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 Most self-defense ads try hard to look tough. Like the product is tough, the talent is tough, even the receptionist answering the phones is...
by The Marketing Rebel Team | Lessons, Live Event Hot Seats & Copy Critiques
Jim is a commercial printer, who includes “done for you” printing management services for his clients. He doesn’t charge extra for this and even says he can save his clients 10% – 15% on their costs because his ordering is much more...
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 This letter almost set a record for the shortest time spent as a control at Phillips Publishing (the newsletter giant)… but it...
by The Marketing Rebel Team | Lessons, The Scuttlebutt Sessions
A frank discussion between Gary Halbert & John Carlton aimed at everyone who has been affected by war, stock market crashes, the paranoia of the buying public, or whatever general bashing of business is going on at the moment. While most people are singing the...
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 always load up my ads with urgency. You never want to let your reader think she has the luxury to put the copy aside and think about the...
by The Marketing Rebel Team | Copywriting, Lessons, Live Event Hot Seats & Copy Critiques
This hot seat features John, who wrote a letter targeting accident victims to get them to call for an appointment with a chiropractor. His challenge is to get them to read the letter, bond with them quickly, and compel them to call for an appointment for a free...
by The Marketing Rebel Team | Lessons, Live Event Hot Seats & Copy Critiques
Rhonda Ryder is a copywriter, writing a letter for 2 men who interviewed 7 multimillionaire women. The product hasn’t launched yet. They discuss: Having the product name in the title, The difference between writing to men and women. Who should be writing the...
by The Marketing Rebel Team | Lessons
I struggled for years to get Rodale to use personalization in a letter. My other clients found that personalizing a letter boosted response by as much as 30% — a very significant increase to the bottom line. Working with large mailers, you are pitted...
by The Marketing Rebel Team | Lessons
You have to imagine what was going on in Rodale’s collective head at the time. This is a very conservative, east-Pennsylvania-based publisher — one of the largest mailers in the world. But their main fare are books on gardening, health, folk recipes, stuff...
by The Marketing Rebel Team | Lessons, The Scuttlebutt Sessions
John talks to Sam Fishbein, a world-class copywriter who owned & ran a mega-profitable retail business for 45 years… and (most interesting) managed an enormous stable of “on the floor” sales people. Sam learned his copy chops working with guys...
