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Dec 26 19 tweets 4 min read
Prediction:

2023 is gonna be the year that ChatGPT will replace most copywriters.

CopyThinkers will stay.
Copywriters will die out.

Here’s a LIVE example of an ad ChatGPT wrote and why CopyThinkers will thrive…

While copywriters will die out.

>>>A CopyThinking Thread 🧵<<<
10:53 AM. This morning. I get a call from a buddy.

A GREAT copywriter.

We’ve worked together in the past. He’s truly AMAZING at writing copy.

Anyway…

He calls me up all excited: “George!!! ChatGPT is amazing! Have a look at an ad it wrote for me!!!”

Then…
He read the ad out loud to me.

Let me give you some context before I show you the ad…

This guy is selling a course on how to keep your home-grown plants alive.

And he’s been struggling a bit with writing copy for a niche he knows very little about.

Now…
He has been running this funnel for almost a year now…

And he has made quite a few sales.

So you can’t say he doesn’t understand his audience.

He does.

So anyway…
Back to the story.

He reads the ad out-loud to me while we’re on the phone…

All excited…

He reads:
“Are you tired of struggling to keep your indoor plants alive?

Do you want to learn a proven technique for keeping your plants healthy and thriving?

Our course has helped hundreds of people like you to transform their home into vibrant, green oases…”

Now. Is that good copy?
We could argue about that.

But the next thing he told me is where it really gets bad.

He said…

“I asked ChatGPT to add social proof after this paragraph and…”

He keeps reading. It wrote:

“Here’s what our students have to say about this course:
‘I used to kill every plant I touched, but after taking his course, I’ve been able to keep my plants alive and healthy for months!’”

This goes on and on but I wanna stop here.

Look at this last sentence.

What’s wrong with it?
Can you spot it?

I’ll give you a minute.
Already moving on?

Did you think about it?

Stop reading. Take a shot. What’s wrong with the “social proof” that ChatGPT added?

No?
Nothing?

THINK. Come on. Don’t blindly scroll. That’s not how you become better.

Take a shot!

Then keep reading…
Let me repeat that:

“I used to kill every plant I touched, but after taking his course, I’ve been able to keep my plants alive and healthy for months!”

WHAT’S WRONG ABOUT THIS SENTENCE?

Copywriters and business owners will say “nothing. It’s good.”

And that’s why…
That’s why copywriters will die out.

Business owners will write their own ads. Copywriters will use ChatGPT to write ads for them.

Both will fail.

Just like this ad would.

But whyyyy?
I know. I’ve been dragging this on for too long.

Just making a point :)

Here’s why:
The sentence “I used to kill every plant I touched”.

That’s what’s wrong.

The reason?
If you haven’t guessed it yet…

The reason is because the ad is targeting LOW awareness people.

People who are just NOW getting into growing their own plants.

“So what?”
So this:
There are two issues with that:

1. Those people have not yet bought ANYTHING in this niche.

So you’re their first purchase.

What are the chances they will START spending money now if they haven’t spent any before?

Close to zero. Right?
Good.

Now the second problem…
2. Their awareness level is LOW.

And you’re writing an ad trying to solve a problem.

Show them a solution.

A solution to a problem that’s not hurtful.

They’re not invested enough in their craft. It’s not an urgent problem.

The WORST audience to target.

Right?
Then…
Hopefully you start understanding what the future holds for us:

Business owners will use AI to write ads and nothing will work.

They’ll focus on BS like changing the product instead of fixing the copy.

Copywriters?
They’ll just give up.

Extinction-level event.
Understand?
But CopyThinkers?

Oh boy.
CopyThinkers are gonna shine.

The skill of being able to look at a piece of copy - and with a SNAP of a finger understand it’s not gonna sell…

Man…

That looks like magic to everyone else.

Now there is a silver lining.
Or even two of them…
1. CopyThinkers will become more in-demand than ever.

2. ChatGPT will transform the research process for CopyThinkers ONLY.

And this is what I wanted to talk to you about today :)

Do you want me to show you how CopyThinkers can leverage the HELL out of ChatGPT?
I’ll gladly write it.

There’s only one problem.

I wanted to keep that information for our CopyThinking community.

But I’ll write it if this thread gets 600 RTs.

Wanna try?
Give it a go.

RT this and if your fellow readers will do the same…

I’ll write a thread :)
P.S.

Follow me @GrammarHippy if you don’t want to miss the next thread.

I write them often lately :)
Seems like the thread on how to use ChatGPT for..

• Market research
• Coming up with products
• And even CREATING products…

Is approaching.

I see a lot of people who like/RT this thread are not following.

Don’t you wanna be here for the next thread? 😉

@GrammarHippy.

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Interviewed a guy making $100k/mo on Instagram.

He got to that point FASTER than anyone I’ve ever seen.

The reason?

He has a repeatable process that you too can use.

If…

If you understand this…

>>> A Thread 🧵 <<<
He used four skills to accomplish this in record time:

1. Content creation
2. Positioning
3. Copywriting
4. Paid ads

I talk about the first two a lot. But I’ll still give you some context:
1. Content creation:

The guy doesn’t write content like 99% of us.

What he does is go against common beliefs.

Most of his content goes AGAINST the popular beliefs and STANDS for what he does.

You can do this in any niche if you understand “tribe building”.
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I’ve sold $15,000,000+ in total.

• All cold traffic.
• Profitably.
• Bootstrapped.

Here are the 9 marketing rules I learned…

Took me 10 years and $100,000+ in mentorships and lost money to learn ‘em.

You get them for free.

>>> A Thread 🧵 <<<
1. Sell before you build.

• Build a sales page.
• Run ads.
• Get 5 sales.
• Stop. Look at cost per sale.

Send an email to the buyers saying the product will be created soon and they can choose:

Get their money back or wait.
2. Check scalability.

If you’re selling a $47 product and your cost per purchase is $40?

You think you’re profitable.

But the moment you increase the budget - you’ll start losing money.

Not scalable?
Scratch. Back to the drawing board.
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People all around the globe send me DMs with copy they ask me to review.

I get dozens of those per day.

99% of them are GOOD copywriters make BASIC mistakes.

Check yourself:

How many of these 7 basic copy mistakes do you make?

>>> A Thread 🧵 <<<
Mistake 1: Slaughtering the Rule of One.

Your copy should have ONE everything:

• One big idea
• One person in mind
• One emotion.

The moment you have more than one of each?

You start confusing people.
Mistake 2: The professor head.

Your copy is written from one person to another.

You’re not writing a scientific paper. Use “normal people” language.

Check yourself. Will a 5yr old understand what you wrote?

No?
Back to the drawing board.
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It took me 16 months to grow from 0 to 114K followers.

But more importantly?

I created an industry of one.
And I have no clue how I did it.

So I spent the last two weeks reverse-engineering myself.

And here’s how I’d do it again (and you can too).

>>> A Thread 🧵 <<<
Let’s start at the very beginning.

There’s only one way to not only grow quickly…

But to cement yourself in people’s brains.

You’re no longer ANOTHER copywriter. Or consultant. Or PPC guy.

You’re THE guy.

That’s what we’re trying to achieve. Yes?

There’s ONE way to do so:
Let me try to explain this concept in three parts.

Part 1: Practice what you preach.

Do whatever it is you’re branding yourself as - EVERY DAY.

Get experience.
Knowledge.
Stories.

Have all of those? Great.
The next step is gonna be all about leveraging those.
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Is it possible to market a business with ZERO market research?

It is. If you understand three concepts:

• The CopyThinking strategy
• The brute-force strategy hackers use
• And basic funnenology.

Here’s how we marketed an accountant:

>>>A CopyTHINKING Thread 🧵<<<
6 months ago a friend of mine calls me up:

“George. I have an accountant who wants to get clients.”

He continues…

“Running ads straight to a consultation call doesn’t work. The cost is high and the close rate is low. What would you do?”

Happy he asked:
I’d build a socks-funnel.

I explained to him what it means and I’ll explain to you the same thing:

This is the CopyThinking part.

Now class.
What’s the goal of CopyThinking?

“TO NOT COMPETE!!” You shout at the top of your lungs.

Good class.

How do we do that?
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How do you get better at copywriting?

Let me guess:

• You hand-copy legendary ads
• You analyze their sales letters
• You try to model them.

Which is the EXACT reason you’re failing.

Stop listening to clueless gurus.
Do this instead:

>>>A CopyTHINKING Thread🧵<<<
Imagine us in court.
You and I.

I’ll be the prosecutor.

And I have one job: to prove to you that OG copywriters are killing your copy skills.

Not an easy job.

Which is why I brought my silver suitcase. I put it on the table with a BANG and look into your eyes:
I have 3 pieces of proof inside this suitcase.

And for the first time ever in this court? I won’t call any witnesses to the stand.

Not because I don’t have any.
But because I have TOO many.

That’s how air-tight my case is.

Allow me to begin.
Ladies and gentlemen of the jury…
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