Effective Calls to Action (CTAs)

A call to action (CTA) is what you would like your email recipients to do next. The value propositions in your email may be well supported, but without a CTA, those elements may leave readers asking the next step to take. Conversely, a well-written and tailored CTA can increase clickthrough rates 30-35%. Ultimately the benefit of a strong CTA is in increase in leads:

A great CTA must be written with purpose. Consider the following factors when drafting a CTA.

· What motivated me to compose this email?

· Why have you reached out to these recipients?

· How do you want to meet them? Would you rather chat via phone or Skype?

· Do you want them to give you feedback, share your material online, etc.?

· Do you want them to click a link in your email and access your website or landing page?

· Do you want prospects to sign up for a free trial?

One CTA revision that I am experimenting with now and that, so far, is proving valuable is to give the reader the option of a quick phone call/email to answer a few questions without having to set up a sales appointment. This is basically what my CTA looks like now:

Give us a quick call to answer a few questions,

if we seem like a good fit, we can set up a sales call at that time.

Much of the following above from an excellent Marketing Profs article by John B. Martyn located here: https://bit.ly/3HuD6uX.

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