YOUR OPINION - Which Book Will U Pay Cold Cash For?

[GordonJ]

VACUUM CLEANER SUCKS UP DIRT...

Will answer your question and give instructional detail on how to write them.

Can't decide if it should be a 7 dollar WSO or a 69 buck front end to a new group which may form from it on writing blind ads.

Since I failed at a 24 hour book, give me 72 hours, now that I know the formula and I may have my "pick the title" part of it ready by Tuesday, and then I'll go from there.

Dean DuVall wrote some great blind ads, his bestseller (if I recall right) was the headline

$100,000.00 in 90 DAYS

You sent your 10 bux in and had no idea what you were buying.

It made and still makes people fortunes...and for either a measly 7 bux or a price of 69 (obviously the tested price point to resolve curiousity buys)...

but since I will have a NO FREKIN REFUNDS policy, probably will go for the lower price, unless I decide on an affiliate program, then it will have to be worth my "affiliates" TIME.

AIMING for a Wed. release...stay tuned.

HOW TO WRITE A BLIND AD THAT CAN PUT THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS INTO YOUR WALLET IN LESS THAN 24 HOURS...

Will have at least 5 titles to vote on very soon. Got to come up with a good bribe. Workin on it.

Gordon

PS. I'm quite serious, already have the blind ad template, have several examples and I'll go over the copy...from headline, pre headline, sub heads (aka Deck Copy)...

Salutation
to
Johnson Box

Bullet Points
Story elements
Social Proof (perhaps)
How to arouse desire, by appealing to human curiosity
Call to action
Disclaimer
Qualifiers

etc. etc.

Surely worth your 7 (or 69) bux??????

PPS. Hey Gordon, since you don't buy from blind ads, isn't selling a report on how to write them just a little, uh, disingenuous???

Yea, sure, but so what...I'm after the monies, so bug off.

Originally Posted by Dien Rice

Hi Gordon,

I'm not sure what you mean by "blind ads"...

Do you mean ads for information products which don't "give away" the information in the ad? I think any "instructional" product can't give away everything in the ad - otherwise there's nothing to sell...

That holds for not only "money-making" products, but any kind of instructional product (e.g. topics like: how to beat writer's block, how to draw using the right side of your brain, how to win friends and influence people, etc.)...

Maybe that's not what you mean...

Best wishes,

Dien

[Dien Rice]

Originally Posted by GordonJ

Dean DuVall wrote some great blind ads, his bestseller (if I recall right) was the headline

$100,000.00 in 90 DAYS

You sent your 10 bux in and had no idea what you were buying.

Hi Gordon,

Ah... now I get what you mean!

The danger is - you fear that what you'll get will be "crap"... That's because you don't quite know precisely what you're getting...

But - if there's a money-back guarantee - that should probably help overcome the fear...

I gotta say... there is one "blind ad" I can think of which I'm actually a big fan of... That's this one (and the series of similar ads)...

Bud Weckesser was a copywriting genius... I just love the picture of Mrs. Weckesser in the ads... What is she doing????!!!



And here's another famous one (though I don't like it as much as Bud Weckesser's)... "The Lazy Man's Way To Riches"

http://www.theryanmcgrath.com/Joe_Karbo_Ad1.jpg

(From here...)

And here's the Dean Du Vall ad you mentioned (link to the large sized ad is at the bottom), thanks to Lawrence Bernstein...

http://www.infomarketingblog.com/whe...yboy-magazine/

- Dien

[GordonJ]

Funniest thing I read at GTP was a letter from a woman who believed that Mary was strangling an owl...

HA!

This ad, along with several versions of What is this Woman/Man doing sold millions of dollars of books.

As a matter of fact, it was one of Bud's best efforts.

Compare this ad to those in Money Making Opportunities or Entrepreneur, the ones which don't tell you what they are with...

the ones that do, like PACE Products, whose ads have run for decades, or SMC, the ads which tell you what you will be doing...like Lil Orbit donuts or badge a minit...

YOU get what you have to do to make the money...

Back in the day, MOST of these Biz-Ops were blind, and people like the M.O.R.E. people, made fortunes from their less than stellar reports they mailed out.
They, were in the print days, the equivalent (in my opinion) of the Syndicate today in IM.

Anyhow, now you know what I was referring to, but, I'll have much more in my report...and thanks for reminding me of GTP, don't see any good reason why I can't cash in on my time spent there, eh?

If you remember, I was working on a complete library of ads, and accessed all the information, when and where the ads were placed, their costs, how they pulled, the tests that Bud ran on each ad...that surely has some value to a few people...as does the year I spent going through the Ben Suarez/SCI ads in his Seed World room, results of 25 years of testing and the results.

Probably will make that a back end to the BLIND AD report, ya think?

Gordon

PS. Same ad from DuVall, although, if memory serves, the headline

$100,000.00 in 90 Days

was the control and out pulled this ad and Dean D. too, was an avid TESTER of headlines.

PPS. The Karbo is one of the top 10 ads ever written, IMO, and one thing, perhaps irony, is that when I was talking to Joe, he had not yet hooked up with Harvey Brody to have his list managed, in fact, I believe he later confessed he was tossing out the names...good thing Joe attended the Harvey Brody seminar, he, like Jay Abraham, Ben Suarez, Gary Halbert, Joe Sugarman, et al, learned a thing or two from Harvey, wouldn't you say?

Originally Posted by Dien Rice

Hi Gordon,

Ah... now I get what you mean!

The danger is - you fear that what you'll get will be "crap"... That's because you don't quite know precisely what you're getting...

But - if there's a money-back guarantee - that should probably help overcome the fear...

I gotta say... there is one "blind ad" I can think of which I'm actually a big fan of... That's this one (and the series of similar ads)...

Bud Weckesser was a copywriting genius... I just love the picture of Mrs. Weckesser in the ads... What is she doing????!!!



And here's another famous one (though I don't like it as much as Bud Weckesser's)... "The Lazy Man's Way To Riches"

http://www.theryanmcgrath.com/Joe_Karbo_Ad1.jpg

(From here...)

And here's the Dean Du Vall ad you mentioned (link to the large sized ad is at the bottom), thanks to Lawrence Bernstein...

http://www.infomarketingblog.com/whe...yboy-magazine/

- Dien

Gordon,

How about:

So Easy Even A Blind Man Can Do It...

Ooops, were we asked to vote? Can't remember...Hope Ray Charles doesn't see this...Or Ronnie Milsap...

Tom

[GordonJ]

So easy, even a deaf, dumb and blind boy could do it.

May have to update to today's ONLINE gaming, however.

Only problem, today's gamer, at 12, is for the most part, illiterate.

I'd really have to write a blind ad for this one. HA!

Originally Posted by sandalwood

Gordon,

How about:

So Easy Even A Blind Man Can Do It...

Ooops, were we asked to vote? Can't remember...Hope Ray Charles doesn't see this...Or Ronnie Milsap...

Tom

Originally Posted by GordonJ

So easy, even a deaf, dumb and blind boy could do it.

May have to update to today's ONLINE gaming, however.

Only problem, today's gamer, at 12, is for the most part, illiterate.

I'd really have to write a blind ad for this one. HA!

Used to play pinball for beers at the NCO club in days of old. Felt like a deaf dumb blind boy at the time

Tom

[Glenn]

Hi,

My webmaster just found this Post on a Shadow or BlackHat Forum.

So.

The BUM BOOK is getting "Popular."

Glenn

Link:

http://www.blackhatteam.com/f108/req...ret-79635.html

Originally Posted by Glenn

Hi,

My webmaster just found this Post on a Shadow or BlackHat Forum.

So.

The BUM BOOK is getting "Popular."

Glenn

Link:

http://www.blackhatteam.com/f108/req...ret-79635.html

Glenn,

Your webmaster must have read my post on Jul 28th:


http://www.sowpub.com/forum/showthread.php?p=31496


Good for him, shows he's on the ball

Tom

Originally Posted by Glenn

Hi,

My webmaster just found this Post on a Shadow or BlackHat Forum.

So.

The BUM BOOK is getting "Popular."

Glenn

Link:

http://www.blackhatteam.com/f108/req...ret-79635.html

The Headlight Manual also made it onto that forum, same poster. They were discussing a group buy, but there's no way to know how far things get shared. I got at least one sale from the link they posted, so I'm good with that. Thanks to Statcounter for keeping track of that kind of thing.

whew....just happened to stop by for some 'light' reading and see the old Family is still at it...love, hate,fuss, make up ...good Catholic/Jewish environment...love it...
dont have any idea what this thread is about now ...will share with yall what I do when approached by the 'bums' in my area...

I keep a ten pack of the cheap ball point pens in my car...several as matter of fact...and give a ten pack to the guys who approach me...tell em to make a little sign ( as I did one day )...stand by the road ...and make money.
none of them do it...
I did ...for about 3 hours one day
dressed on the side of the road by a traffic signal...blue jeans, work shirt, dirty hat, and sweat...paint on the jeans ..working guy apparel..
cup from the Krystal with pens in it,
sign that said..scribbled..." Pens for sale..$1 each or 3 for $5"
people threw 5 dollar bills at me...told me to keep the pens...
made 200 bux ...and left...learned a lot about people..
most are generous and giving, just get tired of being "begged" for money .
so I quit working, recruited 100,878 'bums'...made $2,987,687...in 4 months...and sold out to the Scientology folks for 1 million cash,and moved to Alaska..

selling the pens is a true account tho ...enjoyed visiting with yall again ..!