DanielSv
New Contributor
"What's in it for me?"
That is the number 1 question consumers ask when making purchasing decisions.
How to answer that? How to know what do people want?
The answer lies in the core human brain and nature. Neuroscience and marketing have always been closely connected.
Do you know that there is a specific brain activity that makes you want to buy something?
Every person has some of the biologically programmed desires that nobody can rid off and later I will show exactly how they are driving those purchasing decisions.
Advertising today is mostly oriented on the wrong things. Ogilvy once stated that 99% of advertising doesn't sell anything.
In order to maximize your results and be effective, you should know exactly what your customers want, create an appeal, and push them to take action.
If you don't know how to do that, you are in the right place. Just keep reading...
How misperception influences purchasing decisions?
Neuroscience and marketing always come hand in hand. The goal of marketing is to catch attention and initiate a reaction. Why? Because those things tap into your brain and create a memory that will ultimately lead to a purchase.
Have you ever heard of the Pepsi Challenge? In an independent research, consumers were asked to try 2 different beverages and decide which taste is better. They could choose between 3 options: Pepsi, Coca-Cola, undecided.
Guess who won? Probably Coke, right?
Surprisingly, more that 50% of people preferred the taste of Pepsi over Coke.
However, a decade ago, neuroscientist Read Montague posed a question: If people truly prefer Pepsi over Coke, why isn’t Pepsi dominating the market?
Montague conducted an experiment and concluded that the brain of his test subjects was recalling images and ideas from commercials and that the thoughts and emotions connected to the branding were overriding reactions to the actual quality of the product. They had their purchasing decisions influenced.
What are those innermost desires?
Big companies nowadays outsource their research to neuromarketing institutes where specialized psychologists try to fully understand customers and their purchasing decisions patterns.
Those people are highly paid to find out (and what purchase decision definition is):
1. What do people really want
2. What feelings they have about what they want
3. What are their actions towards what they want
And once you fully understand those factors you should be able to easily know these things:
1. Understand how to satisfy your consumers
2. Find new customers for your product
3. How to provide more added value
Now you should be one step closer to answering the most important question consumers ask:
What's in it for me?
The majority of consumers just care about what your products are going to do for them and how they'll make their lives better.
Psychologists and researchers have studied this subject for years and came up with the hypothesis that all purchasing decisions are made to satisfy some of basic human needs.
Direct response marketer, Drew Eric Whitman, defined 8 basic human needs that all people want to satisfy. He named them "Life Force 8":
1. Survival and life extension
2. Enjoyment of food and beverages
3. Freedom from fear, pain, and danger
4. Sexual companionship
5. Comfortable living conditions
6. To be superior and winning
7. Care and protection of loved ones
8. Social approval
You don't need to conduct studies based on these wishes. Who can argue with them?
These needs are hard-wired into our brain.There is nothing more powerful than tapping into a desire you can't get rid of.
Would you rather buy a pair of new shoes or get out of a burning car?
Most of the today's advertising is wrongly focused on secondary human needs and factors that influence consumer purchasing decisions, like information, fashion and style, profit making etc.
Understanding LF8 and applying its basics principles in your ads can be quite effective because you appeal to people's basic desires and create a drive that motivates them to take action based on those desires. You influence their purchasing decisions.
In other words, you're selling, they're buying.
Measurement of success in advertising is efficiency
Advertising nowadays is not oriented on ROI as much it should be.
As a result, the campaigns today are just pumped up money-eating beasts. For example, a person without any prior knowledge of marketing can put up a huge sum of money in Facebook ads.
In 99.99% of cases, doing that will end up in a financial disaster. But 0.01% of them succeed to survive and get a breakeven, or even win a small profit.
The most common advertising problem is efficiency. Not just the most common, but the biggest one as well.
To maximize your results you need to know exactly what motivates your customers to spend their money and what purchasing decisions they make when they buy something.
If you don't know, find someone who does. It is absolutely essential and might be the turning factor whether you succeed or fail.
Implementation
The most effective way to get people interested is to create an appeal based on those LF 8 wants. You need to find out how your product or a service can be put into the context of fulfilling some of the basic human needs we talked about.
Humans are known as visual beings.That said, the best way to get their attention is to understand what drives your potential customers and make your ad visually appealing to them.
After that it is essential for you to push them to take action. No matter how good your ad is, if it doesn't cause people to take action - it's a bad investment.
On the one hand, people are incredibly inert. But on the other hand, they want everything – now.
Everybody is lazy, but everybody expects others not to be lazy.See the paradox?
Use it to your advantage. Today's digital world makes everything much easier for you to battle customer inertia. For example:
1. Accept different payment methods (why not 10?)
2. Offer several shipping options
3. Offer gift-wrapping
4. Offer insurance, guarantees, moneyback possibility
5. Offer monthly payment plan
6. Include webshop
7. Offer perks
8. Offer loyalty program
9. Build your business presence on social media
Social media like Facebook lets you do the real magic today. Just find the right audience based on certain interests and let the ads do their job influencing purchasing decisions.
You can do so much more to attract your customers and don't let them hassle about buying your product. The fact is, if they have to hassle – they'll go somewhere where they don't.
Once you have them ready to buy your product, show them how easy is to buy from you.
Feedback
The last thing on my list. The job is not done when you actually sell.
You should always try to improve.
There isn't the sincerest feedback then the from the people who actually bought your product.
Have you ever seen a toll-free number on the back of a Coca-Cola bottle? Why do you think the big companies want to deal with that?
It is all about the feedback and fully satisfying customers. Whatever your product is, you should get feedback information from the first-hand buyers in order to furtherly improve it.
Mistakes can happen but if you don't establish your feedback system, people will not reach to you with the problem.
Reach out to people through email, make a FB group called like „Kenny's product owners“, get people exactly what they want and if nothing else works - offer a compensation.
Don't let them regret purchasing decisions they made!
Let's wrap things up...
What do YOU think about this approach and is it possible to really get involved and post bigger sales numbers just by implementing this strategy?
Read the full report and give me notice what is your opinion on it. Also, I have posted a valuable case study on Facebook advertising and I made serious campaign numbers that gave my client a WOW factor.
That is the number 1 question consumers ask when making purchasing decisions.
How to answer that? How to know what do people want?
The answer lies in the core human brain and nature. Neuroscience and marketing have always been closely connected.
Do you know that there is a specific brain activity that makes you want to buy something?
Every person has some of the biologically programmed desires that nobody can rid off and later I will show exactly how they are driving those purchasing decisions.
Advertising today is mostly oriented on the wrong things. Ogilvy once stated that 99% of advertising doesn't sell anything.
In order to maximize your results and be effective, you should know exactly what your customers want, create an appeal, and push them to take action.
If you don't know how to do that, you are in the right place. Just keep reading...
How misperception influences purchasing decisions?
Neuroscience and marketing always come hand in hand. The goal of marketing is to catch attention and initiate a reaction. Why? Because those things tap into your brain and create a memory that will ultimately lead to a purchase.
Have you ever heard of the Pepsi Challenge? In an independent research, consumers were asked to try 2 different beverages and decide which taste is better. They could choose between 3 options: Pepsi, Coca-Cola, undecided.
Guess who won? Probably Coke, right?
Surprisingly, more that 50% of people preferred the taste of Pepsi over Coke.
However, a decade ago, neuroscientist Read Montague posed a question: If people truly prefer Pepsi over Coke, why isn’t Pepsi dominating the market?
Montague conducted an experiment and concluded that the brain of his test subjects was recalling images and ideas from commercials and that the thoughts and emotions connected to the branding were overriding reactions to the actual quality of the product. They had their purchasing decisions influenced.
What are those innermost desires?
Big companies nowadays outsource their research to neuromarketing institutes where specialized psychologists try to fully understand customers and their purchasing decisions patterns.
Those people are highly paid to find out (and what purchase decision definition is):
1. What do people really want
2. What feelings they have about what they want
3. What are their actions towards what they want
And once you fully understand those factors you should be able to easily know these things:
1. Understand how to satisfy your consumers
2. Find new customers for your product
3. How to provide more added value
Now you should be one step closer to answering the most important question consumers ask:
What's in it for me?
The majority of consumers just care about what your products are going to do for them and how they'll make their lives better.
Psychologists and researchers have studied this subject for years and came up with the hypothesis that all purchasing decisions are made to satisfy some of basic human needs.
Direct response marketer, Drew Eric Whitman, defined 8 basic human needs that all people want to satisfy. He named them "Life Force 8":
1. Survival and life extension
2. Enjoyment of food and beverages
3. Freedom from fear, pain, and danger
4. Sexual companionship
5. Comfortable living conditions
6. To be superior and winning
7. Care and protection of loved ones
8. Social approval
You don't need to conduct studies based on these wishes. Who can argue with them?
These needs are hard-wired into our brain.There is nothing more powerful than tapping into a desire you can't get rid of.
Would you rather buy a pair of new shoes or get out of a burning car?
Most of the today's advertising is wrongly focused on secondary human needs and factors that influence consumer purchasing decisions, like information, fashion and style, profit making etc.
Understanding LF8 and applying its basics principles in your ads can be quite effective because you appeal to people's basic desires and create a drive that motivates them to take action based on those desires. You influence their purchasing decisions.
In other words, you're selling, they're buying.
Measurement of success in advertising is efficiency
Advertising nowadays is not oriented on ROI as much it should be.
As a result, the campaigns today are just pumped up money-eating beasts. For example, a person without any prior knowledge of marketing can put up a huge sum of money in Facebook ads.
In 99.99% of cases, doing that will end up in a financial disaster. But 0.01% of them succeed to survive and get a breakeven, or even win a small profit.
The most common advertising problem is efficiency. Not just the most common, but the biggest one as well.
To maximize your results you need to know exactly what motivates your customers to spend their money and what purchasing decisions they make when they buy something.
If you don't know, find someone who does. It is absolutely essential and might be the turning factor whether you succeed or fail.
Implementation
The most effective way to get people interested is to create an appeal based on those LF 8 wants. You need to find out how your product or a service can be put into the context of fulfilling some of the basic human needs we talked about.
Humans are known as visual beings.That said, the best way to get their attention is to understand what drives your potential customers and make your ad visually appealing to them.
After that it is essential for you to push them to take action. No matter how good your ad is, if it doesn't cause people to take action - it's a bad investment.
On the one hand, people are incredibly inert. But on the other hand, they want everything – now.
Everybody is lazy, but everybody expects others not to be lazy.See the paradox?
Use it to your advantage. Today's digital world makes everything much easier for you to battle customer inertia. For example:
1. Accept different payment methods (why not 10?)
2. Offer several shipping options
3. Offer gift-wrapping
4. Offer insurance, guarantees, moneyback possibility
5. Offer monthly payment plan
6. Include webshop
7. Offer perks
8. Offer loyalty program
9. Build your business presence on social media
Social media like Facebook lets you do the real magic today. Just find the right audience based on certain interests and let the ads do their job influencing purchasing decisions.
You can do so much more to attract your customers and don't let them hassle about buying your product. The fact is, if they have to hassle – they'll go somewhere where they don't.
Once you have them ready to buy your product, show them how easy is to buy from you.
Feedback
The last thing on my list. The job is not done when you actually sell.
You should always try to improve.
There isn't the sincerest feedback then the from the people who actually bought your product.
Have you ever seen a toll-free number on the back of a Coca-Cola bottle? Why do you think the big companies want to deal with that?
It is all about the feedback and fully satisfying customers. Whatever your product is, you should get feedback information from the first-hand buyers in order to furtherly improve it.
Mistakes can happen but if you don't establish your feedback system, people will not reach to you with the problem.
Reach out to people through email, make a FB group called like „Kenny's product owners“, get people exactly what they want and if nothing else works - offer a compensation.
Don't let them regret purchasing decisions they made!
Let's wrap things up...
What do YOU think about this approach and is it possible to really get involved and post bigger sales numbers just by implementing this strategy?
Read the full report and give me notice what is your opinion on it. Also, I have posted a valuable case study on Facebook advertising and I made serious campaign numbers that gave my client a WOW factor.
Dislike ads? Become a Fastlane member:
Subscribe today and surround yourself with winners and millionaire mentors, not those broke friends who only want to drink beer and play video games. :-)
Membership Required: Upgrade to Expose Nearly 1,000,000 Posts
Ready to Unleash the Millionaire Entrepreneur in You?
Become a member of the Fastlane Forum, the private community founded by best-selling author and multi-millionaire entrepreneur MJ DeMarco. Since 2007, MJ DeMarco has poured his heart and soul into the Fastlane Forum, helping entrepreneurs reclaim their time, win their financial freedom, and live their best life.
With more than 39,000 posts packed with insights, strategies, and advice, you’re not just a member—you’re stepping into MJ’s inner-circle, a place where you’ll never be left alone.
Become a member and gain immediate access to...
- Active Community: Ever join a community only to find it DEAD? Not at Fastlane! As you can see from our home page, life-changing content is posted dozens of times daily.
- Exclusive Insights: Direct access to MJ DeMarco’s daily contributions and wisdom.
- Powerful Networking Opportunities: Connect with a diverse group of successful entrepreneurs who can offer mentorship, collaboration, and opportunities.
- Proven Strategies: Learn from the best in the business, with actionable advice and strategies that can accelerate your success.
"You are the average of the five people you surround yourself with the most..."
Who are you surrounding yourself with? Surround yourself with millionaire success. Join Fastlane today!
Join Today
