Copywriter Secrets For Building An Irresistible Lead Magnet That Builds Your Business

 

Sara: What's the best way to actually deliver and create this lead magnet. So think easy, what would be an easy Yes, easy to access and easy to consume and you have anything that already could be repackaged or that sells easily. So here are a few lead magnet ideas. Now a video could be one A word of caution, don't if you do a video, don't make it a long, long workshop, you want to make it easy to consume. Again, remembering that value over volume, you could do a guide with resources and how to use you could do a swipe file with examples and fill in the blank templates or scripts.

You could do a checklist, a short mini course and a quiz is more complex. But it could also be a good option depending on again, what the people that you want to serve are looking for. You can also head on over to your inbox. It's a great source of inspiration, you've likely signed up for a lot of lead magnets over your time in business. What inspires you What do you like the way it looks? What do you find easy to consume? You're listening to the launch playbook podcast, the weekly podcast for service based business owners to discover the starts, stops and tools of transformation that go into launching their online offers. I'm your host, Sara Vartanian. And if you want to launch your ideas into the world faster, with more success and less burnout.

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There are so many things to do as a business owner. So why prioritize creating your lead magnet? Why number one reasons I think about is it allows you to build the like know and trust factor with the people you want to work with from the first interaction when you create something of value the people you want to work with need. And when they download it, and they open it up and you've solved a problem for them, where you give them insight into the way you work and how you can best support them, you've right away created a connection that you get them. And they also trust that you have the knowledge that they're seeking as well.

I also think that I lead my net is the first step in building your list. So people find that for your lead magnet. And they do that in exchange for their email, and they go on to your email list. And when you do this, it allows you to stop stressing so much about the social media algorithm. So like no matter how much Facebook or Instagram or whatever your favorite social media platform changes their algorithms, they're always changing your access to your biggest fans, which is those people on your list, it won't change. So instead of worrying that all the effort you put into building your 10,000 Instagram followers be for nothing if the region impression starts to tank or if like Facebook deactivates your ad account, your business can weather these changes when you've built up a list of people who want to work with you and who trust you and you have a connection with. And so not only are we a business when those changes, but so will your stress levels. So another reason to create a lead magnet is that so many people check their email daily. And it's one of them like social media where people do often lets you take detoxes, people tend to be in their inboxes all the time. And so they've actually given you a permission slip to reach out to them because they want to be in contact with you, I'll leave my hand can also be a great opportunity to help you listen better to the people you want to work with.

Not only will it show you what people are interested in, because by signing up for your lead magnet, they're going to signify to you that yes, this is you're on the right track. And I'm interested in what you're saying, this is something I need. But also you'll find that people will end up responding to you or share your lead magnet, if it's helps them. And of course, it allows you to make an impact because we went into the business not just to make money and build wealth and build a big a different pathway in life for yourself but to help other people or to change the world support other people with the knowledge we have. So believe mine is a first step in that for me, I really understood the power of lead magnets when I created one that ended up directly leading to almost $75,000 worth of business to me.

And what I realized was that this lead magnet gave me such insight into the people I wanted to work with not only what their problems were, what their dreams were, but has allowed me to take this knowledge and refine it into an offer that was selling I got direct referrals to business from my lead magnet. I had people sharing it in Facebook groups because it was resonating with them so much. And it really was the catalyst for me to go from a business that was earning around $30,000 a year to six figures when I was able to land on the lead magnet that people actually needed. And so I'm going to show you today the training, how you can do the same. So what can you expect to learn first, let's take a beat or two because I'm going to show you a lot and I don't want you to feel you need to put it all into place at once.

But if you can take one, two or three things away that you can use to refine your lead magnet that you're working on. You're going to be well on your way to something that's high converting and meaningful for the people you'd like to work with. So we're going to cover where most lead magnets go wrong, what effect the lead magnets actually do. And then the four steps you need to follow to create your own irresistible lead magnet. Let's dig in here. So one of the ways that I see lead magnets go wrong is that they actually don't solve an urgent problem. When People Download it, it ends up being something that can be filed or put off for later, only to gather dust and those like inbox, graveyards of lead magnets that you signed up for.

And I know I'm not alone in having those in my inbox, the other one is being too vague. So you've created something, and it's not really clear with a lead magnet is about what are they signing up for? What is the big promise? What are they actually going to take away from this lead magnet. So basically, why give you the email. And so that could be something creating like a marketing checklist or be happier workbook, we need to know more. And then the other one is not actually being part of a whole list building funnel.

So in case you're not familiar with a list building funnel is it's part of your lead magnet as part of this, people learn about your lead magnet through however you're promoting it. So there may be through Facebook ads, social link, and by a website, podcasts videos, however you like to get information out to the world to that cold audience, people who don't really know you, this is the first step to do list building funnel. And then when people land on this landing page, that's actually where they learn about your lead magnet. And they can choose to sign up for it by exchanging their name and their email address in order to get your lead magnet. And so that is the very first step in the funnel. Now, we're not going to get into all these other pieces today.

But when you don't have them all connected, and people just sign up for your lead magnet, it's downloaded and that ends the interaction between you, then you've lost the opportunity to further build that connection and the relationships that lead to sales in your business. And that's what really builds your business. Well, we're focused on lead magnet today, I want you to think about how you're going to plan to make it part of an overall funnel to bring people in to your world and build relationships with them through a series of emails and then eventually making offers to them. What effective lead magnets do, let's look at that. And then you can audit your own lead currently magnet for that or what you're thinking of creating first and effective lead magnet makes taking action really easy.

Anything that has like too much content or large chunks of content can be a roadblock between your new subscriber actually using your lead magnet or being way too overwhelmed to dive in, again, something that they can maybe put off for later. So you want to make sure that not only does your lead magnet get delivered right away in a welcome email through your email provider, but you don't want it to be something super involved. So like me, perhaps not a 10 page PDF, or a five step mini course think about value over volume. So what is the simplest way for your new subscriber to consume this freebie and still get a win.

Next, let's talk about building momentum. And that is what effectively magnets do if you want your subscribers to use this lead magnet, you already know it needs to be easy to consume. But you also got to find a way for them to build momentum towards the big result or that transformation that they're seeking.

So that's when the folks who receive your lead magnet are going to start to realize that you're the one who's going to help them. That's what happened to me in my own lead my head, the one that led to the $75,000 with a business. It was a social media marketing roadmap at the time I was doing social media management and user management before going all in on launch strategy and copywriting. And the clients actually back from me from that time, I've actually moved, grown with me into what I'm currently doing and have done for the past couple years.

So one of the people who signed up for my lead magnet, her name is Rosalie she said receiving my feedback. The value provided in the single free resource speaks volumes about you and your offerings. I was blown away. Thanks so much. And guess what she went on to hire me for multiple five figures worth of work over the past few years, and has been a constant referral source to me all from her experience with my lead magnet, this can happen to you too.

When you help people get away from your lead magnet, they start wondering what kind of transformation would be possible for them if they paid you. Another thing effective lead magnets do is that they clearly connect to your offer. So an effective lead magnet will compliment or relate to the offer you want to sell eventually, whether that's a service product or program, it should really be the first step towards solving their problem and helping people achieve their dream with what you plan to sell being the core component of what they need. So it's like that first step back and we'll get into how you can figure out the pathway you want people to go on with your lead magnet. And now we get into that fun part.

We actually here get to create really by talking about what four steps you want to follow to create your own irresistible lead magnet.

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This first step is my favorite. And that is going on a listening tour. This is like your secret passed to knowing exactly what the topic of your lead magnet should be. You might be wondering, okay, Sarah, what exactly is the listening to her. And it's what I consider the most important step you can take before doing any type of writing or content creation. It's listening and doing research. Let me show you what I mean. When you go on a listening tour, you're actually going to be open to hearing the direct words and phrases that the people you'd love to work with are using to describe their wants, needs motivations and future dreams.

You'll also learn hesitations and barriers that could be standing in the way of them making a buying decision. And this is going to tell you a lot about what they need right now and what they're hoping for down the road. And it's going to help you decide what your lead magnet should be about and even help you refine the thing that you're selling afterwards. Now, if you're a newer business, and you aren't really sure where to find this evidence where the people that you want to work with are, you could create a survey, review competitors comments and Facebook ads, product reviews, you could spend time reading through Amazon or going onto Reddit.

And you want to be looking for the actual words and phrasings that people are using so that you know those objections and barriers actually standing in the way of making them make a buying decision so that you can make an easy Yes.

And so to get started here, start thinking deeply about your people, those ideal clients you'd love to work with? Are they dog lovers? Are they parents? How do they identify themselves start to build a mini profile of them what you already know. And this could be by looking at them you've already worked with. And once you've done this, consider social media and online and think about where are these people leaving their opinions? What books are they reading? And where can I read their testimonials? Where are they asking questions? Where are they buying things and leaving reviews and comments meetup, Yelp, Google reviews, Amazon, find out where they hang out.

In business, I find Facebook groups are where a ton of people spend time sharing their opinions, you might have to go see people or interviewed them, hang out where they are. And then when you're doing this, you're going to bring this information into Google Docs. And that's what you can see here on the screen. So what I did with the client actually love to copy and paste the comments and research we're finding and put it into a Google Doc. And what I do at the end is I start looking for the phrasing and the words that keep showing up.

So this snippet here you see was for a coach. And we actually had about 10 pages that looks similar to what you're seeing right here that we went through, we noticed that the words that kept coming up on phrases were I'm at a crossroads, my head is spinning, clarity and pivoting. And so the end result, what the offer ended up being was this coach and making clarity calls. But the lead magnet was a decision making exercise when you're at a crossroads. And so you can uncover these ideas. When you do this listening to art and research, it's going to give you evidence you're on the right track. And you're really going to understand the pain point that you need to solve for your clients.

And even better, or more helpful I should say is that you'll actually use their words in your lead magnets in your copy so that when they read them, they really can see truly that you get them because you're reflecting their language back at them, you're mirroring back their words to them. A few other examples of where I've done this for is I also had a client and she was a career coach.

And we ended up trying to really think about what the lead magnet should be about, like the end of the course was going to be she was going to sell was about finding your dream career. And we ended up creating an interview prep kit as a lead magnet. And when the first instinct had actually been to create a resume template. But when we did all this research, we found that everybody was talking about how do I aced my interview.

And so that's what we ended up putting together was an Acer interview kit. Another client works with kids who are going on a gap year following High School. And so the research showed us that the issues that were coming up for kids was how do I talk to my parents about going on a gap year? And how do I convince them that I'm actually gonna return to school after my year. So we created a whole guide around scripts, how to speak to your parents, and that was not actually on our radar until we had done this research and conversations. So that is step one in creating your lead magnet. Step two here is planning your path.

As we already talked about connecting your lead magnet to the thing you want to sell is actually critical to ending up with the result. Do you want? So now that you have an idea from the research you did? What is the right now problem that needs solving? How can you connect that to your offer? You'll want to map out the exact steps to be sure your lead magnet idea is a logical step to get to that your final offer, do they align? Does it make sense, keep in mind that your lead magnet starts people on the journey towards your offer.

And it may be the why or the what but not exactly the how you want to leave a final gap between your offer and your freebie. So for an online course, this was a critical just telling you about and she was scaling her one to one service from evergreen course. So the Evergreen course is online course was actually build your dream career. And the freebie was an interview prep kit. So we wanted to make sure we listed all the steps that would take to get people to the course and made sure that each one along the way was purposeful.

But with the lead magnet was the first step, the one major pain, major question that kept coming up over and over again, from our research. And then we directly led people to the course from my own self, one to one service. So I have a product life service, which means that you can purchase off the website, it's a half day copy and strategy session to write sales emails.

So upon my type of research I was doing, I realized that people were looking for sales, email swipes, and it sort of served a two fold purpose one, if they're looking for a copywriter, they wanted to see how the copywriter writes service or portfolio for me. But also they want to try to do it themselves, and then maybe get some poor optimizing it. So my freebie was email swipes, and then I mapped out all the steps to actually get to my offer. Once you've figured out your pathway, I know what people need, it's actually time to create and design your lead magnet that is easy to consume connected to the very specific issue that people you want to serve are having right now.

And of course you already know that from the research you did. And then it's time to choose what's the best way to actually deliver and create this lead magnet. So think easy. What would be an easy, yes, easy to access and easy to consume. And do you have anything that already could be repackaged or that sells easily. So here are a few lead magnet ideas. Now a video could be one A word of caution, don't if you do a video, don't make it a long, long workshop, you want to make it easy to consume. Again, remembering that value over volume, you could do a guide with resources and how tos, you could do a swipe file with examples and fill in the blank templates or scripts.

You could do a checklist, a short mini course and a quiz is more complex. But it could also be a good option depending on again what the people that you want to serve are looking for. You can also head on over to your inbox. It's a great source of inspiration, you've likely signed up for a lot of lead magnets over your time in business. What inspires you What do you like the way it looks? What do you find easy to consume? So use that as a source of inspiration as well.

And if you're still not sure what would be the right way to package your lead magnet, take it to social media and act like a scientist and test ask your audience try things out. You could use polls to create a survey on Instagram stories, or go live and ask your audience their opinion, what would they rather have? Would they rather have a swipe file or a workbook would they rather have a video or mini course right step number four here which is name your lead magnet.

This is where you're going to focus on the big problem using your ideal clients actual words, a couple examples here. So this is a lead magnet for the career coach and we named it as your interview that was the language that was coming up through our research or listening tour. And that's exactly what we use it called the big benefit and it's clear about why it matters. If you notice the copy here, get the value pack workbooks, you can handle the most difficult and common interview questions with confidence and words that were coming up.

And we uncovered through our research another one for a stager. It's actually even more simple the title, which is a realtors pre staging package. And then this one, we want to really call out who it's for, and that it was really simple. It's a pre staging package, and the description talks about how to best serve your clients and help your listings reach their highest potential right from the stager and now you've gone through the four steps to build your lead magnet. I want to just quickly review that at the end of this what you will have created is the part the actual deliverable. The download that people will sign up for on your landing page and it is the first step in your list building funnel. If you've any questions, I love you to send me an email or drop me a DM on Instagram at SaraVartanian.

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