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"I Made $39,523.97 With Your Help!"

"I REALLY want to thank you for everything. I’ve been able to learn so much from you. For example, my latest project was the real test to see what I’ve learned and how I could put it to use.

The results? Well, I launched my website with a small list of 1,788 subscribers and was able to earn a nice $31,523.97 within the first 24 hours of the site launch. The site was converting at such a high rate you wouldn’t even believe me if I told you.

"I also wanted to send a BIG thank you for the amazing critique the other night. I was simply shocked at how much stuff you covered in such a short period of time. You literally went through my whole sales letter and told me specific things I needed to change that could increase my response rate. And that’s from a sales letter that’s ALREADY converting very high!

"Amazing! I’m sitting here with 5 pages of notes with dozens of things I could tweak here and there stuff I would have never thought of on my own. The good news? I started implementing some of the tweaks and I immediately noticed a difference. The conversion went up by 0.5% since. and has brought in over $1,800 in sales within 24 hours after making them.

"Keep in mind, I’ve only used 3 of the things we talked about and I haven’t started to advertise the site either (I have a small list of 2,100 or so right now). That one critique taught me things about copy I didn’t even realize, some very common mistakes I see all the time by my web design clients, if they made just that one change you talked about I’m sure they’d notice a boost in sales.

"I can say this for certain, you ARE one of the top copywriters I’ve ever seen and your help is proving key to take my business to the next level. Bottom line? I wouldn’t be surprised if those few changes you made are responsible for over $10,000 (that's conservative) in profits in my pocket.

If anyone is looking to learn how to write better, seeing is believing — and when they see all the value (you offer), they are going to be HOOKED. It’s that good. I’ll make sure to buy you a beer when I see you."
Dave Mizrachi
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We Transform Your Words Into Wealth

Have our team write your copy of give you a copy critique consultationIf you’re loo­king for tes­ted, response-​​driven copy for your busi­ness or web­site, or if your copy is not pulling as much as you think it can, here’s how to attract more pros­pects to your busi­ness, and con­vert more pros­pects into paying cus­to­mers — regard­less of the eco­nomy or industry.

To inflate your res­ponse rate by 50%, 100%, even 500% or more, let Suc​cess​Doc​tor​.com take your busi­ness to the next level… and beyond. Our copyw­ri­ting and con­sul­ting ser­vi­ces may give you the ammu­ni­tion you need.

You can hire SuccessDoctor.com’s crack team of sales­let­ter spe­cia­lists to craft an emo­tio­nally char­ged sales­let­ter for you; overhaul your exis­ting sales­let­ter or web­site; or guide you on how to improve your copy with our cri­ti­que con­sul­ta­tion services.

Suc​cess​Doc​tor​.com is more than just a copyw­ri­ting con­sul­tancy. We’re also fana­ti­cal tes­ters. We’ve tes­ted head­li­nes, offers, colors, story­li­nes, pri­ces, posi­tio­ning, graphics, order forms, gua­ran­tees, and much more.

What this means to you is, you get a higher chance of suc­cess because your copy is based on, or com­bi­ned with, pro­ven expe­rience, actual results and tes­ted con­ver­sion stra­te­gies. This pri­vi­le­ged know­ledge hel­ped our clients make a little for­tune as well. That’s why, when mar­ke­ters demand hard-​​hitting copy that sells, we’re often the com­pany they turn to.

Copy Is Not Just About Words

Beyond gene­ra­ting a higher res­ponse, results-​​driven copyw­ri­ting has a num­ber of advan­ta­ges. Gran­ted, the words you choose are cru­cial — both in what you say and how you say it. But it’s also about buil­ding ins­tant cre­di­bi­lity, making a com­pe­lling sta­te­ment, telling a per­sua­sive story, and enga­ging your rea­der to take action.

Ulti­ma­tely, you want your copy to work hard for you and gene­rate the kind of results you seek. But those results are not limi­ted to sales. Copy has an even grea­ter job. Sure, you get a higher con­ver­sion rate from bet­ter copy. But beyond copy that gets peo­ple exci­ted about your offe­ring and inc­rea­ses your sales, you also get:

  • More mileage out of your copy and a grea­ter return on your mar­ke­ting invest­ment. (For exam­ple, is your current copy pulling the maxi­mum sales it can for the amount of traf­fic you’re get­ting or the mai­ling costs you’re now paying?)
  • The abi­lity to ans­wer objec­tions and shrink buyer skep­ti­cism that impe­des sales, lowers con­fi­dence and cau­ses peo­ple to proc­ras­ti­nate.
  • A reduc­tion in returns and refunds by edu­ca­ting your clients, boos­ting your cre­di­bi­lity, inc­rea­sing their con­fi­dence, hel­ping them con­sume your pro­duct or ser­vice, and making them feel good about buying from you and refe­rring others to you.
  • Finally, more peace of mind and time to do what YOU do best — of course, that’s gro­wing your busi­ness or selling more pro­ducts, right?

Our job goes beyond mere words.

In fact, it actually con­sists of three parts. The first one is to cap­ture your rea­ders’ atten­tion. The second is to get them exci­ted about your offe­ring. And ulti­ma­tely, the third is to get them to res­pond, whether it’s to click, sig­nup, subsc­ribe, call or, above all, buy.

That’s why we not only write com­pe­lling copy but also enhance it by injec­ting “hid­den” per­sua­sion tac­tics and psycho­lo­gi­cal trig­gers pro­ven to maxi­mize your copy’s selling power.

Howe­ver, unlike most copyw­ri­ters who only write text, if you’re inte­res­ted we can also opti­mize your copy’s “eye gra­vity” and boost its res­pon­si­ve­ness by for­mat­ting it, adding tes­ted visual com­mands, and sug­ges­ting the pro­per copy cos­me­tics (such as layout, type­set­ting, and design).

We Call This Ser­vice “Copy Designing”

This ser­vice is optio­nal. But if you decide to invest in this ser­vice in addi­tion to copyw­ri­ting, then along with your copy we will pay close atten­tion to the cos­me­tics because they are just as cri­ti­cal. Copy cos­me­tics help to direct your rea­ders’ eyes as well as their actions.

These cos­me­tics, among others, include:

  • Colors
  • For­mat­ting
  • Layout
  • Typesty­les
  • High­ligh­ting
  • Notes
  • Tea­sers
  • Screens
  • Struc­ture
  • Boxes
  • Bor­ders
  • Scans
  • Scripts
  • Callouts
  • Graphics
  • Pho­to­graphs
  • Pla­ce­ment
  • Order devi­ces
  • Grab­bers
  • Seals
  • Mul­ti­me­dia
  • Screenshots
  • Proof ele­ments
  • And many others

For print sales­let­ters, we for­mat your copy using a rough layout so you can visually appre­ciate what we want your rea­ders to see. Use this as a model you can dupli­cate and work from. Online, we copy your layout and use it as a tem­plate (or we create one for you), so we can write into it and add response-​​relevant ele­ments where nee­ded to maxi­mize your sales.

Howe­ver, we are copyw­ri­ters. We are NOT edi­tors, proo­frea­ders, web desig­ners, web­mas­ters, type­set­ters, prin­ters, graphic artists, mul­ti­me­dia experts (audio and video), actors, voi­ceo­ver pro­fes­sio­nals, pro­gram­mers or law­yers. You will need to hire experts for those.

If you choose our “copy desig­ning” ser­vice, we only pro­vide direc­tion, sug­ges­tions, and some gui­dance as to how to best use your copy, as well as a rough com­po­si­tion, layout, or sketch to be used as a guide. Even though our copy may be used as-​​is…

… Our copy should never be con­si­de­red as web– or print-​​ready.

Before we give you some actual exam­ples of our work, first unders­tand something impor­tant. Copyw­ri­ting is sales­manship in print. That’s why we pre­fer, and spe­cia­lize in, sales-​​driven direct res­ponse copy, par­ti­cu­larly direct mail and web­si­tes. The bulk of our expe­rience is in salesletters.

We wrote these sales let­ters and rede­sig­ned the look by adding “visual boos­ters” men­tio­ned ear­lier. What’s more, our port­fo­lio con­sists of many dif­fe­rent and unre­la­ted indus­tries ran­ging from gol­fing equip­ment and dating ser­vi­ces, to plas­tic sur­geons and law­yers — even pet sup­plies, tra­ding soft­ware and offshore investments.

Check Out Actual Sam­ples Of Our Work

Click the links below to see pro­jects we’ve wor­ked on. (Remem­ber that most of these sam­ples are from our data­base as the offi­cial ones may have since chan­ged, and the­re­fore these sam­ples are not “live,” — so do not click on any of the links or order but­tons you see there. If you would like to see the results or what these clients had to say about Suc​cess​Doc​tor​.com, click here.)

(Of course, the above are mostly sales­let­ters, which is what we spe­cia­lize in. They are just a small sam­pling of our work. Howe­ver, if you pre­fer to see sam­ples of non-​​salesletter copy, such as stan­dard web­si­tes, direct mail pie­ces, maga­logs, auto­res­pon­der email series, TV info­mer­cials, adver­to­rials, or other, con­tact us and ask for a spe­ci­fic exam­ple of what you want to see.)

Tur­na­round, Avai­la­bi­lity And Other Factors

All pro­jects are paya­ble 100% upfront, inc­lu­ding any surcharges.

When you receive a quote from us and once we receive your finan­cial com­mit­ment, a ques­tion­naire will be sent to you, which needs to be com­ple­ted and retur­ned to us before we begin. Your ans­wers will guide us in doing the best job pos­si­ble for you.

After that, we imme­dia­tely reserve your spot into our sche­dule and place you in the next avai­la­ble ope­ning. If you do not sub­mit your ans­wers within 30 days, your pro­ject will be con­si­de­red aban­do­ned, and 50% of your pay­ment will be for­fei­ted and applied as a kill-​​fee.

Depen­ding on our sche­dule, expect a tur­na­round of about 4–6 weeks. It can be more or less, but timing varies accor­ding to avai­la­bi­lity, size of your pro­ject, num­ber of jobs in queue and time it takes for you to ans­wer the pre­pa­ra­tory ques­tion­naire. (Cri­ti­ques are typi­cally done sooner.)

Have a dead­line to meet? We offer a rush service.

Although it’s often unne­ces­sary, a rush ser­vice, if accep­ted, is for any pro­ject that’s requi­red within a very spe­ci­fic time­frame or before the maxi­mum tur­na­round. If you want us to meet a spe­ci­fic tur­na­round or dead­line, you can order our rush ser­vice at a 50% surcharge.

This pla­ces your pro­ject next in the queue, and for­ces all other pro­jects to be pushed down the line. Once we finish the pro­ject we’re wor­king on at the time of your finan­cial com­mit­ment, we then focus on your project.

So if for wha­te­ver rea­son we fail to meet your dead­line (most likely for rea­sons beyond our con­trol, although we do our ear­nest best to meet it), you are cre­di­ted or refun­ded the 50% surcharge. Howe­ver, this rarely happens.

Our Spe­cial 30-​​Day Satis­fac­tion Guarantee

You can have one revi­sion free of charge within one month of recei­ving your ini­tial draft. This allows you to up to thirty full days to read your copy over and sug­gest any edits or tweaks. (This is a $2,000–4,000 value.) We revise your copy and pre­pare a final draft for you for free.

Then, we’re done.

We can’t gua­ran­tee spe­ci­fic results, like a cer­tain num­ber of sales or a spe­ci­fic inc­rease in con­ver­sion rate. It’s impos­si­ble since we’re not inti­ma­tely invol­ved with your busi­ness and can­not con­trol how you intend to use the copy we’ve pre­pa­red for you. Everyone’s dif­fe­rent and there are too many varia­bles to make such a pre­dic­tive commitment.

But we do want you to be ela­ted with our work.

Once the first draft is deli­ve­red, our 30-​​day gua­ran­tee kicks in. That way, you have an entire month to try it out and see how well it pulls for you, which in our expe­rience is usually ample time to test the copy and see how well it con­verts. (There are no exten­sions beyond the 30 days.)

If you’re not 100% happy with the results for wha­te­ver rea­son within 30 days of deli­very, we give you a com­plete revi­sion free of charge. That means we either polish it or rew­rite it enti­rely if we have to, for free, to make sure you’re thri­lled with the copy.

Howe­ver, once it’s done, we call it quits. After the final draft is deli­ve­red, the pro­ject is con­si­de­red com­plete and copy­rights are trans­fe­rred to you — pro­vi­ded there are no unpaid balan­ces, inc­lu­ding any direct, out-​​of-​​pocket expenses.

Look at it this way: what you are get­ting from us are two serious attempts. If things don’t work out, you would be out of your invest­ment in us. But we would also be out of an enor­mous amount of research, time and energy revi­sing your copy for free – that we could have spent elsewhere wor­king on other, paying clients. To qua­lify for this spe­cial guarantee…

Here’s What We’re Loo­king For

Your pro­ject must already be via­ble and esta­blished (it’s selling right now), or you have ample research to prove that it’s in demand and going to sell. We don’t like wor­king on untes­ted ideas, hunches, or poorly tar­ge­ted offers. (No amount of great copy can sell a poor product.)

Our fee is based on the num­ber of pages. A “page” is a letter-​​sized, 8.5″ x 11″ or A4 page when the copy is prin­ted — even if it’s a web­site or web page. The fee is $800 USD per page. Note that our mini­mum fee is $3,000 USD with ANY copyw­ri­ting pro­ject, regard­less of size.

The follo­wing is a list of pro­jects we accept:

  • Sales­let­ters. You can get a print or web sales­let­ter based on our quote. We quote a mini­mum as we usually tend to over­de­li­ver. So if we quote you 10 pages but we end up with 25 since we feel you need 25 to make the sale, 25 it is! (Without any extra charge.)
  • Adver­ti­se­ments. If you have (or need) a dis­play ad for a maga­zine, news­pa­per or publi­ca­tion, we pre­fer editorial-​​style ads (known as “adver­to­rials”) with den­sely pac­ked copy and a call to action and res­ponse device.
  • Web­si­tes. If you have a multi-​​page web­site, with pages of up to 500 words each, we can write the copy if the web­site aims at indu­cing subsc­rip­tions, mem­berships, leads or sales.
  • Auto­res­pon­ders. We can write copy for opt-​​in emails or sequen­tial email series to use to follow up with leads or clients, inc­rease pro­duct con­sump­tion, pro­vide an email course, make bac­kend or upsell offers, con­vert pros­pects to sales, or whatever.
  • Infor­mer­cials. You can hire us to write copy for a radio or TV direct res­ponse com­mer­cial, usually 15 to 60 minu­tes in length (known as an “info­mer­cial”), or lon­ger in some cases. For TV, we can also write the visuals or story­board along with the copy.

Note that each of the above is sepa­rate and con­si­de­red as indi­vi­dual pro­jects. Here’s an exam­ple: if you hire us to write a sales­let­ter with an order form, that’s one pro­ject. But if you hire us to write the sales­let­ter with an opt-​​in page or an accom­pan­ying email auto­res­pon­der series, they are con­si­de­red as mul­ti­ple pro­jects — even though they ulti­ma­tely lead to the same out­come, which is more sales.

Also, you’re res­pon­si­ble for any direct, out-​​of-​​pocket expen­ses, such as long dis­tance phone char­ges, faxing, pos­tage, prin­ting, sto­rage (beyond your project’s 30 days), etc — if there are any. But usually, there are none.

Since every pro­ject is dif­fe­rent, our copy desig­ning ser­vi­ces, inc­lu­ding for­mat­ting and layout sug­ges­tions, if reques­ted, are quo­ted on a per-​​project basis.

Cri­ti­que Con­sul­ta­tion Service

Our job con­sists of two com­po­nents: figu­ring out WHAT to say and HOW to say it. The second part is usually the easiest. So if your copy exists but just needs impro­ve­ment, we can simply cri­ti­que it and give you a second opi­nion. Your invest­ment will the­re­fore be sig­ni­fi­cantly less.

Is your copy stale and just needs a fresh pair of eyes? Are you about to launch a cam­paign but you’re just not sure if it will work? Or do you think you’re not get­ting the best mileage pos­si­ble out of your current sales­let­ter? Then run it by us to see what we think.

With a cri­ti­que con­sul­ta­tion, we analyze your copy and give you actio­na­ble recom­men­da­tions you can imple­ment right away. Keep in mind, howe­ver, that a cri­ti­que is not just a quick, “at-​​a-​​glance” review. We tho­roughly analyze your copy, go through it para­graph by para­graph with a “fine-​​tooth comb,” and rewire your copy for maxi­mum selling power.

Just one sin­gle idea can boost res­ponse dra­ma­ti­cally. Aside from sug­ges­tions for boos­ting res­ponse, sales and pro­fits, a second opi­nion on your copy can also pro­vide you with:

  • Ideas that work on get­ting peo­ple to res­pond, whether it’s to join, subsc­ribe, call, down­load, email or, of course, buy — ulti­ma­tely, their aim is to drive cus­to­mer actions.
  • A clear unders­tan­ding of who you are; what you offer; why you offer it; who you offer it to; what makes it uni­que, spe­cial or dif­fe­rent; and why peo­ple should act now.
  • A mes­sage that spe­ci­fi­cally matches your mar­ket and addres­ses their needs, goals, uni­que situa­tions, egos, pro­blems, level of awa­re­ness and buying beha­viors in your industry.
  • A posi­tion or “hook” that makes your busi­ness, pro­duct or offer stand out (known as a “uni­que selling pro­po­si­tion”), as well as a sense of urgency that pushes peo­ple to act fast.
  • Com­pe­lling, hard-​​hitting copy with words that tell a com­pe­lling story, show­case your bene­fits, get them exci­ted about your offe­ring, and out­line “rea­sons why.”
  • And addi­tio­nal ideas beyond words of areas that can stra­te­gi­cally mul­tiply your res­ponse rate, such as buying pro­ces­ses, cos­me­tics, “trig­gers,” visuals, “grab­bers,” etc.

Your invest­ment in a cri­ti­que con­sul­ta­tion varies depen­ding on pro­ject size. It ran­ges bet­ween $1,000 and $3,000 per piece. (A short auto­res­pon­der series of up to seven emails is con­si­de­red as one piece.) There are two options: a writ­ten cri­ti­que, and a phone or web-​​based critique.

  • Option A: Writ­ten Copy Cri­ti­que For $1,000 USD

With this option, we go through your copy and give you a com­plete “wri­teup,” where we list all the pro­blems and bott­le­necks that might impede sales as well as actio­na­ble recom­men­da­tions you can imple­ment right away.

  • Option B: “Live” Phone– or Web-​​Based Con­sul­ta­tion For $3,000 USD

With this option, you con­sult with us by phone or even watch us “live” online, if you wish. With the lat­ter, we share our desk­top with you (all you need is an Inter­net con­nec­tion), where you follow along as we go through your copy, step by step. You see what we see, hear what we say and watch what we type! Click here to see a sam­ple video.

We do NOT record this ses­sion as it is an out-​​of-​​pocket expense. Howe­ver, if you wish to record it your­self for your future refe­rence, you can. We highly recom­mend Kay and Joshua Mitchell at Recor​ded​Mo​ments​.com. They can record the con­sul­ta­tion on audio or video for you. (At the time of this wri­ting, they charge a little less than $100 an hour.)

Here’s How We Work Together

One you receive your quote, you will also receive details on how to pro­ceed. These inc­lude seve­ral pay­ment options, such as a spe­cial web page to pro­cess your pay­ment, or where to mail your check or money order. Your pay­ment is 100% paya­ble upfront. No exceptions.

If you wish to keep our work con­fi­den­tial, a 100% surcharge applies. Of course, sen­si­tive infor­ma­tion will always be com­ple­tely con­fi­den­tial with us. But this 100% surcharge simply means we can­not publicly use reprints of your copy, such as for our mar­ke­ting or pro­mo­tio­nal efforts.

Also, pro­jects are done in the order they are recei­ved. But if you’re in a rush, please add the 50% rush surcharge, inc­lu­ding cri­ti­ques. (Cri­ti­ques are in a sepa­rate queue.)

Get your ini­tial copy assess­ment and quote today. This free ini­tial con­sul­ta­tion is a $95.00 value. This esti­mate is gua­ran­teed for 30 days only. Right now, our sche­dule is boo­ked up for the next few months (some spa­ces are still left). So we encou­rage you to act quickly.

Once you go ahead, send us your mate­rials by email (links are fine, too), which is pre­fe­rred, or by fax or pos­tal mail, when you order. Sub­mit­ted mate­rials will not be retur­ned and may be published as exam­ples. So do not sub­mit mate­rials you wish to keep con­fi­den­tial (unless you have agreed to adding the 100% con­fi­den­tia­lity fee). Click here to go beyond the next level.

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