Want to generate more leads and increase sales?
You need to implement copywriting strategies – that WORK.
Here’s why it is so much important:

With a simple twist of words, you can see how compelling the first Ad copy sounds.
Learning these copywriting strategies will help you level up your inbound marketing efforts.
Many marketers simply ignore this amazing art. This is kind of funny because everything else won’t work unless you have a copy that sells.
And that’s precisely what I’m teaching you today.
Let’s start learning about these tactics in detail.
Concise Headline

Back in my landing page copy technique, I laid down the exact purpose of headlines:
Always clear and concise with the offer.
Inform and educate more in fewer words.
It applies to every niche and for every copywriter. It doesn’t matter if you’re offering products, services, opinions, or simply information.
Even if you aren’t offering a product or service, you’re still offering value. Of course, in exchange for people’s attention.
So, your headline should make the purpose known before someone starts reading your article.
A headline can have suspense at times, but only when it’s necessary. For instance, you did a survey or a test, and the results were shocking. These sorts of posts can have an essence of context and miss the actual result.
Doing that, you’ll make it extremely hard to ignore, resulting in higher click-through rates.
Avoid jargon as much as possible.
Understand Your Audience
The outlook of your copy should be relevant to what your audience loves to read. That’s what a brilliant copywriter does, understanding the people.
Before you build an outline for your copy, find answers to questions like:
- Who will be reading this copy and why?
- Is the content engaging, attractive, and readable? Does the audience have enough knowledge to understand and process it?
- Why should people read this and not something else?
- What exactly do they need to know about this product/service? Am I giving them the most helpful information?
- Is the copy delivered what the audience expects? Is it undervalued?
- What makes them tick to buy this product/service, and how can I use it in my copy?
- How can I maximize the profit from their retention period?
Ask these questions, and if you don’t have answers, you know you need more research and understand your audience.
So, how do you analyze your audience?
There are many ways to do that. A few of them are:
Using Google Analytics
Read the demographics report, check your top landing pages, and go through your blog’s behavior flow. This data will help you know exactly what visitors are attracted to once they land on your blog.
Use Social Media
Find relevant Facebook pages, Twitter profiles, Youtube channels, and Instagram accounts to understand what kind of content best suits your industry. For many niches, Facebook posts have a higher conversion rate than Twitter, and for some, YouTube works exceptionally well.
Analyze Your Competitors
Your competitors have already established their authority. Using an SEO tool such as SEMrush or Ahrefs, find the best content, traffic analytics, and PPC campaigns of your competitors.
The data will help you understand their top-performing pages, their best traffic source, and if you wish to spend on PPC campaigns, you’ll already know which keywords to target first. The data will also help you build the buyer persona.
Listen to your customers.
The most real feedback on your product comes from your customers. Since they have the first-hand experience and know the pros n cons of a customer, their feedback is precious for writing your next copy.
Your customers will tell you what they expected from your product or services and what they really got in return.
There are some questions that only your customer can answer. A few of them are:
- Is your product as good as you advertise? Is it fulfilling all the promises made before purchase?
- What is missing in the service? Is the service deprived of essential aspects?
- Will your customers recommend the product/service to friends and family? Do they need a referral discount?
- Will your current customers keep using the product/service for the period they’ve committed to? (in case of products that charges recurring premium)
- Is your website easy to navigate? Can they find their preferences quickly?
- What kind of recommendation did they seek before they bought from you?
- Do they find your advertising copy relevant to the product and after-sale?
Depending on your niche and offer, you can ask your customers hundreds of questions over a period of time. The best way to ask your audience is by reaching them directly via email.
Email marketing is better than social media because it has a much higher conversion rate and low acquiring cost. On average, I can get an open rate of about 39% on my weekly emails.
Click-through rate (CTR) varies as the objective of a particular email affects the necessity of clicking a link.
However, if sent within the first 7 days, the CTR is pretty good for survey emails.
Expand Your Offerings
If you offer a service in a single industry, you’ll have limited resources to capitalize on. This means you’ll have less valuable emotional triggers and a narrow audience reach.
If you don’t, you’ll have to write about a single product and try to market it to everyone possible. You will still attract a niche audience, and not everyone is willing to pay the same, even if it is a narrow niche.
A narrow audience reach is good when you have a goal of making money from a blog doing affiliate marketing, selling courses, and placing ads. But when it comes to writing a copy that sells, you need to have a product line to cross-promote.
It doesn’t mean you need to have “completely different” products.
You just have to have a line of products in your sales funnel to create an offer with different pricing. This makes it easier to target “hot buyers.”
With an offer expansion, you eliminate the chance of losing customer interest. Because now they have multiple options to think about and affordable prices to pay.
Capitalizing on the offering, you can build multiple stages in a copy dedicated to each offer and audience. You will cover a larger market by helping low-cost buyers while reaching more people interested in an affordable offering.
Leverage Social Proof
I can’t emphasize much on adding social proof to your landing pages. Social proof is what makes people interested in your product/service offer.
Social proof is when you gain confidence in a product when you see more customers purchasing the same product as you. So you basically decide if the product is good enough by judging it through the number of sales and brand recognition.
This is as important as it gets. Because without deep interest, your existence doesn’t matter to your audience.
It’s the single most important attention-grabbing and encouraging element on your landing page.
If your friend’s getting a pair of Jordans, you would like to have one too. If you are getting a Macbook Pro, your friend would like to buy a Mac too. That’s how social proof works. We tend to look to others in search of what we “think” we need.
People and especially millennials, have FOMO, the fear of missing out. We don’t wanna miss out on the latest fashion trend or tech etc.
For instance, if you want people to pay attention to your SaaS product, which has hundreds of competitors, you’ve got to use social proof. When people see an offer being accepted gladly by others, they go for it.
And social proof helps you just activate that FOMO. Without much effort, you can boost your leads and add customers to your list.
Social proof tools like UseProof can help you get started pretty easily. It will add a tiny notification that notifies your visitors about new purchases and signups.
Attention-Grabbing Multimedia
Your copy is unfinished without multimedia, such as images and videos.
Descriptive images show what a product can do, or inside pictures of how you operate behind the scenes to offer services. Images and videos turn out to be more engaging everywhere.
Whether it’s an email copy, a blog post, a sales copy, or a lead generation popup. Multimedia is more attractive, and people tend to engage with them more often than text.
It helps reduce bounce rate and helps people understand complex stuff quickly.
Videos tend to outperform images, particularly on CRO and on many other levels. With video hosting platforms like Vimeo and Wistia, you can capture emails straight from your videos without any extra effort.
Both images and videos are an on-page SEO factor too. Adding interactive and relevant images increases the time spent on a page. Which then shoots your pages above in rank.
The idea of creating custom images is something I love. Custom images like infographics are huge backlink magnets. And tools like Canva and Stencil make it super easy to create images of any size and shape you want.
Testimonials
Just like social proof increases interest in a particular product, testimonials increase trust. In fact, without testimonials, it is hard to sell a new product or service.
Testimonials are recommendations, reviews, and options for your product/services from others.
The same way your friend recommends you try a new A/B test tool, and you gladly do it. Because your friend has told you so many good things about this tool, you willingly try it to find out if it is indeed as good.
When asking for testimonials from your customers or colleagues, you should be asking questions such as:
- How would you rate my product/service?
- What’s your success story, and how my product/service has helped in achieving it?
- How good was your experience?
- What was the most valuable thing you got out of it?
- Are you satisfied with my services? Would you recommend it to someone else?
Unless your product/service solves a huge problem, you will need other people’s recommendations to sell.
But not just any. We are talking about video testimonials. A video testimonial has a greater impact on a text or a picture.

The fact that you can hear see, and observe the person who’s recommending a product builds more trust. And it’s not possible with pictures.
Asking for testimonials can be tedious. You don’t burn your energy out on asking for a review and use tools like NinjaOutreach and ConvertKit. NinjaOutreach will help you find people interested in your offer.
ConvertKit will help you reach your customers and subscribers through sequences. Setting up an automation sequence will help you collect testimonials regularly, without any interference.
Giving a testimonial to some is hectic, more than asking for it. That’s why you’ll have to use a strategy called Ethical Bribe. When you are given an incentive to give an opinion, most of the time, you’ll get a response without pushing too much.
Emotional Storytelling
There’s a famous saying marketers often use: People don’t buy on logic. They buy on emotions and justify them with logic.
People are emotional. You and me as well. I mostly buy based on emotion when I buy action figures or new launches from Kickstarter.
Here’s a little psychology behind emotional content and why it is so compelling:
As Gerald Zaltman from Harvard wrote in his book, people’s buying urges are largely controlled by emotional urges. Urges like self-worth, relationships, and pride.
The way we buy premium stuff is a great example of understanding emotional triggers. Take Swiss watches, for instance. They are the finest, but most people really don’t need them. They can wear a much cheaper watch and would still be able to check time properly.
But there are acceptance, confidence, and FOMO triggers. You don’t want a cheap watch to ruin your confidence and make you feel like you don’t belong with your peers.
We humans rarely use logic before purchasing ANYTHING. The study Gerald did, outlines it straight.
As a marketer, you can use the emotional trigger in your copy and watch your sales go sky-high. Just a simple story that connects with a group of the audience will do terrific conversions and sales.
Your content needs to resonate with people.
The goal is to connect with your audience. Talk about the problems you’ve faced, and people who’ve experienced the same will see themselves in you. That’s an instant connection, a virtual rapport.
Promise
Here comes my most emphasized element of copywriting. The promise. The offer.
If you can’t deliver a promise, just don’t make it. It’s absurd and unethical. You can promise to personally help me get healthy and give me a pre-recorded 7-week program in return.
The offer, your promise is a part of the call to action section in the copy. The sole aim of a call to action (CTA) is to get the desired action out of visitors, readers, and prospects.
Well, the promise is a part of the headline as well. So, don’t add anything you can’t fulfill in your headlines just to gain more attention.
If your CTA is weak, then nothing else would help you sell more. Whether you’re trying to get more leads or sales, CTA has the biggest influence on how your campaign would end.
You don’t have to add unnecessary charade and shine in your copy.
The better your product is, the stronger you’ll be able to present your offer. Don’t be impetuous, be bold and confident.
When the product is great, promising great results becomes easy and more or less a natural process. You firmly believe the product or service will give the desired results, so you don’t hesitate while making bold promises.
While writing a promising pitch, make sure you sound confident. If you are not, readers will sense it. It is easy to sense if you don’t believe or preach what you say from your content.
Make a promise boldly, so when the visitors read it, it fills them with paramount confidence.
Show Expertise & Authority

Then comes credentials. Credentials help you build authority in your niche. Want to become an industry expert everyone loves to cite?
Show your expertise, support it with credentials, and dominate your niche to become an authority.
That’s what I believe is the simplest way to gain trust from your visitors. A landing page without credentials of whomever it is, the seller, instructor, developers, or CEO, is vague.
It doesn’t make any sense!. Why would I buy anything online from someone random?
So, always add your credentials to gain the trust of prospects.
Link to your social media profiles, most importantly, to LinkedIn and Twitter.
Write a short and to-the-point bio to mention who you are, what you do, and why you’re the ONE to buy from. Add a link to your complete About page beneath your bio.
This step is important, especially if you’re going to sell courses and training services.
There’s nothing wrong with praising yourself and the work you’ve done. Be proud when you write about your accomplishments and success stories. People love to hear that.
Conclusion
Whether you are driving traffic through paid ads or using inbound marketing (ex. SEO), your sales won’t jump unless you optimize your copy.
The content you write has the highest weight in conversions. Don’t forget that.
Creating a better copy will help you increase the traffic and subsequently convert more visitors into customers.
Now it’s your turn to put these copywriting strategies into action.
Check out The BforBloggers Strategies – Online Marketing Strategies Collection as well.
What strategies have helped you to get more traffic and conversions?
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