Shared Stories and Advertising Magic
Why do so few stories end up being about vulnerability, setbacks, or scars? Because it takes an uncommon level of guts and skill.
Understand your customer, and you will never sell to them. They will buy from you over and over again because you care about them.
When I walk into my local Starbucks, I feel like Norm Peterson walking into Cheers. What do you do that makes customers feel comfortable?
Dropping price to be competitive means we’re only working harder to put ourselves out of business sooner.
If the epic failure, Groupon, taught us anything, it was that there is no value in attracting a bunch of cheap customers.
Many companies use loyalty programs, Facebook groups, and email spam to gather the troops. That’s not a tribe. It’s list building.
Normally, when a business falls short, customers are merely disappointed or frustrated. Not so with relational customers and businesses to which they’ve bonded.
The real trick is to learn how to read between the lines and ascertain the root objection.
“We will match the price of our competitors on any similar product.” With one sentence, he converted us from relational buyers to transactional ones.