Headlines.
Yes you read that right.
You can even stick a great testimonial in a headline, and get a winner.
One site that has testing almost as a religion is www.DiegoNorte.com aka “James Brausch”
From his testing files comes this headline which was the equal top winner against many, many other excellent and skillfully-written headlines…
“My Jaw Dropped When I […]
Most people who purchase “Word of Mouth Magic” are bricks-and-mortar businesses. After all the main ’story’ is about a hair salon.
But word of mouth marketing is also for online small businesses too.
George Wylie recently purchased “Word of Mouth Magic”, and then wrote back to me…
Martin
Just to let you know I have started to implement your […]
If you’ve ever used Google search, and seen the Google Ads in a column on the right you will be familiar with ads that are a bunch of words much like this…
We Have The Solution
Whatever you need is
Right here for you.
www.TheSolutionSiteForYou.com
One of the most important features of word of mouth marketing is to be remarkable, […]
As I was sorting through my sales letter testing I thought I would pull out the results that were statistically significant to the 99% level.
Most of the results identified pieces that UNsold people from “Word of Mouth Magic”. Sorry, I’m not showing you those
One of the losers was the P.S.
Even though many copywriters […]
Word of mouth is THE most powerful form of marketing.
Testimonials are about building word of mouth directly into your sales process.
There is one marketer who claims from extensive testing that testimonials are THE most crucial part of an online sales letter (apart from the order link.)
I’ve even seen a successful sales page which was simply […]
Wednesday, April 23, 2008
In copywriting circles the battle rages. Which is better long copy or short copy? Getting to the point quickly with short copy, or giving them every possible detail they need to know with long copy.
The debate is actually a false one, and this mistake is why the battle rages endlessly.
The length is entirely irrelevant.
The answer […]
It seems I’m not the only one annoyed by contacts that should be of interest (See Warning… and Warning Heeded?)
Viral marketing guru and founder of Squidoo, Seth Godin, received this…
A woman named Jennifer Rosini at Forbes sent a note that read:
Hi ,
You are invited to join the new community of the high quality business […]
And then when he has a party contest he has me in mind and he networks back with me.
It’s a simple process of win-win, made easier when you network with people who understand an abundance mentality.
Get networking today!
Oh, and check out Marcus’ party gifts. Yes you can even get a gift from me
http://www.hochstadt.com/its-the-hochstadtcom-party-contest
-Martin […]
So who was the guy who had 38% of my subscribers who went to his page opting in?
The guy who is responsible for some of THE biggest buzz word of mouth on the internet, that’s who.
This guy’s marketing lessons are universal, big business and small, online but also offline too.
I’ve had him for personal coaching, […]
Thursday, January 10, 2008
Often people will tell you that word of mouth marketing is done by giving something away for free so people will tell everyone they know about you. They usually gloss over the danger in this method.
On the internet with costs being so low it’s much easier to make free offers, but even then you need […]