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    The S.W.I.P.E.S. Email (Friday October 13th, 2023)

    Swipe📁Wisdom🧠Interesting🧐Picture🖼 • Essay📄Sketch✍
    Edition: Friday, October 13th, 2023
    A fun email for Friday. I hope you enjoy!

     

    🎤 Listen to this email here:

    Swipe:

    Client: “It’s hard to get attention for a roofing company.” 

    Copywriter: “Hold my beer.”

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    Wisdom:

    Around college I would crash parties to network with rich people.

    Here was my toolkit to get into ANY of these parties: 
    ✔️ Flask with wine 
    ✔️ Cheap Wal-Mart wine glass 
    ✔️ Cocktail napkin 
    ✔️ Tux or suit 
    ✔️ Random lanyards and wristbands
     

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    To walk into a party right past security, the goal was to look like YOU WERE JUST INSIDE ALREADY! 

    So I'd fill the wine glass, wrap the cocktail napkin around the stem, wear a lanyard under tux (hopefully sort of matching what they give at the event), then walk into the party while on the phone.

    If you're a security guard and you see a tuxedo-clad person holding a drink they just ordered at the bar....you'd 95% likely just let them back in 😏
     

    Interesting:

    This is an interesting "industry size" comparison by keyword in terms of size:

    Copywriting → Content Marketing → Digital Marketing → Make Money → Sales

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    "Sales" is what allllllll the industries actually do, so it makes sense "Sales" would be the largest parent keyword.

    Picture:

    As an experiment a few years ago I bought a billboard for Copywriting Course. It was on a decently busy street and it cost $904 total (printing + posting):

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    The funny thing is: If no one buys the billboard space at the end of the month, they don’t spend money to tear yours down...

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    ...so this billboard stayed up for 4 months for just $904!

    Essay:

    One of the first reasons I moved Copywriting Course to a community model was so people could share their hand-copied advertising. 

    It's something so simple yet so impactful. Yet only 2% of people will do it.

    For example, here's 3 exercises we had members do:
    #1.) Gary Halbert Family Crest Ad
    #2.) Volkswagen "Lemon" Ad
    #3.) The Man In The Hathaway Shirt Ad

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    Simply writing out by hand well-written ads is called "CopyWork" and it teaches you to "think" like the person writing it.

    Splurge:

    Buy a 10 minute review of your copy/marketing from me, or a discounted consult if you go through UpWork:

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    In our members area I'm currently doing an "UpWork Experiment" where I'm trying to:
    ✔️ Get 100 clients. 
    ✔️ Get 100 reviews
    ✔️ Make $100,000 in freelance revenue.

    The goal is to become an "UpWork Rising Star" and I need your help. If you've got a lot of value out of my content or newsletter over the year, but never purchased a Copywriting Course subscription, maybe this is a way you can give back: By purchase a review or consult hour.

    During the experiment I found on UpWork you can offer "tiered products", and I just made one today - Check it out here
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    If I were a newbie copywriter, I'd make a product setup like this people could choose from:

    • Starter: $100 for a 10 minute video review.
    • Standard: 1 hour consult
    • Advanced: 2 hour consult

    The goal of this is to get the holy grail of any marketplace: 

    REVIEWS!

    I provide a good service for people, they like it, they leave a good review.

    Go buy one right now for this discounted price!

    **Let me know if you have any issues or improvement suggestions on the profile.
     

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

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