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Writing a Sales Page: Step 5: Summary of What They Get

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The next section in the sales page we're writing together is:

[summary of What They Get]

In this section we are giving a quick-n-dirty summary of what people will get for their purchase.

If you are selling a learning product (like we are with our Copywriting Course product example), then explain what they will learn.

If you are selling a physical product (like a yo-yo), then explain what they will get with their purchase.

In the previous version of the sales page it looked like this:

old copywriting course synopsis section

This wasn't necessarily a bad summary, but I wanted to pay some attention to it, because on various versions of this sales page, THIS PARTICULAR SECTION would get a fair amount of readership then people would drop off.

I found it very difficult to read this section as it had lots of errant blank space and weird font combinations.

Checkout this scroll map of an original version of this page:

scrollmap kopywritingkourse sales page

From other versions of this sales page it seemed people paused on this section quickly, then scrolled away. This leaves me to believe this part of the page was difficult (or flat out un-interesting) to read.

One thing we're gonna do is upgrade the big green checkboxes with individual icons. These are meant to be "explanatory" icons, but not too distracting. Thus we are making them kind of grey and all of the same motif:

sales page new icons

This would leave us with something designed kind of like this:

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Here's the re-written titles, copy, and associated icons:

 

One of my favorite parts about this [summary of What They Get] sections is that it forces YOU to crystalize what your product delivers. You can see in one or two pages if you are delivering a bunch of good stuff or not.

So in our experiment to make a sales page from scratch, if you're following along, go and and write out a summary of all the things a person gets when they buy your product.

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P.S. Any suggestions or questions about this [summary of What They Get] section?

 

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Guest Jane

Guest Jane

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I sincerely appreciate you doing this Neville. The gradual writing of each section makes it obvious to see how this sales page is built. With baby steps!

Much better than staring at the blank screen of death wondering where to start!

Guest Sarah

Guest Sarah

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Hi Neville,

I don't see you use bold text in this section. I've learned that readers skim the text. Is it because you want to force your writers to read it all? Or something else?

Love the fact that you praise icons. I'm actually in the middle of using (much) more of this as I think this will trigger our much more visual parts of the brain.

Thanx, Sarah

Guest Nick Garcia

Guest Nick Garcia

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Always love your content Neville! I’ve always found it interesting that people (we) love those explanation icons so much!
Guest Nevena

Guest Nevena

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Looks like a big mountain to climb, I need a flying carpet or smth

I trade a T-shirt for a riddle )

Guest Ryan Cater

Guest Ryan Cater

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Whenever people see a long list of product features, their eyes glaze over.

It's similar to eating at a restaurant with too many options.

Information overload!

The best restaurants have fewer options. But those options are phenomenal.

This reminds me of something Drayton Bird said in one of his recent emails:

"Never try and sell three things at once. Either sell one thing with an upgrade or lots of things, like a catalogue."

Neville, do you have experience testing your sales page with only the top 3 or 5 benefits?

Guest Jake the cake

Guest Jake the cake

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Hey Neville,

First of all.. I love your blog!!

BUT

The comment section price is sooooo boring, in fact it is so boring that it makes me not want to comment because I'm afraid of receiving a T-Shirt that I'd probably never wear. I know I'm just some random guy and you're probably thinking "who the hell is this guy? and I don't even want him as a fan if he's gonna be mean like this."

But

that's not the point here ---- the point is----- what if other people think the same way?????

Because

There is no way getting around that these t-shirts are pretty boring looking and it's probably the most common price for any corporate challenge contest ever.

I'd love to see some funky prices for you comments section winners!! Maybe you could do an affiliate program with some cool text-editor software or perhaps even give out pens that look exactly like the once in your t-shirt logo. because those are some dope pens man, and I wish I had one...

Best regards,

Swedish dude in San Francisco

Guest Julie Spears

Guest Julie Spears

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The revised version is way better! Very good before and after.
Guest Neville Medhora

Guest Neville Medhora

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Thanks Julie, I like it better too! I believe when it was first written I was in a hurry, so now it got a little extra TLC and reads better :)
Guest Neville Medhora

Guest Neville Medhora

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Hey Jake!

Not sure I follow....are you saying my PRICING is boring, or the tshirt??

I'm confused 🙄

Guest Neville Medhora

Guest Neville Medhora

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Hey Ryan!

For this KopywritingKourse bundle it's not quite as clear as selling just one thing, however in the past I used to sell each course individually and it got complex and difficult and more confusing.

I simplified the hell out of everything by rolling it all into one. For this reason it's a bit hard to narrow down the [summary of what they get] section into just 3 points.

I think this section is good now....we'll see how it fares through the testing phase!

Guest Neville Medhora

Guest Neville Medhora

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Your face is a big mountain.

#burned

Guest Neville Medhora

Guest Neville Medhora

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Thanks Nick!

Icons are awesome and important :)

Guest Neville Medhora

Guest Neville Medhora

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Hey Sarah, the titles are bolded.

I'm not bolding too much other text as the two-sided layout, icons, different sized headlines and different sized text might get TOO distracting if too many things are bolded.

Otherwise I'm a huge fan of bolded words :)

Guest Neville Medhora

Guest Neville Medhora

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Thank you very much Jane, it's kind of fun to do also!

By the end we'll smash all these sections together, design them, and have a full landing page we will test for numbers.

Guest jake the cake

Guest jake the cake

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the winning prize*** for best comment :P:P
Guest John Storms-Rohm

Guest John Storms-Rohm

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The fact that I'm writing this means you're doing a great job!
Guest Ryan Cater

Guest Ryan Cater

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Yeah, that makes sense.

I hope you share the results of the testing phase (and even show us how you do your testing phase).

Guest Gene

Guest Gene

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Just curious, what tool are you using for checking who's viewing your site?
Guest Julie Spears

Guest Julie Spears

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Oh, Neville, you would have blushed to see how horrid my About Me page was before I saw your post on About Me pages.

It was so very bad. It's embarrassing knowing I actually had it up where real people could see it.

But we live and learn.

Guest Evelyn Badia

Guest Evelyn Badia

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"the basics, and that’s all many people need to get started. However if you want more advanced copy strategies, venture into the Content Writing Course and Email Writing Course for far more specific examples, case studies, and techniques."

I'm confused on this part.. will those be additional courses that need to be bought?

Guest Neville Medhora

Guest Neville Medhora

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I use a combination of:

- Google Analytics

- Sumo

- CrazyEgg

Guest Neville Medhora

Guest Neville Medhora

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The fact that I'm reply means I appreciate the kind words :-)
Guest Neville Medhora

Guest Neville Medhora

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Heh heh...you didn't win this particular time, but there's a BUNCH more posts in this series coming out, so keep participating and you have a pretty good chance of winning :)
Guest Neville Medhora

Guest Neville Medhora

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Yup, I will be showing all the various tools used to track pages (which then informs you WHAT to change on them).

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