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Other Added - How to be Believed - when you're Selling it
One of the greatest challenges in email fundraising is poor open rates. The majority of donors who subscribe to email donor newsletters receive them but never open them. If you track your open rates,
"In order to be believed, you must present enough of a change that the consumer chooses to notice it. But then you have to tell a story, not give a lecture. You have to hint at the facts, not announce them. You cannot prove your way into a sale - you gain a custo
A gatekeeper is defined in the dictionary as someone who controls access to something.If you're entering an exclusive gated community, the gatekeeper is the person who gives you access to that community.
That's very hard to accept when you are 1000% convinced you have the most remarkable product, that it's scientifically proven and, it's really helped you.
But that is not enough today, and anyone who has tried to market anything they love to anyone else knows it. (Except for Mom, who will try anything you offer.)
That's where the art of marketing comes in. Assuming you believe you have that remarkable product that will make a difference in the lives of others, the challenge is:
1) to recognize that your prospective customer is only that sliver of the market that already shares your worldview about it, not those you have to persuade or convert and
2) to realize your goal is to ask her to try it, no promises. Then she can test it for herself, and see if it makes her feel like it did you. (They need not be samples. People can buy a few months' supply to try it for a few months to see if they'd like to stay on the program.)
That reduces their suspicion about your motives...good start to being believed.
Seth Godin, marketing uber guru, writes:
"In order to be believed, you must present enough of a change that the consumer chooses to notice it. But then you have to tell a story, not give a lecture. You have to hint at the facts, not announce them. You cannot prove your way into a sale - you gain a custom
Let's start with the good news. You've no doubt heard the statistics: that 9 out of 10 new businesses fail. Well, it turns out that census data show that about 65% of new businesses were still in operation after 4 years
That's where the art of marketing comes in. Assuming you believe you have that remarkable product that will make a difference in the lives of others, the challenge is:
1) to recognize that your prospective customer is only that sliver of the market that already shares your worldview about it, not those you have to persuade or convert and
2) to realize your goal is to ask her to try it, no promises. Then she can test it for herself, and see if it makes her feel like it did you. (They need not be samples. People can buy a few months' supply to try it for a few months to see if they'd like to stay on the program.)
That reduces their suspicion about your motives...good start to being believed.
Seth Godin, marketing uber guru, writes:
"In order to be believed, you must present enough of a change that the consumer chooses to notice it. But then you have to tell a story, not give a lecture. You have to hint at the facts, not announce them. You cannot prove your way into a sale - you gain a custo
The Christmas season is one of the best times of the year to generate funds for a good cause. If you are one of those people who are toying with some Christmas fundraising ideas, you might want to throw in some of these
1) to recognize that your prospective customer is only that sliver of the market that already shares your worldview about it, not those you have to persuade or convert and
2) to realize your goal is to ask her to try it, no promises. Then she can test it for herself, and see if it makes her feel like it did you. (They need not be samples. People can buy a few months' supply to try it for a few months to see if they'd like to stay on the program.)
That reduces their suspicion about your motives...good start to being believed.
Seth Godin, marketing uber guru, writes:
"In order to be believed, you must present enough of a change that the consumer chooses to notice it. But then you have to tell a story, not give a lecture. You have to hint at the facts, not announce them. You cannot prove your way into a sale - you gain a custo
Quite often, personal strongholds greatly attribute to the failure of a business. However, if we examine some close-knit areas in our lives, we might easily recognize that some of these elements could be blocking our bus
That reduces their suspicion about your motives...good start to being believed.
Seth Godin, marketing uber guru, writes:
"In order to be believed, you must present enough of a change that the consumer chooses to notice it. But then you have to tell a story, not give a lecture. You have to hint at the facts, not announce them. You cannot prove your way into a sale - you gain a custo
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"In order to be believed, you must present enough of a change that the consumer chooses to notice it. But then you have to tell a story, not give a lecture. You have to hint at the facts, not announce them. You cannot prove your way into a sale - you gain a customer when the customer proves to herself that you're a good choice.
The process of discovery is more powerful than being told the right answer - because of course there is no right answer, and because, even if there were, the consumer wouldn't believe you!" Seth Godin, ( www.bananamarketing.com/library.html )
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