Sellwell 8 - give them a choice
Friday, May 15, 2009 10:37Buyers are always looking for easy solutions but not fixes as those are for junkies and soon you’d need more. You only need to think about yourself as a buyer to notice that you want to simplify your decision making process.
ALL THOSE DETAILS
You need your purse to be big enough for a mobile phone, lipstick and a small tissue package. This you have to achieve with certain brand and budget. Buying is also time-limited activity as you only have Saturday afternoon for it.
THE SEARCH
While shopping, you don’t keep many of the attributes that affect your decision actively in your mind. What you do instead is that you keep in mind the most important thing affecting the choice and carelessly scout different options.
CHOICE
Choice is the magic sales training session that every salesman should focus on finding. When you spot a remotely suitable candidate all the other requirements spring out in the open.
Now it is important to understand that not all the requirements must past the test with flying colors, just passing is often enough. If the purse is suitable, it becomes the solution - an answer to all those problems that you had.
MANY PROBLEMS - ONE SOLUTION
Did you pay attention? The important thing was that one item solves many small problems. Every single different purse would solve those problems in different manner. One will just do it bit better.
What we feel is that all the purses solve the problem and we group them together as one grey lump of purses with one exception. Our very own brain will fail us as clever salesperson will use this trait of over simplifying to her own benefit.
HOW TO BENEFIT FROM THIS?
Simple! Offer not one but many choices. If you only give one solution (your best that is) it either fits the customer needs or doesn’t. Sale or no sale. However, if you provide multiple possibilities the customer will do her best to choose the most suited of the selection. That choice is automatically placed on one mile high pedestal and it is so much better that all the other choices. I’ll take it! What you must not mention is that you would have offered that as your best solution… Done that way there had not been careless glancing and value setting, which ultimately led into focused studying and finally to buying.
HOW A BLOGGER CAN BENEFIT FROM THIS?
The way you benefit from human tendency to simplify complex processes is to offer several advertising packages and single advertising features. You should have different banner sizes and locations, text links, sponsored articles and too many running durations and discount terms to make any sense at all. Make it sligthly messy on a purpose.
One of the packages should have everything and very nice discount too plus moneyback guarantee that other options don’t have. From customer’s point of view, this would increase the value of the package and make it easy to come to a decision. If you keep it simple, your prospect will just take a mental notion of your offering and go looking somewhere else. In internet you can never let them go, because they most likely will never return.








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buy penny stock says:
May 18th, 2009 at 6:19 pm
If you give many choices, wouldn’t that can make the prospect confuse? I mean he has to choose one from many.
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Jake Stone says:
May 18th, 2009 at 10:17 pm
Hello Yulianto,
Now that was and is a good question. You write about penny stocks so maybe we should whip up a simplistic example to clarify this issue.
I believe that you are approaching this from an analyst’s point of view. Imagine one hundred penny stocks out of which you should pick one. What a terrible task that would be. Just think of all those late nights and early mornings that you should spend to study them all to find that one and only. Surely that is something to side rail even the most dedicated buyer.
Now, the alternative would be just one stock - not much to think over here, eh? Nothing to mess up your head and confuse you like a carnival hall of mirrors.
But I’m not coming to this from that angle, because that angle only applies to few experts and specialists who really know what they do. No, I’m coming from the point of view of a consumer or even a corporate customer. What is common for this point of view is the lack of information. If you don’t know shit you try to benefit from information of others. How do you do that? Do you go to a shop that sells only one penny stock or do you go to a shop that has tens and tens of choices? I would claim that 99 out of 100 prospects would walk in the door of tens and tens of possibilities - after all - it looks and feels very professional. Remember that 1 out of 100? Well, he was just little late and just came in. Only now it is time to start working with the customer towards that one and only. I’ll tell you the rest in coming Sellwell post.
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