Comments on Nick's Writing Blog: Review: Power Copywriting

The error on the Power Copywriting website has now...

2007-12-15T18:04:00.000Z

The error on the Power Copywriting website has now been fixed. Thanks again to Tony for spotting this.

Thanks, alleyman. Glad you liked my course!

2007-12-15T08:30:00.000Z

Thanks, alleyman. Glad you liked my course!

Hi Nick and Tony,If I may, I'd just like to tell T...

2007-12-15T05:30:00.000Z

Hi Nick and Tony,

If I may, I'd just like to tell Tony that I have purchased Nick's 'write a book in 28 days' course.

I knew the rolling discount was a likely sales tactic but made the purchase anyway. And it has turned out to be an excellent investment on my part.

If you have any reason to seek step-by-step instruction for writing purposes, this is not something you will be sorry you've bought. It is very well put together and covers almost all of the materials and applications of a similar course I had purchased for $300. I wish I had found Nick's course first. I could have saved some serious quid.

Just wanted to add my two cents.

Hi TonyAh yes, I see what you mean now! I think th...

2007-12-14T21:44:00.000Z

Hi Tony

Ah yes, I see what you mean now! I think the programmers of the sales page have made a mistake. Instead of www.myhelphub.com in the link concerned, it is www.myhelphub.ws, which takes you to a totally different website (nothing to do with the product in question and not even a WCCL site). I will report this to my contact at WCCL. Thank you for drawing it to my attention!

Thanks Nick, fair comment. I didn't realise that y...

2007-12-14T21:11:00.000Z

Thanks Nick, fair comment. I didn't realise that you didn't write the copy for your sales site.

On the subject of the power copywriting site, did you try the 'buy now' link at the top of the page? That's the one that takes me to the spurious site and I've copied the url:

http://www.myhelphub.ws/start/purchase.aspx?p=powercopywriting&v=download&m=m

The links further down the page which say 'click here to download your copy of the course' do indeed take me to a download and purchase page, although this is after a redirection kicks in.

So perhaps I do have a spyware infection and it would be useful to confirm with others that they don't have the same problem when clicking on the 'buy now' link at the top of the page (underneath the main banner).

I've looked at the sales site for Power Copywritin...

2007-12-14T16:05:00.000Z

I've looked at the sales site for Power Copywriting and I have to say I can't reproduce the 'free trial' offer you complain about, even with all my pop-up blockers switched off. In both Firefox and IE, when I click to order I am simply taken to the SWREG (WCCL's order processor) payment page. Perhaps you might have a spyware infection on your PC? Maybe someone else would like to try this and see if it occurs on their PC also. I'd be interested to know!

As regards the rolling discount on the sales page for my "28 Days" course, you will understand that all of the copywriting and the programming of this page is down to my publishers, WCCL, rather than me personally. I'm not that keen on the use of the rolling discount device myself, but it is common practice on web-based sales pages. However, when I am doing my own copywriting it is not a device I would use personally.

Hi Nick,Although this course could be good I find ...

2007-12-14T14:44:00.000Z

Hi Nick,

Although this course could be good I find the website utterly appalling. It smacks of that hyberbolic, manic American style of the 1970s. It also looks shambolic.

Also, and this is unforgivable, he's made it impossible to actually buy the product without having to jump through the hoop of signing up for a 'free trial' of some get rich quick scheme, which involves filling out a form. This happens if you click on the 'buy now' link and there seems to be no way to get round it.

I wouldn't look at this course even if it were free as the writer clearly has no idea of how to impress via the web.

Tacky sales gimmicks should be avoided at all costs on the web - if the product is good enough and effectively described it will sell itself.

You should also be criticised for employing what I and others consider to be a shabby and underhand technique. On your 'write a book in 28 days' site you pretend that the low price is only being held until midnight that day, when we all know it's the standard price. This is unnecessary if the course is any good and frankly such tactics do you no credit. It actually put me off buying the course.