How to use your blog to sell
Anthony Lee - Jan 01 2020
A sentence or two introducing your brand, what you sell, and what makes your brand compelling to customers.Social media has raised customers’ expectations about the information they need before they purchase. If your blog content is relevant to prospects’ and customers’ needs before and after purchase and your products deliver on their promise, you can convert your blog into a sales machine.
3 cs of using your blog to sell
Content. Provide useful, educational and entertaining content. Present information based on your product offering and customers’ problems or needs.
Context. While your end goal is to sell, consider the context of your blog posts. Here, you’re a tour guide through your firm’s extended offering – not an auctioneer. Your job is to show readers how to use your firm’s products.
Commerce. Once you’ve given your readers useful information in a meaningful setting, they may be interested in actually plunking down their credit card. Unfortunately, here’s where many business blogs stop.
Ways to convert your traffic to sales
To make your blog an effective sales machine, integrate your product into your content in a way that doesn’t scream BUY, BUY, BUY. Here are five steps to provide relevant information and eye-candy to lure readers in and help convert blog posts to sales receipts.
Provide useful, relevant information. Show prospects how to use your product, give them instructions or how-tos, and/or entertain them.
A sentence or two introducing your brand, what you sell, and what makes your brand compelling to customers.A sentence or two introducing your brand, what you sell, and what makes your brand compelling to customers.
Make it easy to buy by eliminating stumbling blocks to purchase. Don’t assume customers know which item you’re talking about in your post. Provide a link directly to the product page or just link the product to your blog so they can buy if they want. If it relevant give readers more than one way to get to the product.
