Connect with your Audience using writing formula: Problem – Agitate – Solve (PAS)

Rachelle Babcock • Jul 01, 2020

This one writing tip (problem, agitate, solve) will make it easy for you to connect with your audience and dominate social media.

Are you frustrated because you know your product or service is good, but you just aren’t selling? Are you creating content but no one is reading it? If people would just give you a chance they would realize you are worth every cent! 

Want to change your marketing game, create engaging content? Read on….

PAS (Problem, Agitate, Solve)  is one of the most popular writing formulas used on social media. Many describe this formula as the “key to dominating social media.” 

 

Compared to the BAB (Before-After-Bridge) writing formula discussed a few weeks ago in our blog, it’s nearly an identical match with only one difference.

 Instead of describing a life without the problem (after) , PAS describes life if the problem were to persist (Agitate).


Identify a Problem- if readers are not sticking around that means they do not see value in your message. Give them a reason to stay! Ask the following questions about your readers: How do they describe their problems? What words do they use? 

 

Now that you identified the Problem we now want to Agitate the problem You are now moving from just explaining the problem to identifying how it feels to experience that pain and where that pain comes from.

 

Final stage, Solve the problem. You have introduced them to a problem, you have explained their feelings and pain and now you are going to solve their problem with your product. 

 

Example of a cloud security company: It is hurricane season and a storm took out the power lines around your office (Problem). You have deadlines to meet and your customers trust you to take care of them, come rain or shine (Agitate). When your data is safe in our secure cloud, you can access it any time, from anywhere and your business will stay open even while the storm rages outside (Solution). 

Marketing Takeaway

Marketing Takeaway= Using the PAS writing formula will help you dominate social media. 

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