Sales & Pitch Letters for Busy People: Time-Saving, Money-Making, Ready-to-Use Letters for Any Prospects
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Sales and marketing is a fast-paced environment, and there is never enough time to write good letters—letters that will communicate, convince, and close. Sales & Pitch Letters for Busy People will help salespeople at every level save time and avoid having to produce sales and pitch letters from scratch. Sales & Pitch Letters for Busy People is a handy, quick-reference guide that not only tells you how to write virtually any kind of sales pitch letters, but includes a wide range of samples that you can easily and quickly adapt and use right now.This book includes concise, easy-to-use writing tips and resources that get attention—and results! Packed with solid writing advice and useful techniques, this guide will cut the time you spend on writing sales, marketing, and pitch letters by half—and will help you get the results you want and need. Don't worry about finding the "right" word or phrase, or even the "right" format of your sales correspondence—the work has been done for you.
Some example letters presented are:
- * Sales letters offering special discounts
- * Pitch letters introducing a new product or service
- * Letters that request referrals
- * Referral marketing campaigns
- * Pitch letters to the media
- * Cold call sales letters
- * Marketing campaigns for service businesses
- * E-mail pitch and sales letters
- * Letters for selling more to existing customers
The letters can be copied, modified, and customized to fit your requirements. Creating and writing compelling and effective sales and pitch letters have never been so easy!
George Sheldon
An Adams Media author.
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Sales & Pitch Letters for Busy People - George Sheldon
PART I
Getting Started
1
What Are Sales and Pitch Letters?
Life is a pitch; that’s especially true in marketing and sales. You have to pitch ideas, concepts, products, and services to prospects, clients, customers, and others. Communicating by the written word is part of the daily grind for those in sales and marketing.
Often, creating a sales or pitch letter is a time-consuming chore. For some, it is an excruciatingly slow process. Usually when someone is having a lot of problems with creating a proper letter, it is because:
> the message is not clear—the letter writer has not determined what message they really want to send to the reader.
> too much is being jammed into the letter. Rather than make a message clear and succinct, the writer is trying to say many different things all at the same time.
> the purpose of the letter (what you want to accomplish) has not been determined.
Writing the sales or pitch letter will be easier after reading the tips, advice, and information in this book. By using the sample letters, you can quickly save time and money when you create a letter.
Your letters will be better if you decide, beforehand, what you want to accomplish. Also, the goal of your letters should be clearly defined and thought out. The more you know about the purpose of the letter, the easier it will be to create an effective letter and, therefore, achieve the desired result.
Why Write Them?
The reason you write sales or pitch letters is simple: You have a message you want to deliver to the letter reader. In today’s electronic world, you may deliver the written word in a format other than ink on paper. Your letter might be delivered via e-mail, or as an open letter on a Website. Some letters are still delivered via fax (facsimile), but those seem to be dwindling in many different industries.
The more you know and understand the reader of your sales and pitch letters, the easier it will be to get your message across. Some letters will be for the masses, where the audience is not clearly defined. Other letters will be for specific audiences, such as your customers who have already bought a specific product or service from you.
You should not be writing sales or pitch letters just because it’s the norm or because everyone else does it.
Your letter writing should serve a purpose, and be part of your overall sales and marketing goals.
Writing letters costs money and takes time. For that reason, alone, they should not be used as a shotgun approach, hoping to hit some customers or potential clients. Rather, they should be used to develop relationships, build trust, offer special products or services, pitch ideas and concepts, or deliver other important messages that are important to you and your organization.
What Is the Purpose?
As you begin the process of preparing a letter, always start with the answer to the question, What is the letter’s purpose?
Ask yourself, What do you want from the reader of the letter?
You might want the reader of the letter to meet with you, or to place an order for a specific product. You might ask for a donation, or offer tickets to a special event. As you can see, there are a variety reasons why you might be sending a sales or pitch letter to a potential client or customer. A letter to a prospect would need to be crafted differently than a letter to an existing customer.
As you define the true purpose of the sales or pitch letter, it will be easier to create a letter that will deliver the message that you want. The job of any sales letter is to sell, not to tell.
Often, sales letters alone don’t do the entire selling (or persuading) job. You will rely on other pieces of literature that provide the selling points, illustrate the product or service, or provide technical information that the reader may need to make a buying decision. It is always best to supplement the sales letter with a support brochure or product sheet. The reason is simple: you want to keep the message delivered in the letter simple and short. The more specific, and the more concise, the more likely your letter will be read and considered.
When you include support sales material with a sales letter, mention that you have done so in the body of the letter. Say something such as, I am enclosing a product brochure for your review
or, As the enclosed product sheet demonstrates....
As you consider the purpose of a sales letter, consider a specific reason for the letter. Of course, the general reason for sending any sales letter is to sell your produce, service, or cause. But drill further and get closer to the real reason of the letter, which might be to introduce your company or organization, then in another letter, a specific product, or a service.
Planning your sales letters always makes sense. Having multiple letters—ones that you can use or modify for specific purposes—is a logical way to approach the creation and use of sales letters. Anyone responsible for the creation and mailing of sales and pitch letters should have multiple templates and versions available. This allows more specific and meaningful letters to be created.
How Long Should You Make Your Letter?
Give careful consideration to the length of your sales letters. It is usually best to keep your letter to a single page whenever possible. There are some exceptions to this simple guideline, but not many.
If the letters are longer than one page, ask yourself if your sales process should be broken into several more steps. Don’t fall into the trap of creating multi-purpose sales letters. If your goal is to set up a face-to-face meeting, then don’t stray from that purpose. In your letter, focus just on the meeting, and don’t include other reasons as to why you are writing. Consider writing a series of letters instead of writing one catch-all