Your offer is simply your statement of what you propose to do for sales prospects in exchange for what you want from them — their money, says noted copywriter Russ Phelps.
Before you make your statement, he advises, answer the following two questions:
Those questions are vital, Phelps writes, because, if you do not answer them:
You might try to get away with making less of a promise than you could.
You might try to milk the buyer for as much as you can, while holding back what you could be giving in return. If you act on these natural human impulses, Phelps says, you will lose sales and profits.
Every profitable offer, Phelps states, involves certain essential components:
Product & Bonuses
Benefits of Product/Service
Gift for reply
Bonuses for basic or larger order
Pricing Discounts on introductory, rapid, or high-quantity orders
Refunds or rebates
Payment Terms Cash, check, credit card, or charge
Bill-me-later
Charge card in 30 days unless trial purchase returned
Offer expires in 10 days
Guarantee
Unlimited, unconditional
Time limit on refunds
Keep bonuses no matter what
Double or triple money back
Tap into customer motivators
Customers, Phelps writes, will buy benefits that satisfy two elementary motivators:
Greed — Get more of what I want
Fear — Avoid losing what I have.
Phelps says that people’s behavior is motivated by emotion — but explained by logic. So, sell them the benefits of accepting your offer, and justify their purchase by detailing how your product's features will deliver the benefits they crave.
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