Saturday, November 8, 2008

5 Ways To Convert More Visitors Into Sales

Even if you may get countless visitors every 24 hours, if you fail to transform them into successful sales, your efforts will be useless.  Here are 5 techniques you can choose to implement to dramatically increase your web conversion rate.

1.    Attention-grabbing headlines.  Web citizens have grown impatient in this day and age.  It's quite easy for them to visit another web destination whenever they meet something even remotely boring in your own web page.  The tactic lies in gaining their interest fast.  Such can be done with cleverly-crafted headlines.  Headlines, as far as we can tell, are the first lines of text that your visitors will see when they load up your page.  If they'll enjoy what they'll see, they'll hang around.  If not, they'll quit just as quickly as they came.

2.    Easy-to-scan copy.  You'd think that with the expanding reach of the web, more and more people will be inclined to read.  The contrary, however, is what is true.  Web users easily get weary while reading, what with the countless data they are asked to digest with each and every session of their web experience.  The secret is in making it easy for them to read your sales copy.  Use numberings and bullets as much as you can.  Make your copy easy to scan.  Prepare your sales pafe for an impatient audience and you'll be rewarded greatly.

3.    Benefit-oriented selling.  People buy based on emotions and provide reasons for their purchases leaning on logic.  Don't forcefully advertise the specs of your product down your audience's throats.  Instead, tell them of the benefits they can enjoy from what you're selling.  Tell them what they stand to gain.  This is a more scientific approach of piquing their desire to buy your product.  Mention the features later on, as your clients will need such information to justify the purchase they will be planning to make.

4.    Urgency marketing.  Push your visitors to buy from you as soon as possible.  Don't allow them to think too much, as you might lose some sales.  Implement one time offers, special offers, and several possible time-sensitive tactics to bait them into buying your product immediately.

5.    Use involvement devices in your sales page.  Your sales letter doesn't have to be a formulaic, simple staement of your offer.  You can always add interactive devices that will push your visitors to pledge an emotional investment on your undertaking.  Ask or solicit for their ideas.  Or, present to them with multiple options for possible answers.  Include calculator scripts that they can use.  Make them believe that they are a part of the sales page.

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