How to Craft a Perfect Call-To-Action?

A simple call-to-action can be created using Microsoft words or any other word processing program like Google Docs or open office. The basic functionalities of the program are required to create a button. Let’s take Microsoft 2010 on windows 7 for an illustration. Open Microsoft word and then click on “Insert” on the toolbar. Now in the tool box that will open underneath you need to select a shape and then move the cursor to the word file and draw the shape dragging it wherever you want left or right, up or down to get the desired shape. Now right click on it and select “format shape”. It will let you decide about the color and style your button will have. There are more advanced features like adding a shadow, reflection, rotation and 3-D format that you can use to enhance your button’s look. Once, you have finalized the button’s design you can add some text within it for which you need to click within the shape and start typing. Now you can go ahead and make changes to the text you have entered. You can highlight the text, change its font, size and color accordingly. When you think the button is ready to use you can go ahead and take a screenshot of it and save it as a .jpeg or .png file. This is how you can craft your CTAs using Microsoft word.

Crafting calls-to-action in PowerPoint is almost similar to that of in a word file. However, a presentation program in PowerPoint is more flexible when you need to add and format images. Let’s take PowerPoint 2010 on windows 7 for the illustration. Go ahead and open PowerPoint and click on “insert” to pick your desired shape. Like you did it in MS word, you need to right click on the shape and select “format shape”; here you can change its properties if you desire. Once you are done with the shape you need to click on “insert’ again and pick the “text box” and place it somewhere within your shape. Now you can change the formatting of the text as in its font, color, size and so on. You can also consider adding an external image if that adds value to it.