Why You Need to Keep Your Web Customers Moving
Bestselling Book Charts Path to Sales
New York, NY (PRWEB) May 17, 2005 -- In order to make a sale on a website, a
website owner must keep the visitor saying "Yes" to the buying the product. It's
the only way to make the sale.
In "Call To Action", a book just published, Bryan and Jeffrey Eisenberg describe this concept as
"momentum". They offer 3 powerful tips for website owners—ones that they can use
to propel their web visitors all the way to the order page.
The first tip
outlined in the book is…stop pre-checking the checkboxes. If a website owner
checks the boxes for his web visitors, he is taking away a major way that
potential buyers show their commitment. They are putting them in a “no mindset”
and making it more likely that they’ll opt-out.
"Website owners are
afraid to make web visitors do the work," explains Bryan Eisenberg. "But
letting them check the boxes makes it more likely that web visitors will act or
transact."
The second tip is to avoid a "Register Here" link. This stops
a web visitor dead in his tracks. Instead, tell the prospect exactly what they
will get when they click a link (like a "Download Kit" or a "White Paper") and
they will continue on.
The final tip is—once the web visitor arrives at
the order form—remind them what the offer is again. Make sure the first sentence
starts with the word "Yes" and provides a checkbox. Then describe all the
benefits again with a checkbox next to each and the phrase, "I want to
receive..."
"Few people are 100% committed when they get to the order
form," says Bryan Eisenberg. "Each time they reread a benefit or check a
checkbox, they are one step closer to filing out the form and pressing
"submit".
Bryan Eisenberg and Jeffrey
Eisenberg are co-founders of Future Now, Inc., a
marketing boutique focused on helping clients convert their website's traffic
into leads, customers and sales by applying Persuasion Architecture,
copywriting, usability and web analytics to design, redesign and optimize
websites and other online marketing efforts. Future Now, Inc. has helped
clients such as Dell, GE Volvo, Overstock & Disney.
Contact:
Bryan
Eisenberg or Jeffrey Eisenberg
http://www.futurenowinc.com
877-643-7244
http://www.calltoactionbook.com/
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Source : http://www.prweb.com/releases/2005/5/prweb240086.htm