Saturday, July 14, 2007

How To Exponentially Increase Sales Using Persona-Based Copy

I just read a telling article by Selling Sherpa that amazed me. The article depicts how Lion Schachter Diamonds revamped their land site and increased visitant transitions from .86% to 54.1%. (No, that last figure is not a typo.) What was their secret? Persona-based copy. Here's how it works:

Put simply, most concern websites are boring. Oh, they seek to be exciting with Flash, an eye-catching design, and picture or podcast offerings. But, when it acquires right down to it, they mistake "professional" with "stuffy."

Persona-based transcript can change all that. The public mask you show to the world, AKA your persona, is unique, engaging, and have a narrative of its own. When a company make up one's minds to follow a character -- both online and in other selling communication theory and gross sales materials, they make a public face.

Your company's character isn't just its public image. It's a face, a name, a individual with a narrative to tell. Whether this individual lives and breathes or is simply the merchandise of a avid marketer's imaginativeness doesn't matter. Adopt a persona, and ticker the gross come up rolling in.

So, how make you make it?

  • Decide whether or not your company's fictional character will be a existent employee (your President, VP, praseodymium director, or rank-and-file doesn't matter) or a fabricated character.
  • Make certain the character you take reflects your company's core values and philosophy.
  • Give your character a voice. A blog, a newsletter, gross sales letters, your website. Put the character out there so that the public tin prosecute it.
  • Unleash them. You read right. No rules, no boundaries, nil to weigh them down. Let them be their fabricated or existent selves. Let their personality shine.
  • Think about it. What was Wendy's before Dave? Or Jack-In-The-Box before Jack? Give your company a public character and ticker as transition rates increase, name acknowledgment travels off the charts, and faithful clients tax return clip and again.

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