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If your sales letter fills
most screen your sentences will be way to long to read comfortably.
The eye likes to scan a few words and then move down to another line. That's what it has been trained to do with newspapers. Newspapers have their text in easy to scan columns.
Even hard cover books have very readable pages... and that's about as long as you would want a sentence to be.
Please, no more small fonts and long, long sentences.
Finally, white only for your background... black type on a white background.
And, please, never...ever put white type on a black background. If you run a split test you will learn it just does not sell!
Short sentences and paragraphs always. Seldom should a paragraph be longer than two or three sentences.
Paragraphs must be indented. Testing mail order letter’s proved that indenting helped to draw
eye from
end of one paragraph to
first line of
next… and increased sales.
All words, including headlines, in upper and lower case. Why, because that is what
eye is accustomed to seeing. It's not nice to confuse eyeballs!
Everything concerning your sales letter must capture and hold your visitor's interest and attention or your brilliant writing will fail.
The details discussed here can increase your sales by 3% to 10% or more... so just stop screwing up your sales letter!

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