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Dear Internet Marketing Guru
Thanks for the email you sent me yesterday about your good friend’s launch, and for the offer of all those free gifts of your own stuff I would have got had I been able to afford your friend’s product. The truth is I can’t. $5,000 is a heck of a lot of money. ButI do have some questions you could help me with:
Your Email
A few things. Why do you use that narrow column format? I’m guessing it’s a hangover from the days when some email programs didn’t wrap text? I think they all do now, and it makes your emails look weird.
Why is there always a PS? A post scriptum is a way of adding something you’ve forgotten. But with email, you can just go back and insert the thing you’ve forgotten into the main body of the email. Wouldn’t that make more sense?
Your Friend’s Offer
Wow! Pretty impressive. He’s going to show us The Exact System he used to Earn $xxx,xxx.xx Putting my natural scepticism aside, and ignoring the other weird stuff on the page, like crossings out (delete key?) there’s one thing I can never get my head around on these launches.
“Hurry and get in now. This offer won’t be here much longer. The last product I launched sold out in hours. Act now!”
We’re talking about a digital product! How can you “sell out” of a digital product?
I’m no smarter than the average blogger, so I’m pretty sure other people must think along the same lines. Does anybody really buy these things? Don’t people ask themselves the same questions I’m asking?
My counter offer
Given that I can’t afford a $5000 punt, I wondered if you’d put my counter offer to your friend on my behalf? I’ve detailed it below:
I’ll recruit a team of Mike’s Life readers, ten including me. We’ll work the exact same system diligently and intelligently for 8 hours a day full time. We’ll be able to replicate the almost one million dollars you made using this system, and you get to keep all the profits, instead of giving them away!
All you have to do is pay us an administration fee of $10,000 $8000 a month each, and I repeat, you get to keep the million we’ll make for you! Even if it takes us a whole year to get there, you’ll still have a clear profit of over $9 million!
Surely that makes more sense that the paltry few hundred thousand you’re going to make from selling the secret?
Click now, and let’s get started!
PS. Hurry! I’m going to arbitrarily withdraw this offer at any moment. You don’t want to miss your chance!
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