How To Convert Site Visitors Into Customers...
By: John Skorczewski
Hello,
Well...I didn't send out last week's issue and I didn't finish the free gift I promised...I've been feeling a little under
the weather...actually, I've been pretty sick with some sort of nasty chest cold. So I apologize...I will get to that
gift as soon as I can, and it WILL be worth the wait!
Last Issue I talked to you about a cool new tool
that you should get if you use ClickBank to make money online.
This week I want to talk to you about converting your site visitors into customers.
Last week I got an email from a reader asking me this question:
"I have a lot of site traffic, but none of the people that come to my site buy anything.
What can I do?"
This is a common question so I thought I'd write about it today.
First, there's a winning formula that I use to make web sites profitable. Every web site
I build follows this same basic formula.
Basically it goes something like this: each web page you build should focus on selling just one thing.
Remove everything else from that page except your sales message for that one item. Take away
all the banner ads, all the link exchange links, all the noisy graphics that distract from your sales
message.
You want basically just a header graphic of some sort (though even that's not necessary really), followed
by a headline that grabs the person's attention, followed by a "long copy" sales letter, followed by a link
to click on in case they want to order.
Then at the bottom of the page you can put a link to your "About us" page and maybe a link to your
main web page....but that's all.
A very good example of this is this web site here. Go
take a look at it. See how it follows this basic formula? That is a winning web site that I've not changed
in 5 or 6 years because it continues to pull sales like crazy. Set up your own pages like that!
** "My legal department says I have to tell you that the last statement was not a forward looking
statement or a statement of earnings guarantee. Any web site you create that emulates the site I mentioned
has no guarantee of success.....don't you just love lawyers!"
The message....KEEP IT SIMPLE....
Now we can dig a little deeper....let's start with the headline...in the example web site above, the headline is:
Web Promotion Tools - Who Needs Em!
The headline is the most important feature of any web page because if you don't grab the person's attention,
you can bet that they're going to click over to the next web site.
If you work on headlines for years and years, you get the knack of it...in the mean time I recommend you use a cheap
little tool called Pro Headlines. With Pro Headlines, you simply type
in some info about your product and hit the button...the software shoots out like a hundred headlines based on the
info you gave it using templates of past headlines that have proven to work well for others.
It's a neat little tool...and I still use it today to help brainstorm ideas for headlines.
Click Here to check it out.
Next is the sales letter itself. This is the next most important item of any web page. The sales page should
give a person everything they would possible want to know about the product, but in a way that keeps their
attention and creates a desire for them to buy.
I could write whole books on this subject, but people far more talented than me already have. You've GOT to learn
the skill of writing copy (sales letters). You can't expect to succeed on the internet without this skill. After all,
web sites are really just sales letters.
If you've been reading this rag for long, you know that I recommend as the Bible of Copywriting - the Robert Collier Letter Book
This is a must have...it's excellent. Next you're going to want to read "Advertising Secrets of the Written Word" by Joe Sugarman, the
guy behind those blu blocker sunglasses....he's a master copywriter and you can find his book at Amazon.com
I recommend you start with the Robert Collier Letter Book then move on to the
other one.
And that's really the formula I use to create successful web sites.
That's all for this week. See you next Monday!
John Skorczewski
(pronounced Score-Chess-Key)
Editor, WebPromotion-Weekly
http://www.WebPromotion-Weekly.com
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John Skorczewski is the publisher of WebPromotion-Weekly, a free ezine about Internet Marketing,
Promotion, Advertising, And Search Engine Submission as well as the creator of the popular Web Site Promotion software,
the Submission-Spider
