Tuesday, 3 June 2014

Do Videos Really Convert Better Than Sales Letters?

By Bilal Syed


Would you rather watch an engaging video that really tells the story and illustrates very quickly and easily how a product works, or would you want to plow through a detailed sales letter, that might or might not get to the point? Obviously, the video would be the answer most people would give.



Will video sales letters convert text letters?

Even a two minute run of your video is usually sufficient to cover the main points of your item, and then you can refer to a website which could have your sales letter attached to provide more detail of your offer.

Videos are the way to get people's attention about your product or service. If they are interested in your topic, they will watch your video out of curiosity, and then you can move them to your website where the details are in your sales letter. You want to use your video to whet their appetite for the feast you have prepared for them with your product or service.

Now on the other hand, text is supposed to be interesting and tell you what you need to know; but when it starts to get boring, readers can generally just skip a few sentences or paragraphs ahead. So if you try to sell with just a video, then you're losing the main advantage of text. And if you just try to just sell with text, you lose the advantage of having video, as it entertains viewers and reduces the bounce rate. So obviously the answer is to use both in sales letters.

Videos are far superior to sales letters in the conversion prospects to customers primarily because of the engagement factor of the videos. We live in an entertainment society, where people love to go to the movies. Just look at the success that the movie industry enjoys, and you should be capitalizing upon that trend. In marketing, the more of a person's senses that can be involved in any sales approach, the better. With a video the visual aspect, as well as audio, and the movie effect are three items that grabs the attention of the person. The sales letter really only employs the visual effect when the person reads the sales letter.




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