Empowerment Inspires Niche Members’ AIDA.

Niche members might recognize nebulous opportunities/problems without knowledge to compare those with necessary skills & products. Advantage offers build Awareness, Attention, Interest & Desire to justify inquiry/purchasing Actions, so members recognize/seek/use insightful information to fulfill needs/desires.

Answer members’ nascent questions to confirm emerging/fully formed opportunities/problems to convert wonder (Are perceptions accurate?) into Awareness. Unconverted wonder can become stress from Fear-Of-Missing-Out on potential opportunities or anxiety of suffering from problems. Members might be proud of opportunities or dread social criticism because of problems.

Without certainty, members might orbit stores instead of landing/entering. Introduce insightful facts & inventory for building personal sanctuaries via advantage offers written to inspire certainty when members recognize/diagnose opportunities/problems. Troubled people can feel trapped/surrounded by problems without sanctuaries or lost-in-space, with no way back.

Out-of-this-world Analogy: Earthlings assume arriving extraterrestrials’ intentions/interests are peaceful or invasive. Maybe extraterrestrials aren’t committed yet, after arriving accidentally or becoming curious while passing. Preemptive “retaliation” could bring hostilities that wouldn’t otherwise happen.

Though retailers draw money customers might’ve paid to you, many consumers prefer multiple stores' options especially when retailers collaborate. Like one-stop shopping, it's more beneficial to drive to retail areas when consumers & retailers combine offers. Niche members might drive there/your area if multiple stores offer remedies/opportunities.

If retailer teammates aren’t near you, their recommendations & your promotions present your store as a destination for prevention/restoration after losses. (Check Brandenburger & Nalebuff's Co-Opetition)

In 2022, I analogized Marshall Goldsmith’s "What Got You Here Won't Get You There". People might not know/remember/admit how they got HERE if they used cheap stuff &/or misguided/unguided methods.

Niche members’ long-term & interim goals/destinations might feel light-years away until retailer teammates conceive plans members believe. While coaching/consulting with members who are almost THERE. define their HERE & determine how they progressed/regressed. Via anonymized case studies, what can other members learn/use? How will you assure them & guide their progress?

Whether some consumers are naturally suspicious or sales reps/retailers provoked distrust, your responsibilities include studying your niche to avoid/reduce what members perceive as negatives. Some consumers perceive ads as invasive/interruptive & sales attempts as picking pockets.

Sales trainers try easing anxiety by advising trainees to declare prospects as guilty of needing products & wanting to buy. Though tongue-in-cheek, whether aggressive or empathetic, attitudes are expressed via tone-of-voice & nonverbal stances/movements.

Be empathetic without seemingly pushing products/services. Since they feel pressured by needs/desires, help members identify unfulfilled positive causes & define effects members need/desire. When negative causes/diagnoses are unclear, pressure increases. Offer help in clarifying what happened/is happening, then increase certainty for next steps.

Caught Between Rocks & Hard Places

Prospects probably feel caught between needs/rocks & budgets/hard places. Explain why/how offers are soft sanctuaries/exits, so prospects don’t feel crushed.

Sometimes, assumptive techniques are valid if you don’t figure/pretend prospects are committed until you know about their intentions to fulfill needs/desires. If prospects have plans, what will improve odds-of-success?

Retailers conveniently assume: 1-Location is the ultimate attribute. 2-Consumers are near because of purchase intentions. Members are prospects if aware stores & offers can fulfill goals. Suspects' priorities might be unconnected with nearby stores. When busy people are near, mini-media promotions &/or geo-fencing might raise awareness of your location without immediately nudging replanning/rescheduling.

If advantage offers reach niche members between activities, AIDA can spur purchases/plans by entering available mental-space. Repetition & contextual links can prompt consumers’ Reticular-Activating-System to notice/recall internal/external cues.

Offer Example: ‘Though workplace stresses weigh on you, remember vacation-time is close. (Store) has (products) to add specialness to activities you’ll enjoy & fondly remember. When stress builds, consider how you’ll make memories & enrich your days with a pleasure treasure. When you feel tense, open your treasure.’

Help members give themselves permission. Increase value by presenting justifications/excuses for enjoying products in multiple ways to add valuable variety.

When stress overflows, mental fatigue/fog fills spaces between concerns & memories while crowding-out new considerations. Without clear focuses/resolutions, stresses interweave while complicating prevention & corrective efforts. Consider how you help members sort/isolate factors in life’s changing scenes.

Like preferring high-definition TV, people want focused details for entertainment/learning. High-resolution cameras make pictures/scenes worthwhile for sharing memories. Though details vary in importance, each contributes but exclusions/losses diminish experiences. Imagine hazy scenes blurring into each other, scene changes become indiscernible.

Without special differentiated experiences from high-quality products/kits, people might move mentally/physically but not emotionally between personal “scenes”. As negatives increase, positive emotions become collateral damage. People might feel they drag themselves or are dragged through days as responsibilities bring burdens, not satisfaction. Being fatigued & unfocused, they might not notice mistakes & become more discouraged while redoing tasks.

If teammates/participants aren’t focusing with similar resolutions/clarity, will customers achieve sustainable satisfaction? Do they consider factor interactions/collisions?

Example: Low-resolution cameras would render low-resolution videos despite playback via high-resolution TVs. If there’s one recording chance, effort would be wasted. Would those cameras be bargains? When/How often will playback quality matter enough to justify investing in top-quality? Whichever sensory benefits people seek, total quality deteriorates if inferior inputs undermine combinations.

Whether You Suggest Or Guide, Add More Value Than Competitors.

Do people continually struggle with many issues? Though motivated to avoid worse conditions, what are people's "reasons" for quick, cheap "solutions"? Would critical path tasks be required? Which tasks would be slack time/float?

Impatient people might want to get it over-with. Is that practical for them? Are requirements & agreements understood enough for teammates to create increments independently & combine later? If people stretch excessively while juggling additional stressful factors, task effectiveness & efficiency fade.

Despite stressful distractions, people should incorporate step-by-step awareness to prepare projects. Chunking down can reduce distractions so focusing is effective & efficient. Though your offers should lighten/control stress in preparations, elimination would be impractical because stress is inevitable in complex processes. By interspersing stress & relief/resting (while reviewing lessons), customers habituate & avoid being stressed-out, so fresh perspectives enter.

After traveling multiple light-years, extraterrestrials might claim unlimited abilities can do everything desired/necessary. Testimonial/Case study reality checks can express how people felt successes indicate readiness for problems.

Before promising benefits, compelling descriptions can cover situational severities & how perceived repairs don’t last. Explain why/how you develop new advantage offers to help customers adjust to life changes.

After attempting tasks with their materials, tools, skills & knowledge, frustrated extraterrestrials might leave without requesting guidance. Their exit might be cheered by some & grieved by others who observed & offered help but were rebuffed.

Retailers & extraterrestrials might’ve misinterpreted each other’s intentions, extraterrestrials might’ve figured retailers are profiteers ignoring consumers’ goals. Retailers might misapply expertise without trying first to understand before trying to be understood as Stephen Covey advised.

Extraterrestrials might consider residency or trade/transactions but want information before committing. It means being realistic enough to accept limitations of observing & experiencing. Though beings might recall their total knowledge, they should acknowledge perspectives are incomplete & incoming “facts” are altered by biases plus concurrent observations & experiences.

They Shouldn’t Carry Cognitive Loads Simultaneously.

Earthlings might wonder about shared “facts” & reasons stubborn people reject clarifications about changes. After resting from traveling, extraterrestrials could inquire/seek clarification after learning/sharing symbology/vocabulary.

Retailers might hesitantly answer product-use questions while pushing customers to buy. Some retailers refuse to test compelling descriptions/methods but complain about fickle consumers. Would their voluntary information suffice for you to customize offers?

How will you explain reasons for requesting personal details. You might state, ‘Thanks for your information. To help you, I’ll ask questions other retailers don’t ask. That could be why their customers get some benefits without achieving full advantages. When you’re comfortable with questions, you might need to research answers. Since you’ve started early, you can delay slightly but please understand I must research local changes & planned product specifications to order things you need. Each delay could bring setbacks.’

Extraterrestrials might respond/react according to experiences on other planets. Big retailers might try “efficiently” lumping extraterrestrials in with Earthlings. Each group has different needs/desires & generic offers might somewhat appeal to/be tolerated by some, who aren’t motivated by compelling descriptions. Differentiate offers by differentiating mediocre & superior benefits in fulfilling/preserving goal achievements in customers’ lives.

Consumers might mentally orbit & evaluate your store before landing/inquiring. Cognitive labor costs time & energy as members seek questions & answers. Claims like ‘Best (product) for (purpose)’ could be a justified answer if members know the applicable question. Instead of assuming you’ll profit when members hope for functionality, explain how you build functional hope with questions & answers.

Offer Example: ‘When you want/need (benefit) in (circumstances), you should know why some options are better for you. Do you want to rush ahead without considering (facts)? Or do you want (benefits) to be long-term? At (Store), let’s explore appropriate questions for your life & not settle for generic answers. Be like wise swimmers evaluating water quality & depth before diving. Let’s review precautions to maximize preparations. At (Store), let’s be sure, you’re sure because confidence reduces mistakes & stresses.’

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