How To Sell More Starting Today

Do you want to sell more online? Do you want your ads to get more clicks, your sales letters to convert more visitors into buyers and dramatically increase your bottom line?
If you answered yes then you need to know about benefits. You need to know what benefits are, how they differ from features. It’s time to learn create what are called “benefit statements”.
Knowing this can make life easier. It can help you sell more. Why?
Because the bottom line in selling is simple. There is no “secret” to selling. There is only this one staggering truth.
Understand this and you can sell anything. Fail to understand this and you will be doomed to forever wonder why you aren’t selling more.
Ready for the truth? Don’t be fooled by its simplicity. The truth is…
People buy what they want!
Always have. Always will.
If they want your product they will buy it. If they don’t want it they simply won’t take action, no matter how logical your argument for them to buy is made.
Let me put it another way.
People buy on emotion and defend that purchase with logic.
Let’s look at that again. They buy based on emotion (they buy what they want) but then defend their choice using logic.
Here’s an example. This actually happened to a friend of mine. You have a good car, a car that is almost paid off. But your car needs new tires. So you go to the car dealer and, since you are there anyway, you look at the new models. The salesperson offers you some trade in values for your existing car. You suddenly realize that your old beater is worth more than you thought. Two hours later you are driving home in a brand new car!
How did you get from needing tires to buying a new car?
Emotion!
You saw the car. You smelled that new car smell. You saw yourself driving a new car. And, after all, you deserve it! This is your life. You work hard. You sacrifice for your family. You don’t ask for much. You DESERVE a new car!
See the emotion there?
But how will you defend that purchase to your spouse, your friends or even to yourself? You bought a new car when yours was almost paid off? Are you nuts? You bought a new car in this economy? Are you kidding me?
But you are ready with your answer. Logic will save the day!
It goes something like this:
• New tires were going to cost me $1100! Who knew tires cost so much?
• My old car was almost out of warranty anyway. And you know that’s when expensive repairs start to happen.
• We are taking a trip later this year and I wanted to make sure we were all safe.
• My new car is costing only $65 per month more than my old car.
• My new car gets 10 miles more per gallon than my old car! I’m helping save the environment!
On and on it goes – logic trying to defend what was a purely emotional purchase. You bought the new car for one reason and one reason only – you WANTED a new car! Nothing wrong with that. But logic was not the main factor.
FACT: If humans bought cars based on logic we would all drive the same car… the cheapest and safest car on the road! But we don’t. We buy what we want – and then justify it to the world with the logic of why it was the right choice for us.
So how does this apply to doing business online?
The key for business people like you and me is to quickly tell our prospective customers why they should want what we have. In other words, don’t talk about features but instead talk about benefits! We have to understand the difference between features and benefits and then let our prospects know why they should want what we offer.
That’s important enough to say again. You must let your prospect know why they should want what you offer.
It all starts with understanding the difference between a feature and a benefit. Understanding the difference between a feature and a benefit is vital, and easy.
• A feature is what your product does.
• A benefit is what is does for me!
One of my favorite cars has always been the Corvette. I love the look of the Corvette and am old enough that I grew up wanting what we called the “Stingray”. As a boy I fantasized about driving down the road driving my shiny new red Corvette.
The Corvette has some outstanding features. Here are two.
1. The Corvette can go 205 miles per hour
2. The Corvette can go from 0 to 60 miles per hour in under 4 seconds
Sounds like fun, but are these the reasons that people pay between $48,000 and $105,000 for these cars? In my view, the answer is no. The reason people buy Corvettes is not to go from 0 to 60 in under four seconds.
The reason people buy Corvettes is to be seen driving a Corvette. A Corvette is simply a rolling envy machine!
People who buy Corvettes often do so for the feeling they get being seen driving a Corvette. The same can be said of many products, including yours. Here are some products that are sold everyday using a very emotional approach.
• Clothing
• Jewelry
• Houses
• Art
• Business Opportunities
• Competitive “spying” programs
• Ad trackers
• How to make money on ClickBank products
How can you sell your product using emotion?
There are two super-motivators that apply to almost every product. These are very emotion-driven reasons to buy something, especially something online. Both create powerful emotions that will cause people to act now, which is what all online sellers (Product owners and affiliate marketers) want.