"Harness The Power Of Your
Headlines
By Personalizing Them" By Dmitry
Nanev
I
don't care whether you're good at writing sales copy or not. I don't
care what percentage of your visitors does what you want them to do (in
most cases -- buy).
But, no matter how good you are, as long as
you don't earn millions of dollars just from writing sales copy for
others I'm pretty sure you WILL benefit from this brief yet
very useful article.
Creating powerful headlines isn't just
about using proven words, powerful structures, special colors, numbers,
etc. It's also about conveying a message to your prospect. Once you
learn how to convey it him or her, only then you should start thinking
about the message itself.
To grab your prospect's attention you
must let him know that this headline (message) is designed for him.
That he is the EXACT person who should read it.
Here's an
example just to give you an idea of what I mean.
Purpose you see
your name on the front page of your local newspaper, saying something
like "Learn What Kind Of Person _____ Is" -- would you read the whole
article even if it was 5 pages long?
Of course you would just
because the article is all about YOU!
This is just the same
thing you should do with your headline.
Personalize it!
Make the prospect BELIEVE that the message he's glancing at is
all about HIM, the benefits HE will gather and nothing else but HIM. He
is the one that must be VIP not you or your product.
Convey
your message from a point of view of "What's It In For The Prospect,"
"How Would He Benefit." Not "What would it do for him" or "How would
this help him".
Here's an example of two headlines. The first is
poor -- it does not tell the prospect anything he want to hear,
but the second does.
1. "This product is designed to increase
web designers' profits by 700%" 2. "Web designers -- increase your
profits by 700%"
Do you see how the first headline was about YOU
and YOUR product (This product)? And the second one was all
about your PROSPECT (Web designers) and the benefits HE will gather
(increase profits by 700%).
Your prospect doesn't care at all what
would you do for him. He only cares what he would get from you! And I
will stress once again on the word HE. You must make HIM
believe this message is written personally for HIM, telling
about HIS problems in HIS particular area. Do you get it? Good, then
let's move on.
Now I'm going to show you a few easy methods to
personalize your headlines.
Method #1 -- "Who is your
customer?" It's absolutely required that you know your
potential customer as good as you know your best friend. If you
don't know his weak points, his age, location, job, income, in other
words all the vital characteristics you need to know, you should start
researching this right away if you want to make money.
Your
headline should let your customer know that you know him. That's the
easy explanation. The hard one sounds like "direct your headline to
your customer by describing him."
For example, if you're reading
this article then you are probably an Internet entrepreneur who wants
to enhance headlines and increase sales. So a good headline would
be: "Internet Entrepreneurs: Newly Discovered Tool Enhances Your
Headlines And Increases Your Sales By 3100% Instantly!"
Method
#2 -- "What are his worries, needs, weak points?" This method stresses
on the need to let your customer know that you know his EXACT problem.
Method #3 -- "YOU is the word you should use!" It's been said
many times -- use the word 'YOU' in your headlines and any type of
sales copy. This way you talk TO your prospect not just with all of them. Make it personal.
Method #4 -- "Insert their names." Sounds
unbelievable, ha? Well it's not any more. Several years ago people
started personalizing their ezines because they felt the
potential and the actual benefit of it -- an increase in responses.
The explanation is easy -- "A person's name is the
most important and powerful word you can ever say..." Remember the
example with the newspaper headline? It's pretty much the same, here on
the Net.
My experience shows that by just inserting your
visitor's name inside your web site could increase your sales by
up to 3 times or even more!
You can immediately boost your website sales with personalization.
Learn about this
powerful system here:
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