How to Sell the Dream Through Social Media
When you are trying to build a successful social media page that will help to sell your products and build you a big following, whats important is to try and sell the dream.
So what does that mean? It means focussing on you value proposition.
A value proposition meanwhile is the way in which your product or your service can change peoples lives for the better. What is it that people should get from your product if all goes well? The old saying goes that you dont sell hats, you sell warm heads! This is to say that people dont buy hats because they want to wrap fabric around their heads  they buy them for an end goal that will make life a little more comfortable. Your product and your service are more than the sum of their parts.
The Emotional Hook
This is even more important when what youre selling has an emotional hook. The ideal example here is the Make Money Ebook. This is just a PDF with lots of words, which in itself doesnt offer that much value. 
So the value proposition is tied to what those words can do for the person. And of course this means that youre going to help your readers to become richer. More than that, youre going to help them end the stress of debt and youre going to help them to be more attractive to the opposite sex. They can go on lots of holidays and buy nice watches that make them feel more confident!
Thats the emotional hook and if you were trying to sell the product on a sales page, thats what youd focus on.
In social media, you dont want to be so on the nose. Instead, your objective will be to focus on the lifestyle that is associated with the product youre selling and to promote this through your channel. 
How to Sell the Lifestyle
So how might you do this? A quick look on Instagram will quickly show you how people are selling fitness products and clothing: they do it by creating a lifestyle and sharing images and videos of themselves working out, or just looking generally attractive in their clothes.
And this helps to gain them followers who want that lifestyle and who want to live vicariously. And it also generates a lot of sales  more effectively than any on-the-nose marketing attempt!
