The Vault from Copywork365

The swipe file is dead.

Literally, and maybe figuratively as well.

When I first started working on this project, I gave it the working title, Toolbox. The simple tagline was: the swipe file on roids.

But the more I worked on it, the more it became clear that this wasn’t just a box of tools. Calling it a swipe file wasn’t accurate, either. Roided up, or otherwise.

Because at its core, the swipe file is merely a collection of pictures or text. A pile, in other words.

This thing behaves more like a navigable map.

And no matter how much stuff you hoard into a swipe file, its contents are inert.

This, on the other hand, grows deeper over time. Its contents are living.

So, henceforth, this will be known as…

The Vault is an atomic copywriting database. As far as I know it’s the first of its kind, so that’s what I’m calling it.

It’s a database of world-class excerpts just like the ones we cover right here on the daily. Spanning ad copy, webpage copy, and literature.

Each excerpt is x-rayed and dissected to reveal what makes everything tick, how it works — on the most granular level. (Hence, atomic.)

It covers all the tools, techniques, and psychology we touch on here, but in their full depth. Making it easy to master these “devices” and then apply them to your own persuasive writing. You can even filter by author or brand to steal the secret sauce from your very favorite writers, copywriters, and brands.

Same as before, I’ve still got a forever deal for you.

If you join the waitlist below, you get exclusive lifetime access for an ultra-low flat fee when The Vault launches. (It’s looking like Q1 or Q2 of 2026.)

After all, a sweetheart deal is the least I can do to thank you for your support.

And as I’ve mentioned before, yes, I really do mean lifetime.

Even if the internet ceases to exist. I’ll toil day and night to make sure you receive a physical copy. With however many thousands of excerpts this accumulates over its lifetime.

Pinky promise.

Excerpt from L.L. Bean’s “1922 Maine Hunting Shoe” Ad

1. “You.” Talk to your reader.

2. First things first: pain. Benefits come later. “You cannot expect great success…” plants the seeds of doubt. A fruitless hunting trip is time spent, effort exerted, monetary cost — without the anticipated satisfaction. The human animal registers loss far more deeply than it does gain.
   
   You, too, can leverage loss aversion to your advantage.
   
   Most of the time, you can reframe a positive — the thing that’s nice to have — with its opposite: the downside if you don’t do the thing. By a different name: the “cost of inaction.”

3. Appeal to authority: “designed by a hunter who has tramped Maine woods for the past twenty-four years.”

4. Don’t worry about grammatically complete sentences. Here we see two fragments: “Light as a moccasin with the protection of a heavy hunting boot. Made on a swing last that fits the foot like a dress shoe…”