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Winning Headlines: The first sentence on your website

Magnetiks Administrator - Tuesday, March 30, 2010

There are a several secret tactics many experts use in their headlines to get people who come to their website to stick around. Today we will share some of them with you.


Your website will lose a great deal of visitors within seconds of arrival without a great headline. Is that something you can afford?

You first need to take into consideration what people are looking for if you want them to stay on your website and maybe even Purchase goods or services from you.


You have to forget what product or service you sell and focus on the end result that your visitors are looking for. Once that’s been determined you can compose a headline that will entice your audience.


For instance, if you're selling a service, you would want to focus on the personal or fiscal benefits your service can bring them. Once you know your audience’s desires you just need to express those desires in a headline format that captures their attention.


Here are five (5) headline formats that can bring your business a lot of success:


  • How to: The "how to" headline can entice visitors by proposing a solution to their problem immediately upon their entrance to you website. This can be a powerful motivator and can get visitors reading more of you website's content.

  • Testimonial Headline: Testimonial headlines utilize the words of your customers for the headline. Your satisfied customers can be some of your best salespeople when they talk about the benefits they gained from your products or services.

  • Guarantee Headline: If the product or service you sell comes with a guarantee, let your prospective customers know it by placing it in your headline.

  • Question Headline: If you know exactly why your visitors end up on your website and that it’s most often only for one reason then this type of headline can be very effective provide you as the right question.

  • It's Not Your Fault Headline: “It’s not your fault” is a popular strategy used in many infomercials. It removes the prospects inhibitions by letting them off the hook for their past failures and opens them up to a new solution.

For more information on writing winning website copy for your business or to learn about the customer relationship management, CRM, software integrated into our online business management system and time tested internet marketing strategy call Magnetiks Search Marketing today at 281-362-9855.

What you should know about web copy

Stacy Jones - Monday, February 15, 2010
When you say web copy some people immediately think that you are referring to anything that is written on a web page. But that is "content" and it is decidedly different than web copy.

Simply put, web copy is the copy used to sell anything on a web page. But that's "sales copy" you say and you’re partly correct, but traditionally direct mail copy and web copy are two different things.

When writing web copy it’s best to write in a friendly, engaging style and utilize a soft-sell approach as well as make your copy more informational. People are more relaxed on the Internet. This makes them more open to writing that is relaxed, has a personal feel, and doesn't scream of selling this or that. People don't want that type of message but their use to it when it comes to direct mail copy that’s full of hyperbole and exaggerations.

So to be successful at selling online you have to write like you are talking to an individual without sounding like a salesman. A good way to do this is to use testimonials that have more of an editorial feel than a marketing one. You also want to make sure that what you’re writing engages the reader and gives them information that they didn't have before coming to your web site.

What they were looking for when they come to your website is information! And that's what they want.

Since website visitors can easily and will quickly "click" away from your site, you have to give them the relevant information up front. An effective way to do this is to use the "upside-down pyramid" style of writing like journalists do, giving your message quickly and concisely. Does this mean that all web copy should be short? Not at all! Your web copy will still need to be "as long as is necessary to make the sale. However, people still need to rationalize their decision to perform the task you want them to which is done in the remainder of your web copy. This is where you insert emotion and give the prospect the vision of what it will be like after they complete your designated task.

You still need to use direct mail techniques, but you have to use them in a way that gives more information and less hard sale tactics.

For more information on growing your business watch our video on how to turn your website into your best salesperson and then contact or call (281) 362-9855 and speak to the online business management software specialist at Magnetiks Search Marketing for a FREE Trial today!

Five rules for effective Customer Relationship Management

Stacy Jones - Monday, December 21, 2009
Customer relationship management or CRM is viewed as one of the most valuable uses for a business website. If managed effectively, your business website can very well become your best salesperson; available on a 24 hour, seven days a week, rain or shine.

Because of this, it is well worth the while of any business owner to explore ways in which they can use their website to help their customers “serve themselves," without the need for overtime staff, or lengthy voice mail messages or phone calls.
 
Five rules for effective Customer Relationship Management:

1. Remain Accessible – Clearly display on your website all the ways that your prospective customer can contact you including email, phone, fax and office hours. very clearly on your site all the ways that your customer can contact you – including e-mail, phone and fax numbers, and your office hours.

2. As often as possible, return each e-mail or phone call in the same day. This may sound easy enough but a recent study showed that nearly a third of the top Fortune 100 companies fail to respond to e-mail sent through their Web site within one month!

3. Acknowledge all orders received. Keep your customers in the loop by sending e-mail confirmations on orders; auto-responders can be an effective way of doing this. If you’re shipping products, give tracking numbers and expected delivery dates.

4. Provide a clear return policy that you honor and learn from. This rule has the ability to give you more information about what’s working and what’s not. Shoppers sometimes return products with no explanation as to why, having your staff call the customer to establish and resolve the problem can be an effective way of learning about how you clients feel about product satisfaction.

5. Expect more phone calls. Regardless of your business vertical your volume of phone calls will increase as your website traffic and response rate grows.

If you can get the customer service aspects of your business website working well, there will be a positive impact on your bottom line. Magnetiks Search Marketing is in the business of assisting small and medium sized companies substantially grown their businesses online.

For more information on how our Customer Relationship Management, CRM Software Solution can turn your website into your best online salesperson call us today at (281) 362-9855.

Attracting Customers To Your Business

Stacy Jones - Thursday, December 03, 2009
When you are in business there is one thing for sure, you never stop hunting for new clients and prospects. Even when business is running smoothly, you still have to search for and attract new customers so you can make sure your business keeps on growing. If not, then you might end up losing your business altogether.

It is vital that you market regularly!

Marketing should not stop for any reason. Even if you have a solid client base or your business is doing well. Even when the economy is in a downturn and everybody is holding on to their money. You must be attracting customers all of the time.

As we all know, targeting and attracting customers is a very difficult task. Not only is your target audience being introduced to your business, but you are trying to convince them to do business with you at the same time. This then means that you have to illustrate to them that you are unlike your competition and that you are precisely what they are looking for.

Some considerations to help you target and attract customers to your business include:

1. Find out what they are looking for.

It’s all about what your customers want. If you want to attract customers and clients to your business you have to learn to give them what they are looking for.
 
2. Your customers value their money.

You have to realize that unless you are able to convince your target audience that what you provide are excellent quality products and services, they will not part with their hard earned money easily.

3. Demographics.


Determine who would be most interested in your offer and who would have the best capacity to buy your products or services. If you target your audience carefully, you can attract the people who would most likely act on your offer right away.

4. Be Unique.

Make your marketing campaign stand out and give your audience a reason to become curious about your products and services. Develop a design and style that will help you become distinct and attract the attention of your target audience.

Let Magnetiks Search Marketing, experts in marketing websites, attract the customers that will grow your business, call 281-362-9855 today!