Psychology plays a very big role in internet marketing and affiliate marketing as a whole. You often read about scracity, fear, anger, happiness being very powerful in getting people to click on banners and convert into leads. With that in mind, I decided to explore the subject in more detail, and decided to prepare something you won’t find anywhere else.
You can use these 48 emotional classifications to create kick ass angles for your banners to test, and find out which emotion pushes the buttons of your demographic the best and sends you the most conversions.
GOLDEN NUGGET: In case you have NO IDEA where to start when it comes to putting these to good use, let me help you with a top tip — you want to make an excel sheet, in it you want to paste the list below, and in column B write down words that come to mind when you think of each (you will use these in headlines/angles later) and in column C you will put links to images you find.
Where can you find images you ask? Well head over to images.google.com, and type in each emo classification one by one and see what google comes up with, then save the link to the best images you find in column C.
Once the above is said and done, fire up photoshop and piece together a few banners for each. Then setup different campaigns and test it all, note down which had the best CTR/best CR %s and that will help you find which emotion is the best for your demo.
PS: If you have NO CLUE how to use photoshop and you don’t want to learn it – Banners&Landers over HERE can provide you banners for as little as $10 per banner and $1 per variation – so if you want to test one headline, and lets say 5 images it will cost ya only $14 total for those 5 banners!
Here’s the list
+ Anger
+ Disgust
+ Fear
+ Happiness
+ Sadness
+ Surprise
Acceptance
Affection
Aggression
Ambivalence
Apathy
Anxiety
Boredom
Compassion
Confusion
Contempt
Depression
Doubt
Ecstasy
Empathy
Envy
Embarrassment
Euphoria
Forgiveness
Frustration
Gratitude
Grief
Guilt
Hatred
Hope
Horror
Hostility
Homesickness
Hunger
Hysteria
Interest
Loneliness
Love
Paranoia
Pity
Pleasure
Pride
Rage
Regret
Remorse
Shame
Suffering
Sympathy
I also wrote a post that can help you to design banners with high CTR.
3 thoughts on “The BEST 48 EMOTIONS to Make KILLER Banner Creatives”
Thanks for the infos mate. Just found your blog, love the content. I just started AM and focusing on mobile particularly app installs. Really struggling with banners and campaign process.
Glad you are enjoying my blog. If you are struggling with coming up with banner designs/etc check out http://www.bannerslanders.com, as far as the campaign process goes here it is in a nutshell.
1. Come up with angles – I use anglesaurus.com
2. Get the creatives (banners and/or landers) – I use bannerslanders.com
3. Setup tracking & campaigns
4. Collect data
5. Establish which one is the best angle
6. Kill the bad banners, leave the best running
7. Kill the bad performing landers, leave the best running.
8. Kill placements that are x times offer payout.
9. Split test banner variations, lander variations, carriers, phone models, etc (split test what has the biggest impact.
10. Scale 🙂
Hey Attila, solid content as always. What is your preferred campaign objective and ad type for lead gen offers on Facebook?