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Friday, 10:14 AM<\/p>\n

Dear Friend,<\/p>\n

Remember this article<\/a> a few weeks ago?<\/p>\n

That’s the one about my personalized hand written promotion that flopped.<\/p>\n

First, some background…<\/p>\n

The “Doberman Dan” personality has not written for the bodybuilding crowd for several years. Doberman Dan is NOW the “Kitchen Table Entrepreneur’s Best Friend”… NOT a bodybuilding author.<\/p>\n

Rick Gray was the author of the letter. That’s why it was signed by him and not Doberman Dan.<\/p>\n

Rick Gray runs A.S. Research, the bodybuilding supplement company. Sometimes I love the guy… sometimes I hate him. But we have a lot in common… we share the same brain and body. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

A bunch of people guessed why it bombed. Most hit on some good points that could have POSSIBLY been minor contributing factors… but only a few hit the nail on the head.<\/p>\n

As soon as I checked the results of this letter and discovered it was stinking up the place, I immediately knew the problem. I heard Gary Halbert’s voice in my head saying…<\/p>\n

“Delay Is The DEATH Of A Sale!”<\/strong><\/p>\n

When you have your prospect in front of you (figuratively or literally), give them your ENTIRE sales message right then and there!<\/p>\n

Sending them to a website was stupid. I should have sent the entire sales message in the envelope with phone ONLY ordering.<\/p>\n

Never, ever, EVER do anything that delays the sale or delays the prospect from your complete sales message.<\/p>\n

I know the current Internet Marketing “technique du jour” is to send your prospects an e-mail teaser with a link to your online sales pitch. That’s usually done because sending your entire sales message would make a very long e-mail.<\/p>\n

Well, guess what…<\/p>\n

I’ve tested this numerous times and several of my friends have, too…<\/p>\n

Every time we send the entire sales message in an e-mail it almost always eclipses the response of the teaser e-mail with the link to the sales pitch.<\/p>\n

Why?<\/p>\n

Exactly the same reason I said before…<\/p>\n

Delay Is The DEATH Of A Sale!<\/strong><\/p>\n

So there you go. Learn from my mistakes and save yourself a ton of money.<\/p>\n

All the best,<\/p>\n

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\nP.S. Thanks to everybody who participated in my little quiz. I’ve got some super sharp subscribers and I really appreciate you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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