I estimate that maybe as many as 90% of all business people, ad copywriters, speakers, salespeople, and media salespeople just don't follow the simple formula that could save them from failure.

The old warhorse of marketing formulae: the AIDA formula.

It's the sequence you must take your prospects through if you want them to buy from you.

A – Attention
I – Interest
D – Desire
A – Action

As long as your audience meets two crucial criteria (they have both a problem and some money)…

…and your product also meets one criteria (it solves the problem!)…

AIDA just flat-out works!

Amazing, but true.

Most business people, copywriters, and marketers get hung up on the wrong things, though.

Things that are sexier, shinier, and newer, but which ignore AIDA. Things like:

And yet – with just a little bit of work, and perhaps some help from someone who knows what they're doing, it could all be so different.

If you get nothing else out of reading this, I hope you'll get this…

…analyze every advertising and sales activity in your business, and ask yourself: does this follow the AIDA sequence? If it doesn't – change that activity or advertising, or get rid of it altogether.

It's possible that this alone will turn around your business. Think about it…

What if the only thing between you and a pile of money is not a shiny new website, or a slick new video, or some gimmicky softeare… what if the only thing standing in your way is simply the right words, in the right order?

Question: Have you ever heard of AIDA? Used it?