It’s a brave new world out there. We’re witnessing the birth of a media-rich environment filled with tons of alternative information resources for customers who are increasingly in control. And these customers are becoming more resistant to marketing’s “push.” Finding customers via targeted mass media vehicles these days isn’t enough. Marketers must be able to leverage all their market segments, maximize ad expenses and message with pin point relevancy.So, how many market segments do you have? How diverse are their needs? Their motivations? Their demographics? How do you market to segments that have interest in your product or service as their only common denominator?

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Last time I examined the qualities we value in a persuasive online copywriter. The way we look at it, copywriting for persuasion is about significantly more than using power words and devising catchy phrases. It’s also a lot more about speaking to your visitors’ buying process than it is pushing your sales process (that piece of the equation may be your raison d’être, but it must remain transparent to your visitors).

So, let’s say there’s this copywriter who understands and is skilled at writing for Persuasion Architecture. A client asks this copywriter to quote a price for a job. The copywriter tells the client $150 per web page. There’s a moment of silence before the client informs the copywriter she has another quote for $70 per web page.

How would the copywriter justify the higher price – and why would the client agree to pay it? Here’s how the copywriter should reply.

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