Francis M. Ardi
Direct Marketing Copywriter

 Attention to Detail in Promotional Writing  

 Limited Time Offer for New ClickBank and PayDotCom sellers 

Have a professional copywriter develop your pitch page.

"You'll not only Make More Sales,
you'll also Attract More Affiliates
 
Eager to Promote Your Product."

There are copywriters who don't charge much to write your pitch page.  
 Make sure you see their writing samples.
Some copywriters will edit copy you've written yourself for a lot less than the cost of a new page.  If you can find one, believe me, it is worth it.
For a limited time, I'm offering my services at a special rate.  You'll have a professionally written pitch page optimized for conversion rate, for a mere fraction of what you would pay to have a typical landing page written.
Not only will you generate more orders from customers, you'll also make a better impression on the ClickBank and PayDotCom network of affiliates looking for products to promote.

 

Dear Clickbank Info-marketer, 

   You have a great information product or some other downloadable just waiting to present to your market.  You already know Clickbank and PayDotCom offer an ideal system to start selling downloadable products and accept payments online.

A whole network of affiliates looking to promote your info product.

  You'll have a ready-made, easy to set up online payment processing system that integrates seamlessly with your web site.  And you'll have an enormous network of affiliates always on the lookout for some hot product to promote.

   There's no need for you to seek out affiliates.  They come looking for you.  In fact, affiliates are always scouring the Clickbank Marketplace for products the market is hungry for that pay a generous percentage or dollar amount of commission per sale.

An affiliate will select your products to promote, provided that...

  • the product is a good fit in an affiliate's market niche.  Something that satisfies a specific need or desire among potential buyers in a given niche.
     

  • the commission dollar amount, together with projected sales volume, promise a worthwhile return on investment.
     

  • the web page selling the product, of pitch page as it's known among Clickbank members, appears to be written in a style consistent with winning sales letters.

Your product description page needs to be an effective selling device.

    Successful affiliates are quick to recognize a good selling page.  They know first hand what letters have sold plenty by the way they're written.  Affiliates using email lists know not pitch to a list too often or they'll get lots of opt-outs.  When affiliates promote a product to their lists, they want to be assured of a profitable campaign.

   Affiliates using paid advertising want assurance of a good return on investment.

Affiliates are also keen on protecting their reputation.
Some of the products at Clickbank make me uncomfortable to promote. 
The pitch page looks cheesy and is something I wouldn't be interested in buying from especially when there are typos in their opening statement such as ...

"buy this ebook so you don't get scamed!" 

It makes me think some guy in his basement put together a quick and sloppy pitch page to make $7 an ebook per sale and maybe the product isn't worth promoting. Especially if I have regular visitors to my site who will somehow blame me for my promotion of scammy or bad quality goods.

Submitted by thischick on Mon, 09/22/2008 - 01:47.
Source: www.quityourdayjob.com/node/2446 

Affiliates want to see good copywriting.

Do you make these mistakes writing your copy?

Click Here to see the list.

   Many online business operators place more emphasis on search engine optimization than on optimizing conversion rate - the percentage of page viewers who buy.  While it is important your web pages be indexable by search engines, do keep in mind that...

Search engine optimization is just one way to drive visitor traffic to your site. 
Optimizing conversion rate is the only way to generate the most response from the visitor traffic to your site.

Good Copywriting is what connects Quality Traffic with Quality Products
by presenting the product in a manner that is meaningful to the potential customer.

   This is done by first appealing to the emotions involved in motivating someone to want to take a look at your offer.  This is done in the headline and first few sentences.

The Headline of a Pitch Page
   Those big bold few lines of text across the top of a landing page just below the header graphic are what compel someone to start reading your page.  It is the Attention phase of the sales process.  Writing good headlines comes only with lots of study and practice and professional copywriters often spend hours coming up with a good headline.  Yes, hours. They're that important.
   A lot of web page developers don't realize this.  You'll probably seen lots of sloppy headlines, enormously long sentences crammed into a rectangular area.  Despite their 'loud look', nothing really stands out grabbing your attention.
   I see these headlines a 'crunched headlines'.  Look at the example below. 

"In Only 3½ Minutes, You Can Quickly And Easily Crank Out A Killer Cover Letter That Is Guaranteed To Have Your Phone Ringing Off The Hook With Hot Job Interviews And Top Job Offers... Without Writing One Word!"

Click here for more examples and how to optimize these headlines.

"On average, five times as many people read the headline as those that read the body copy. 
If you haven't done some selling in your headline, you've wasted 80% of your client's money." 

David Ogilvy

   You then expand on the customer's current state of affairs, that of not having your product.  Give reasons for your product's desirability, backed by elements of credibility and proof, like testimonials and quotes from respected sources.

    Finally, you appeal to your customer's sense of reason and give a reason to act now.

What I Can Do For You

   I will do my best to see that you will have a pitch page that presents your product in a manner consistent with proven winners among sales letters.  Using the methodology of the world-renowned AWAI program, your pitch page will take your prospective customers through all the steps necessary, from generating interest, developing desire and finally, getting your prospect to see that having your product makes perfect sense. 

For a lot less than you would pay a typical copywriter just to do your writing, 
you'll have a complete pitch page, ready to upload and go to work. 

   Just think about not having to look for two services, one to do your writing and one to make your web pages.  If you just want a web page, there are hundreds of web page designers, desperate for work who will do it for cheap, but what will you be getting?

Most web designers don’t have the first clue about how to convert traffic!
Just think about it…
Over 99% of all web sites today are designed by programmers or graphic artists — NOT marketers.  Most of these guys have never earned a dime selling anything online except their overpriced (and under performing) web design services.

Eric Graham, "The Conversion Doctor" 

 

What's Included With Your Landing Page

   You can have a simple landing page like the one you are reading, or you can supply me with a template with which I shall type your copy into using a web page editor.  You are to provide me with all photos and other graphic elements, including the header graphic, if you want me to add it to the top of your page.

   In the case of a simple page, you need to specify the color scheme of your web page. This is the background color, border colors, headline text color and color of any other text, Johnson box background colors.

   Besides an effective sales letter from headline to postscript, your landing page will be developed with  features typical of a web page.  These include:

  • inserting photographs and any graphics you provide at no additional page-length charge
     

  • adding any text components you provide such as testimonials and quotes at no additional page-length charge
     

  • adding a sidebar, if desired
     

  • ClickBank or PayDotCom order link
     

  • Thank you page where the new customer will be taken back to after completing the purchase transaction where there are links with which the products and bonuses can be downloaded.

As a new marketer, your best chance of being noticed by affiliates
is having a pitch page of a style consistent with winning sales letters.  

   As a copywriter accustomed to using a web page editor as my 'typewriter' I can see your page develop right before me.  The way it would look to a potential customer and, just as important, to an affiliate looking for something new to put on display. 

Not many copywriters serve the ClickBank market

   since for many, this is a rather unprofitable niche, consisting of startups and newbies who don't have an established business and don't have a lot of money for advertising expenditures.  

   There are the exceptions, Ewen Chia and Jo Han Mok, who've earned millions on the Internet, regularly use ClickBank and PayDotCom, respectively for promoting their products and processing payments.

   A typical web page requiring the services of a copywriter and a web page designer could easily set you back $1,000 or more.  And then there is the hassle to having to work with two service providers, requiring more lead time.  As a result a lot of ClickBank publishers either write their own copy or pay the high development costs.

So what would I charge?

  A typical, four page length pitch page (MS Word, Verdana 10) would be $499 and up*.
*About $75 for each additional page of written copy.  
No additional page charge for graphics and testimonial text furnished by client.

Copy editing  (fix up the copy you got somewhere else or did yourself)  $269 and up.

   This would be for both the copywriting and web page layout for the pitch page and the thank-you page.  But for a limited time, for the first ten new publishers,  I'm offering to do your ClickBank or PayDotCom pitch page for only...

$299

    Why so low?  Just fill out the inquiry form below to find out.    You'll receive my special report, Elements of a Good Pitch Page  together with five of my copywriting samples and a Pitch Page Development Questionnaire so that you could acquaint me with your product or service.

But don't delay, there are only 9 spots left.

  To your success,
  Francis M. Ardi

P.S.  I will do only ten pitch pages for this low a price (minus the one I've already done). After which I'll charge a minimum of $499 for writing a complete page from scratch and $269 for a copy editing job.

 

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