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Increase Sales By Flying Under Your Prospects'
"Radar Defenses" - by Jim Edwards
©Jim Edwards - All Rights reserved - http://www.thenetreporter.com
How do you persuade someone to do what you want them to do?
A whole world of marketing exists around us trying to do that
every minute of the day. Do you even notice it anymore or, like
your prospects, have you subconsciously set up a system of "radar
defenses" against the daily bombardment of marketing messages?
Take a minute and count up the advertising methods which fight
for your attention (and money) every day. Just the basic list includes:
· Yellow page ads
· Newspaper and magazine ads
· Postcards, catalogs, and direct mail circulars in your
"snail mail" box
· Radio pitches interrupting the flow of your favorite songs
· TV ads - about 20 minutes worth per hour now
· Hundreds of storefronts, "mega" malls, and strip malls
· Highway billboards by the thousands
· Circulars hung on your doorknob
· Illegal signs on stop signs and telephone poles
· Legitimate email messages
· Spam email or UCE (unsolicited commercial email)
Just these 11 sources can overwhelm your brain with marketing messages.
Like trapped rats, people develop defenses against this never-ending
onslaught. They throw up a wall or a "radar defense" that goes into
action the minute they smell a "pitch" or a sales job. Don't blame
them. We all do it!
So how can you get around this psychological wall against the constant
sales and marketing messages? Well, the answer does NOT lie in hitting
people with more frequent and obnoxious advertising or sly, sneaky
tactics. You might get them to trust you for a minute, but it will
backfire in the long run.
You must do two things instead:
1. First, you must establish credibility for yourself and your business
as an expert.
2. Second, you must reduce their fears about doing business with
you.
Doing these two things will get you past their defenses and allow
you the opportunity to persuade them to buy your product.
So how do you accomplish these two "simple" things? What will win
someone's attention, raise your credibility, and lower their fear
factor all at the same time? The one-word answer really applies
to most everyone.
Trust!
If a seller can get behind your defenses with information which
makes you trust them, then that credibility will carry over into
a sale much of the time.
How can you get this credibility?
Well, take this next fact as online marketing "gospel," for many
people have proven its effectiveness.
Fact: Publishing and promoting with free articles gives you one
of the most powerful opportunities available to tip the buyer's
credibility scale in your favor.
How can we prove this works? Quite easily actually. Take a break
from reading this and go check out a newspaper or magazine for a
minute.
Which do you trust more, the ads or the articles? Most people will
choose the articles hands down. Why? Because the articles don't
try to "sell" you anything. Instead, they hand out useful information
for educational or other practical purposes.
Most of us grew up in a culture which says we can believe and "trust"
what appears in the standard "news" or "information" format. In
other words, if it appears in print, then we can believe and trust
the author.
So go ahead! Use this lifetime of conditioning to your advantage
in selling your products and services!
Very few things will create an atmosphere of trust and confidence
in people as reading one of your articles on a subject that greatly
interests them. It shows you know your business. It also demonstrates
you will do more than just try to sell them something.
Publishing articles literally lets you fly under their advertising
"radar defenses."
So remember these points when deciding whether or not to use articles
to promote your business:
1. Few things create as much trust and confidence in the minds of
potential customers as reading an article you wrote on a subject
which specifically and intensely interests them.
2. Articles establish credibility quickly because, right or wrong,
we've all been trained to trust the "news."
3. An article, or series of articles, will differentiate you from
the competition, who bombard people with nothing but sales messages.
4. Providing content-rich, non-sales-oriented articles will also
help build and solidify your relationship with existing customers
so they give you repeat business.
Jim Edwards is a syndicated newspaper columnist and the co- author
of an amazing new ebook, "Turn Words Into Traffic," that will teach
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