6. Headlines

The Eight Business Boosters

Have a look at the world around us. Look at examples of marketing, leaflets, adverts, websites, sales letters sent to you etc.

What do you notice?

Usually they start with the name of their company and then talk about themselves. Nothing about the customer! Very little marketing that businesses produce is ever about the customer.

It’s usually about the seller.

But customers don’t care about you. They certainly don’t care about your name. 

They just want to know what’s in it for them. What you can do for them.

And that means they want to know why they should choose you, especially as none of us offer anything truly unique.

Imagine you’re in court. The jury will decide on the basis of the evidence you present. Customers do exactly the same thing…

So do Prospects…

So you need to give them evidence, good strong evidence, and lots of it.

I call this evidence your ‘Business Boosters’ – what you can show the jury so they can be (ethically) swayed to see things your way. The evidence you need to use is the Eight Business Boosters…

And over twenty years of trials and campaigns and working with clients shows without a shadow of a doubt that the following are the most important influences on your jury – on your prospects and customers.

The evidence that gets the verdict you want – more customers, more sales, more profits and an easier business to manage. And they are…

1. Irresistible Offer
2. Unique Perceived Benefit
3. Headline
4. Benefits
5. Guarantee/Risk Reversal
6. Reasons Why
7. Social Proof
8. Call To Action

The effect of the Business Boosters is massive, as you can see

Each module starts with two relatively open questions which You Must Answer!

You then hit Save.

You will be emailed the rest of the module, which is in a Word compatible format .rtf and a link to a Google Doc, which will allow you to edit online.

This document contains the rest of the module, to include everything we know about the subject, links, examples, and of course further key questions for you to answer as well.

Being your document on your PC or in the cloud, you can save at any stage and go back to at any time too. In fact, this is probably the best way to tackle this work.

So let’s start this module by answering these questions:

This document contains the rest of the module, including everything we know about the subject, links, examples, and of course further key questions for you to answer as well.