{"id":6983,"date":"2013-03-29T06:00:36","date_gmt":"2013-03-29T13:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/?p=6983"},"modified":"2013-03-29T06:00:36","modified_gmt":"2013-03-29T13:00:36","slug":"the-15-minute-sales-letter-formula","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/the-15-minute-sales-letter-formula\/","title":{"rendered":"The 15-Minute Sales Letter Formula"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Time for some marketing &#8220;blasphemy&#8221;:<\/p>\n<p>You don&#8217;t need a &#8220;killer&#8221; sales letter.<\/p>\n<p>Or, even a good one.<\/p>\n<p>(I&#8217;ve made sales with nothing but order forms.)<\/p>\n<p>Why?<\/p>\n<p>Because of email, babycakes.<\/p>\n<p>It does much of the &#8220;heavy lifting&#8221; for you if done right. And that&#8217;s why part of the April &#8220;Email Players&#8221; issue (where I&#8217;m teaching my &#8220;get up, write an email, then go play the rest of the day&#8221; business model) is how to NOT be a slave to writing a perfect sales letter.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Do email my way and it just ain&#8217;t necessary.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Yes, you want a good pitch eventually.<\/p>\n<p>But in the beginning speed is of the essence &#8212; not perfection. And this is where &#8220;the 15-minute sales letter&#8221; comes in to play.<\/p>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t invent this format.<\/p>\n<p>And, admittedly, don&#8217;t use it.<\/p>\n<p>(Since I already know how to write sales letters.)<\/p>\n<p>But if I was starting out?<\/p>\n<p>Or if I didn&#8217;t want to invest in a copywriter (yet)?<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d be on this 15-minute sales letter like white on rice. And the reason why is because it&#8217;s so simple even the n00biest of n00bs or the illiterate haters who mail me incomprehensible complaint mail can do it. And yet, it&#8217;s so effective, I know someone who does it in conjunction with my email methodology and kills it in sales.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, my business model is all about SPEED, baby.<\/p>\n<p>Speed of learning.<\/p>\n<p>Speed of implementation.<\/p>\n<p>And, yes, speed of getting paid.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and speaking of speed&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Time&#8217;s running out if you want the April issue.<\/p>\n<p>It goes to the printer in about 48 hours.<\/p>\n<p>Zip on over here to subscribe:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.EmailPlayers.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>www.EmailPlayers.com<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ben Settle<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Time for some marketing &#8220;blasphemy&#8221;: You don&#8217;t need a &#8220;killer&#8221; sales letter. Or, even a good one. (I&#8217;ve made sales with nothing but order forms.) Why? Because of email, babycakes. It does much of the &#8220;heavy lifting&#8221; for you if done right. And that&#8217;s why part of the April &#8220;Email Players&#8221; issue (where I&#8217;m teaching [&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":[8,9],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-6983","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-copywriting-and-sales-letters","7":"category-email-marketing"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6983","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=6983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6983\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}