Everything I know about consistent sales – sorted by what’s hurting right now.
Seven years of notes on selling with words – 188 articles. You don’t need all of them. You need the three that fix what’s broken this week.
What’s hurting right now?
“My list isn’t buying”
People open, maybe click… and then nothing. Usually it’s one of three things: new subscribers never warm up, the list has gone cold, or the campaign never gives anyone a real reason to buy. Start here and you’ll know which one is yours.
EmailHow to Get Consistent Sales From Your Email List (the 3-Step Fix I Use With Clients)
Feast-and-famine sales are rarely a traffic problem. My 3-step client process: find the hidden gold, build a nurturing ecosystem, add conversion tools.
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Selling a $2,500 Program by Email Only (No Sales Calls)
How to Write Email Subject Lines People Actually Open
Should You Get Personal in Your Marketing Emails?
What Is an Imprinting Sequence? (And Who It’s Not For)
What to Write to Your Email List When It’s Still Small
Should You Email Your List Every Day? (3 Reasons I Do)
I Sent 4 Emails Without Selling. Was It Worth It?
My Biggest Email Automation Mistake (and What I Built Instead)
Why Do People Actually Read Your Emails? 🤔
Is Email Marketing Dead? AI Killed Boring Email – Not Email
Grow Your Email List or Fix Conversions First? (2,059 New Leads, 2 Buyers)
Why Your Welcome Sequence Isn’t Converting (3 Problems I See in 99% of Them)
Last-Day Launch Emails: How Many to Send (Data From 4 Launches)
How to Reactivate a Cold Email List: 1 Email, 14 Replies, $2,100
10 Email Marketing Best Practices (That Still Work in 2026)
Email Copywriting Case Study: The Anatomy of a Profitable Sales Email
How to turn a brand-new subscriber into a buyer in the first few emails. 91 pages, foreword by Brian Kurtz – and it comes with the Rapid Lead Assistant™, an AI tool that drafts your first five emails with you.
Send me the book →“My offer or page isn’t converting”
No page on earth can save a weak offer. So this shelf starts with the offer, moves to the words, and only then gets to the page – which is the order I’d check them in if it were my money.
Offers & pagesWhy Your Offer Isn’t Selling (and the 3-Step Fix From 100+ Client Projects)
A low-converting offer is rarely a copy problem. My 3-step client fix: know your ideal customer deeper, build a right-fit offer, then write elegant copy.
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3 Lessons From a Breakthrough Advertising Study Group
The “Common Enemy” in Copywriting (and a Fight I Skipped)
The “So What?” Test: How to Turn Features Into Real Benefits
The Slippery Slope: the Real Job of Every Sentence in Copy
Should You Offer a Payment Plan? What My Last Launch Revealed
What Product Should You Create Next? Let Your Audience Decide
Why Nobody Finishes Online Courses Anymore
The Best Copywriting Advice I’ve Ever Gotten
3 Big Idea Archetypes You Can Swipe for Your Sales Page
Missed Two Days of Writing? How I Get Back on Track
9 Years, 2,000 Pages: No Shortcut to Good Copywriting
Marketing by Committee: The $5,000 It Almost Cost Her
What’s Actually Missing From Your Marketing Messaging
The Biggest Storytelling Mistake: Your Hero Has Two Journeys
Should You Use Made-Up Stories in Your Marketing?
Gary Halbert’s 30-Day Hold: How to Double Your Sales
How to Make Your Writing Flow: 70+ Flow Elements to Use
Why Brute-Forcing People Into High-Ticket Programs Backfires
The Curse of Knowledge: Why Experts Overcomplicate Courses
How to Write a Sales Page That Doesn’t Feel Like Selling (Think Like a Prosecutor)
The Best Copywriting Books (My Recommended Reading List)
Conversion Rate Optimization: How to Fix a Leaky Funnel (in the Right Order)
Conversion Copywriting: How to Write Copy That Actually Sells
9 Advanced Sales Page Optimization Tips to Boost Your Sales
Analyzing 7 Proven Bullet Formulas: Why they work and how to use them
Copywriting vs Content Writing vs SEO Writing – What’s the Difference?
MemberVault Review: Pricing, Pros and Cons (Updated)
39 Proven Headline Formulas to Instantly Grab Attention & Boost Sales
The 5 Stages of Customer Awareness (And How to Write for Each One)
How to Write Faster, Better & With Less Effort (My 2026 Toolkit)
9 Landing Page Best Practices That Still Convert
How to Raise Your Prices and Still Sell More with New Luxury Products
I took 100 of the most profitable ads ever written apart and wrote down what they all have in common. One cheat sheet, with a 26-point checklist that finds the holes in your copy before your buyers do.
Send me the cheat sheet →“I can’t get enough leads”
The hardest one, and I won’t pretend there’s a magic traffic button. Most of these are about quality, not quantity – because that’s where the money was, every time I checked. The client-getting posts live here too.
LeadsHow to Get High-Quality Leads, Not Tire-Kickers (3 Steps)
Most lead magnets attract tire-kickers because they’re an afterthought. My 3-step process: a high-intent lead magnet, a simple opt-in page, activation.
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Should Freelancers Accept Revenue-Share Deals? (3 Red Flags)
Why Clients Ghost You (and How to Spot It in Advance)
Why Good Clients Don’t Hire You (3 Questions to Answer)
Why a Personal Brand Matters More Than Ever (a Gym Story)
The Cold Email Pitch That Preached Personalization
How I Wrote a Book in Under 5 Days (3 Insights)
The Perils of Over-Teaching in Content Marketing
A Plug-and-Play Consulting Email Sequence (5 Cold Emails That Book Calls)
Facebook Ads Metrics Explained: What Your Numbers Really Mean
Not sure your freebie attracts buyers or browsers? The Buyer Magnet scores it in about 10 minutes and tells you what to fix.
Score my lead magnet →The Proven Sales Letter Breakdown Challenge
One legendary sales letter taken apart a day, every day, for 100 days – on video. All 100 days are written up below.
▶Gary Halbert, Eugene Schwartz, Gary Bencivenga, John Caples, David Ogilvy, Clayton Makepeace, John Carlton… I reverse-engineered one of their letters every single day for 100 days, and the people who wrote some of them started showing up in the comments.
This is where most of what’s on this page comes from. If you only read one shelf, make it this one.
Gary Halbert’s Best Sales Letters11 of his letters, broken down line by line – the Coat of Arms letter, the Dollar Bill letter and more.See all 11 →
Gary Bencivenga’s Best Ads9 of his ads, broken down line by line – plus his famous Persuasion Equation.See all 9 →
John Carlton’s Best Sales Letters6 of his letters – the 55-year-old golfer, the free gun, the one-legged golfer and more.See all 6 →
Clayton Makepeace’s Best Promos6 of his promos – the 23-Cent Lifesaver, Health & Healing and his 21 bullet secrets.See all 6 →
Gary Halbert’s “Coat of Arms” Letter: How 361 Words Built a $300K-a-Day Business
“They Laughed When I Sat Down at the Piano”: How John Caples Wrote the Most Copied Headline Ever
David Ogilvy’s Rolls-Royce Ad: How “The Electric Clock” Sold the Best Car in the World
The Wall Street Journal “Two Young Men” Letter: Why the $2 Billion Classic Is Overrated
Gary Bencivenga’s Copywriting Agency Ad: How He Sold His Own Services With a Results Guarantee
Gary Halbert’s Famous “Dollar Bill” Letter: How a Crisp $1 Bill Sold a Course
The Man in the Hathaway Shirt: How David Ogilvy Sold a Plain Shirt With an Eye Patch
Joe Sugarman’s BluBlocker Ad: How “Vision Breakthrough” Sold Sunglasses With a Story
John Carlton’s “55-Year-Old Golfer” Ad: Hooks, Objection Handling and an Unlikely Hero
Clayton Makepeace’s 21 Bullet Secrets: How to Write Fascinations That Keep Prospects Up at Night
Eugene Schwartz’s Boardroom Reports Ad: How a 4-Page Letter Built a Publishing Empire
Gary Halbert’s Social Security Ad: How a Short, Direct Ad Sold With Fewer Than 1,000 WordsShow all 100 days ↓Show fewer ↑
Gary Halbert’s Social Security Ad: How a Short, Direct Ad Sold With Fewer Than 1,000 Words
Gary Halbert’s Famous “Dollar Bill” Letter: How a Crisp $1 Bill Sold a Course
Gary Halbert’s “Coat of Arms” Letter: How 361 Words Built a $300K-a-Day Business
How Gary Halbert Wrote an Ad to Find His Perfect Woman (And What It Teaches About Qualifying Buyers)
Gary Halbert’s “How to Get What the U.S. Government Owes You” Ad: How to Sell “Boring” Tax Advice
Gary Halbert’s “Beverly Hills Formula” Ad: How to Sell a Face Cream With “News Value”
The Bencivenga Persuasion Equation: How Gary Bencivenga’s “Shoestring Businesses” Ad Sold a Book With Bullets
Gary Bencivenga’s Kurobuta Ham Letter: How to Make a Ham Sound Like the Kobe Beef of Pork
Gary Bencivenga’s Olive Oil Club Letter: How to Sell a Product With No Obvious USP
How to Write an Offer Lead: Gary Bencivenga’s “Tax-Sheltered Wealth” Ad and Perry Marshall’s 1-Cent Book
How to Write a Promise Lead: Gary Bencivenga’s “Get Rich Slowly” and Victor Schwab’s “How to Win Friends” Ad
Gary Bencivenga’s Copywriting Agency Ad: How He Sold His Own Services With a Results Guarantee
Gary Bencivenga’s “Health Confidential” Letter: How to Build an Offer That’s Hard to Refuse
John Carlton’s “55-Year-Old Golfer” Ad: Hooks, Objection Handling and an Unlikely Hero
Clayton Makepeace’s 21 Bullet Secrets: How to Write Fascinations That Keep Prospects Up at Night
Eugene Schwartz’s “Do You Have the Courage to Earn Half a Million Dollars a Year?” Ad, Broken Down
Eugene Schwartz’s Boardroom Reports Ad: How a 4-Page Letter Built a Publishing Empire
Mel Martin’s “Book of Secrets”: How Fascinations Turned Boardroom’s Biggest Flop Into Its Biggest Winner
Mel Martin’s “Deeply and Irrevocably Personal”: How Fascinations Sold a Boring Book for 22 Years
How to Write a Problem-Solution Lead: Mel Martin’s “Chef’s Secret Cook Book” Ad
Eugene Schwartz’s “Burn Disease Out of Your Body”: How to Sell Self-Healing in a Crowded Health Market
Parris Lampropoulos’ “Tax Hotline” Letter: How to Sell Bland Tax Advice With a Killer Hook
Eric Betuel’s “Twelve Smiling Swindlers”: How to Sell Relief to Beliefs Your Reader Already Has
Bill Bonner’s International Living Letter: The Agora Classic That Started Without a Headline
The Motley Fool’s “Not to Alarm You” Letter: How a Scarcity Lead Sells to a Warm List
The Motley Fool’s Apple 5G Letter: How a Secret Lead Hooks a Skeptical Reader
The Proclamation Lead: How Agora Financial’s “Stockman Letter” Hooks Cold, Skeptical Readers
Aharon Grundman’s “Wall St. Couch Potato Wizards”: How to Write a Lead Readers Can’t Put Down
Joe Sugarman’s BluBlocker Ad: How “Vision Breakthrough” Sold Sunglasses With a Story
Frank Schultz’s “Fluke of Nature” Ad: How to Sell Something as Boring as a Grapefruit
Victor Schwab’s “100 Good Advertising Headlines”: The Ad That Sold Copywriting by Teaching It
The Wall Street Journal “Two Young Men” Letter: Why the $2 Billion Classic Is Overrated
David Ogilvy’s Rolls-Royce Ad: How “The Electric Clock” Sold the Best Car in the World
“They Laughed When I Sat Down at the Piano”: How John Caples Wrote the Most Copied Headline Ever
The Man in the Hathaway Shirt: How David Ogilvy Sold a Plain Shirt With an Eye Patch
Ramit Sethi’s “Delegate and Done”: What a Modern Long-Form Sales Page Looks LikeWhere I stand
Opinions, mostly. How I work, what I won’t do for money, and a few things 38 years have taught me. Read these if you’re deciding whether I’m your kind of weird.
Opinion38 Things I’ve Learned in 38 Years (Marketing and Life)
Emotion drives action, logic shows up later. Clarity beats persuasion. Most people need more conviction, not more info. All 38 lessons from 38 years.
Read it →Human judgment, machine speed
How I actually use AI in my marketing, where I don’t let it anywhere near – and why most AI copy falls flat.
AI & marketingWhy Most AI Marketing Copy Falls Flat (the “Paper House” Problem)
When Claude or ChatGPT goes down, marketing groups panic. That’s the “paper house” problem: AI with no foundation. Why AI copy falls flat – and the fix.
Read it →Latest articles
The newest nine, whatever the shelf.
3 Lessons From a Breakthrough Advertising Study Group
Should Freelancers Accept Revenue-Share Deals? (3 Red Flags)
Give Without Expecting: a Hotel Story About Reciprocity
Why Good Clients Don’t Hire You (3 Questions to Answer)
AI Slop: What the VideoGamer Scandal Teaches Marketers
Why a Personal Brand Matters More Than Ever (a Gym Story)
Should You Offer a Payment Plan? What My Last Launch Revealed
What Product Should You Create Next? Let Your Audience Decide
Selling a $2,500 Program by Email Only (No Sales Calls)Done reading? Here’s what I’d do next.
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