Gary Halbert · whole document (17)
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Fortunately, that's easy.
You see, many of those businesses will have
their advertising prepared by a local ad agency and it will be
terrible. The problem here is most people who work for ad agencies
only know how to "be creative" and win awards and not how to
create direct mail that sells. The rest of your "co-passengers"
will probably create their advertising themselves... and... while
that's better than hiring a moronic ad agency... they still won't have
the special, inside knowledge and know-how you're going to enjoy as a
subscriber to my newsletter.
So, what this means is most of the people in
your mailing co-op are going to be mailing coupons, announcements of a
special sale, a brochure that explains what hours they are open and so
forth.
Not you. No Sir. See, at this point, a light
bulb is going off in your head and you are remembering what you read
in that other section about what to write on a simple postcard
mailing that will make people flood into your business.
Remember? Remember how I suggested you write
something that gets people to call and listen to a free
recorded message that will entice them to call you or come to your
place of business? You do remember? Good! And, since you're in
the real estate business, you have a bunch of cards printed up that
say something like this:
Free
recorded message reveals an amazing secret
that let's you buy L.A. real estate without
paying high
interest rates or a big down payment!
Call (000) 000-0000 anytime, 24-hours a day.
And, of course, what you do is you have all your
little "free-riding" postcards put in all those envelopes with all the
other dumb advertising and your message gets a "free ride" to
everybody in your trading area.
Another tip: Since everybody else will be using
color, your message will stand out if it's in simple black and white.
Now, of course, once you get this program really
cranked up and you are making mailings perhaps once every month,
you'll want to send different messages. But, don't worry. My
newsletter is going to give you more good advertising ideas than
you'll ever be able to use!