Improve Your Sales And Marketing With Powerful Benefit Statements

Benefit statements are clear and concise statements that communicate the benefit of a product, program, or service to the reader.

I’m sure you have heard experts preach the successes that come from marketing with benefits and not features. The problem is, when you’re creating content, often the features feel like benefits because you believe wholeheartedly in what you’re selling and you believe every part of the project is important. For prospective clients, however, they don’t care about the features until they understand the benefits.

Think about it this way:

• Do you get excited to read the owners manual for anything you buy? Doubt it.
• Do you always read the instructions for assemble-it-yourself toys or furniture before getting started with assembly? Rarely.

Bottom line: In the features vs. benefits marketing debate, benefits will always win because marketing with features is boring. Prospective clients instead want to know how your services will help them or how it will make their life easier. They want to know: “What’s in it for me?”

Subscribe to the Liquid Web newsletter to get more WordPress content like this sent straight to your inbox.

How to Market With Benefits

For example, when marketing with benefits, ask yourself if it will:

• Save them money?
• Make them more money?
• Save them time?
• Reduce effort?
• Make things faster?
• Create more opportunities?
• Make them feel smarter?
• Eliminate fear?
• Position them as an expert?
• Grow their business?
• Be more convenient?
• Reduce stress?
• Increase confidence?
• Provide more freedom?
• Eliminate frustration or struggle?

When you market with features, you make prospects do all the work to figure out how your product or service will benefit them, and when they have to work at making a buying decision, your conversions will suffer.

Give your customers, clients, and prospects an easy, no-brainer buying process. Do all the work for them so they are completely clear about the value that you are providing to them.

How To Sell Benefits

Ultimately, you are selling the final destination the benefits allow them to reach. You can do this in three simple steps:

1. Know what action you want them to take. Will they experience, discover, develop, transform, overcome, achieve, create, build, or capture?
2. Know your ideal clients’ main problems. Think like your prospects. Put yourself in their shoes, get in their minds, and get to know their problems, struggles, frustrations, and needs as if they were your own.
3. Know what result is going to occur. Communicate exactly what results they can expect if they say yes and take action. Whenever possible, quantify the results with numbers.

Using Benefit Statements In Client Communication

When creating benefit statements, start with listing the feature, the benefit of the feature, and the end result. Then, turn the result into the problem and decide what the logical next step is. Finally, write your powerful benefit statement.

Here’s an example of how it works with a made-up business owner:

Problem: I am on information overload. I am not sure what I should be doing to market my business, if I am doing the right things, or if I could be doing it better. I feel scattered and unsure of myself, which makes it hard for me to market my business.
Feature: A crystal clear plan outlining what to do to market your business.
Benefit: You know exactly what to do, when to do it, and how to do it.
Result: No more frustration and struggling to figure out what you should be doing to market your business effectively.

Sample Benefit Statement

Action

Create a Simple Strategic Marketing Plan.

Problem/Need

The exact information you need to take purposeful and confident action.

Results

Market your business and attract at least three new clients in the next 60 days.

Benefit Statement

Create a simple Strategic Marketing Plan with the exact information you need to take purposeful and confident action to market your business and attract at least three new clients in the next 60 days.

Make Managed WordPress Hosting A Benefit

For WordPress agencies, Liquid Web’s Managed WordPress Hosting provides you a reliable hosting platform that’s lightning fast. For your clients, the benefits of Managed WordPress Hosting include image compression, automatic updates for plugins and the platform, automatic daily backups, automatic SSL, and staging environments, as well as access to developer tools and no pageview/traffic limits.