Regardless of whatever you are trying to do online to make money, you are essentially try to sell something. Whether it is through some direct product you have created or through some sort of affiliation, the end goal is to have readers convert on something.
In my years of experience, I have both tried and seen many different selling approaches, and they all usually involve different levels of aggressiveness. That being said, is your selling approach aggressive enough?
Because there are so many different products, niches, and services to sell it is hard to get a good gauge on what the best true level of aggressiveness is; however, I always feel that if you are not annoying some people with your approach then it just is not aggressive enough.
On your sales page, in your newsletters, and even within your ads, there should always be some form of call to action. At the same time, whatever you are pushing should be thrown into the face of potential customers multiple times.
Too many times sellers are scared to take chances. Afraid they might annoy some people and turn them away, but the truth is that if your content is good the “real potential customers” will always be there.
For an example, think of Best Buy. Nowadays, you will walk in and have to navigate your way through product displays in the front of the store, but because most people are interested with what the store actually has in it, they will put up with the displays. Best Buy will sell some of those highlighted products, keep actual interested customers willing to put up with the excessive displays, and lose a few people; however, the rewards are much higher than actually losing those few people. Why? Because they are still selling products, and odds are that the customers they lost were not really customers at all.
The process of analyzing how aggressive your selling approach should be may seem complex, but it is really not. Just remember that if you don’t tell people what they need to do, then odds are they probably won’t do it. It is better to lose a couple leads yet still make sales than pleasing everybody and making no money at all.
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