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    The S.W.I.P.E.S. Email (Friday February 10th, 2023)

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    A fun email for Friday. I hope you enjoy!

    Edition: Friday, February 10th, 2023

    🎤 Listen to this email here:

    Swipe:

    I love this headline and image and copy combo, where Volvo makes the case that a wagon can be fast!

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    The small text copy goes on to show:
    🚙 In a 0-60 test this Volvo beats the Porsche.
    🚙 Just because it’s a wagon doesn’t mean it’s slow.
    🚙 Road & Track Magazine called this Volvo Turbo Wagon the closest thing to a “five door sports car.”

    Wisdom:

    One of the best things about owning a business is tax advantages.

    I know that sounds really boring but...

    If you have a hobby such as cooking...and you start a small cooking business, you can buy all sorts of cooking stuff FOR YOUR BUSINESS AS AN EXPENSE.

     

    Start YouTube/social channel about building house stuff.

    Build out your dream house, document it.

    Write off renovations as a business loss.

    😏

    Interesting:

    This guy's full time job is making fun tools on his personal website Neil.fun:

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    From making these cool little tools he gets:
    • 4,000,000+ vists/mo
    • 300,000+ SEO visits/mo
    • Full time income monetized by Google AdWords

    I'm totally jealous of this!

    Picture:

    If I was hired as the copywriter for this 1986 Honda Helix scooter ad, I would've positioned it differently.

    I think this is the UGLIEST SCOOTER I'VE EVER SEEN 😂

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    I re-made a few different versions of the original 🤪

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    This ugly scooter reminds me of this popular thermostat ad from Joe Sugarman. He loved how the thermostat functioned, but being an honest person he put this sentence right at the top!

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    Essay:

    You must have noticed that almost every service you signup to has either Monthly pricing, or Yearly pricing:

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    This may seem relatively obvious, but capturing a yearly customer is farrrrr better than a monthly customer! 

    You only pay fees once. 
    Collect all the money up front.
    No churn from expiring credit cards.
    You keep the customer for a full year.

    Getting a yearly customer is so much better, that companies will usually give you 2 months off the purchase price if you pay by the year.

    For example look at this ConvertKit email to upsell a yearly plan for my account:

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    ✔️ The copy gets straight to the point.
    ✔️ It makes an offer for 2 months free to upgrade to yearly.
    ✔️ It has a call to action that makes it easy for me to accept by saying, "Just click here and we'll take care of the rest!"


    Using this recurring revenue calculator you can see why yearly is so attractive.

    Here's a $97/month product, with 100 subscribers. If each member stays on for one month, total revenue is $9,700:

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    However if you manage to bill people for a year, that same 100 subscribers at $97/month could be worth $116,400!

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    ...and that's why you see so many subscription services incentive people to do yearly plans.

    Sketch:

    One of my favorite formulas for writing ANYTHING is the  AIDA Formula.

    Have you ever used it??

    I have a favor, can you respond to this email with how you've used the AIDA Formula in your work or personal life??

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    Just respond to this post with your story about how you've used the AIDA Formula!

    I hope you enjoyed these Friday tid-bits!
    Sincerely, 
    Neville Medhora

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    I know a lot of people you send your emails to never respond to anything.
    I bet if you gave away a CAR if they responded ... you still wouldn't get a 100% reply rate.
    That's just my feeling.
    I've tried giving away money, and guess what happened?
    Not everyone applied.

    Anyway, I read your book and I've bought the book twice.
    It works.

    Yeah if you're good at taking action with the book like you show, things happen.
    The examples inside the book are spot on.
    Amazing templates.
    I'd heard of AIDA from someone else, but no one explained that one concept like you.
    Thanks again for your consistency, and creativeness.
     

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    I’ll be using the AIDA formula to write an ‘infomercial’ inviting sailing club boat owners to volunteer to take sailors without boats to a weekly summer sail. And to those who are new to sailing or no longer have a sailboat to go out and have fun, crew, picnic and swim!

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    I AIDA for any copy that needs to grab attention. Most recently, cover letters/emails for freelance work. 

    I find it useful for sales things, which is something I'm not that confident with usually!

    Eilidh

    P.S. I saw a newer version of the 1986 Helix Scooter today. Can confirm the guy was alone.

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    Thank you so much for this Formula. It was so insightful. I love it! I was going to ask if you know how I could get writing jobs or clients or someone I could be a Virtual Assistant to. It's been crazy trying to get a remote job. I think I've been learning a lot and I need to earn. Upwork and Fiverr have become so competitive though. I barely get a YES. It is exhausting!

    Thanks a lot. I do hope to hear your expert suggestions.
     

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    I have a fun challenge for you. 🙂 I've followed you for awhile and I see sometimes you revamp ads and copies to see if you can have more fun with a design/approach. I am wondering if you could take a stab at rewriting this invite to subscribe to the British Columbia Celiac News.

    I've attached an image to this email with their current ad, and their main page for this edition so you have a rough idea of their capacity and current approach. I think there are way too many words but you'd have a much more blank slate to look at this and chop what side messages are just taking away. As you can imagine, they lean on the education-based approach. 

    I thought of you immediately when I saw this flyer. Your enthusiasm and zest to make writing fun inspires me to keep an eye out everyday. 

    Keep warm,
    Theo

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