Special Presentation by Carl Galletti:
Carl Galletti Reveals
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The Hopkins Code
Lost Treasures of the World's Greatest Copywriter
Revealed for the first time in over 80 years!!!
This is a special presentation that will reveal some of Claude Hopkins' most valued secrets for the first time in over 80 years.
Most of the effective conversion tactics on the net were created by Hopkins many years ago...long before there ever was such a thing as the Internet. When the net came along, copywriters and others adopted his strategies and tactics to produce an explosion of effective sales on the net.
Yet, all of Hopkins' strategies and tactics have not been revealed. They've been lying dormant for the past 80 years.
Here's the story...
While reading "The Mirror Makers" by Stephen Fox, a book about the history of advertising, I came across the following passage on page 56:
"At the office he [ed., Claude Hopkins] had fifteen points to look for in good copy, each listed on a separate slip of paper. During the day he tacked them to the wall over his desk, a catechism for his constant guidance, and took them down every night."
As a copywriter I was intrigued. Why did Hopkins put them up at the beginning of the day and take them down every night? And what were these 15 points? Here is the world's greatest copywriter, the father of modern advertising copy and wouldn't every copywriter, indeed everyone who wants results from their copy, like to know what they were? I was sure that I wanted to know.
Checking the citations in the back of the book led to a clue. This information had come from an article in the October 17, 1938 issue of Advertising Age. I, along with my team of researchers were on it. We tracked down the issue in microfiche at a big metropolitan library. I can remember getting the fax of the article back on August 25, 1993 Wednesday at 10:36am. I quickly read through the article, only to be disappointed that the fifteen points were not there.
Here's what the article said:
"Mr. Hopkins had 15 points...Nor was Mr. Hopkins content to merely sample and file his 15 points...Instead, he listed each on a separate piece of paper, tacked them all above his desk each day and took them down at night. The business of putting them up each morning served to keep them constantly in his mind throughout the day."
A further clue was revealed (why he put them up and took them down daily) but yet the 15 points were still elusive. So, I put my crack team of experts on it. They contacted the Hopkins family, who knew nothing about it. They contacted Foote, Cone & Belding, the advertising agency that survived Lord & Thomas, the agency that Hopkins worked for (one of the top ad agencies of it's time). They knew nothing of it, despite their head archivist searching through their entire archive. The team even contacted the Bissel company, knowing that Mr. Hopkins worked for them previous to Lord & Thomas.
And everywhere we looked we came up with the same answer: no one knew what these 15 points were. Finally, we just gave up.
Then, one day while researching something entirely different, one of the team came across an obscure document which turned out to be an interview with Mr. Hopkins in which he not only revealed the points (he called them "laws") but also explained each one.
And during my presentation at this Internet Marketing SuperConference, I revealed these laws for the first time in over 80 years. Actual ads were used to illustrate the laws and you will get familiar with all the points Claude Hopkins used when he evaluated copy.
A sample from this rare document
in the words of Claude Hopkins himself:
"It took me over twenty years to tabulate those copy laws.
"I spend a few minutes every day studying them -- so that my day's work will be solidly built on the foundation of two decades of experience at copywriting. The piece of copy that diverges from those laws has lost in selling force.
"I know that fact from experience.
"Those laws apply to dealer propositions, to mail order copy, to dealer promotion work -- to any copy that I have ever written and I doubt if there is any class of copy that I haven't written.
"You see...I had them set in type and they are hung on the wall over my desk. Before I commence the day's work, I refresh my mind with them. After I have finished an advertisement and made the layout I test it by those laws.
"If the copy and layout does not live up to those tests, then into the waste-basket it goes and another ad is prepared." |
In this presentation I explain the laws, one by one.
Grasp the value of this document. Here is the world's greatest copywriter revealing for the one and only time his most secret weapon.
Although Hopkins wrote several books and articles, this is the only time he revealed any of these laws. Yes, not even in his seminal work, "Scientific Advertising" did he reveal these laws. Not even in his autobiography, "My Life In Advertising."
And now, for the first time ever, you will know these laws in intimate detail, just as Hopkins explained them to his interviewer. And beyond that, you will also get specific illustrations of each, carefully prepared by me.
Are Claude Hopkins' laws still valid today?
Actually, many of the Internet's most effective techniques are based upon Mr. Hopkins' prinicples. Introduced by copywriters who studied his works, they brought these principles to the Internet and guess what? They are still as effective today as they were in Hopkins' day.
For example, Claude Hopkins started giving away free samples in the early part of the 1900's. It became a standard advertising practice after that and is highly used today, including on the Internet.
Claude pointed to the value of headlines. He was the first to show us that "the more you tell, the more you sell."
Claude started using coupons to stimulate sales, a technique still used today, including the Internet. And the list goes on and on.
This could well be the most valuable presentation of your life. But there's one thing you should know before you buy these recordings:
Everyone buying these recordings...
Must Agree To a
non-disclosure agreement
That included the seminar staff, speakers, hotel staff...everyone. No one was allowed to buy these recordings without agreeing to our non-disclosure agreement for this session.
That's how valuable this information is.
This protects the value of the knowledge you receive by insuring that it doesn't propagate promiscuously.
Yes, those who view the recordings will have an unfair advantage over others by knowing these laws.
BONUSES: As a result of the team's research, they've also come up with other books and articles written by Claude Hopkins and which have not been revealed since their creation over 80 years ago. Although these publications do not reveal his laws, they have many other valuable insights and knowledge that you can profit from.
ADDITIONAL BONUS: Before discovering the document with these principles, I reasoned that they must surely be dicussed in "Scientific Advertising" and/or "My Life In Advertising." So, I went through both of these books and pulled out what I thought were the most important principles and, therefore, the ones that comprised the list of points. After finding the actial points, I discovered I was wrong. None of the Hopkins' laws were covered in either of those books. However, when discussing this with world famous copywriter, Harlan Kilstein, Harlan insisted that my version be included because they so aptly summarize the best principles presented in those two classic books. So, at Harlan's request, you will also be getting my version of the points.
Carl Galletti
Copywriter
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