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Gary Halbert · whole document (44)

2005 - 07-26-05

# 2005 - 07-26-05

From:

North of Jewfish Creek

Dear Friend & Subscriber,

In this letter, I'm going to give you the
"STAND OUT" reason my personal ad featured in "Can You Guess
Part III?" was so successful.

Just in case you're having a "senior moment"
that was the ad that started with the lead-in headline... "Are
You More Than Just Another Pretty Face?" - followed by
the main headline... "Generous, Creative Businessman Wants
To Find A Hot, Sexy Woman With A Good Sense Of Humor".

OK, just like "Can You Guess (Part I)?" I
received an amazing number of emails from people guessing
why this ad worked so well. Here's their guesses:

Headline: Many of my readers guessed the ad
worked so well because the headline was so dead-on-target.
This is certainly one of the reasons the ad was so
successful.

Dominated The Page: Many of my eagle-eyed
readers noted the fact this ad appeared in the classified
section of the paper... and... since it was a full-page
ad... there were no other ads to compete with it. Once
again, this is one of the reasons the ad was so successful.

The Word "Generous": Many people guessed that using
the word "generous" in my headline was pretty much iron-clad
insurance many women would be interested in what I had to
say. I think that's true. But curiously enough, as far as I
can tell, only one of the women who answered the ad was an
out-and-out gold digger. In fact, this particular woman only
read the headline and then dropped all the way down to the bottom
of the ad which told how to contact me. When I met her, it
was obvious she hadn't read the ad and my meeting with her,
if memory serves me correctly, lasted only about three or
four minutes. All the rest of the women who answered the ad
(at least this seemed true to me) were not gold diggers but,
they were women who didn't want to date any more losers.