This marketing insight has eluded me for 13 years.

If I could go back in time, pay someone $21,000 to teach me this lesson, and save those 13 years I’d consider it a good deal.

Can’t go back in time and help myself, but I can help you.

I’m Just Going to Dive In

Say you enjoy a 4% conversion rate. That still means that 96% of all your marketing efforts aren’t generating results.

Confronted with this we often panic and jump into trying to convert everyone.

The reality is that 80% of your visitors will never buy, 4% are already buying, and that leaves 16% who are somewhere between. They’ll buy but need more convincing.

We’ve named these 16% Healthy Skeptics.

Healthy Skeptics are drawn to your pitch’s pull. They even come close to buying, but the pull just isn’t strong enough to bite.

The game now becomes influencing the 16% without disturbing the sales being generated by the 4%.

I like working with this group because all they need is a little more gentle convincing.

Questions That Bubble up in the Minds of Healthy Skeptics

On a site like Dyson.com …

HeatTrak.com sells snow-melting walkway mats:

On a pellet grill site like recteq.com, looking at their best seller …

Qualities of a Healthy Skeptic

There are 4:

Multiplying Effect of Focusing on Healthy Skeptics

By making our sales pitchattractive to Healthy Skeptics we are automatically making it 2x more impactful for all visitors to your site.

A standup comedian whose routine gets a hard-to-please audience member to laugh will get an even bigger reaction from an easy-to-please audience member.

Thinking Like Healthy Skeptics

To feel what Healthy Skeptics feel I read each line of the product description and ask myself questions like:

1: Why would this matter?

2: What evidence do I have to support this statement?

3: Is this statement coming off as marketing speak? If so, how do I phrase it to sound more like something a subject matter expert would say?

Poking holes in something you’ve worked so hard on is an uncomfortable feeling. But whether we like it or not the healthy skeptic is thinking about these questions.

Evidence

This Healthy Skeptics concept isn’t a theoretical framework. It’s the base formula for all the conversion work we do for clients. This marketing framework can be used to boost sales for sports products. To sell skincare products. Pet products. Consumer electronics. Athletic gear. Back pain solutions. Food items.

It can also be used to convert cold Facebook ad traffic, improve mobile conversion rates, generate calls, optimize your most important landing page, etc.

It can even be used to improve your overall conversion rates.

Digging Deeper

This article shines a light 🔦 on Healthy Skeptics but you aren’t looking for inspiration, you want a step-by-step process to write copy to convert these Healthy Skeptics. To do that we need to zoom out and follow this 7-step life-enhancing process: The Frictionless Process.