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Tuesday, June 14, 2022

The Secret to Leads that Convert

After reading this article you will understand why some companies excel and others fail to attract and convert their target customers.

Achieving great prosperity at writing shares one similar aspect as being successful in life: navigating your focus on one thing at a time.

One Idea, One simple promise, One compelling story (if possible), One core emotion and call to One specific action are the five main components of  “The Rule of One” created by Michael Masterson.

Core of this strategy is client oriented simplicity during communication that can be applied to writing emails, blog posts, articles or ads.

Size does not matter!

– Michael Masterson states in his study.

The focus is put on the clarity of your wordings.

People might assume that the higher word count the copy consists of the more effective the message will be, however, in real life it could be just the opposite. Think of hashtags, they are only single words although carrying significant meaning, just as the saying goes “It takes few words to tell the truth.”

Simplicity is the key for clients to understand your brand the way you want it to be perceived.

As an example, think of Nike or McDonalds, their short slogans speak a thousand words and the CocaCola Christmas song compelling by a simple phrase makes millions of people express the same emotion of joy.

Call it magic?

No, it is just as simple as not overthinking it. Same applies to your headings, mails, articles and ads.

Let's discuss the five components:

  • One Idea: Don’t talk too much, your clients will most likely close your message before getting to the main point. When you establish your idea or the main value in the beginning of your copy the chances of you getting interrupted are less likely to occur and the opportunity for the reader to respond the way you desire becomes significantly higher.
  • One simple promise: This should be the equivalent of a guarantee, think of what emotion your client will experience having your product or service.
  • Show it in One compelling story (if possible), it could be based on the experience of your previous client for more convenience.
  • The combination of the above mentioned points should cause a specific, One core emotion.
  • By this point your mission is done and if the client has not been lost, all that remains is to call to One specific action.

Michael Masterson believes that copywriting skills can be mastered to achieve higher turnover rates in your company by practicing and learning from good examples.

Good practice makes perfection and perfection makes six figures companies but there is a twist.

As you would not be able to build a relationship with an unknown person, this strategy cannot be simply automated or made through templates since it requires research data on your client.

So are you ready to change the game?

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Milda Bijaminaite

Milda is Floriddia's brilliant writer. She specializes in Digital Marketing with a knack for giving our clients advice to achieve their goals.