I’ve been making these square colorful and provocative “buttons” or “click bait” all night long, and now I’ve run out of time to do a serious blog, so I’ll post as many of this night’s work as I can in the few minutes to spare before breakfast and the ICW — sounds like a 70s tv show, doesn’t it?

Okay, so the idea is to make the button attractive “eye candy” and to draw the victim — I mean “client” — in even further, by the arguably brilliant move of adding compelling and provocative text, making it inevitable that the client will press the “follow” button on your IG account sometime soon.

Gosh, if they even get so far as to glance at your button, you’re ahead of most in the game. You want to set up a question or an inquiry that leads the client at least two clicks further, getting them to your homepage or target page.

Whew. So here are a few examples. Please do not use them — I plan to. My object is to show you a few ideas, and then you can run on your own. Note that, at the moment, I’m not using anything except the screenshot capability of my browser in Second Life and, yes you have permissions to use those snappers — they thrive on you sharing them! Continue reading →