Selling Is Not A Dirty Word

Written by Judy Cullins


Selling--a word that strikes terror in writers and professionals. We love to write. We love to coach. We love to speak. We hate to SELL. Maybe that's because we haverepparttar used car salesman orrepparttar 127307 vacuum sales person in mind. They annoyed us because they didn't listen, they pushed, and we felt attacked. We defended our position, and that's what we think others do when we share our talents.

When you think of selling, think of sharingrepparttar 127308 love that went into your book,repparttar 127309 unique, important message it delivers. Like me, think, "Now that I've planted this garden, I want to reap its harvest. If I don't sharerepparttar 127310 word with others, my garden will die from lack of attention."

If you are like me, you will want to put both your attention and intention on your book or service. Yes, use powerful words to describe your products. Yes, offer your books to others. Follow my lead and let them know about it through an ezine, pr, writing and submtting free articles, sending email follow ups, giving freebies to attract folks to your site, or learning how to sell books without a Web Site.

5 Secrets For GRIPPING Sales Letters!

Written by Grady Smith


We both know that to make a sale, you need to have people actually read your sales letter. So here's five often overlooked yet simple techniques you can apply to any sales letter right now to turn your copy into an engaging, "keep them reading tillrepparttar end" deal closer. Read on.

1) BREAK UP YOUR COPY WITH A FEW ONE SENTENCE PARAGRAPHS

Nothing scaresrepparttar 127306 reader of a sales letter quicker then a long-winded, cluttered, blab on forever sales letter.

The remedy?

Instead of writing a short sales letter (we know long copy sells), break it up and make it LOOK smaller torepparttar 127307 untrained eye.

You can do this with short one-sentence paragraphs.

It's an easy way to cut a long sales letter down to size and hand it over to your readers in easy to digest bites.

And it works!

Try it now. Take your existing sales letter and just break it up a bit. Divide a paragraph into a few one sentence paragraphs here and there. Make it easy and clean to read and watch what happens!

2) USE THESE TO BREAK UP YOUR COPY

Again, long sales letters freak us out. Unless we're really hot forrepparttar 127308 offer we won't want to jump in and investrepparttar 127309 time reading a sales letter that looks like it could take usrepparttar 127310 better part of an afternoon.

Aside from breaking up sentences, add bullets that scream about benefits. Number some of your comments into mini lists. And use bold printed large font headlines to catchrepparttar 127311 eye and give separation to long runs of copy.

3) EMPHASIZE STRONG WORDS AND PHRASES

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