Boost Conversions
Finding hot prospects is not easy. Converting prospects into customers is hard too. Sometimes it’s hard to have conversations with your prospects and customers that address the issues they care most about, but that can be the key if you want to boost conversions.
Conversations about things like costs, problems, competition and rubbish reviews.
If we have these conversations with our prospects, we ake control of the situation and we can make sales that otherwise never would have happened.
But in order to have the conversations, you need the prospects to talk to!
Now let’s look at these conversations that can boost conversions:-
Boost Conversions – Talk About Cost
Your product costs twice as much as anything else on the market. As soon as prospects comparison shop, you’re dead in the water unless you take action first.
Look around you. Higher cost options are everywhere. They sell. But they only sell if you are able to convince prospects of the benefits!
The best option is to position your product in such a way that you have NO competition. You are in a class of your very own and there is nothing else out there that compares.
If you can’t do this, then at least write a post or two on why your product is light years better than anything else.
The point is to deal with the price issue head on. Don’t hope upon hope that your prospects will never look around to see what other options they might have. They will!
If you stick your head in the sand on the price issue, you will miss out of sales.
So have difficult conversation 1 about product costs and boost conversions!
Boost Conversions – Address Problems
I guarantee there are not just problems you solve, but also problems you create.
I’m sure you’re already talking about the customer’s problems and how your product solves those problems. That’s marketing 101. But you also need to address the problems of your product as well.
Let’s say you’ve got a terrific software program that does everything the customer could possibly want, but the interface looks completely outdated and clunky. Yes, that is the next thing on your list to update, but you’re afraid that if you show prospects a demo of your software, they will think your entire system is outdated based on appearance.
This is something you need to talk about right up front. Go ahead and tell them that yours is the best software out there with the ugliest interface because you have spent all your time and resources where it counts and not on window dressing.
Let them know you’ll be jazzing up the interface in the next quarter, and once you do, new subscribers will be paying more for it. But when they subscribe to the software now they get the BEST solution to fix their problems at a discount just because it hasn’t gone through its beautification cycle yet.
Not covering these uncomfortable topics can erode trust and bite into your sales. But speaking openly and upfront about things like price, competition, poor reviews and challenges can save your sales and make you the provider people like and trust.
So difficult conversation 2 is about product problems and will help boost conversions!
Don’t Ignore the Competition
Setting price aside, there’s also the comparison of your product versus your competitor’s product. Instinct might tell you to either NEVER talk about the competition, or to trash them if you do. Both options are wrong and will cost you sales.
Instead, praise your competition whenever possible while making it clear that as good as they are – and they are good – you and your product are even better for ‘X’ number of reasons. A great way to illustrate this is a chart showing everything that you provide versus what the competition provides.
If you can’t make a chart that shows how you provide far more value than anything else on the market, it might be time to rethink your product. If you can’t add features and benefits, maybe you can focus on targeting one certain market and doing it incredibly well. For example, your competition helps small business owners with marketing. You, on the other hand, are THE expert on flooding restaurants with new and repeat business. They’re the ‘every business’ guy, and you’re the restaurant guy. Who is a restaurant owner going to trust more? And for that matter, who will the restaurant owner pay more for their services, the restaurant expert or the jack of all businesses?
Do Something About Rubbish Reviews
Let’s say your prospect is on the verge of buying but still has a little bit of hesitation. They decide to check your reviews. Lo and behold there’s a negative one left by a hideous troll intent on ruining your business.
Okay, maybe the troll was sincere in what they said, which of course is even worse.
Your ‘almost customer’ reads the review. They marvel at how close they came to making a mistake by buying your product. You’re out of a sale. But what if you had done two things prior to this point in the sales process? What if you had taken care of that upset customer, made whatever was wrong, right again. What if you had turned them into one of your best advocates? If an angry customer is sincere in their disgruntlement and not just playing you, it’s a great opportunity for you. You can address their concerns and turn them into your best friend. Or at least someone who removes negative reviews and brags about your stellar customer service.
Once you’ve accomplished that, here’s what you do next: Write about it. From start to finish. From bad to good. Tell the story of what happened that made the customer unhappy and how you fixed it. Yes, this is uncomfortable, but it also shows prospects that when something goes wrong, you make it right.
That prospect who would otherwise have found the negative review now finds a review explaining how you fix problems. Either that or she or she reads your post on what happened. Either way, you’ve saved an untold number of future sales.
Don’t ignore the rubbish reviews. tackle them head on to boost conversions.
Remember, prospects become customers if you offer them what they want and treat them well!
