by The Marketing Rebel Team | Kick Ass Copywriting Crash Course, Lessons
This video begins with a sales letter for an ebook on career change. Topics include the use of ellipses as pauses in the copy, targeting your market in your headline, the use of cognitive dissonance to energize the interest of your prospect, and the value of a...
by The Marketing Rebel Team | Copywriting, Lessons, Live Event Hot Seats & Copy Critiques
Wally is on the hot seat. He wrote a letter targeted to small business owners that offers them a system that will put their business on autopilot. John explains the thought process he uses when writing and shows Wally how to put more punch into his headline by...
by The Marketing Rebel Team | John Carlton's Best Ads, Lessons
Get all of John Carlton’s most successful ads here >> John Carlton’s Best Ads… and The Stories Behind Them I first learned the “market test” concept from Jay Abraham. He had convinced a major publisher of financial newsletters to offer a...
by The Marketing Rebel Team | John Carlton's Best Ads, Lessons
Get all of John Carlton’s most successful ads here >> John Carlton’s Best Ads… and The Stories Behind Them The book being touted in this ad was written by a nice young Catholic boy who married the first girl he ever kissed. It’s true. I...
by The Marketing Rebel Team | Lessons, The Scuttlebutt Sessions
A frank discussion between John Carlton and the amazing Dan Kennedy. John & Dan go way back. They’ve worked on an infomercial together and have spoken at each others seminars multiple times. You always want to hear what Dan has to say about anything…...
by The Marketing Rebel Team | Lessons, Live Event Hot Seats & Copy Critiques
Today’s hot seat features a married couple who are middlemen: They bring real estate investors, buyers, and lending institutions together. They bought into this opportunity. The company is not supporting them as promised, so they are forced to do...
by The Marketing Rebel Team | Kick Ass Copywriting Crash Course, Lessons
On the hot seat is Kit, an NLP practitioner who wants to set up seminars in companies to help employees deal with stress. John takes her through the basic setup questions… who is your market, what are you selling (not seminars), what is your back-end? He...
by The Marketing Rebel Team | John Carlton's Best Ads, Lessons
Get all of John Carlton’s most successful ads here >> John Carlton’s Best Ads… and The Stories Behind Them One of the biggest mistakes marketers make… is to get tired of their own advertising before the ads are actually dead. Sometimes,...
by The Marketing Rebel Team | Copywriting, Lessons, Live Event Hot Seats & Copy Critiques
There are 2 distinct parts to this hotseat. They start with a discussion of buying and writing newspaper and magazine ads. Ed is selling an ebook for $997. His customer acquisition cost is going up after a year of using this ad campaign. They talk about how to...
by The Marketing Rebel Team | Lessons
My clients had roasted the self-defense magazines for years using what we called “down and dirty” print ads — no photos, no graphics, just 3 solid pages of hard-charging copy. Worked like gangbusters, hauling in cash by the barrel load. Then the competition started...