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Conventional advice #3: "Your sales page must follow this outline."
How we do it: You might not expect my response here. The short answer here is "Yes, but..."
Yes, it's true that great sales pages, like great movies, hit similar points along the way. But...
... the exact order can change. You shouldn't blindly follow an outline. That's what happens when you read sales pages that are boring and predictable.
(Bonus tip: We actually create two different outlines in the process. I explain why starting at 6:38 in the third video in the course.)
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Conventional advice #4: "Hire a copywriter who is better than you and let them do it."
How we do it: You could hire a copywriter. That's $5,000 - $10,000 for a mid-level copywriter, or $20K + royalties for an A-list copywriter. The problem is, how do you know who's really good and who's not? (You don't.) And how can you guarantee their copy will work better than yours — the business owner who knows more about your business than anyone? (You can't.)
With the right playbook, you don't have to be a veteran copywriter to write a great sales page.
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Conventional advice #5: "Nobody reads long copy!" / "Long copy is what sells!"
How we do it: Well, you're reading this right now, aren't you?
The whole short-vs-long copy debate misses the point. What matters most on a sales page is connecting with your reader. Whether that's in 5 pages or 75 is secondary. Nobody loses sales because their sales page is too long or too short. They lose sales because their pages are too boring or confusing or unconvincing. Watch how we do it with this sales page that generated over $600,000.