Reyes CastilloCopywriter

Copywriter  /  Rio Grande Valley, Texas

Most copy speaks to the head. I write to the part that decides.

You already have the message. I build what carries it: sales pages, email sequences, books and courses.

Reyes Castillo
Reyes Castillo

About

You can explain what you do to one person across a table and they get it. Then it goes on a page, into an email, onto an ad, and something drains out on the way. Closing that gap is the whole job.

Your buyer arrives mid-thought, already carrying the problem. When the writing meets them there, they feel seen, and the next step gets obvious.

Most of what I've written sold my own coaching programs and courses. The rest was for local businesses I worked with directly, including an accounting firm and an air conditioning company, and one book written for a client.

Trained
Seven years of direct response work, on Dan Kennedy, Frank Kern and Eugene Schwartz
Publishes
The Buyer's Mind, on LinkedIn
Also
John Maxwell Certified Coach and DISC Trainer. Twenty years pastoring and speaking
Based
Rio Grande Valley, Texas. Works with people anywhere

What I build

The thing that carries your message

  1. 01

    Sales pages, email sequences and VSL scripts

    Written from your buyer's psychology outward.

  2. 02

    Books and courses

    Shaped out of material you already teach and have never had time to sit down with.

  3. 03

    Ads and launches

    And the audience research that has to exist before either one works.

  4. 04

    Leadership and growth programs

    Built to hold up when you are not the one delivering them.

“Where do I sign up?”

A sales letter I never published

Last year I wrote a sales letter for a 16-week coaching program. Before posting it, I handed it to about three people and asked what I was missing. They asked, “Where do I sign up?” They told others, about seven people enrolled, and the letter never went up anywhere.

Selected work

Read the writing

01

The Buyer's Mind

My LinkedIn newsletter. Each issue takes one piece of copy a business already has and shows where the buyer stops listening.

  1. 01Your Course Sales Page Bio Is Proving the Wrong ThingSomewhere on your course sales page is a paragraph that lists everything you have ever accomplished. You wrote it to sound like someone worth learning from.September 11, 20266 min read
  2. 02Your LinkedIn Bio Is Reassuring a Fear Nobody Has AnymoreSomewhere in your LinkedIn About section is a sentence built to prove you're qualified. You are qualified. Nobody landing on your profile is wondering about that anymore.August 11, 20265 min read
  3. 03Your Website Hero Headline Is Written for the Wrong PersonSomewhere on your homepage sits a sentence that is quietly turning away the exact client you want most. You wrote it carefully. You have read it a hundred times.June 26, 20265 min read
02

Features & Reporting

Long articles that report and argue, with the sources listed at the end.

  1. 01The Average of Everything Ever WrittenI read it twice, and the honest first answer is that nothing is wrong with it. The grammar holds. The structure is correct.August 6, 20267 min read
  2. 02Intimacy, at ScaleHow the direct message became a sales floor, and what the person on the other end deserves to knowJuly 12, 202613 min read
  3. 03The House in Your PocketAmerica spent eight years deleting every inch of distance between a young man and a bet. The bill is arriving on schedule.July 10, 202615 min read

All 4 in Features & Reporting →

03

Short Case Studies

Short posts. Each one tells a documented test where the words changed and somebody measured the result.

  1. 01The Card on the Towel RackNoah Goldstein, Robert Cialdini and Vladas Griskevicius once rewrote the little card on a hotel towel rack.October 6, 20261 min read
  2. 02The Photo Lost to a Blank PageIn 2013 the UK government tested eight versions of one web page on more than a million people.October 1, 20261 min read
  3. 03Who Does Your First Line Tell to LeaveBack in 2011, AppSumo sold its deals with one-line emails. A $100 phone-system credit got a single sentence announcing the discount.September 29, 20261 min read

All 8 in Short Case Studies →

04

Spec Work

Direct-response pieces written for real brands as demonstrations, using only the brand's public facts. Not commissioned.

  1. 01The Bottle That Failed YouIf CBD did nothing for you, the reason may have been sitting in the bottle the whole time.October 29, 20266 min read

Free, no email needed

A first look at your copy

Paste an email, a sales letter or a page. You get back up to three places a buyer slows down, each one pointing at a line of yours. If the piece is already strong, it says so.

It is a quick, automated read built on the same checks I use. The full read, with the rewrite direction, is the Copy Diagnosis.

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