Marketing Seminar - Direct Mail
The headline
You cannot sell to people if you haven’t got their attention. The headline is there solely to catch people’s attention. Newspapers use headlines to communicate what they stand for and the type of stories that you will find inside. The headlines actually sell the papers: once you have bought the paper, each story headline sells each individual story.
If you don’t have a clear benefit driven headline at the start of your letter you can wave goodbye to about half of your readers, so spend time getting it right. It has to appeal to your perfect customer so think up a series of headlines that sum up what the letter is about. Create at least 10, but you may write as many as 100 before you find one that perfectly sums up what you want to say.
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