know, you, you got to know what are the big objections. Now another way you can do this, if you don't want to really get into objections, if you want to just kick your, your competitors under the bus, what you can do is use this section to eliminate the competition. Hey, don't buy any real estate related training product unless it meets all of the following criteria. It was created by someone who actually has sold a house within the last year. It works in today's marketplace, not what worked 20 years ago. It doesn't require you to spend a single dime on Facebook ads. Do you see what I'm saying? We're eliminating all that stuff. Okay. So those are the two primary ways that you can eliminate a bunch of crap, address a bunch of crap. The other thing that you can do is if, if people's objections are skill based or they're worried that they're going to have to spend a bunch of money on stuff, then what you can do is set up a buying criteria that says basically don't buy this unless you can answer yes to all of the following. Okay. Do you know the difference between left mouse click and right mouse click? Yes. Do you know how to copy and paste? Yes. Do you know how to use a basic word processor like Microsoft Word? Yes. Do you know how to drag and drop files between folders on your computer? Yes. Do you have a word processor installed on your computer? Yes. And you have all the skills and all the software you need to be able to create a money making mini site. I mean, that's literally one of the things I did on a multimillion dollar producing thing. So what you're trying to do is once you get somebody over the hump in your sales letter to the point where you've addressed who you are, that this does work. Here's all the shit you're going to get. Then you need to address the main excuses, objections, questions, or hesitation that someone would have. Once you do that, then what you're going to do is you're going to bring it home. And typically you're going to have what I call a clean sweep graphic, which is basically all those things you had in that offer stack. You put them all together to show them all the amazing value that they're going to get. I almost said shit, but all the amazing stuff they're going to get. And then you enumerate it. And you tell them, okay, you're going to get this and that's worth this and you're going to get this and it's worth that. You're going to get this and it's worth this. So total value on this is blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, and your cost today is whatever it is. Yeah. Now at this point, one of the things that a lot of people don't do is address why they're getting a discount. Okay. Now it could be just as simple as saying, Hey, I remember what it was like to be in your shoes. And even though I can get $5,000 for this, I know that I want to help as many people as I can. And that's why I'm only going to charge you $9.97. Okay. Now another thing, because I know it's in your best interest to do this, here's a reason to act right now. Right now. So right around here, you can give it a reason to act now. Now there's a couple other elements that we want to have in here. And the best place to do this is in between the summary and when you overcame objections. Okay. And that in here, watch the magic of my board here. I'm going to rearrange this so you'll be able to just see the magic that is technology here. Okay. Oh, look at that. All right. What you want to do is have a guarantee. Now most people do this as a total afterthought. It's like 30 day money back guarantee risk free guarantee, 60 day money back. No, screw that. Okay. If this doesn't show you, I love to use, you know, try it out risk free for 30 days. But this is where you want to reinforce all the main benefits that you did way back at the beginning. If this doesn't show you exactly how to get two more listing appointments a week without spending a dime on Facebook ads. If it doesn't show you how to outperform agents that have been in the business for 20 years, even if this is your first six months. And if it doesn't get you listing appointments with people who are in the nicer neighborhood, I can't say that shit, but I'm just going to go with it. You know, the nicer neighborhoods, then we don't want your money. We'll give it all back. Try the system completely risk free for 29 days, 24 out 23 hours and 59 minutes. Send me an email. We'll issue a full refund. No questions asked. No hard feelings. Now isn't that a better way to express the guarantee than 30 day money back guarantee? Of course it is. Okay. I guarantee can go near the end. You were saying it can go in different places. Where the best place to put it is right after you over. If you're going to use the section on overcoming objections or if you're not going to do that, then it comes pretty much right after you do the offer stack. And it's like, but you know, the cool thing is you can say, Hey, but don't decide now. Try it out risk free for 30 days. So then you summarize. So here's everything you're going to get. Then you got to give them a reason act now act now. You know, it's it's act now and you're going to get this. But if there's a reason to act now, you know, whether it's a limited time bonus, a limited quantity, a date. And then finally, you close the letter. Hey, to your success. Jim Edwards can't wait to see at the top. And then you do the PS and the PS is really important because what happens is, and I'll explain, but basically you're going to recap your whole USP, the whole big reason why they should buy your unique selling proposition and why it's a great deal and some type of consequence of not acting. Because now they've gotten to the bottom of them, but yet you got nothing to use. So let's be honest. Okay. PS, let's be honest. If you pass on this offer, are you going to get two more listings a year? I mean, two more listing appointments a week, you're going to miss out on a hundred listing appointments a year. Are you even getting that many listing appointments now? If you don't do this, are you going to be able to reach your income goal? Are you seriously going to have to think about quitting and going to get a job at Blackbuster Video? And by the way, they're out of business, so that's options off the table. We both know what you need to do, which is to sign up, put it to use, and start living the dream that you know you want to live with being a financially successful realtor and helping people. Okay. Click here to buy now. And then you have a link and it puts them back right up to here because all the buy links, when they click them on your sales letter, take to the summary right here. Okay. Or, I don't know. I mean, I've tested different things, but I mean, it typically you're going to take them to the summary or, and I'm getting into minutiae here that you probably don't give a crap about, but I might have it take them to the top of the offer stack, just depending on how complicated the offer is, but that's, you know, it is what it is. My point is that think about it when someone's looking at the sales letter, how do they typically read the sales letter? Okay. And what I mean by that is think about last sales letter you ever looked at. And if this is the sales letter, okay, you got your headline up here. You got your video right here. You got a bullet here. You've got text and sub headlines. And then you've got testimonials. You've got your offer stack. And then you've got the PS down here at the bottom. What most people do is they skim the headline. They might watch the sales, the video sales letter. They skim down all of the sales, all of the sub headlines. They read the PS and then they make the decision whether they're going to go up and look and see exactly what the offer is. Then they scroll back up and they look at what all the crap is that they're going to get. Then they look at what it costs. Let's see. And then they'll go back up and they'll look at the testimonials. And then they'll go look at kind of, you know, what's included again. And then they'll like, okay, I screwed up. Get it. Then they buy it. And then between the time that they buy it and when it actually comes to them or it starts or whatever, they will read every frickin word of the sales letter, but they won't read every word of the sales letter until after they bought. So the whole purpose here is to have a mechanism set up to cause someone to make an emotionally driven decision to buy so that you also have everything there. So when they try, when they go back to justify on logic, then that stuff's there as well. So that's how you set up a sales letter that works. Now, I got to ask the big question because as you're going through this, I'm going, this is such a masterclass and what you've just written out, if someone was actually listening and following and taking notes like I was just taking notes, you can go right and Matt, you can go and probably write a, a, you know, version one that's called a sales letter by the end of the day. Now the challenge I have with this is if a thousand people went and did it, how come only one or two of them would probably be the one that produces the money and the rest don't. Well, writing a sales letter is different than polishing up the sales letter, getting the sales letter onto a funnel, making the rest of the funnel built out, having the emails to do the follow up, creating the ads that drive the right traffic to see the thing and then actually deploying it and taking action because just making the sales letter, you know, there's, there's ideation, creation and distribution is a real basic thing. Coming up with the idea is great. Creating it is great, but if you don't distribute it, if you don't do it, then nothing's going to happen. And here's the thing. Even after you put up the first version, you're going to have to go back and change stuff because you, this is basically your best guess. And then it comes up smack against real people and real opinions and real traffic. And then you're going to probably end up having to test your headline a bunch of times to get people to stick around and just, you know, it's, it's a process. It's not an event. Yeah. Yeah. And it's interesting you were saying, cause I know we're going to be doing this part of the four part series and you said, what comes after, so what comes after the sales letter, the supporting document of, of, or the documentation and or efforts that come after the sales letter, you said it was email sequences. There's definitely going to be a follow up email sequence and there's probably some email on the front end, unless you're doing, you know, cold traffic and just running ads and stuff. There's all kinds of emails that need to get sent in order to not only deliver the product, but set them up for the next sale, but more importantly, actually deliver good enough results that they want to build a relationship with you so that they'll buy more stuff. So Jim, this was like, I mean, a peer masterclass on sales letters and I can't wait because I know that we're going to be doing email sequences to support the sales letters. Just for people who are saying, I need this. I want Jim, how can I start writing my own sales letter with your brain? Where can they go? So you can go to copying content.ai and this is where I have all my proprietary copywriting tools and the gist of it is it's AI with Jim's brain baked into it. And so I have one of many tools that will write a 10 to 12 page sales letter for you in about 45 seconds that is based on your offer, your avatar and you as the user. ChatGPT can't do it. Nothing else can do it. Okay. You can go to ChatGPT right now and ask it for a sales letter and it will bust something out for you. And you know what? It'll be pretty good. But the difference between pretty good and excellent is the difference between excellent makes the sale and pretty good goes. Hey, that was pretty good sales letter. Maybe I'll come back someday. I mean, you don't make any money with someone saying to you, hey, I almost bought your product. You know, I almost bought, you're almost signed up for your coaching program. Amen. And here's the reality. If you're online, if you're doing it, if you're selling any product service, you huge opportunity to have sales letters in your process. So it's, you know, the funny thing is like with my platform, it's not just tools. It's me teaching you all the time, do all kinds of classes and, and, uh, master classes all the time. And then I let you use the tools that I built for myself as opposed to other people that just sell you a suite of tools and they're like, Hey, have a great day. I hope you pay every month. That's not how we do. I'm, I'm there to teach you just like we're doing this, teach you and then hand you tools that I personally use. So that's, that's the big difference. I love it. I want to end the sales letter part off with one question. What, okay. If there was one golden rule or idea or there was like carnal sin, like you only if the sales letter has to must have or one thing must be possible for a sales letter to be absolutely perfect that converts, isn't good. That is great. Is there that one rule? What is it? It's you better have a damn good headline. Your headline is the single most important part of this entire process. Okay. Um, meaning an amazing headline and absolute crap copy will always outperform a crappy headline with perfect copy because an amazing headline pre-framed the right people and grabs the right people in enough quantity that you can succeed despite the fact that your copy sucks. But if your headline sucks, no one's going to stop or they're going to, they're just not going to understand what the hell it's all about and they're going to leave. And I know this is true because I'll share one story with you. I had a program that I created. It was back when, you know, we were still even on dial up. And I created an audio CD and I went in the studio, recorded the thing, did all this work, created the sales letter. It was amazing. And I had a headline in it that basically said how I went from trailer trash to a world famous online. That was my headline. And so driving traffic, driving traffic, no sales, no sales, no sales, no sales. I'm like, holy shit. It's a scam. I'm like, wait a minute. It's my stuff. How can it be a scam? So I said, what would a great marketer do? And a little voice said, try a different headline. So I changed my headline to how to get a positive or how to get an unfair advantage in life. Well, another hundred people came through and I made a sale. Now, most people would say, oh, thank God, just don't touch it. It's working out. Don't break it. I said, screw that. Let's try something else. So I tried another headline. How to gain a positively unfair advantage in business and in life. Five sales over the next hundred people that came through. So I went from zero to one to five to five. I had a 500% increase over the second headline and an infinite increase over the other one, over the first one. I didn't change anything else. I didn't change the price. I didn't change the guarantee. I'd nothing change. The only thing I changed was the headline. And I have countless examples through, I mean, one from like four weeks ago, where I'm selling something for $2,000. And same thing happens. It's like, hey, this is amazing. I'm really smart. I've been reading my own press releases. You know, I'm Jim Edwards comes through. It's getting like a half a percent conversion rate. I'm like, shit, I guess it's not really in my assistance. Like, well, what's the new headline we're going to test? I'm like, oh, yeah, let me get you some headline. Anyway, we got it up to like a 1.3 percent and some of you know, it's only 1.3. Dude, 1.3 percent conversion on something that's selling for a couple thousand bucks a pop with no sales commission. That's pretty good. Okay. But if you look at it, it went from 0.5 to 1.3. Now, if I'd had it, it was a limited time offer thing, but I would still be messing with that and trying to get it just incrementally better and better and better. Nothing changed except the headline. So the rule is if your copy just makes sense, like to a normal person, but you're not getting the results you want, test the headline in equal measure. And I'm 99 percent guarantee you that that will move the needle more than anything else you can do. I'll tell you one other thing. Okay. Had a meeting this morning. Not going to tell you what the company does, but these cats are spending $200,000 a week just on meta ads. 10,000 leads a month at a cost basis of 168 bucks per lead. I came up with 15 different headline variations for them based around problem, solution, identity, and then jaded. I mean, those are those are the main categories. I was now we're getting into real advanced crap, but my point is when I talk to them, I said, you know, if we can just get you from 168 bucks down to 150 bucks, that's going to make a big difference. Oh, hell yeah. Imagine if we could get it down to just a hundred bucks a lead and they're, they got all dreamy eyed and stuff, you know, so, and, and all we're testing is the headline because the rest of their sales process works. We just need more of the right people to say yes on the front end right now. Is there other stuff we could do? Test in the layout, test in the offered, test in the shirt. But if we already got something that's working, then the thing that will move the needle the most is testing the headline to pre frame the right people to get them ready for what's coming next. So this is not, this is not something new. This is not some kind of fad thing. This is not something for beginners. This is, this is it. That's one of the fundamental principles like gravity. When it comes to sales letters, the headline is the number one thing that you test if everything else should be working. So that's the golden rule. I mean, that's it. The headline trumps all. You get that wrong. It's over. You get that right. Everything else works. Everything else should work. Yeah. And, and always test your by link just to make sure that your crap's not broke because I've seen it before where nobody made any sales. And then you realize that the, the cart was busted. Jim, I can't wait. Can't wait for the email sequence part. Thanks again for being here with us. Sounds great. Thanks for having me. Next time on the vault unlocked. Well, I mean, you know, if you remember the example used as a real estate agent, so they want two extra listings next week. Don't spend a dime on ads to do it. Holy shit, that's going to get open. Okay. Other people spend two weeks doing this. I'm going to help you get results in 10 minutes. What's our first challenge with an email? What is the first thing we want somebody to do with our email? Open it up. Open it. That's right. Look at you. Okay.