5 Ways to Persuade Your Customers to Buy

YesAs website operators, our website conversion techniques often focus primarily on the nuts and bolts of web design—should I make the button bigger, does the site function as it should, is the shopping cart intuitive?

We forget that conversions aren’t just actions performed in cyberspace: they’re people.

Every conversion represents a person who made a cognitive decision to accept your proposition because they wanted what you had to offer.

In that sense, conversion happens before your CTA receives the click. It happens in the mind of the consumer when he makes the decision to surrender his money or information.

What does that mean for your website conversion techniques? Well, it means that no matter how you approach the conversion process, your goal is to persuade.

Computers have a tendency to remove the human element from the sales process, making it harder to connect with your customers.

But by implementing some targeted techniques, you can restore the emotional connection and convince your visitors to click.

Top 5 Reasons your Site's Visitors Aren't Buying It

NOBoosting conversion rates isn’t just about tweaking design elements to create the greatest appeal for viewers.

Confusion and frustration are  barriers to conversion as well.

Improving your conversion is about finding and eliminating anywebsite issue that creates a  barriers for your potential customers.

Let’s take a look at some of the most common barriers to conversion in order to determine how you can make better use of your online real estate.

Inertia and Reactance

Bypassing Your Prospects’ Hard-Wired Conversion Obstacles, Pt. 2:

In Part 1 of this series, we talked about the first of the three psychological reasons people to say “no” that Dr. Eric Knowles examined in his book, Resistance and Persuasion.

In this article, we’ll explore the second and third forms of resistance: inertia and reactance. Circumventing these obstacles can have a massive impact on the performance of your website.

Skepticism

Bypassing Your Prospects’ Hard-Wired Conversion Obstacles, Pt. 1

In his 2003 book Resistance and Persuasion, Dr. Eric Knowles explores the psychological reasons people to say “no.” Understanding why your website’s visitors tell you “no thanks” can go a long way in helping you change more of their responses to “yes please.”

Dr. Knowles talked about 3 main root causes for the natural resistance to the sales process: skepticism/distrust, inertia and reactance. Today, we’ll analyze skepticism in more detail to see how you can neutralize it and increase your site’s conversion rate and profitability.