{"id":3588,"date":"2010-07-19T00:00:21","date_gmt":"2010-07-19T07:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/?p=3588"},"modified":"2010-07-19T00:00:21","modified_gmt":"2010-07-19T07:00:21","slug":"where-your-best-sales-letter-headlines-hide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/where-your-best-sales-letter-headlines-hide\/","title":{"rendered":"Where Your Best Sales Letter Headlines Hide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Do you ever struggle writing headlines?<\/p>\n<p>If so, methinks I got just the tonic you need to take the &#8220;sting&#8221; out of the process for you.<\/p>\n<p>Check this out:<\/p>\n<p>A few years ago, I had a major case of &#8220;headline block.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I was writing a sales letter for a top Internet marketing genius (a real guru, not a goo-roo) and he did not allow anything but a copywriter&#8217;s BEST effort top to bottom.  And so even though I&#8217;d written a few hundred headlines for it (I got a bit obsessive&#8230;), I knew NONE were up to par and would be rejected.<\/p>\n<p>Then out of the blue he made a suggestion.<\/p>\n<p>A suggestion that quite literally changed the way I write ads.<\/p>\n<p>What was his suggestion?<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>&#8220;Check your bullets. The headline might be hiding in there.&#8221;<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Boo-YAH!<\/p>\n<p>Why didn&#8217;t I think of that?<\/p>\n<p>So I went through the 50+ bullets I&#8217;d written for the ad and there it was.  No&#8230; not in its final, &#8220;polished&#8221; form.  But the <em>germ<\/em> of the headline was there.  And it only took a few tweaks to turn it into the headline that&#8217;d close the deal.<\/p>\n<p>The point?<\/p>\n<p>Your headline really is nothing but your best bullet.<\/p>\n<p>And if you&#8217;ve written your bullets correctly, then chances are you&#8217;ve got yourself a shiny, sparkling, <em>candy-like<\/em> headline already waiting for you.<\/p>\n<p>Go back and check &#8217;em out.<\/p>\n<p>It can save you a LOT of time and grief.<\/p>\n<p>And hey, if you don&#8217;t know how to write bullets, then just crack open the next <strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.CryptoMarketing.com\" rel=\"noopener\">Crypto Marketing Newsletter<\/a><\/strong> issue which goes to print August 1st.<\/p>\n<p><strong>It&#8217;s ALL about bullets, baby.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Most of my ads average well over 50 bullets.<\/p>\n<p>(One ad has almost 200 bullets!)<\/p>\n<p>And this issue reveals the 12 ways I use to pump &#8217;em out.<\/p>\n<p>You can subscribe over at:<\/p>\n<p><strong><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.CryptoMarketing.com\" rel=\"noopener\">www.CryptoMarketing.com<\/a><\/div>\n<p><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ben Settle<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do you ever struggle writing headlines? If so, methinks I got just the tonic you need to take the &#8220;sting&#8221; out of the process for you. Check this out: A few years ago, I had a major case of &#8220;headline block.&#8221; I was writing a sales letter for a top Internet marketing genius (a real [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-copywriting-and-sales-letters"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3588\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}