How's your Content Challenge going so far?
Hopefully, you've gotten a lot out of lessons one and two. Now it's time for lesson three.
When you're writing content online, you can write it in such a way that it sounds very factual and impersonal.
Or, you can write in a way that really packs an emotional punch.
By and large, most small publishers will do better with the latter approach. Of course, if you're starting a website like Wikipedia or WebMD you'll probably want to take on a more professional tone.
However, if you're a smaller website looking to gain traction, you'll want to aim to engage your reader's emotions. Why?
People browse dozens if not hundreds of websites every day. Most websites fail to draw their readers in emotionally.
How many websites do you visit each day that gets you to laugh, gets you to feel touched or gets you to get angry about something? How often do you feel like a website owner is speaking directly to you and your problems and that they understand where you're coming from?
These kinds of websites stand out. There's a reason why YouTube videos of shocking clips, funny clips or touching clips tend to get passed/ shared around a lot. They make people feel something, and that's memorable.
Content that evokes a lot of emotion tends to get linked to a lot more. Naturally, people are a lot more likely to want to share or endorse something that really got them riled up.
It gets more shares on Facebook and gets more retweets. In other words, it has a higher chance of getting passed around immediately but also has much stronger long-term potential.
Finally, emotional content will help you build a much stronger bond with your readers. People consuming your content will feel like they can relate with you, as opposed to feeling that you're just an objective website on the internet.
When you create these relationships and bonds this translates to people coming back more often and to a livelier community around your blog or business and most importantly to more loyal customers.
As an added benefit, people will also want to partner with you more. When your audience can tell you're passionate about something or that you have a way of being able to move your audience, then they're likely to want to invite you to speak at their events, do teleseminars for their audience and in general open their customer base to you.
There are many benefits to creating content with an emotional punch rather than just information.
Adding a dose of personality is great for just about any small to medium sized business. Unless you're trying to build an encyclopedia-type site, try to make your website as emotionally engaging as possible.
Figure out how you want to tug at your reader's or audiences heart. Find out the type of personality you want to convey on your website – is it fun? bubbly? serious? sarcastic? Also, make sure to use this personality to address their pain points and help them solve a problem or two. .
Make sure to share what you have come up with on the Facebook Group.
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