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A Sharp OpenerIn sales-letter writing, it's the most important weapon for capturing your reader's attention.

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So you want everyone to glom onto your sales letter? And youcan't imagine why they wouldn't, because you have such aterrific product or service and a great message?

You canfuhgeddaboutit. . . unless your letter has aninteresting headline and opening sentence. Take a lesson frome-mail marketers, whose online solicitations live or die by theirsubject lines and opening sentences.

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