10 Emotions You Want to Trigger in Your Marketing Messages to Maximize Conversions
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Emotional marketing is a powerful tool you can use in all your marketing. Emotions play a big role in making buying decisions.
Trigger words evoke specific emotions in your audience. If you can get your audience to think about things that trigger emotions β like happiness, longing, a sense of loss, and more, you can also trigger them to answer your call to action.
Words change the significance, attitude, and impulse of your audience to act. Words are important. They have meaning and youβll want to use them carefully in your marketing messages.
Know what words trigger emotion and action in your audience. Use words to focus on the benefits your product or service offers your audience.
There are 10 important emotions that you want to trigger in your marketing messages
You donβt have to trigger all these emotions in each message, but try to use two or three to have a winning marketing message.
Letβs go over the 10 different emotions you can work on triggering in your audience, and how to go about it.
1. Competition
Everyone has a bit of a competitive streak.
You can trigger your audienceβs competitive side by making them feel as if they might miss out.
If youβre only accepting five new customers for a particular offering, and you have a list of 500, itβs more than likely youβll fill your roster within minutes of making the offer.
2. Community
People have a strong need to belong. We tend to flock together with people who are like us, and we like feeling included in a community. They will buy something that will make them a part of the community.
If you can make your audience feel as if theyβre part of something bigger than themselves by working with you or buying your products, youβll create a customer for life.
3. Fear
Making your audience believe and realize that if they donβt act now theyβll miss out on the offer, or that they canβt live without your offer, will make your audience fearful that theyβll be less if they donβt have it.
Examples of fear of missing out: Use trigger words like Limited Time Offer β Only 2 Days Left. Hurry! β Donβt Miss Out β Limited Stock.
4. Indulgence
Not only do consumers want to feel indulged, they also want to be spoiled right now.
Examples of indulgence words: indulgent, guilt, guilt-free, obsesses, lazy and ravenous.
People love instant gratification and if they know that help is on the way right now, and itβs free, theyβre going to trade their email address for your free offer straight away. For example, people love templates, reports, checklists, ebooks, and other freebies they can download instantly. Use them to build your list!
5. Guilt
Eliciting guilt is not hard to do. You can use guilt in your marketing efforts if you can come up with a slant.
For example, if you are selling a work-from-home business idea, you could appeal to the guilt of mothers and fathers who must leave the home to work.
6. First Adoption
People like to be the ones who lead the way in choosing new products, technology, and services.
Make the audience feel special and smart about their choice to buy your products or use your services.
7. Popularity
People like to be part of the βinβ crowd. They want to be like their heroes. If you can offer them a way to do that, you have succeeded in making them feel like a trendsetter who is ahead of their peers and one step above others.
8. Time
Often times what youβre really selling is time.
If you are more explicit in the language you use regarding time (for example by using words like βnowβ), you can evoke feelings that make the audience feel that the time to buy what youβre offering is now.
For example, use trigger words like βAct now to completely change your life in the next 10 minutesβ¦β
You donβt want to lie, but you do want to give it to them straight and tell them exactly what their benefits are for acting now.
9. Value
If you can prove your value and that youβll save them time, or money, or something else, your audience will want to give you a try. This is your chance to under-promise and over-deliver.
10. Trust
Trust is the most important emotion you want to trigger in marketing.
Trust is the one emotion that makes your audience want to give you money. If you can get this one thing right you can explode your business.
Getting your audience to trust you is the one emotional marketing trick that you want to exploit and get right. Money is very personal and your audience must trust you to give you some of it. Hereβs how to earn that trust.
Developing trust is a process; itβs a long-term marketing strategy that will pay off again and again. When you get just one person to trust you, they will tell ten others, and those ten others will each tell ten more people. The trust will spread far and wide.
Using words like βguaranteedβ, βfull refundβ and similar will help your audience trust you more.
When it comes to marketing, trust is possibly the most powerful way to get more business. People donβt want to open their wallets if they donβt trust you. Prove them right when they buy from you.
People are careful about trusting people, websites, blogs, and products online because there are many scams out there. They follow someone for a while before they purchase from them. You have to show that you provide value and that you really care about your audience.
If you want clients to follow you, like you, trust you and eventually buy from you, they need to know you. This means that you have to build an email list!
Using trigger words to elicit the emotions you want your audience to feel will go far in helping you develop your marketing messages.
Words and phrases like βact nowβ, βbonusβ, or βbreakthroughβ will work to get your audience into the mood you want them in to receive your messages.
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