Scarcity: Does It Work With Digital Products?

Scarcity is an amazingly effective tactic used by copywriters.

It creates a “sense of urgency” as one step in the path leading the prospect to the land of the customer.

Why use scarcity?

One of the primary reasons, maybe THE primary reason, is because people put things off. Most people excel at it!

That’s exactly what you do not want.

The fact is, if the person doesn’t do what you what you want them to do there and now the odds of them doing it later aren’t that good.

So the goal of scarcity is stop your prospects from procrastinating.

The problem is that with digital downloads is that it’s pretty hard to say “only 23 copies” left because, well, it’s digital so you can just make another copy.

But, scarcity is still alive an well.

Here’s how to use scarcity with digital products

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Just Say No to Ad Sales Copy!

No doubt about it, sales letters are promotional material. They promote products and services with the ultimate intent of creating sales.

But, and it is a big but,  just because a sales letter is an ad doesn’t mean it should look and sound like one.

Why this bad?

Well there are several reasons, the first is that people LIKE to buy, but they DO NOT LIKE to be sold to.

There are many reasons for that including, among other things: a loss of control and mistrust that the seller isn’t going to necessarily have the buyer’s best interests in mind.

The second reason is that people have developed a sort of “blindness” to ads.

That is, when something looks like an advertisement people subconsciously tune out, sort of like fast forwarding through the commercials of some TV show you’ve recorded.

People will just skip right over something that seems to be trying to sell them.

This is, obviously, not good for copywriters, but can you avoid or overcome it?

One simple answer is that you do not make your copy look like an ad; duh.

But, since a sales letter is an ad, how do you hide your ad without requiring the skills and mastery of a Dan Kennedy.

One very effective way is to…

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