In The Death of The Saleslet­ter, I talked about hid­ing con­tent so it could open up based on a user’s actions and thereby per­son­al­iz­ing the saleslet­ter, dynam­i­cally, on the fly.

You can hide con­tent on the same sales page, mak­ing the page look shorter and less intim­i­dat­ing. And only desired con­tent appears depend­ing on a user’s choices.

What does using this tac­tic help to do?

In some cases, peo­ple break saleslet­ters down into var­i­ous pages, and add links to them in the let­ter. I don’t rec­om­mend this with long-​​copy saleslet­ters. Tra­di­tion­ally, I rec­om­mend that the extra con­tent opens up in a pop-​​up win­dow instead, as to not distract.

But with this tac­tic, and other than the poten­tial for per­son­al­iza­tion, which is its biggest ben­e­fit, it means that peo­ple read­ing a saleslet­ter don’t have to be both­ered by…

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