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		<title>Recommended Products</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 23:21:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Dean</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Check out these 4 products I&#8217;ve personally checked out and love&#8230;

Productivity Engineering
Internet Business Box
The Secrets of a 10% Conversion Rate!
Make Money &#8220;One Bite At A Time&#8221;

All 4 of them are worth at least double the asking price, so I decided to see if I could highlight them here.
Each product owner gave me permission to do [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Check out these 4 products I&#8217;ve personally checked out and love&#8230;</p>
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<li><a href="http://www.hypnosisnetwork.com/hypnosis/procrastination.php">Productivity Engineering</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.InternetBusinessBox.com/">Internet Business Box</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.successchef.com/amember/go.php?r=78&#038;i=l10">The Secrets of a 10% Conversion Rate!</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.successchef.com/amember/go.php?r=78&#038;i=l7">Make Money &#8220;One Bite At A Time&#8221;</a></li>
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<p>All 4 of them are worth at least double the asking price, so I decided to see if I could highlight them here.</p>
<p>Each product owner gave me permission to do so, and even decided to give me a commission for any sales I send their way.  Cool!</p>
<p><strong>If you purchase one and are not happy with it, you probably shouldn&#8217;t trust my opinion again.</strong>  It&#8217;s with that understanding that I highly recommend these products.</p>
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		<title>Should You Use A P.S. In Your Sales Letter?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Nov 2008 03:45:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Dean</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Aspiring copywriters, you’re getting it wrong!
The P.S. is a widely known tactic when writing a sales letter. I’ve done countless copy critiques for product owners who write their own copy… and they almost always have a P.S.
What that usually means is that they’ve seen others doing it and assume it works.
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Aspiring copywriters, you’re getting it wrong!</p>
<p>The P.S. is a widely known tactic when writing a sales letter. I’ve done countless copy critiques for product owners who write their own copy… and they almost always have a P.S.</p>
<p>What that usually means is that they’ve seen others doing it and assume it works.</p>
<p>Is that a logical assumption? Yes.</p>
<p>Especially since <a class="linko" title="Michel Fortin" href="http://www.michelfortin.com/">Michel Fortin</a> and <a href="http://www.conversiondoctor.com/conversion-blog">Eric Graham</a> use them consistently, and they test everything.</p>
<p>There’s another avid tester who does NOT use them, however.  That’s <a href="http://www.jamesbrausch.com/">James Brausch</a> (or <a class="linko" title="Diego Norte" href="http://www.diegonorte.com/">Diego Norte</a>).</p>
<p>I assume he doesn’t use them because either 1) he finds it a little unethical to pretend like you forgot to say something in the message, or 2) he hasn’t found them to work.</p>
<p>James often tests different parts of the sales letter against “nothingness.” Meaning some visitors might come to his sales letter and see the PS sections, while other visitors would come to his sales letter would not be able to see the PS section.</p>
<p>And whichever version of the letter gets the most sales wins.</p>
<p>My guess is that if James did test PS’s, he found them to hurt sales. That would match my test results with PS’s written by non-copywriters.</p>
<p>In my experience, if you’re new to <a class="linko" title="copywriting" href="http://www.2hoursalesletter.com/">copywriting</a> you might as well just leave the PS section out. Most tests I run with other people’s copy, the PS is either beat or statistically tied by the blank variable. In fact, that’s been the case with every test for other people’s copy.</p>
<p>Sometimes the PS is actually far behind the blank variable, meaning the PS was actually hurting sales. So if you’re a beginner, you might as well just leave them out.</p>
<p>The PS’s I write do often convincingly beat the blank variable.  I employ these “<a href="http://www.stephensblog.com/3-quick-rules-for-writing-a-ps/">3 Quick Rules</a>” for writing the PS section, and they work when done right.</p>
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		<title>Thanks!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Nov 2008 09:25:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Dean</dc:creator>
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<p>I post often so you should be hearing from me soon. You’ll find <a class="linko" title="copywriting" href="http://www.2hoursalesletter.com/">copywriting</a> tips, money makin’ tips, success tips and more. Just look at the categories on the left to browse through past articles.</p>
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