Remember the great “paint-by-numbers” kits? Anyone could be an artist! Tee hee…
(If you’re too young here’s an explanation for the analogy’s sake: It was a “pre-fab” drawing with included paints and a brush. The drawing was broken up into lots of small numbered spaces. Paint the corresponding numbered color into each space and - VOILA – [...]
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It’s the bane of marketing and advertising. It’s the reason so many are so turned off by advertising.
If everything is “on sale”, then nothing really is. If everybody says they have “the best service”, then nobody really does. How can your store be “conveniently located” when you don’t know where everybody lives? On and on.
Stop already! [...]
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Within most any business category there are certain key specific triggers that are usually the most consistent “events” that bring a prospect into your market. So here’s a very smart idea: spend some time identifying those triggers. Whether you are in retail, service, B2B, non-profits, or whatever type of category, what are the triggers that seem to most consistently come up to spark a prospect to suddenly need or want to be in your market?
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Familiarity breeds trust! When I recognize your business or know of it I can convince myself in a time of need that your’s is more likely to be a trusty business. I might subconciously believe a friend told me about you. What’s far more likely is that you’ve just been consistently communicating through proactive media like radio or television. Or that you found a way to draw attention to me via new online media. In the end it doesn’t matter at all to me WHY I know you. Only that I do.
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