{"id":212,"date":"2007-10-30T13:48:26","date_gmt":"2007-10-30T03:48:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/2007\/10\/telling-customers-how-they-feel\/"},"modified":"2008-07-30T16:49:49","modified_gmt":"2008-07-30T06:49:49","slug":"telling-customers-how-they-feel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/2007\/10\/telling-customers-how-they-feel\/","title":{"rendered":"telling customers how they feel&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just read an article called &#8217;10 hypnotic-like sentences that sell like crazy&#8217;. Catchy heading and, as a writer, potentially useful information so I read it.<\/p>\n<p>Well, actually I started reading it and then just skimmed the remaining nine sentences. All 10 sentences are based on the theory that if I write how you are feeling you will start to feel that way as you read my words.<\/p>\n<p>Just one example of the sentences provided: <span style=\"font-size: x-small;\">You don&#8217;t know it yet but, at the conclusion of this ad, you will feel driven to order and experience all the benefits of our product.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Personally, if I read something like that, I&#8217;d stop reading in irritation with someone being so blatant and patronising. Obviously, you can lead readers in a certain direction with good writing, but I don&#8217;t like the technique in that article and wouldn&#8217;t recommend using it!<\/p>\n<p>Some would say this technique works in the USA, but I&#8217;m not convinced they are so different that obvious manipulations like this aren&#8217;t annoying Amercians, too.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Word Constructions\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wordconstructions.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wordconstructions.com\/images\/banner5.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Word Constructions\" width=\"468\" height=\"60\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just read an article called &#8217;10 hypnotic-like sentences that sell like crazy&#8217;. Catchy heading and, as a writer, potentially useful information so I read it. Well, actually I started reading it and then just skimmed the remaining nine sentences. All 10 sentences are based on the theory that if I write how you are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[659,660,661,662,663],"class_list":["post-212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writing","tag-blatant","tag-catchy","tag-feelings","tag-hypnotic","tag-opening"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}