Useless trivia fact

How useless trivia makes for great letter openings

By Markus Allen, Publisher of Marketing-Ideas.Org


Useless trivia fact:
Did you know the number of cricket chirps you hear within 15 seconds (plus 37) reveals the current air temperature?

Are you thinking, "Wow, that's pretty cool -- but what does that have to do with writing a great salesletter?"

Legendary copywriter Gary Halbert reveals how to combine useless trivia facts as your "opener" in salesletters to engage your prospects into buying just about anything...

... And Mr. Halbert reveals exactly how to do it at:
The Gary Halbert Letter: Interesting Facts!



Useless trivia fact discussions:

Have you seen the Puffin Man? - Maggie's Farm (21 Jun 2010 at 12:14 pm)

Comments. Display comments as (Linear | Threaded). I read in the 5/29 issue of The Economist (page 85) that Icelanders li...

Useless Trivia fact of the Day! (27 Jan 2010 at 12:48 pm)
If you put a raisin in a glass of champagne, it will keep floating to the top and sinking to the bottom. Don't forget...t...

Useless Trivia Fact of the Day (18 Jan 2010 at 11:30 am)
The US Navy used to serve alcoholic beverages on board ships. However when Admiral Josephus "Joe" Daniels became Chief of ...

Pay no attention to the man behind the chain link fence. (15 Jul 2010 at 4:41 am)
... come gawk at Manning, whom he remembers playing for the university) said that Manning was the only quarterback for UT ...

Useless Trivia Fact for the day (28 Apr 2005 at 1:16 pm)
Found this at Kim du Toit's site. If your a gun nut, sorry about saying that this is useless trivia. In the post (or one o...

useless trivia fact #13 (19 Aug 2007 at 10:51 pm)
hippopotamus bites, experts say, are almost always fatal. the reason ... they're very large bites.

useless trivia fact #12 (20 Jun 2007 at 10:50 pm)
experts say that 46% of all violence on television occurs in cartoons.

useless trivia fact #11 (2 May 2007 at 9:34 pm)
london police photographed the eyes of jack the ripper's victims theorizing that his image might be recorded on their reti...

useless trivia fact #10 (30 Nov 2006 at 6:45 pm)
elvis presley was nearsighted. at his death, he owned an estimated $60000 dollars worth of prescription sunglasses.

useless trivia fact #9 (13 Nov 2006 at 7:23 pm)
aspirin has never been approved by the fda ... it has never been rejected either.