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Re:Anatomy of long sales letter by sethg on Tuesday March 01, 2011 @01:23PM (#2276536)
That article reminded me of Giles Bowkett’s blog postings advertising his video- and ebook-based classes, e.g.:

http://gilesbowkett.blogspot.com/2010/03/programmers-what-to...

I have no idea if the courses are any good, but he does market them to programmers, and since he has put up more than one blog posting of this nature, I assume he must be getting sales.

Re:Anatomy of long sales letter by ahi on Tuesday March 01, 2011 @05:23PM (#2277472)
I only think those work because they are dripping in irony. Would his target market respond to those postings if they were sincere long form marketing.