Posts Tagged ‘How to sell stuff online’

What Is The irresistible offer?

Wednesday, July 28th, 2010

One of  the holy grails of Online Marketing is creating the “irresistible offer”. It really is the key to unlimited wealth and power. But is there really such a thing or, is it just all smoke and mirrors?

A  hallmark of a great sales copywriter is their uncanny ability to make you buy things that you don’t really need.

This is why they are in such high demand, and the reason why they can charge 1000′s of dollars for their work.

To this day. I still find myself making online purchases that, on reflection. I should not have made.

So you can clearly see, that even those of use who have been involved in Online Marketing for a number of years. Are not totally immune to a cleverly worded sales letter.”

As good as having brilliantly written sales copy on your website is.

Once you combine it with a great offer in video format.

You will have a powerful sales tool that is almost impossible for you’re customers to resist. In effect,You will have created…

“THE IRRESISTIBLE OFFER.”

A word of “WARNING” the secret of  making a killer video sales letter work is,  the quality of you’re offer.

It won’t be the headline, or the price, or the color of the order button, etc…

It’s the OFFER!

When I first heard about this amazing technique I was just a little bit sceptical to say the least. But after having tried it on a few of my promotions. I can honestly say that it works beautifully.




Do You Know Your Customers?

Knowing what your customers needs plays a huge part in creating a irresistible offer. You may think that you know this already…

BUT.

In all probability you don’t. To know what your customers want requires a almost telepathic connection with their minds.

It is a skill,  that takes many months or years to master.

However.

There is a ready made short cut that you can take now.

That will dramatically cut down your learning time by as much as 75%

All you have to do is become a member of the market yourself. In other words “BUY THE PRODUCTS” that you want your customers to purchase from you.

“When you think about it logically, it makes perfect sense.

By simply buying the product, you have a advantage over practically anyone who hasn’t, You will be able to give a truly honest review about the product, because you actually use it yourself.

If you think that the product was a waste of money, then tell your customers. They will love you for your honesty.

This will also help you in the long run when you  start recommending products to them that you really like.

Purchasing online helps you to better connect with your customers minds. You can share their pain over a product or service that they were not happy with.

You can share your experiences the good and the bad.

By doing this. You will be steadily raising your credibility and building trust with you’re customers.

Another great place to find out about your market is through forums.

Sort through the threads with the highest views and you’ll quickly get a good idea of the hot points within your market. And of course, you can also get some of your best insights from surveys and testing.

So in closing. Just remember that to get inside the mind of your customer. You have to find out what they want, and then with the use of excellent sales copy on your website backed up by a video to enforce your message.

You will be well on your way to creating the ultimate irresistible offer.

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What Is A sale?

Monday, May 10th, 2010

“I bet you think that this is a trick question.” Of course you know what a sale is. It’s when somebody buys your stuff  “Right.”  Well actually, you are only half right.

When you sell your product online, it would be true to say that you have just made a sale. But in marketing terms what you have just accomplished is a “ACTION”

In advertising, what you should always concentrate on is getting visitors to your web pages to take action, and not be to bothered about increasing the volume of traffic to your web site.

“Don’t get me wrong traffic is important”, I love getting traffic to my web site but, I am far more interested in my conversion  rate.

Before I go on I should point out that a conversion or sale is exactly the same thing.

You must make sure that all of you’re sales letters are geared towards generating sales.

NOTE: Remember a sale is any action that you want somebody to take so…

…getting your tight wad friend to buy you a drink is a sale.

Convincing somebody to sign up to your news-letter is a sale. Stopping your mum from re-marrying that guy you hate is a “SALE”

To be able to sell anything yourself, whether it be online or off line. All you have to know is that.

“Sales is nothing more than a transfer of confidence

So, what you have to do is make people believe that your product or service is as wonderful as you say it is. You can give people confidence in what you are saying in a variety of ways that include.

  • Offering a 60 day money back guarantee
  • Showing them how the product helped you
  • Showing them how the product helped others
  • Giving them a free 30 day trial

NOTE: You may have noticed that I have given exact time periods in points 1 and 4. This is because it has been proven that customers respond better whenever a fixed date or number is displayed in your offer.

Now that you know exactly what a sale is, you should be able to easily instill self confidence about your service into every prospect that visit your web site.

Use the above tactics  to stop yourself becoming the “SALESMAN” that everybody hates.

Instead, concentrate your efforts into finding more imaginable and creative ways in making people believe in you and then, watch your profits soar.

Why You Need To Learn How To Write Sales Copy

Monday, February 15th, 2010

 

It is a hidden secret, but it is also a well known fact in the Online Marketing industry, that you will make next to nothing from your website unless you have great sales copy  written on every page.

Consider this, a good to average copy writer can sell a crappy product but, you will have difficulty in selling your outstanding product or service if you’re website has bad sales copy on it.

How Can I Write If English is Not My First Language?

Now I know just from reading some of the comments on my blog, that English is not the native tongue for quite a few of you.So learning how to write properly in English will be difficult, but not impossible.

Occasionally I get people trying to link to my blog with a website written in a foreign language, but I can still read and understand what their website is about by using Google’s translator service.

So if you are finding it a struggle to write your web pages in English…

…then my advice to you is to write your content in your native tongue, and then go to Yahoo Babel Fish  and use their translation service to convert your pages in to English.

I realise that this is not a complete solution to your problems because there are going to be a lot of languages that Yahoo Babel Fish will not be able to translate at this moment in time, but in the future who knows.

“OK,That your language problem done and dusted”

What I want to talk to you about now is relationships and the important part that it plays in helping you write great sales copy  that will keep your customers buying from you for years to come.  Here’s what you need to remember.

No relationship = no trust = No Sales = 0 Profits

From my little formula above, you can see what happens when there is no relationship between yourself, and the person that you are trying to convince to buy something from you.

 ”Not a pretty statistic to look at is it

If you really think about it, why this is happening to you is easy to explain. Generally speaking, people usually only buy from people that they trust, they don’t buy from strangers, they don’t buy from nobodies, they buy from people who they have a relationship with…

 which, unfortunately is not YOU!

 Using basic sales copy techniques such as…

1)Having a strong headline
2)Having lots of benefits
3)Having lots of testimonials
4)Having a money back guarantee

will help you gain that trust, but to really separate yourself from the crowd, you must go beyond these 4 techniques and really care about your customers.

You must Communicate with then on a regular basis, help them and educate them, do anything that will build up the trust between you and them.

Relationship building is only the first step, and in future posts I will show you the other steps, but for now just remember that the stronger the relationship is between you and your customers, the easier it becomes to get them to do what you want.