Speaking to your prospects’ emotional brains isn’t manipulative — it’s just good communication.

Copywriters have known it for many decades, and brain researchers have started to find the evidence to support it: Humans make decisions with our emotions first, then justify those decisions with logic.

Today I talk about three charged (or even potentially embarrassing) emotional drivers that inform the decision to buy — and how to handle them delicately.

In this 20-minute episode, I talk about:

• Adding a “first class” experience to your business without being crass
• How to help your audience feel safe and secure as they move forward with you
• Speaking to identity and group values in a politically volatile era

Listen to Copyblogger FM: Content Marketing, Copywriting, Freelance Writing, and Social Media Marketing below ...

The Show Notes

• I currently work with a small number of clients on conversion-oriented copy and content: Work one-on-one with Copyblogger’s Sonia Simone
• Our group of Copyblogger-certified content marketers (I do happen to think they’re truly content marketing big shots!)
• My post on the #1 conversion killer in your copy and how to defeat it
• My post on Robert Cialdini’s Unity principle