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I'm basically building Virtual Assistants.So you are basically a Virtual Assistant?
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Free registration at the forum removes this block.I'm basically building Virtual Assistants.So you are basically a Virtual Assistant?
I'm basically building Virtual Assistants.
Yes.You mean you are building a software that does the work of a Virtual Assistant?
Thank you.FYI: I've modified your thread title.
Yes.
Well I am awful at copy writing. I also thought SaaS might be too complicated a term.So you are selling software(or SAAS?), Why didn't you mention that in your main copy ? Until then I thought you were offering some kind of freelance service.
I'm working on that. The issue is I am a steak buyer. I won't even have the sauce.Sales for Dummies 101.
We all know Pork Ribs and Beef Ribs taste great, but it's not the meat that tastes good, it's the sauce. Your customers have heaps of Beef and Pork Ribs, they just want you to add a sauce, no-one has ever tasted before.
The old saying, "Sell The Sizzle, Not The Steak"
I'm clueless at the sizzle. I'm an analytical buyer myself.
I have no idea why people don't buy your market prediction algorithm but I know that people will say no to you generally based for these 3 points:
Well I am awful at copy writing.
If you were to be sympathetic then what would your advice to @LittleWolfie be?Sorry to disappoint all the advice-givers; LittleWolfie is clearly not serious, clueless, delusional, or all three. My advice for him would be to find a structured environment and learn to follow directions and do a simple job. Justification for my opinion follows.
Well, I have an idea. Market prediction is very hard to do. It is next to impossible to do for an individual, unless they are exceptional in some way, and then there are objective criteria (e.g. they have received a major prize in math or computer science) and/or they have worked at a top trading firm and know what they are talking about. In order to work at a top trading firm you need very strong communication skills; this guy will not last for ten minutes.
LittleWolfie's market prediction algorithm is just a fantasy, as is his SaaS. Again, do you seriously think someone with communication skills and awareness at 0/10 level will be able to deliver something of value? This SaaS will require 10 hours just to create an account, because you'd have to take a personality test first.
Whether the guy is not serious, or delusional, or has a cognitive impairment to which we have to be sympathetic; either way, the advice is wasted.
If you are not yet convinced, just read through this nonsense:
"Someone has already paid me. I am using this to fund in-person cold calls" — how is a call in-person?
"macro to save word document as vba script. " — what?! How would an arbitrary document become a VBA script, and why would it make any sense?
"Figuring out how to explain what is easily automated to a layman has if I recall correctly a million dollar prize from Google." — ?! Of course, there's no such million dollar prize. And okay, I am not a layman, nobody on this forum is; why can't we understand?
"Analysing large amounts of stock data to draw conclusions, using twitter to respond to specifc keywords, sentiment analysis(in this case for finding out emotion/postivity for stock market prediction" — this is not drudge work, lol.
Ooooh!@LittleWolfie
Would you be good at watching a video of someone going through a task and then creating a repeatable SOP from it?
delusional, or has a cognitive impairment
Think and Grow Rich, right?If anyone is doubtful of my last quote, then read this and let it sink in.
During the world war, a Chicago newspaper published certain editorials in which, among other statements, Henry Ford was called "an ignorant pacifist." Mr. Ford objected to the statements, and brought suit against the paper for libeling him. When the suit was tried in the Courts, the attorneys for the paper pleaded justification, and placed Mr. Ford, himself, on the witness stand, for the purpose of proving to the jury that he was ignorant. The attorneys asked Mr. Ford a great variety of questions, all of them intended to prove, by his own evidence, that, while he might possess considerable specialised knowledge pertaining to the manufacture of automobiles, he was in the main, ignorant.
Mr. Ford was plied with such questions as the following:
"Who was Benedict Arnold?" and
"How many soldiers did the British send over to America to put down the Rebellion of 1776?"
In answer to the last question, Mr. Ford replied,
"I do not know the exact number of soldiers the British sent over, but I have heard that it was a considerably larger number than ever went back."
Finally, Mr. Ford became tired of this line of questioning, and in reply to a particularly offensive question, he leaned over, pointed his finger at the lawyer who had asked the question, and said, "If I should really “WANT” to answer that foolish question, you have just asked, or any of the other questions, you have been asking me, let me remind you, that I have a row of electric push-buttons on my desk, and by pushing the right button, I can summon to my aid, men, who can answer ANY question, I desire to ask, concerning the business, to which I am devoting most of my efforts. → example, this forum.
Now, will you kindly tell me, “WHY” I should clutter up my mind, with general knowledge, for the purpose of being able to answer questions, when I have men around me, who can supply any knowledge I require.?"
There certainly was good logic to that reply. That answer floored the lawyer. Every person in the courtroom realised it was the answer, not of an ignorant person, but of a person of EDUCATION.
Think and Grow Rich, right?
If you were to be sympathetic then what would your advice to @LittleWolfie be?
Sorry to disappoint all the advice-givers; LittleWolfie is clearly not serious, clueless, delusional, or all three. My advice for him would be to find a structured environment and learn to follow directions and do a simple job. Justification for my opinion follows.
Well, I have an idea. Market prediction is very hard to do. It is next to impossible to do for an individual, unless they are exceptional in some way, and then there are objective criteria (e.g. they have received a major prize in math or computer science) and/or they have worked at a top trading firm and know what they are talking about. In order to work at a top trading firm you need very strong communication skills; this guy will not last for ten minutes.
LittleWolfie's market prediction algorithm is just a fantasy, as is his SaaS. Again, do you seriously think someone with communication skills and awareness at 0/10 level will be able to deliver something of value? This SaaS will require 10 hours just to create an account, because you'd have to take a personality test first.
Whether the guy is not serious, or delusional, or has a cognitive impairment to which we have to be sympathetic; either way, the advice is wasted.
If you are not yet convinced, just read through this nonsense:
"Someone has already paid me. I am using this to fund in-person cold calls" — how is a call in-person?
"macro to save word document as vba script. " — what?! How would an arbitrary document become a VBA script, and why would it make any sense?
"Figuring out how to explain what is easily automated to a layman has if I recall correctly a million dollar prize from Google." — ?! Of course, there's no such million dollar prize. And okay, I am not a layman, nobody on this forum is; why can't we understand?
"Analysing large amounts of stock data to draw conclusions, using twitter to respond to specifc keywords, sentiment analysis(in this case for finding out emotion/postivity for stock market prediction" — this is not drudge work, lol.
There's an old saying, "Don't treat me like an idiot, I'm not one, just show me what I'm doing wrong, so I can then do it right".
That's certainly true. I will invest a portion of my first sales into a copywriter.littlewolfie, you sound brilliant but copywriting is obviously not where you shine. When you figure out what you want to do, perhaps you can hire a copywriter to write the ad for you?
That's deep. A pair of glasses or terrible artwork isn't easily recognised in an expensive art gallery either.Stravinsky violin making music in a subway isn’t easily recognized, either.
How to write copy that sellsThat's certainly true. I will invest a portion of my first sales into a copywriter.
However I need to be able to afford them and trust them.
In the mean time, I'm working on copywriting see below.
Are you throwing money away? Every 10ms of website lag saves you 1% of revenue. Using laggy wordpress?
You could be losing thousands of dollars with usual 2 to 3 second delay.
Would you like a conversion to higher speed and higher static sites?
I'm also throwing in lifetime support by email/ for the first two fastlaners who sign up.
Your in the Fastlane,why leave your website in the Slowlane? Post or DM now.
/end copy sample
To be honest I'd rather have a partner or two a Jobs to the woz or a rockefeller to the plantanger if you prefer.
That's deep. A pair of glasses or terrible artwork isn't easily recognised in an expensive art gallery either.
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