A good sales letter can be compared to a sales representative, except you don’t have to pay your sales letter or give it time off for vacation. A sales letter instead is your 24-hours/day, 7-days/week and 365-days/year tireless virtual sales rep whose laser-focused to accomplish three things: represent you, your business and your product or service without fail. However in order for your sales letter to be successful, it must be persuasive, compelling, thought-provoking and high-converting. It must also be written to target a specific market of consumers. If you are someone who is selling a product or service, you need to learn how to write a sales letter based on the above criteria in order to be successful.

What are the main reasons why marketers have a hard time writing a sales letter for their product or service? In short, most people who are inexperienced with writing in general, hate to write and marketers are no exception to the rule. A more detailed explanation is that because there is a wealth of information online on the subject of how to write a sales letter, most marketers soon become overwhelmed with information and give up. Not to mention the fact that most of this information was written under the assumption that the marketer (you) already knows whow to write a sales letter.

Then there is the smart marketer who is more experienced and searches for automated solutions like sales letter software and templates to help him with writing a sales letter. But after using these inferior tools for a short period of time, the marketer soon decides that these tools are not helpful at all and he is right back where he started from. Why? Because most often times the individual or business who wrote the materials mentioned earlier, also wrote the software based on the assumption that the marketer is already experienced with writing a sales letter.

So how do they do it? How can other marketers put together compelling, persuasive and thought-provoking sales letters that sell their products and services like crazy but without using sales letter software and templates? It’s simple, these marketers are either experienced copywriters themselves who write their own sales letters or they have adequate resources to hire the job out. But before you consider hiring a pro copywriter to construct a sales letter for your product or service, consider this. Most copywriters will charge you between $5,000 up to a whopping $20,000 per sales letter! If you decide to go this route, you better be sure that your product or service is in great demand so that you can absorb this expense.

If you know without a shadow of a doubt that your product or service is in demand, are certain that you can afford to invest the money and are capable of absorbing the expense as a result of your sales, then go ahead and hire a copywriter. If not, then you can keep your money in your wallet and construct a profitable sales letter free-of-charge by leeching off the success of other marketer’s sales letters in your niche. Am I insinuating that you just copy someone else’s sales letter and claim it as your own? Not at all. That’s considered plagiarism and can get you into a whole lot of trouble. Instead, the easiest way to master the art of writing a sales letter is to conduct a search on your favorite search engine for products or services exactly like or similar to yours.

For example, launch your browser and visit Google (www.google.com). Key in the phrase “allintitle:cars that run on water” (minus the quotes) into the search field, click the search button and wait for your results to appear. Examine your results to see if anything grabs your attention. If so, click on that result and if its a sales letter that meets all of the criteria described earlier, copy the text of the sales letter into your favorite word processor or text editor. Thoroughly re-write the content of the sales letter and make sure that it is relevant to your product or service. Save your revised sales letter and shut down your computer for the day. Re-visit it the next day with fresh eyes to polish up your sales letter.

Another great way to learn how to write a sales letter is to join the mailing list(s) of a guru in your chosen niche. Then just wait for the guru to start sending you sales pitch emails promoting products and services similar to yours. See which email subject lines catch your eye and then read through the email. Does the email make you want to buy the product or service? If so (and if there is a direct link inside the email), click the link inside the email to check out the sales copy but don’t buy the product if you can help it! Again, follow the steps as outlined in the previous paragraph to complete your sales letter. Do this for an entire month and before you know it, you’ll have all the experience you’ll ever need to write profitable and persuasive sales letters.

Taking the time to learn how to write a sales letter to sell your product or service can prove to be the most profitable skill you’ll ever master. Why? Because you only have one chance to make a good first impression. If your sales letter is persuasive, compelling , thought-provoking, high-converting and consists of the six essential elements, then you can expect to generate day job replacing income for many years to come. If not, then you may as well get used to working a 9-to-5 for the rest of your life. In our next article, we’ll dissect a sales letter into its six essential parts and show you exactly what makes up a successful sales letter that will sell your software, info product or service like crazy!

But is there a sure-fire solution on the market that can help you compose a profitable and high-converting sales letter without having to rely on the two techniques above or remember some complicated formula? Yes there is and the best part is that you won’t have to hire an expensive copywriter. This tool, with its pre-written sales letter template and huge swipe-file database of 900+ winning headlines, will save you time and automate 90% of the sales letter writing process for you.