Work From Home: Long Sales Letters And More Success

Sunday, August 27, 2006

Long Sales Letters And More Success

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Busy, busy month so far.

Today I finished two new articles and posted them on my website. The first one, How Unique And Believable Is Your Website Copy, has been submitted for publication and I'm hoping to add a couple more to the queue after : Does Your Sales Letter Make Sense. As usual, these began life as one article, branched of into two different directions and still ended up in the 1000 word region which is pushing the limit. If only I could learn to use fewer words! I did consider cutting each one into two again but there was no natural break and there was only one subject.

These articles are about the new-fashioned long sales letters so many website owners are using. I am all for them but too many people are using identical stories with only very minor changes. I can' imagine many people will be falling for these ads in a few months because the Internet will be overrun with clones (probably down to the typos as well).

Profits and traffic have been strangely up and down after an absolutely brilliant start to the month but, as long as I stay in profit mode I'll be happy. Most of my time has been spent setting up campaigns with search engines. The ppc with Overture has been the worst mainly because I can't use Firefox there and it loads terribly slowly in IE or Crazy Browser. It was almost like hard work for a while because it is so boring. Now I am in the middle of setting up a campaign with MSN but took a day off to rebuild my index page in stacked tables. Today I must go back to the boring job of loading in keywords and making up ads.

One day I'll look back at this and smile but, for now I'm sick of messing around with keywords and can't wait to get back to finish my new set up and then I can get on with designing my new website. Oh well, boring stuff first, I need the traffic.

A young chap on our forum started advertising his website for the first time yesterday and had $70 in sales. He was wildly excited - I would have been too if my first day had gone like that. I think he started straight into ppc but I started out with ads on other sites so my start was slower. It's nice to see people succeed, not just because it's further evidence that our programme works, but for the sake of sharing the happiness of others.

Oh well, sales need traffic; traffic requires advertising, so I'm off to visit MSN with another bunch of keywords.







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