The Marketing Viking

August 31, 2008

Analysis Of A Great Salesletter

Filed under: copywriting — admin @ 3:39 pm

Pe

ople have asked me what makes good copy, so I decided to post an analysis of one of the most successful sales letters of all time.

This letter was written by the great copywriter Gary Halbert and was mailed an estimated 600,000,000 times.

(when people are willing to pay to mail out 600 million copies of a letter, it must be making a profit!)

Before I critique the letter, here is the letter in full: 

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5687 Ira Road

Bath, Ohio 44210

Phone: 1-216-666-9356

 

Dear Mr. Macdonald,

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