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I was drunk…

“Wrecked”… “Steaming”… “A little worse for wear”… – it doesn’t matter what you call it – this was how I randomly stumbled upon the weird and wonderful world of Internet Marketing… and it all happened around 3am after coming home from another decidedly average night out, back in the summer of 2004.

Picture the scene: I was sitting – no, wait – swaying at my desk whilst checking the old eBay – as you do after a heavy night out (oh, I had my reasons). At the time I was selling a dozen or so prized bottles of £80 champagne, virtually given to me during my brief employment in a well-known UK supermarket, back in my uni days. With no licence to sell alcohol, making a profit from these over-priced bottles of champagne hadn’t even crossed my mind until I discovered I could list them on eBay as… “Collector’s items” – riiiiight!

So anyway, there I was, minding my own business and looking through other people’s feedback comments – I must admit, the vicious, negative feedback comments exchanged by eBayers really used to entertain me in those days – when all of a sudden I came across a positive feedback comment with the words ‘life changing’. This piqued my curiosity, a little. Just enough to click on the item responsible for provoking said positive feedback, which led me to a sales page for an item that turned out to be an ebook written by the wonderful Sara Brown – real person… or pen name of respected UK Internet Marketer, Tony Shepherd? Who knows!

In any case, I was sucked right in by this mysterious sales page comprising of nothing more than black text on a navy blue background – major faux pas even in those days… but it worked. And the result? I couldn’t dig my credit card out of my wallet quickly enough to receive my copy of an ebook that would be sent to me… *sigh*… the next morning. This was before automation had caught on. And what’s more, I also then had to wait another few hours to receive my secret password so I could open the ebook – sheesh! Side note: anything with a secret password has got to be good, right?

So was it worth it? You bet.

Because, to cut a long story short, from that night onwards… I was hooked.

The sales page alone made damn sure of that – somehow. I say ’somehow’ because there were no pretty graphics. No pictures. No testimonials. No fancy fonts. In fact, it was probably one of the ugliest sales pages I’d ever seen! But looking back on that fateful night… there was something about that modest-looking sales page that jumped out at me and just wouldn’t let go until I’d parted with my money. I couldn’t quite put my finger on it. What exactly drove me to make that purchase? I mean, I’d seen plenty of sales pages before, promising me the world, yet I hadn’t believed a single one. In time, I eventually discovered why.

I was motivated by the compelling use of words.

Simple as that, really. And when I’d made this profound revelation – fuelled by my passion for all things related to human psychology – I decided to devote a huge chunk of my time to figuring out exactly how this copywriting/salesmanship stuff works – as a hobby! In a word, I was obsessed.

So in a nutshell, that’s how I’ve got to where I am now. And it’s really only now that I’ve actually started to fully apply myself to internet marketing, and consider it as a full-time living – being in a band for the past 4 years didn’t leave much time for anything else!

But I’m out of all that now… for the time being.

This is the start of a new chapter.

Peace,

James Teale

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