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Step-By-Step Landing Page Copywriting

Nathan Barry Free Intermediate

Nathan Barry walks through the real, unpolished early drafts of the ConvertKit landing page and how a copywriter's feedback stripped the marketing voice out of them line by line. Watching someone catch themselves sounding like a press release and fix it in real time is more useful than any rule of thumb, and every section maps directly onto a launch post problem you will hit.

  • Your first draft will probably sound like marketing, expect to cut it.
  • Concrete outcomes beat adjectives like powerful or seamless every time.
  • Get one honest reader to mark every sentence that sounds fake.

The question it answers

  1. How do I write the actual launch post so it doesn't read like a press release nobody asked for?

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