The Secret to a Convincing Sales Letter: Add a Villain

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The secret to a great sales letter is in creating a villain.

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One Secret to A Convincing Sales Letter
By DW

I was struggling to get 1,000 customers a year. Each offer brought in a couple hundred, but I couldn’t crack the code…

Here’s the ONE thing that transformed my sales letters and VSL’s in the last year.

I added a “villain” in my copy.

  • For my Fat Shrinking Signal offer, it was leptin resistance.
  • For Flat Belly Flush, it was thick, sludge-like digestive bile that’s clogging up your organs and making it nearly impossible to burn fat.
  • For Wake Up Lean, it was hidden inflammation.
  • For Slim Belly, it was estrogen dominance.

FACT: People will do so much more to avoid pain than the will to gain pleasure.

That’s why sales copy ridden with benefits can do okay once in a while (if the promise is strong enough), but usually they fall flat.

I know all of mine did. Nobody cared how much fat they could burn with 10-minute workouts, until I brought in the fact that they may be leptin resistant, and these short workouts were the cure.

Same product, but different copy that introduced a “villain.”

And this copy finally worked! I went from 700 sales in six months to 8,000 in six weeks. So if your copy isn’t converting like you want it to, take a look and see if you have a “villain”. Obviously you don’t want to make one up, but there are so many conditions that can be solved with healthy eating and exercise, you just have to shine the light on them and make your readers SEE it. Bring it to light…Make them confront it… And then weave your product in as the solution.

I wrote five sales letters before one worked. And for each of those five, I probably re-wrote each one 10 times or more.

So don’t give up!
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