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A New Twist on The Future of Internet Marketing
As we look forward into the new year, there is a level of uncertainty about whether our marketing lives will remain similar to how they are now -- or do a complete 180 and run in the opposite direction. How can we predict what direction marketing...
Boosting the Sales of Your Internet Marketing eBook or Any eBook
When you put your all into learning something that you need to
know, you can bet that other people can benefit from what you
have learned. Internet marketing is one of those topics that
lots of people need help with. So once you've gained...
Free Radio Publicity for Marketing-Minded Financial Planners
Radio is a powerful publicity tool. Most stations offer news and talk programming. Those shows are put together not necessarily by the voice you hear on air, but by people called producers. Getting to know producers, and giving them reasons to...
Get Results: Start with Your Marketing Message and Objective
Recently I was talking with a very bright traditional marketer
on the value of integrating Internet marketing into an
enterprise's marketing mix. Personally, I have witnessed
significant and measurable increases in the online results of...
"Outrageous Marketing" for Outrageous Success in 2002
In this article, I'll show you three strategies that resulted in: 1) selling $100,000 of software in two weeks -- for a marketing cost of $50 2) $400,000 of revenue as an unexpected result of a promotion 3) three books becoming best sellers. ...
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Marketing and Selling Through The Mind Of Your Customer...
There is plenty of anecdotal evidence and scientific brain research showing that human emotions and the unconscious plays a major role in consumer selection of products and services.
As our multi cultural society matures; it becomes evident that those companies and individual who want to advantage themselves in sales and marketing must understand the perception and mind of other cultural groups. That will require a better understanding of your conscious and unconscious mind - how memory, experience, and associated emotions exert a force on the thinking and buying behaviors of consumers.
According to Gerald Zaltman, Professor of Marketing at Harvard Business School: as much as 95 percent of consumers’ thinking occurs in their unconscious minds. Much thinking surfaces through metaphors and consumers’ memories which are much more malleable than previously thought— which is why "confidence" adds great persuasive power. Artificial confidence does not work, but authentic confidence will decisively engender a winning edge every time when a salesperson truly believes in his/her products and services.
Fostering a shift in sales and marketing will require a deeper understanding of how pervasive the unconscious mind of the consumer works. Breaking into new ground requires breaking out of traditional thinking about features and benefits selling. You need to enter into the mental activity of unconscious thoughts, feelings, memories, intentions, metaphors and just how they direct consumers’ attention, influence perception and manipulate their decisions and actions. 6 key strategic solutions for sales and marketing.
1. Metaphor making in the mind of the consumer is a powerful fundamental that helps them make sense of information received. When eliciting information from a potential client. I asked him what success felt like. His metaphor was; "Success feels like the power of driving a Porsche down the highway at top speed." Tying his metaphor to several service benefits closed the sale securely. Understanding and having collected a large range of metaphors consumers’ use to think about you, your services and products enable you to sculpt a more effecting communication strategy and increase the potential of a purchase.
2. Improve your mental outlook
about you, your products and services. "You Are The Message." Eliminate negative clues by preparing yourself with the confidence of a winner. Use friendly language and genuine enthusiasm; reflecting energy, trust and openness will open up the consumer when probing for their thinking and core metaphors. Assertive and outgoing personalities, regardless of ethnic background, will outpace those people whose characteristics display shy and timid behaviors.
3. Design your office, retail store layout, waiting rooms, ads and brochures that reflect the Metaphors of your market. Example of how one Doctors office focused on outpatients care as being more nurturing and responsive. Patients view rooms with chairs lined up in rows as boring, frustrating and long waits. The office was rearranged to promote friendliness and privacy and was supplied with several TV’s and a computer. The results were a decline in waiting time complaints and patients felt they were receiving a better quality of care, referral rates increased more that 18 percent and patient cancellations decreased by 23 percent.
4. Build into your oral and written marketing/sales communications stories using metaphors gathered from your market.
5. Probing the mind of your customer/client requires you uncovering the metaphors they use when thinking about purchasing your products and services. Once you have uncovered their metaphors you can identify some or most of the important and hidden drivers of your customer/client buying behaviors.
6. Develop an organizational climate and a workplace attitude that strengthens sales and marketing creativity. This requires breaking into more boxes and not applying the metaphor that suggests you step out of the box. Breaking into more boxes enables you to gather gleaning new knowledge and will help pry you loose of conventional thinking. How you think is more important and will produce more productive and innovational ideas than what you think.
About the Author
Don L. Price – Professional Speaker, Sales, Marketing & High Performance Mental Fitness Coach, International Speaker, Consultant and Author of Secrets of Personal Marketing Power-Strategies for Achieving Greater Personal & Business Success. donprice@donlprice.com http://www.donlprice.com
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