Posts Tagged ‘OTO’

Copy Paste Systems – Poor Support

Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010

Copy Paste Systems featuring Paul Ponna as the "Reassuring Voice"

I've been trying out the Copy Paste System during the refund period and I've made a few discoveries.

The OTO Gauntlet – Many Times

First, the whole system is designed to sell you OTOs so when you buy in to get Copy Paste Systems, you get to run the one-time-offer gauntlet that could cost you a couple of hundred bucks if you bought it all.

But don't worry – if you pass them up the first time through, you will get emails constantly reminding you that you can still get them. Maybe they should be called MTOs – many time offers.

Support is Poor

The second thing I discovered is that you shouldn't count on quality support, especially if you are a newbie and need more than a 1-sentence reply to a question. I was working my way through the "Famous Automatic Cash Machine" – how secret could that be if it's Famous, but I digress – part of the Copy Paste website when I had some questions I wanted help with.

I sent an email with my question to support@copypastesystems.com on January 22, 2010. Then on January 25, I sent another email adding a different question. The first answer came back on January 31, that's about 9 days late, consisted of 6 words, and ignored my second question totally.

On February 2, I got another support email answering part of my second question with a nearly unintelligible reply. Soldiering on I've sent another email to support asking if they could please send me an answer I can understand and please answer the entire question.

Good Luck with That

So if you want to give the Copy Paste Systems a try, let me know how that worked. Maybe you will have better luck with support than has been my experience thus far.

Have fun,
Ed

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Order Customization – Serial One Time Offers

Thursday, September 10th, 2009

The Best Copywriting Book Ever Written!

Sorting through my email, I opened a note from an internet marketer advising me that he was about to let me in on the greatest secret marketing book nobody knows about.

Well, of course I had to see that so I clicked on the link in the email and got to the website of this marketer where a video started playing. The video revealed the title and author of this greatest ever book, and this marketer explained that he cherished this book so much that he would never let this book get outside his arm’s reach.

But wait there’s more

Then he told about how he and his company had created a course based on this book, and how I really really needed to take that course so I could learn how to write mind controlling copy for ads. But you know that mind control can be dangerous in the wrong hands so you really have to take this course to learn how to use it ethically and not damage anybody’s psyche.

It’s FREE … Almost

It’s TRUE! You can get a free 7 day look at the course and can cancel anytime in 7 days and it costs you nothing and you get to keep the FREE Gifts anyway. If you don’t cancel within 7 days, you are automatically signed up on a monthly basis for the full course for a "mere" $49/month.

Order Customization – Serial Killer OTOs

When you see something like this, you know you are going to have to wade through this stuff to get what you originally wanted – your free look at the copywriting course.

Serial One Time Offers Begin Here

Even though it says your order is not yet complete, if you cancel out at this step, you are still signed up for the free trial because you gave your credit card information before you got to this step. Clever, huh. So go ahead and check the course out and cancel if you wish.

OTOs Increase Sales

Why do marketers do this OTO stuff? Because it increases their sales. Some people will be put off by this marketing strategy, but others will like and buy the offers and thus spend more money they intended to when they set out to get the free trial. If you have money you don’t know what to do with, go ahead and buy all the OTOs.

No Thanks?

If you don’t want the OTOs, you have to scroll down to the bottom of each page and click the No Thanks links to get the original offer. Another thing to learn about marketing – the No Thanks part at the bottom is in small type and often in lighter colored text to discourage you from saying No Thanks and to encourage you to buy the OTO.


PS If you want to see the offer(s) for yourself, click Here – and follow all the steps that start with an opt-in (another marketing lesson).

 

PPS The best copywriting book ever written is …  

The Adweek Copywriting Handbook: The Ultimate Guide to Writing Powerful Advertising and Marketing Copy from One of America’s Top Copywriters




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Truth and Half-truth in Internet Marketing

Friday, June 20th, 2008

By feeding you half-truths, some internet marketers target beginners trying to get a start making money online, or maybe just trying to earn some supplemental income, or people who have been at it for a while but haven’t  made any real money, or people who are desparate and looking for a fast easy way to make money using the internet, and all those dreamers who are misled by the "internet lifestyle" lie.

Truth

There is no fast and easy way to make money on the internet if you are starting from scratch and have no business experience!

There, I said it. Again. You will find that most of the internet marketers you know about worked for years to develop their business, some of them even studied the internet for several years before they actually started a web-based business. So when they tell you how easy it is to stuff money into your bank account, they are telling you half of the truth. The other half is how long and how hard they worked to become successful. (more…)

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One Time Offers with Affiliate Evolution

Monday, June 2nd, 2008

You’ve probably been getting emails about Russell Brunson’s $10 offer for his Affiliate Evolution product. At that price you might very well want to buy in.

Just be aware that you will also see several One Time Offers in addition that could increase your cost to hundreds of dollars if you decide to give them a try. Use your best judgment.

If you just want the $10 items that intrigued you in the first place, scroll to the bottom of the OTO pages, and click the "No thanks …" links until you get to the 6 mp3 files and 1 pdf.

 

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