Persuade Your Online Customers to Strike While the Iron is Hot

“It is good policy to strike while the iron is hot; it is still better to adopt Cromwell’s procedure, and make the iron hot by srtiking. The masterspirit who can rule the storm is great, but he is much greater who can both raise and rule it.”
– Elias Lyman Magoon

Did you know that the “impulse items” you see at the checkout line of your local grocery store are some of the best-selling items in the store?

It’s true.

The reason why holds some important lessons for your online marketing efforts.

The Value of Convenience

If you ask your grocery store customer to spend too much time considering the decision of whether or not to buy, you will almost certainly lose the sale.

Why? Because they will come to realize that for the same price of the single bottle of ice cold soda they are grabbing, they could practically get a six pack if they were to take the time to walk back to the soda aisle.

Ah, but that would mean they would have to lose their place in line.

Think about the gossip magazine they are grabbing which usually costs a relatively high amount of money compared to other magazines. Especially for what they are getting they probably would put it back.

The Power of Impulse Buying

Since the grocery line is moving and they have to make a split second to decide to add item to groceries or not. And since they don’t have time to consider it, odds are that if they are on the fence they will impulsively buy it.

So consider your squeeze page visitor. If they are surfing the net and they come across your squeeze page, while they may not be in a moving grocery line, their time is still limited. That’s because there are literally millions of other pages that are competing with your squeeze page for their attention.

Cater to Your Customers’ Impulses

So you want to make your squeeze page as fast and effective as possible. You don’t have time to go into why your product is the best. It has to be supported by experts and/or list of factual reports to back up your claim.

You have to make your arguments using bullet points. Which is almost a shorthand version of what you are trying to communicate to them.

Remember, the key is to show them how what you are offering. For example your free giveaway is going to solve some sort of problem, make life easier or better in some way.

So whatever your niche is, you need to frame your giveaway as a problem solver using bullet points.

Different Rules Apply

Usually in prose writing, capital letters, underlining, exclamation points, different colors and bold print are usually discouraged. But a squeeze page is a unique document in which the normal rules of prose are thrown out the window.

The sole purpose of the email or squeeze page is to convert a prospect into following your CTA. As the writer, it is your job to use every weapon at your disposal to achieve this objective.

Having said that, it is generally better to start slow and build up as you get closer to the end. That means if you pepper your prose with a lot of words in capital letters or exclamation points you are likely to come off as a crazy and unreliable.

But if, as you move through your sales pitch, you can gradually implement some of these tools in a natural way to emphasize growing excitement about the amazing properties of the product. It can be effective in getting your reader to share in your excitement.

Strike and Keep Striking

Remember to strike while the iron is hot to turn them into loyal customers. Use the power of email marketing to keep you in the forefront of prospects and past customers minds.

Learn from your wins/ losses,  coaching from those you have done what you want to do and market research.

Nicky and Dave Cane