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Harlan’s Blue Balls Story

Welcome back!A few days ago, Harlan Kilstein (NLP Copywriting guru) asked his mailing list what we thought he was doing in a particular email he sent. What follows below is the original email, his selected best response, my comments on that response, and my response. I’m still plugging away at the tiny house (see the [...]

Welcome Harlan + Odds and Ends

The orginal NLP Copywriting Guru, Harlan Kilstein, has started a blog. His first post says he’s devoting it to his teacher, Dr David Dobson. I’m looking forward to some good NLP content there. He’s also linked his products there. The site is: http://nlpcopywriting.com/ Another thing I’ve noticed lately is that if you’re putting an Aweber [...]

Unpacking a hypnotic headline

Harlan sent an email the other day talking about hypnotic headlines. He said the following headline had at least 8 presuppositions: How Many Of These Secret Thai Chicken Recipes Have You Tasted So Far? See how many you can find before you look at the way I unpack it… ***********************************************

*Sticky Post* Getting Started in Copywriting and NLP

I’ve been asked a couple of times how to get started in copywriting and NLP. If you Google “getting started copywriting” you’ll see over 200,000 results. Most of the advice I’ve seen and followed boils down to a few steps: Study the masters Copy out successful letters Build a swipe file Practice on low risk [...]

Modeling Customers

At Harlan’s NLP Copywriting II seminar (I didn’t attend), he said he was going to teach people to model their audience. He also said he’d modeled someone without their knowledge. The notes of that modeling are here: http://www.experiential-dynamics.org/models/tkilstein.htm http://www.experiential-dynamics.org/models/kilstein.htm Recently, Steve Bauer posted on what’s required to model people . He said you can’t model [...]

What qualifies as NLP?

In preparing the video that I’m nearly ready to release, I reviewed Joe Vitale’s books, Hypnotic Writing and Buying Trances . In one of the two (I don’t recall which one), Joe doesn’t have high praise for NLP because he says it claims to have near absolute knowledge of the mind. He then goes on [...]

Harlan’s Letters

In preparing my video, I found that you can see many of Harlan Kilstein’s sales letters online. Here are the links: www.overnight-copy.com/Samples.html Steal This Book on Google Books (The irony kills me)

The Ultimate Intellectual Property

The final fronter for intellectual property seems to be NLP’s ability to model people. Harlan Kilstein’s modeling seminar ended last Friday (I didn’t go but I may get the DVDs at some point). In it, he was going to share and install his models of several A list copywriters. As part of the promotion leading [...]

Free Copies of James Brausch’s Newsletter

James Brausch has launched a new newsletter called, "Testing." You can read a little about it here: http://www.jamesbrausch.org/14600/ The deal is that he’ll give you an emailed version of the first issue if you request it on your blog like I’m doing here. Additional details are here: http://www.jamesbrausch.org/anyone-want-a-free-copy-of-testing/ And to whoever from James’ site that’s [...]

Death of the layman

I’ve been reading a bunch of different articles about authority and decentralized responsibility lately. In case you’re wondering, none of the following links are affiliate links. Mark Joyner recently published a report entitled, Rise of the Author which is about how you’re automatically an expert if you publish a hard copy book and how you [...]