Sales Copywriting and Content Marketing Hacks Podcast with Jim Edwards

Sales Copywriting and Content Marketing Hacks

We help entrepreneurs sell more with less effort and less stress... no matter what you sell! We cover topics on sales copy, content marketing, advertising, website sales letters, email marketing, headlines, ad writing and more. WARNING: we are not here to teach copywriters the finer points of copywriting... we're here to make it easy for normal people to use words and pictures to make more sales and get results. And, we have a lot of fun doing it!

  1. 5d ago

    Create CALM and Never Have a Chargeback Again and Get More Return Customers

    Jim Edwards and Stew Smith discuss how to communicate with customers to avoid chargebacks, wasted time in customer service, and ultimately more returning customers by staying CALM!  The CALM Sequence:1. Confirm the decisionSend this message immediately after purchase.Do more than say thank you. Name the decision they made and connect it to the result they want.Instead of:Your payment has been received.Try:You are officially registered. You just took the first step toward turning your scattered follow-up into a simple system that keeps customers engaged after they buy.Then state what happens next, when it happens, and where they should look.The customer should finish this email thinking, I know where I am, and I know what comes next.2. Activate a small winDo not make the customer wait until the event, course, or product arrives to feel progress.Give them something small and useful: a two-minute assessment, a checklist, a template, a single question to answer, or a setting to complete.The goal is not to bury them under bonuses.Give them one action that creates movement.A buyer who takes one meaningful step starts seeing the purchase as progress, not an expense.3. Lower uncertaintyAnswer the questions buyers may feel silly asking.When does it start? How long will it take? What should they prepare? What if they miss a session? Where do they log in? Who can help? What result should they expect first?Do not confuse mystery with anticipation. Mystery before a purchase can create curiosity. Mystery after a purchase creates support tickets and refunds.This is also the right place for a short story, testimonial, or behind-the-scenes note that shows how the experience works. Choose proof that reduces a specific fear, not applause that merely says you are wonderful.“This changed my life” is flattering.“I was worried I had no time, but the first lesson took 12 minutes and helped me fix my welcome email that afternoon” is useful.4. Move them toward commitmentBefore the main experience begins, ask the buyer to do something that signals participation.Add the event to their calendar. Reply with their biggest question. Introduce themselves in the group. Complete a short worksheet. Choose the result they want to leave with.Small commitments change the customer’s role. They stop feeling like someone who spent money and start behaving like someone who joined something.That distinction matters. Check out the Facebook Group – Sales Copy and Content Marketing Hacks at  https://www.facebook.com/groups/copywritingandcontenthacks and for more information on the wizards used to make outstanding sales copy check out  https://www.CopyandContent.ai

  2. Aug 5

    The Fortune is In The Follow-Up (Mastering the Follow up sequence) with Jim Edwards

    Check out how Jim Edwards helps business owners continue the follow-up process to not just set up sign-up pages, but continue the communication with show-ups and then make sales. Your communications should demonstrate the value of attending. See https://www.copyandcontent.ai for tons of training on figuring out the right sales copy and content marketing. Jim sees a lot of people treat event/webinar registration like the finish line. Someone signs up for the webinar. Downloads the report. Grabs the free training. Clicks the button. And the business owner celebrates like they just won the Kentucky Derby. But that excitement falls apart rather quickly.Registration is not the end… Registration is the BEGINNING.That tiny distinction is where most of the money quietly evaporates. Not in a dramatic “the funnel is broken” kind of way. More like a leaky garden hose behind the shed. You don’t notice it at first. Then one day you look at your numbers and wonder why 1,000 registrants turned into 43 attendees, 4 buyers, and a huge bill on your Facebook ads account. The event didn’t fail. The follow-up did. And here is where this gets interesting. The fortune has never really been in the list, the webinar, the free report, or the traffic source.The fortune is in what happens after someone raises their hand to sign up.That’s the part most people under develop. They spend weeks creating the webinar. Days tweaking the landing page. Hours arguing with themselves over the button color (like lime green somehow has magical conversion dust).  Then someone registers……And the pain begins. Be ready with follow-ups to get them from signups to sales.

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We help entrepreneurs sell more with less effort and less stress... no matter what you sell! We cover topics on sales copy, content marketing, advertising, website sales letters, email marketing, headlines, ad writing and more. WARNING: we are not here to teach copywriters the finer points of copywriting... we're here to make it easy for normal people to use words and pictures to make more sales and get results. And, we have a lot of fun doing it!

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