02 June 2012

The Psychology of Emotional Hot Buttons in Selling

By Patsy Powell


It is well known among copywriters and highly successful online business men and women that psychological selling, mainly copywriting, is the most useful skill to learn. So we will provide this relatively short guideline about this topic so you can have something to work with and then learn more.

When anyone, even you and me, buy anything it almost always occurs as a result of our emotions. There are certain things you have to overcome in the sales process, and then you have to address the person's emotions in a very real way. As you can guess, there are a great many people who fail to do this because they are looking too hard at making the sale. You must expose the benefits people will receive any time you are marketing to them. So when you're writing your copy or creating an ad, ask yourself, "What is the emotional button here?" Your approach really depends on what you are doing because you will write a short ad differently from a sales letter.

Be very careful about choosing a product that you think will appeal to everybody because those products can often backfire on any market. You can get around some things depending on how you position it, but you really need to know what you are doing with the advanced approach. On the other hand, there are many ways you can blow that opportunity, so be careful about what you offer and what you say about it. Anything you can do that will make people feel more important or special should be seriously considered. Actively work toward producing an overall offer that people cannot refuse and is not duplicated anywhere else. People on the net hate being inconvenienced, just as you and I do, and so be sure you keep it like that with your ordering process.

Of course any time a purchase is made it is done for some specific reason. This desire could stem out of a want or a need, but ultimately it's the desire that triggers the 'buying' mode in their minds. Once you have the ability to identify what the desire is in your market, then you can skillfully use that in your marketing and advertising. There can never be anything that is not clear in your sales funnel. Whenever possible, provide proof of some kind otherwise you are asking them to trust you when they have no really good reason to do so.

This is an area of direct response marketing that has a lot to offer and for you to learn, but you have to experiment and test these various psychological devices.




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