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- 05 May
How to Manufacture Urgency to Blow through Conversion Roadblocks
by Brad Smith
We don’t need things. We might want a six-dollar, almond milk, sea salt caramel mocha (no whip) when it gets a little chilly outside. But we don’t need-need.
That applies to almost all the things you’re trying to sell
It really doesn’t matter if we’re talking about that shiny new app you deployed or the fancy new eComm product. People probably don’t really need it. And that makes your life tough. How are you going to move the needle, get more subscribers, and scale revenue, when the vast majority of the people you’re speaking to have zero actual need to buy your widget?
You need urgency
Or more specifically, you need to develop a sense of urgency. And sometimes you need to do that out of thin air. Here’s how a few of the web’s top converting sites create urgency to get visitors to finally commit once and for all at KISSmetrics.com