Why Your Info Product Isn't Selling and What You Can Do About It
by Dina Giolitto
Did you create an eye-catching sales page as the home for your info product sales pitch? Are you wondering why, after all that painstaking attention to detail, very few people seem willing to cough up the meager funds that mean getting this gem of yours into their hot little hands?
While I may not know you and therefore can't make assumptions about your sales page, some the following is very possibly the reason for lack of interest and slumping sales:
1. Your sales page remains a part of the main navigation of your website.
Why this can crush interest and drive customers away: it's too easy for readers to get distracted by all the links and sidebar messages/graphics that appear in your "everyday" website design. You were hoping they'd be hanging on to your every word, but instead they're growing dizzy and clicking away.
Solution: Redesign your sales page in the design format used by copywriting masters like Michel Fortin, Dan Kennedy and the rest of the Big Guns online. This means you want a white text box against colored background. Logo at the top. Styled headlines in a color that stands out. (Many web marketers choose the standard Verdana Red 18 point, but I find this sooo monotonous. Why be like everybody else (and hurt people's eyes in the process?) Black body text that's easy on the eyes (Verdana, 10 point is a good choice, but come up with something original that fits YOUR graphic presentation).
Add graphics to create a mood and guide the eye. Buttons that beckon, "Click me now!". Bullet points to bring out the benefits. And be sure the document opens in a NEW page (next to the one you were just reading) when visitors click.
2. Your sales copy is too self-serving.
Lots of marketers use the unlimited space of those long sales letter templates to drone on endlessly about me, my company, my story and my accomplishments. While it's great to let new faces know who you are, share a personal victory if it relates back to your reader, a sales page that brags on endlessly will quickly lose interest.
Solution: You really need to be reader-focused. Find out what makes your ideal customer tick. Touch those emotional hot buttons and make a great case for your product. If you find it challenging to get inside the mind of someone who isn't you, hire a well-respected copywriter and let them do the work on your behalf.
3. You're not finding new and creative ways to market this sales message.
Think about big box stores and the tricks they use to sell the same old merchandise over and over - that same style of lawnmower, capri pants that never go out of style (why do we need 12 pairs that all look the same!?). Their product lineup doesn't change much from year to year (I know because I worked on retail catalogs for seven years). Each passing month. season or holiday gives you the opportunity to "dress up" your product pitch. So take it! The same old headline and copy, issue after issue in your newsletter, quickly becomes "old hat" to your subscribers. Think out of the box and drive new clicks to your sales letter no matter what the occasion. Passing time is another reason, another season, for selling!
Do this in your blog, your Facebook profile, the homepage of your website, your postcard mailings, your guest articles in other people's marketing vehicles... anywhere you show off your brand.
4. It's time to take another shot at the creative.
If you're a afraid to ruin a good thing, then try a split test of your sales letter. Write an alternative version that's been retooled to a different target audience. You might even want to play around with the image branding and graphics to give a look and feel that resonates with this new reader. Then do another one that fits a third demographic! Who knows... depending on what you sell, maybe you can talk to school teachers in one version, athletic coaches with another, parents in a third... and maybe even kids, each in their own tidy and tightly-presented package of information. Define each niche and then practice "talking to" each one in their own language!
Need extra copywriting and creative support with your sales letter? Talk to dina@wordfeeder.com.
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