Increase Your Impact
Increase Your Impact
When Psychology and Marketing Collide...
Some of the greatest marketing on earth is born!
That's because Marketing and Psychology are connected in an inextricable way:
Marketing's foundational principle is actually Psychology.
Marketing's Relationship with Psychology
Marketing and Psychology have a relationship that goes deep. Even deeper than the relationship of a Violin and its Bow.
The Golden Marketing Concept
There is a special technique that, when applied to marketing, creates some of the most gorgeous and high ROI marketing ever.
Why This Works
To succeed at marketing, you need to know why you're doing what you're doing. So I've broken down the reasons this works...
The Golden Marketing Concept: The Takeaway
This technique is most often seen in sales, but when applied to marketing it's worth its weight in gold.
When I taught sales training (So long ago!) I was taught The Takeaway as a closing technique.
Here’s how it works:
Toward the end of a sales meeting, prospects often get hesitant. So we were told to take away their opportunity to buy by saying something to the effect of “Hey, I think maybe this isn’t the right product/service for you.” We were taught to pretend that we were taking away their opportunity, which often works as a closing technique! No one likes to miss out, so they automatically say “Hold on, I wanna buy!”
The challenge is, this technique often feels slimy and weird. And honestly? When applied to sales, sometimes it is!
But there are ways of applying it that don’t feel slimy and weird. You can apply this technique without freaking someone out, or tricking them into buying your product. Most of those applications involve using this technique in your marketing instead of in your sales.
The Take-Away: Why it Works in Marketing
There are a few compelling reasons that this technique works in marketing without being slimy and weird.
1 - Exclusivity
When you apply the Take-Away in your marketing, here’s what you’re saying: “We’re only the right choice for a certain kind of people.”
Instead of catering to everyone and subconsciously telling people that they are just a number to you, you’re saying “I’m looking for specific people to serve.” In other words, you’re telling them that the people you’re serving are special to you. You specialize in serving these kinds of people. It means that not everybody is going to like your service/product, and gives you a level of exclusivity that broad-aimed marketing doesn’t have.
You become more than a company, you become an entity that only cares for a specific group of people.
You go from being a fast-food chain, to a country club.
2 - The Premier Choice
Take-Away marketing makes you the premier choice for the people you’re looking to serve.
For example...
Anyone can get their protein shakes at Wal-Mart. But I can almost guarantee that you won’t find bodybuilders looking for their protein shakes in the Wal-Mart Aisle, because they’re getting their protein shakes from the people who are working specifically with bodybuilders. They need specific things, designed specifically for their lifestyle. So they aren’t looking in Wal-Mart.
When you create exclusivity with Take-Away Marketing, you become the specific brand a person is looking for. You become the best choice for your target market, because you specialize in your target market. In the above example, you become the specialized protein producer that the bodybuilders need.
3 - Interest
Take-Away Marketing also triggers a kind of FOMO that makes people look twice at your marketing.
People instinctively find pleasure in proving others wrong, and no one wants to be left out. So, as soon as you say “I’m not for you,” you trigger a Fear Of Missing Out in people. As soon as we (humans) are told we can’t have something, we lose a little of our rationality and start to get emotional and take action. We either look twice, or do some research to try and prove wrong the statement “you can’t have this.”
You can leverage this in your marketing. They might not be the kind of buyer you want! And in that case, they’ll either realize that through their research or they will become the kind of buyer you want.
Either way, you’ve used psychology to grab their attention long enough for them to figure out if they need/want your service/product.
