{"id":5422,"date":"2013-02-18T06:00:29","date_gmt":"2013-02-18T14:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/?p=5422"},"modified":"2023-11-25T17:30:35","modified_gmt":"2023-11-25T17:30:35","slug":"brilliant-video-sales-letters-wont-sell-a-turd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/brilliant-video-sales-letters-wont-sell-a-turd\/","title":{"rendered":"Brilliant Video Sales Letters Won&#8217;t Sell A Turd"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The online video evangelists are an amusing bunch.<\/p>\n<p>In some ways, they&#8217;re almost as entertaining to listen to as the social media kool-aid drinkers who still think combining the &#8220;law of attraction&#8221; with frequent FaceBook status updates will make them rich.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the reality.<\/p>\n<p>And it goes for anything you sell:<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s most important is your message to market match.<\/p>\n<p>Not your cool &#8220;bouncing ball&#8221; powerpoint video.<\/p>\n<p>Not your Barry White-like voice over.<\/p>\n<p>And not even your video editing skills.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, those things can be useful and add more coinage to ye olde bottom line profits when using video sales letters.<\/p>\n<p>But in the end&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s all about the message to market match first<\/p>\n<p>Without getting that right, you could have your pitch special delivered on a solid gold tablet, but if it&#8217;s the wrong offer to an unresponsive list, nobody is gonna buy.<\/p>\n<p>Hey, it&#8217;s like my pal Doberman Dan says:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>&#8220;Brilliant copy won&#8217;t sell a turd&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Same goes for brilliant video, too.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, I prefer email.<\/p>\n<p>In my experience, if you do email right it&#8217;s a non-issue.<\/p>\n<p>Often times the emails do the hard work.<\/p>\n<p>Not the video or text ad.<\/p>\n<p>To see how I do it, check out &#8220;Email Players&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The next issue includes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>A &#8220;G-rated&#8221; email tip straight from one of the first &#8220;X-rated&#8221; movies ever made.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>A swipe file of email openings.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Why trying to scientifically test emails is (still) a waste of time (from a guy who has designed and built many of these so-called tests).<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>How to respond to long &#8220;rambling&#8221; complaint emails.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>How one of the world&#8217;s highest paid direct mail copywriters persuades even hardcore skeptics to believe outrageous claims (and how to apply to email).<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>And a ho&#8217; bunch more goodies.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>(Including a bonus I consider the #1 business resource I own.)<\/p>\n<p>But this puppy goes to the printer soon.<\/p>\n<p>So time is getting short.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe here today:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.EmailPlayers.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.EmailPlayers.com<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ben Settle<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The online video evangelists are an amusing bunch. 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