Sales Letter Question

[alanmag9]

Hello everyone,

I have made some money online with affiliate programs for years now. I have created my own product recently, and I am going to launch pretty soon. I have got the design down pat, as well as the product. But I have a few questions..

My questions are as follows:

1. I wrote my own sales letter. Is this bad?
2. Where would I find someone to write a good sales letter for the internet marketing niche?
3. Do sales letters really have to be as long as they usuanlly are?

My sales page is only about 8 pages in Microsfot Word, but I took a site like Google Massacre and it had liek 50+ pages of content! Is this necessary to be successful? To me it is extremely stupid, but maybe it messes with the minds of the readers in coercing them to skip reading the lengthy sales page and just skip to buying the product. I was just wondering if I needed to add content (and repetition) to my sales letter. I have to figure this out before the page design, as the guy is formatting the page for me, and he charges $100 per page extra. DO I really need to wrtie 50 pages of content, pay $5000 for a sales letter writer, and $5000 more for the format of the mini site?

Any help is appreciated,

Alan

[Ralf Skirr]

Hi Alan,

1. I wrote my own sales letter. Is this bad?

Depends 100% on how good your copywriting skills are.
We can't give any advice unless we see it.

3. Do sales letters really have to be as long as they
usuanlly are?

Not necessarily. Do not make it longer just to make it longer.
If you can convey a convincing sales message for your product
in 8 pages...then 8 pages it is. If you need 50 ... then 50 it is.

the guy is formatting the page for me, and he charges
$100 per page extra

Fire him. The price is beyond ridiculous. I really mean it -
you can't ask for $100 to format a few paragraphs on an html
page.

For that money you could get the sales letter written by a
professional copywriter. That would be a better investment than
giving the money to the html guy.

Contact me if you want the html stuff done for 10% through my
personal assistant who does my own websites.

Ralf

[Philip Mansour]

I agree with Ralf !

If you don't do your own Copy, here's some guys who will do it for you :

Mike Jezek - http://mikejezek.com

Mike Morgan - http://www.outsourcecopy.com/

If you do decide to do your own copy, then you should pick up a copy of Mike Morgan's course : http://mymagicoffer.com

Good Day`

[alanmag9]

Exactly what I was looking for. Thanks guys!

[Sean Clark]

Hi Alan,

Ralf hit it right on the nail!

Sean

[Anthony Buchalka]

Howdy Alan,

Regarding writing your own sales letter

Ask several people you know to read it and get some feedback from them.

Also, consider adding some video to your sales page as it is powerful.

Lastly, both long and short form sales letters have their places and both can still can be very effective.


cheers,

Anthony

[Todd Lamb]

I don't think your nuts...the value in what you learn in the process...good or bad is well worth the time and effort..imho..good luck with your launch

[thomasukm]

Hi Alan,

I'm doing a product also, probably coming out in a month time or so...

Just to add,

- You can find some really good copywriter at warrior special offer, if you don't know where it is, PM me.
- You will need testimonials, as many of them, and put them on your copy.
- You can do your own HTML formatting, i agree with Ralf, $100 per page is way too much.

Thomas

[Stephon Rudd]

Wow Thomas,

Don't pay this guy ANYMORE MONEY.

I beg you.

You don't have to pay someone to write it for you if you understand how write good copy and it's pretty easy. Lot's of people write their own copy...I wrote ours (but then again I've written copy for hire before so I guess it doesn't count).

You don't need a long sales letter. You just need to write enough to sell the companies' benefits to the customer. Incidentally, the more your product or service costs, then the longer your copy will need to be to project its value.

Thomas, if it's ok with you, can you send me a copy of your sales copy? I want to look at it to see how you can enhance it.

Note: I don't want any money for this, I just want to help you because I know how hard it is to find a competent copywriter who won't pick you up, flip you around, and shake all of your money out of your pockets.

Let me know what your thoughts are, Thomas...


Stephon

[thomasukm]

Hey Stephon,

Thanks for dropping in, and offering a great help

I paid someone to do it for me and it's still work-in-progress now, i will let you know when it's out.

That's why i like about this forum, Mike:

Thomas