Web Site Checklist For Low Sales



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What good is your Web site if you want to sell something and
your aren't? If your Web sales are down, check your copy. You
need Web site copy with marketing pizzazz.

Next time you think Web site--either putting up a new one, or
wanting to improve yours for more sales than you ever dreamed
of, use this checklist:

1. Rewrite in short benefit-driven sound bites or questions your
visitor will feel compelled to respond to. example.

2. Make your headlines clear, short and direct. People come for
easy-to-read material. Like you, they are in a hurry, and want
free information fast.

3. Put yourself in your visitors' shoes. Think why are they at my
site? They want to know first, that you can solve their problem
with a magic pill.

4. Give your visitors a lot of free information . That's why they
are on the Internet. After visiting you 5-10 times, they will
eventually buy from you. Is this a lot of work? Not if you want to
make ongoing, passive income while you visit the Caribbean.

5. Aim your copy at your laser, targeted market. Yes, you have
one preferred audience you should spend all of your promotion
time and dollars on first. When you shot gun promotion
campaigns to many groups, you don't get well known as the
expert, and you lose people's attention and loyalty.

6. Give your visitors new and a variety of free articles in your
'free articles' link. Put a new one up every 2 weeks. Put NEW!
beside each new article to draw attention to it.

7. Categorize the types of articles you post on your site.
Recently, I have divided mine into writing/self publishing, Online
and eMail Promotion, Web Promotion and Marketing, and Web
Site Sales Copy, and Online Business Entrepreneurs who need
my information.

8. Put a notice on each Web page: Bookmark this Site. We
update material bi-weekly.Then, be sure you deliver your
promise.

9. Present your copy to inform, convince, and compel your
visitor to click here to buy.

10. Keep your language simple (would you believe 10 grade
level or lower--even if they are scientist)? Keep sentences short.
Write only short paragraphs, especially the first one. No more
than 4-5 lines. When visitors see a long paragraph, it looks to
hard to read and digest. Remember they are in a hurry.

11. Write a list of at least 5, but even 15 benefits your product
or service offers. Take the #1 benefit and start with a headline
that includes that.

12. Write a list of at least 5 features. These don't sell, but can be
used with a strong benefit to pull orders. Later, transform these
benefits into bullets--so easy to read for the skimmer.

13. Share your words with friends and associates before you
pay someone to input or upload. This Casual Mini Marketing
Survey may bring new book into the copy. Ask your group what
benefits compel they to lay out $20-$50 for your product? Ask
what words would persuade them to buy?

14. Don't talk about yourself (bio) on your home page. Put up
benefits, questions your visitors have that you will answer, and
write all copy to 'YOU,' your intended customer.

So, don't be boring, obtuse, or trite on you site. Your headlines
and other copy should titillate, move, and make your reader
think, 'This is amazing. I want this!'



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Lately I've taken to subscribing to many newsletters and the "free" programs being offered by internet marketers - think Frank Kern, Yanik Silver et al. - and people like Aaron Wall and Shoemoney and that Brian fellow over at Copyblogger.

If you, like me, receive some of these emails, you may have noticed how their sales methods have taken the typical long web page sales pitch and turned it on its side. They've spliced it into emails and videos and feed that info to us in a much more interactive and entertaining manner then the long winded sales pages of old.

So this morning while trying to convince my 21 month old son to go to the park (that's right, to convince him to go to the park) I found that the usual things were not working. That is when it hit me.

Parental persuasion ala Frank Kern

Please note that I have not met nor do I know Frank Kern, and I am only singling him out because his name stuck with me. I suppose this parody below could be recognizable to Jeff Walker's children as well. One last note, I have found the free info they give away as they get you to the offer/pitch/monthly service to be quite valuable.

  • Dad: Hey son, want to go to the park with your favorite car and play on the swings?
  • Son: No!
  • Dad: Oh, did I mention that I found some extra strawberries, your favorite fruit? I figured you would want them and washed some for you. Want to go to the park with your favorite car and play on the swings and have some strawberries?
  • Son: My car...? No!
  • Dad: We can take the little soccer ball and some balloons. We know you like balloons so we bought some extras last night. Want to go to the park with your favorite car and play on the swings, with the ball and the balloons and have some strawberries? You don't have to do anything, just have fun!
  • Son: Balloons...? Where's my car? No!
  • Dad: Hey listen. Its 8:00, the street cleaner will pass soon. If we go now we can also see the street cleaner! You love the street cleaner and if we don't go now who knows when he will pass again.. Maybe never! Want to go downstairs and see the street cleaner, then go to the park with your favorite car and play on the swings, with the ball and the balloons and have some strawberries?
  • Son: Street cleaner...? Balloons...? Where's my car? Hmm... (asks for shoes, walks over to the car...) No!
  • Dad: Listen. If we go down now, we can stop at the bakery. I'll order an espresso (you love the noise from the espresso machine!) and get you some toast and jam (I'll pay; you get this fre.e!) and we can sit at a table outside and watch the street cleaner. Then we can go to the park with your favorite car and play on the swings, with the ball and the balloons and have some strawberries? And one last BONUS: we can stop at the fountain and throw in some rocks!!

    Look, if you don't have fun doing this, later I will take you to the pool.
    YOU CAN"T LOSE!!

  • Son: (getting up on the car...) Yes! Lets do it! (makes some vroom vroom noises with the car).

Father and son head down the elevator out to the bakery. Son demands the water fountain in the park so we head straight there, where strawberries are eaten and some rocks thrown in. Then he says "casa" (hey, we live in Spain) and demands to go home. We stop to watch the street cleaner pass by and head home, not having visited the swings, played with the balloon or balls or had breakfast at the bakery.

(Okay, so in the end I also pick on we folks who buy these things - be they live the internet lifestyle products or self-help books - and don't implement them to the fullest :)



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