Collaborate to Create Experiences Niche Members Want to Repeat.

Let’s add value to Jeff Snyder’s (12/30/2024) & Doug Zarkin’s (8/27/2025) ideas.

Which daily & occasional experiences add specialness? Which experiences become special memories people need to revitalize moods? Whether people eat, drink, work or relax, supply multiple sensory “spiciness”.

After enjoyable, memorable meals, leftovers renew experiences & possibly bring new sensations when flavors blend during refrigeration & reheating.

Event memories can renew similar pleasures. Whether niche members expect surprises or friction/hassles, customer integrators know/learn to reduce negatives in routines.

When pleasures deter negative residuals, stress-loads feel lighter & increase people’s productivity. When positive emotions reside & cover negatives, people become less distracted by invasive concerns & boost productivity.

Offer Example: ‘(Stores) are retail teammates combining products, coaching & teamwork to increase your well-being & productivity. (Event) is your opportunity to set-aside frustrations. (Describe event benefits.) Imagine your enjoyment now so anticipation will lift your mood. By enjoying (activities), you’ll free your mind to learn (lessons) & be coached in goal-setting plus achieving. Let's lower stress & lift your mood, so you can focus on learning & implementing. (Stores) sponsor (event) & combine products into specific kits for your advantages.’

Thought leadership is popular. Leaders gain followers by relieving stress so minds open to ideas for finishing successful projects. Reduce internal/external struggles/threats & make following instructions easier.

Cognitive Labor Is Hard Without Functional Hope. Guided Thoughts Bring Empowerment.

Which verbal cues &/or products activate reminiscing? Neurolinguistic programming can recharge/replace fading morale.

Combine limited benefits into long-term advantages. Positive effects lift spirits & are empowering. Though people naturally have power, empowerment improves confidence & energy so people believe they can use resources.

Mundanity/staleness is judged individually & increased by repetitiveness. Explain necessity of consistency & help people discover/create value. Repetitive maintenance might be necessary because of cheap materials customer integrators won’t offer.

High-quality products aren’t invincible, so maintenance reduces needs for expensive, time-intensive repairs. Consistent maintenance enables customers to avoid concerns about product failures, so time, energy & money are available for enjoyment.

Brand love & events relate to this belief: People may forget what you said but remember what you inspired them to achieve. When you repeat/upgrade events, people achieve more through your supplemental efforts. How do you inspire positivity to help customers be supple mentally?

When purchase patterns (ABACA) include multiple retailers, consumers might forget where they bought products. By integrating into lives through guiding customers to benefit from products & events, your offers become indispensable & memorable.

Customer integration reduces life disruptions. Keep explaining advantages, so customers don’t disintegrate your advantageous relationships & disrupt their lives.

Your concern (love from brands) should inspire members to prefer (love for brands) specific beneficial combinations to preserve good life factors & eliminate/mitigate bad factors.

(Note: I’m not advocating Harlow’s experiments. To avoid stereotyping humans, let’s continue analogizing stressful circumstances by extrapolating Harry Harlow’s findings.)

Though humans don’t know how animals perceive/define affection, babies’ stress revealed gaps (mental & physical) exceeded minimal fulfillments in Harlow’s experiments. Show concern by describing consumers’ contextual gaps, so members recognize your advantage offers as important.

Mutual love doesn’t occur with inanimate-surrogates or impersonal retailers. Surrogates/discounters might seem adequate until specialists define quality gaps.

Differentiate by studying gaps enough to coach customers. Explain when/why opportunities/remedies require more (quality & number) benefits.

What Makes Niche Members’ Experiences Positively Eventful?

Example: Driving is monotonous or exciting depending on attitudes & sensory input.

Visually-impaired pedestrians & guide-dogs recognize engine noises as cues of vehicles approaching curbs & crosswalks.

Quiet electric vehicles might be hazardous. Some drivers want “engine noise” for safety &/or auditory input. Quiet vehicles are like surrogates for anybody wanting engines revving or auditory variety.

Sound options should be based on understanding desires for sounds inside vehicles & whether external sounds/noises are for drivers or others. Speakers can be positioned to aim sounds.

Volume & sounds are choices. Drivers are motivated to maintain or expand control inside & around vehicles.

Controlled/influenced sensory experiences open mental capacity for optimizing other issues.

Though Harlow’s babies defaulted to surrogate “interactions”, quality control was beyond reach.

Stressed babies might’ve felt they lacked enough control, but did they have criteria?

Deeper human perceptions can interpret improving or declining control & whether retailers are concerned about customer wellbeing or only profits.

Control Requires Attention.

Help customers determine comfortable attention levels because if options or controls overwhelm attention, people opt-out. “Excessive” objects (buttons/levers/nobs) increase mental/physical juggling.

Help customers determine & prioritize optimal control systems according to perceptual & experiential goals, then choose a manageable number of mechanisms/methods.

Sensory perceptions don’t directly alter physical experiences, but memories influence reactions to positive & negative impressions. Brains can recreate or block physical sensations & movements to augment enjoyment &/or block discomfort.

Distractions block sensations. Like people feeling pain after noticing bloody sores, consumers don't notice, ignore or forget problem symptoms/indicators until they're worse.

Advantage offers explain benefits compared to current/emerging trouble & disadvantages of neglect or unawareness.

If babies wanted to self-console with optimism, they might’ve ignored negatives while focusing on positives. Despite maternal advantages, what if babies rejected opportunities for mother reunions?

Babies’ “positives” could’ve involved thinking they had enough necessities without mothers’ nagging rules.

If they were like typical humans, frustrated babies might’ve remembered & preferred surrogates because mothers were more annoying.

To avoid obligatory inconvenient remedies & maintenance, people might downplay negatives though dissatisfaction recurs & increases to discomfort, then pain.

While/After misunderstanding/misusing resources, people don’t know/remember what’s available until it’s gone.

Advertise advantages compared to troubles consumers can confirm. Explain what was/is/will be wrong, so people finish remedies & don’t tolerate troubles.

People might not recognize/admit mistakes unless you coax & guide them to remember/evaluate. Without understanding product specifications, people are dissatisfied with higher prices & imagine they’ll be satisfied by cheap stuff.

Meanwhile external factors can tilt/disrupt conditions while confused consumers wonder how to regain, then maintain balance.

Criteria are probably subconscious but can be consciously confirmed with checklists. ‘(Check) X is true, which indicates (result) & outweighs Y.'

In “Thinking, Fast and Slow”, Daniel Kahneman called fast thinking System 1. Unsystematic reactions remind me of “Ready-Fire-Aim”.

Offer Example: ‘When you don’t know which options fit your goals or you don’t have clear options, don’t try the tech company approach: “Move fast & break things”. It can bring quick test results. But can you afford time & money to repurchase resources & clean messes? (Store) has products, techniques & insightful facts to customize options for your (category) goals. In consultations, let’s review cases of success, failures & mixed results to find lessons to apply to your goals. When we customize your kit, your confidence will decrease stress, so you’ll focus productively.’

Explain logical reasons firmly connected with emotions to reduce inner-conflicts. Emotional, planned responses shouldn't totally exclude logic. Rash reactions can crush logical plans & disrupt good responses.

Which preparations enable responses when fast thinking is contraindicated? As people learn from personal & observed results, fast thinking can happen from preparations: training/practice with ample product-supplies.

Which emerging problems can fast-thinking reactions prevent/mitigate? Which emerging opportunities are harnessed/guided/actuated by fast-thinking reactions?

Testimonials & cases can show negatives aren’t endless or inevitable when customers effectively, efficiently apply customized remedies & preventions.

The “Ready-Fire-Aim” approach works for testing but also applies to people buying what’s cheap & expecting adequate results. “Ready” requires reliable products & methods so tests results can be evaluated & potentially applied.

Should anybody conclude cheap product test results are dependable? As manufacturers reduce quality because discounters push for lower prices, future down-graded product results could be worse. Confirm customers know what/how to test & why.

When Consumers Think They’re Ready, What Do They Expect?

Worst case scenarios might seem unrealistic, but you can warn about ranges from moderate to worst. Which advantage offers fix those scenarios?

Testimonials/cases can incorporate recovery from mistakes including misinterpretations when expectations were wrong.

Harlow tested newborns’ coping abilities, not how to optimize surrogates. Surrogate tests would’ve compared versions. Newborns didn’t start with expectations but still became frustrated.

Offer development includes how members determine resources & obstacles (fast thinking if necessary), then evaluate whether efforts are too difficult to continue & compare inputs to outputs. Slow thinking can evaluate Strengths-Weaknesses-Opportunities-Threats (S-W-O-T).

Overwhelmed people lose perspective incrementally. As stress increases, empowerment seemingly decreases, so people freeze or expect to be stuck.

If minor unplanned progress exceeds expectations, people might perceive traction & struggle to repeat it without finding what “worked”. People’s desires shape expectations & interpretations which dismiss contrary indications.

Fast thinking interpretations are limited to what’s immediately apparent.

Kahneman wrote about WYSIATI “What you see is all there is”, a cognitive bias in his book. Often, people can be stuck by believing only what they experience, directly observe or learn from "credible" sources. Open-minds realize more might exist beyond perceptions & interpretations. Persuasion is necessary to keep minds open to remedies & opportunities.

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Brand Love & Functional Hope Are Scalable & Inspire Functional Optimism.

(Note: I’m not advocating Harlow’s experiments. To avoid stereotyping humans, let’s continue analogizing stressful circumstances by extrapolating Harry Harlow’s findings.)

Psychology & marketing involve human interactions with & reactions against factors altering life-quality.

Observing people's successful actions inspires hope. Customer integrators help with plans for learning about conditions & skills to build functional hope.

When customers successfully create & consistently preserve value, functional optimism blossoms. Functionally Optimistic customers will likely return to buy resources to upgrade/renew/maintain functional value.

Factors plus human interactions/reactions cause additional planned or unplanned effects/factors which bring more interactions/reactions. Continuous interactions & reactions involve relating to/with people, functions, dysfunctions, products & ideas/beliefs because these relate to major life factors.

Avoidance/Escapes fail when problems aren't identified. Customers need insightful guidance to avoid/escape negative certainties. Customer integrators optimize retailing by being parent-like confidantes & guides.

Since maternal relationships are important, inadequate “nurturing” stressed Harlow’s newborns. Without maternal guidance for finding & using resources, newborns were stressed by unrecognized gaps.

Niche newbies might fill perceived gaps & suffer from worse unrecognized/unremedied gaps. Customers’ misperceptions interfere with using insightful information about where/how to seek remedies.

Interactions contribute/inflict quality changes, so people alter plans & learn skills or must delegate/recruit/hire managers to adjust results. Having similar conditions & goals, people can share costs & benefits of contractors/retailers to guide choices for creating advantages.

After delegating/relying on specialists, customers rest or resume other priorities fitting personal specialties. Specialized brain cells process input until fatigued. Task-switching can somewhat unburden/reset some cells.

Some mental stress comes from personal & social expectations. People need temporary distance from responsibilities & expectations. Hired helpers allow rest. Recreation releases pressure.

People want logical reasons to fulfill emotional desires. If individual benefits don’t seem totally logical, explain how/why combined benefits create logical advantages.

Example: Seeming low-priority entertainment is important to restore energy with positive feelings. People need stress-relief to feel secure enough for unfamiliar possibilities.

New logical plans can fail & confidence fades, when people are distracted by previous results deteriorating. Loss-avoidance is prioritized over gains. Tension saps energy. Despite seeming oxymoronic, rest is more productive after enjoyment releases tense energy.

Since people might misunderstand & dismiss sparse offers, compellingly explain the logic & how you aid customers with productivity through relaxation &/or activities. Provide vital insights to justify attention because short, bland advertising is easy to ignore.

Enjoyable novelty might attract passing interest which people might repeat. You might sell enjoyable novelties occasionally. To form relationships, you & customers should share philosophical grips like rescued people gripping rescuers’ hands.

Customer integration relates/attaches to customers' lives with advantage offers fulfilling important criteria. Projects should stop/mitigate/prevent current & further threats, so customers have less stress/boredom & better focus for successful learning & implementation.

Integration adds value, replaces missing elements &/or strengthens/restores/supports necessities for completely functional units. People might settle for inadequate functionality because they haven't observed, experienced or learned anything better. Advantage offers should open experiential worlds (variety) with insightful knowledge & observations.

Offer Acceptance Criterion: Customers wonder how they used-to/would manage without your updated advantages. Despite competitors/substitutes, your advantages add/preserve better specialness. Advantage offers upgrade life-quality which energizes/empowers customers to directly increase progress.

Build Value Oases. Compete with Value Deserts.

Like Harlow's babies retreated to cloth-covered surrogates for comfort, people can tolerate stress by remembering their comfort oases. When you offer high-quality oasis elements, compellingly explain necessity of relief which differentiates your advantages.

Recovery & high-stress avoidance are valuable immediately & long-term, plus revitalized people can create & maintain more personal/familial/social value. Revitalization refills people with things removed or injured by stress.

You & influencers might recommend kits (products/techniques) based on observed &/or experienced triumphs & disappointments. Help members understand by specifically describing people’s progress from projects.

Progress can mean increased distance from threats/chaos &/or increased proximity to opportunities. Like gardeners evaluate progress: Vegetables thrive. Weeds don't.

Some projects are successful by eliminating troubles & establishing distance from threats/chaos, so step-by-step progress is trackable.

Despite imperfect conditions, you can help people focus productively by decreasing inaccurate guesses/diagnoses & problem-induced stresses. Guide customers' preparations so interference isn't inevitable.

Rechecking for troubles is necessary, time-consuming maintenance. Since planning can reduce surprises & scheduling can reduce disrupting other activities, what indicates necessary prevention practices & repairs?

Offers can be advantageous when projects don’t disrupt lives. If people must reschedule activities, offers are less convenient & interfere with other productive projects.

To gather food Rhesus mothers leave or bring babies who desire playing & wandering/exploring. If surrogates were constantly available, babies had bad choices: Hunger/thirst or painful wire surrogates.

When customers are dissatisfied by available options, guide evaluations of situations improved by options. Which improved situation is better?

Checking My Back-trail. Where’d I Go Wrong?

Many course-changes make meandering back-trails & details pile onto current inconveniences & emerging unfamiliar factors. Retailer teammates' offers should decrease disruptions.

Combine insightful knowledge to prioritize destinations & routes out of current circumstances. Avoid/Decrease concerns of problems recurring & endless journeys/projects by defining indicators of completed/successful changes.

Customized option offers inspire pleasant anticipation of relief. People are relieved by achieved goals but are more concerned about losses than gains.

Relief might focus backward when people realize problems stopped “pursuing” them, so they feel free to pursue happiness.

Develop advantage offers by adding insightful knowledge about niche members’ internal lives plus local/external obstacles, threats & opportunities. Your great offers will fail if most members wonder ‘BUT what if (trouble) keeps happening/happens again? Then (opportunity) won’t help me!’

Offer Example: ‘(Indications) show (problem) emerging. As (problem) gains momentum, do you feel pursued? (Store) consultations find techniques for using (products). When you advance, (problem) won’t chase you.’

Contractors serve travelers/snowbirds who don’t let property concerns inhibit enjoyment. Before sensors & phone apps, properties were monitored by neighbors/relatives without knowledge or equipment for diagnoses or repairs. Experiences can be fully enjoyed whether customers get alerts & call contractors or alerts go to contractors.

Whether your retailer teammates prevent, remedy or mitigate threats, help customers justify purchasing practical protection. Help customers maximize advantages & return refreshed to their regular or better lives with lighter moods & more energy.

Ensure customers’ conditions don’t deteriorate, so project prioritization is less stressful. Stress builds & negates delights when over-stretched/burdened people try reaching for physical necessities & delights.

What do you provide to bring value into customers’ reach or bring them closer to destinations?

People may be more vulnerable when reaching for unfamiliar benefits. Threats might overtake distracted people while they’re reaching.

Mentally & physically reaching while balancing, people simultaneously focus on proprioception & conserving desired value. Splitting focus may interfere with value retention/creation when inattention drops things.

People might struggle to retain low-value if they don't recognize better options.

Though newborns didn’t have comparisons/memories, surrogates had low value.

People might focus mostly on backtrails to detect threats & fret about weaknesses/vulnerabilities. Others charge ahead by focusing on opportunities & desires to preserve/improve strengths. Pursuing happiness is troublesome when people feel they're pursued.

When emerging/pursuing problems seem inevitable, people might surrender instead of checking horizons & planning/preparing prevention, mitigation or solutions.

Procrastinators & overwhelmed people might not check horizons or accept warnings. Go-getters might retrieve previously successful resources & assume new results are effective.

Analogy: Patients previously stopped antibiotic prescriptions when they felt better & saved pills for future infections/sicknesses. Medication potencies decrease; plus, weakened microbes can reproduce & recover to reinfect, then stop patients’ recoveries. Mutated microbes become resistant to treatments.

Suspicious patients/consumers might think physicians/advertisers lie/exaggerate claims about product effectiveness &/or problem severities.

Do niche members perceive governmental, educational &/or local authorities/influence

Review whether customers know how factors interact or might expect unlikely interactions. Customers might uncomfortably listen to lessons of possible mistakes.

Consultations review how current factors & actions can bring unexpected benefits & drawbacks. Potential benefits can inspire curiosity, so customers feel better about listening.

Empathetically cover how much/many actions are necessary to avoid drawbacks including stopping too soon, so customers schedule enough time. Empathy improves rapport & decreases defensiveness, so customers aren’t concerned about immediate pride & focus on how results might affect reputations.

Consultations decrease customers’ Cognitive Labor so they can focus on remembering/relearning & learning skills.

I'm including more quotes/excerpts than usual to bring more value. The full article has more insightful information.

Brand Love Scales—So Stop Settling for Being Liked by Doug Zarkin

https://www.adweek.com/brand-marketing/brand-love-friend-zone-stop-settling/

"Real growth comes when a brand moves from liked to loved, from acquaintance to advocate. And that transformation doesn’t happen through gimmicks or one-time stunts—it’s built through consistent, emotionally resonant experiences that create brand love."

"It starts with understanding your consumer’s pain points, aspirations, and rhythms."

"It demands curiosity, empathy & humility to realize trust is earned in small, consistent moments—not grand gestures."

"You start by asking better questions. 'What would make them want to come back?' 'How do I remove friction and add meaning?' You reframe marketing as a relationship, not a transaction."

"They’re necessary, not loved. When a better alternative shows up, they’re the first to fall."

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Decrease Customers’ Stress. Increase Life’s Specialness.

(Note: I’m not advocating Harlow’s experiments. To avoid stereotyping humans, let’s continue analogizing stressful circumstances by extrapolating Harry Harlow’s findings.)

Advantage offers are retail interventions creating functional hope & promoting cognitive labor. Stress should decline as offers guide consumers through Awareness, Attention, Interest, Desire & Action.

While studying niche members’ lifestyles, observe opportunities & problems to determine causes & effects. Inquire about people's perceptions & reactions. What was expected & unexpected? What made efforts fully or partially worthwhile? Can these be enhanced? What made efforts fully or partially futile? Can these be changed?

While considering new offers, impressions & interpretations mix objectivity & subjectivity. Perspectives affect interpretations. Analogy: Babies developed "normally" when raised by mothers. Did isolated babies exhibit maladaptive behaviors because of isolation, no parental discipline or both? Experiment protesters might blame isolation.

Does discounters' cheap stuff fail because no products are adequate for specific conditions? Do incompetent discounters imply their inventory is adequate for local conditions?

Do You Offer Advantages of Value Creation, Remediation &/or Regeneration?

Retailers should guide somewhat like biological mothers to differentiate from discounters/surrogates.

Surveys & advertising tests can clarify issues (including differentiation) depending on your & consumers’ inferences. Develop benefit promises, starting with open-ended questions. Example: 'If ABC could __, how would it fit among your priorities?'

Eventually, you might use leading questions to confirm your understanding, but answers might be skewed. Example: 'By using ABC, you can __, would you value that?'

If respondents lack time, energy &/or skills for creating that value, purchases would seem impractical.

Since stress affects people's perceptions, do you sensitively inquire about decisions & conditions? Example: 'To help, I’ll ask questions to guide you accurately. Please indicate if you're uncomfortable.'

Ask about potential regrets. Examples: imperfect actions; not reattempting with better information; overlooked opportunities &/or experiments? Did people mistakenly rely on surrogates instead of high-quality products with goal-specific guidance?

Customize kits by learning from test offers & consultations. Analogy: Harlow’s tests parallel humans having to confront negatives while struggling to maximize positives. Negatives & positives are concurrent. Avoiding negatives could put positives out-of-reach.

Harlow’s observations could indicate babies preferred biological mothers. Biological tests could’ve definitively revealed lower stress levels possibly indicating fulfilled preferences.

As you describe benefits, observe customers’ relief in voices & actions. Add reassurance to customers’ confidence: ‘You have many thoughts & might need clarification later. Please call if you experience any uncertainties.’

Verify Indicators. Find Potential Definitive Results.

Before tests & surveys, determine whether to seek insightful facts or confirm beliefs. How many questions would be required & tolerated? How & when would surveys benefit consumers?

When opportunities & remedies are analogized as recipes, understanding emerges about how ingredients & practices produce or diminish benefits. Spices intensify flavors possibly masking others. Textures & consistencies are positively or negatively changed by blending. Insufficient blending can interfere with thorough baking/cooking.

Though recipes seem sufficient to some, cooking shows/podcasts are popular. Though cooking may seem simple, mistakes can disrupt health & experiences.

Since niches consist of subniches, offer advantage customization analogized as fully-cooked individual servings, take-&-bake or separate ingredients. You can advertise prices starting at $__. Consumers should understand additional services increase costs.

Develop advantage offers to ease people’s concerns about blending insightful facts, intuition & skills.

Consult with customers about increasing influence or obtaining control. Careful consideration reveals reasons & compares perceptions, so people acknowledge how much control they have & retain. This might help with discerning which factors slip out-of-control.

People learn to monitor factors via experiences &/or instructions.

Raise their awareness, so people realize technological ramifications. People may try justifying minimal effort without realizing they should welcome advice despite pride issues. Encourage people to avoid errors & humbly, wisely accept advice & instructions.

Advantage offers include guidance for maximizing experiences. Harsh lessons may be effective, but accumulating stress interferes with memory accuracy, effectiveness & efficiency. People can effectively, efficiently remember inaccurate perceptions.

Well-timed advertising reach is vital. If facts are misperceived or forgotten, frequency aids memory accuracy. Frequent messages might reach people when they have energy & think realistically with low stress.

Generalization Is Easy. Help People Evaluate & Differentiate.

If reunited, would experimental babies differentiate their mothers from surrogates or generalize experiences? Mistrusting all “nurturers” could limit some vulnerability but limit protective resources.

People might differentiate pleasant experiences but generalize stressful experiences & maximize avoidance. Since consumers expect benefits, differentiation is possible even if all retailers seem like profiteers. Don’t ignore negative beliefs, explain value to contradict inaccuracies.

Explain offers by comparing & contrasting lives (case studies) with & without advantages including before, during & after implementations. If you compare & contrast good, better & best options, people will have wider perspectives. If people are unsure which to choose, offer consultations.

Advantage offers & consultations can separate factors & help people differentiate factors applying to their lives.

Do People's Reactions Indicate Accurate Perceptions & Realistic Goals?

If unsure about experiences, people might purchase cheap surrogates & intend to invest in high-quality after evaluating experiences. Surrogate products cause surrogate experiences & might skew evaluations.

Is it realistic to expect marginal surrogates to adequately support long-term life-quality? Would nominal results endure without monitoring/maintenance if customers shift focus to other efforts? Would customers likely need to interrupt other prioritized activities to redo projects correctly the second time?

If people are stuck between fulfilling priorities & insufficient budgets, which offer would help customers ascend toward goals instead of losing progress? It could be analogous to climbers’ basecamps & pitched tents while ascending mountains. If storms hit, climbers determine whether to camp at current levels or return to previous safer camps without capitulating.

Surrogates may seem better than nothing, but inadequate results deteriorate, so any value is lost. Low-cost products may seem like small losses, but everything expended obtaining products & creating results is gone.

Product benefits should be at least as valuable as total inputs, but cheap inputs jeopardize total value. Help customers understand how each input affects situational value quality & durability.

Explain how products & practices combine into valuable quality worthy of expansion & preservation. High-quality product dependability may outlast circumstantial turbulence as cheap stuff loses functionality. Few circumstances remain consistently positive without substantial efforts & products.

Instead of focusing on minimum requirements, help customers consider which circumstantial factors affects product & project durability. Should customers purchase higher quality than seems necessary to avoid disappointments?

It’s illogical to buy, handle & keep excessive quantities of cheap stuff. It’s logical to buy sufficient quality & quantities required to create, maximize & maintain advantages. But logic is often perceptual based on preferences & priorities.

Superior offers could seem reasonable but unappealing. With surveys, research & consultations, determine if you can satisfy expectations better than competitors. Offers become advantageous when people accept beneficial combinations even if you don’t directly fulfill each benefit. Collaborate with retail teammates.

What will people do to fulfill desires? Example: Weekend athletes know they should exercise several days weekly, but it’s time-consuming & monotonous. Social sports are exciting competitions. Can you add fun competitions to daily exercises or other preparations? Can you make recovery easier?

Urge people to invest what they can afford, so they sustain value in a condition worth preserving.

If product benefits are presented as good, better & best, do you have information showing how long product quality lasts before value fades? As value & satisfaction decline, people might work harder with cheap replacements instead of investing in higher quality. As people contend with declining value, opportunities fade or vanish. Frustration hits when people realize lost opportunities may never come again.

Are They Equally Guilty?

Classify reasons for success or failure. Multiple reasons analogize as quarterbacks enduring players piling on. One is bothersome. Two are burdensome. Three cause injuries. Four are excessive.

When troubles pile up, consider which vulnerabilities you can shield & determine if offers should: 1-deflect disruptions of customers’ personal abilities &/or resource availability; 2-delay troubles until resources are available; 3-prevent occurrences; 4-remedy problems & hopefully prevent recurrences.

Attribution probably wouldn't be equal because severe effects could be aggravated by "minor" causes. After eliminating the worst cause, people might expect effects to end & improvements to start, but effects could be aggravated by secondary troubles. Misperceptions could “indicate” defective products &/or misleading ads.

It’s like addressing urgent problems with those surrogates/cheap products. Quick decisions & low prices seem compatible because high prices/investments warrant consideration which delays actions.

Short-term results may seem OK because people plan upgrades, but other priorities arise & upgrading is repeatedly delayed.

Problem diagnostics & option choices should include evaluating needs/goals, situations, product specifications & potential techniques.

Consultation Example: ‘Since the effect is acb2, the PROBABLE cause is 2ACB. The best local remedy is 2AcB2. The current inventory is (products) which would be like patching 2ACB to temporarily reduce acb2. It’s important, but not urgent yet. By ordering now, (Kit-BCA) could be here (date). A POSSIBLE cause is XYZ, so I advise using these criteria to check whether symptoms/results indicate XYZ happened. (Kit-ZYX) is a remedy & it’s in-stock. Consider if you’re confident enough with your observations to use (Kit-ZYX).’

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Uncertainty & Control Are Incompatible. Help Customers Design Compatible Advantages & Overcome Disadvantages.

Note: I'm analogizing this experiment (below), not advocating it. “Monkey” can be a slur. Let’s call them “babies”.

We're adding applications to the surrogate analogy from February. Bargain hunters think incomplete, inadequate results are sufficient benefits. Offer certainty of control by explaining dependable quality, so consumers don’t settle for discounters or nothing.

Like people’s bargain expectations, experimental effects weren’t necessarily desired.

Rhesus babies had two experimental choices: Tolerate surrogates or hunger without physical comfort. With minimal control, babies didn’t regret decisions or neglect benefit creation & maintenance. They were distressed & dissatisfied with limited, inadequate choices.

Distress reduces people's energy for concentration & decisions. Insightful explanations can reduce indecision by validating limited choices plus decreasing confusion & stress. Several choices seemingly ensure there’s a best option available. If customers object to limited choices, ask how many options are enough to ensure they won't miss their best opportunity.

Review & guide customers' ideas while customizing offers. Step-1 may seem insufficient, so explain it's limited because: "Step-1 does (result) which we’ll check for (effect) before deciding what Step-2 is."

You might prevent regrets or offer relief for internal locus-of-control customers. "If your Step-1 result is ABC, choose (options) for Step-2. If Step-1 goes totally off-target, let's __."

Explain resources & actions for creating next level benefits while reviewing customers' resources & available methods for incrementally achieving goals. Help customers self-reassure by expecting increments, not quick completion.

When feeling controlled externally, people might descend into learned hopelessness/helplessness. People freeze when fight(ing) & flight/fleeing seem impractical. They won’t buy unless you persuade & equip them to overcome internal obstacles (habitual self-disempowerment, discount store shopping & ignoring small stores).

Whether confident or hesitant, people are consistently distracted, so don't let your store sink into nebulous inactive “awareness”. Consistently activate awareness by offering advantageous control for decreasing troubles & increasing opportunities.

Losing control is stressful. Consistent control requires active decisions because passivity might default to habits. Keep promoting advantages with opportunity & problem awareness, so niche members know you offer control.

Regular satisfactory results seemingly justify subconscious habits. To conserve value, specify conscious cues of declining quality.

Though babies got consistent results from surrogates, effects deteriorated. If milk quality & quantity were satisfactory, wire surrogates may’ve been OK until wires pressed into bigger, heavier babies' skin. Pain might've become more distressing as remedial repositioning brought less relief.

Repetition brings controllable predictability, but habitual results should be monitored. Subconscious, habitual results might decline while people prioritize consciously obtaining, retaining &/or regaining control over other issues.

Like these babies, people want advantages of quick control & comfort with minimal effort. Instructions should include establishing & maintaining functionality.

Habits require little conscious energy until productivity decreases, problems increase & people wonder about causes. Diagnosing causes requires cognitive labor for remembering, finding & processing knowledge. Cognitive labor seems wasted if people aren't aware of better options. "Now-what?" & "What-if" questions can be laborious endless loops.

Cognitive processes can block stress. Help customers identify causes & effects with questions & criteria to evaluate answers based on compatibility with circumstances & goals.

Productive cognition combines insightful facts about obtaining resources & maintaining functionality.

Scarce Quality, Abundant Stress

Scarcity is an often-used advertising appeal, but how could scarce resources help people maintain functionality? Functional hope includes stable supplies & lives.

Fear-of-Missing-Out on opportunities can prompt reprioritization. If people endure pain to gain/sustain supplies, resource scarcity might imply efforts are wasted. Babies gained & lost by nursing from wire surrogates.

After perceived shortages, discouraged people may give-up. Encourage quick responses with incremental offers of earlier relief to diminish losses, so consumers recognize realistic offers.

Humans & animals sense gaps even without biological knowledge about necessities. When surrogates were consistently available, babies might've sensed homeostasis was threatened because of health instabilities.

Despite more familiarity from surrogate "interactions", babies appeared more uncertain. How could babies be stressed by unrecognized inadequacies? Substandard results indicated inadequate surrogates/products. Illnesses, discomfort & pains may recur frequently &/or persist.

Increasing problems necessitate specific, guided actions for efficient effectiveness in decreasing total stress.

You’re Uncertain Because You Haven’t Tried Unfamiliar Products & Methods. (That’s realistic, but unempathetic.)

Stressed people don’t always realize/admit reasons. Questions & statements can help niche members parse reasons & conquer concerns.

Case studies & testimonials can reveal how successful customers diagnosed & settled issues. Assure callers/shoppers with guidance after clarifying their goals, beliefs, knowledge & skills.

Consultation Questions: 'Though you’re interested in (product), which others have you considered from the category? Do you feel (product) fits your needs & skills better than others?' These explore familiarity without implying ego challenges like direct questions about uncertainties.

Ask positive questions: 'Have you heard about/seen locally-based tutorials showing how to use (product) to achieve those goals?' This can uncover whether customers are self-confident & assured about products & methods.

As performance pressures mount, people might feel but not verbalize uncertainties or self-doubt. Verbalized nebulous feelings may start weighing on people who feel pressured to go forward (despite unpreparedness) or back out (without remedies or opportunities).

Positive questions can evoke answers while helping customers confidently explore. Positive questions can open minds to advice. Example: '(Product) is great for beginners. Have you considered (product) for removing mineral residues?'

Experimental babies' reactions can be widely interpreted. Despite surrogate consistency, babies were dissatisfied & weren't guided in maximizing results. Like unguided humans, babies might've gotten declining benefits from consistent results.

Make Advantage Offers Easier to Accept Than Reject.

Consider potential negative experiences:

If unfamiliar products & methods cause unnoticed, unexpected course-changes, people might be unsure about causes & reject any new offers. Without guidance, people might scrap preliminary results that don't match expectations. If customers try-out projects, what are reasonable expectations? Could unexpected results be shaped into somebody's benefits & traded so customers don't lose value?

Encourage customers to record step-by-step techniques & results for replicating benefits. Customers might stop projects if an intended step-1 result doesn’t fit interpretations of product specifications. For customized kits, instructions should indicate how some steps can be redone without disrupting projects.

Unpracticed methods could fit kit instructions, but not customers' expectations. People prepare for known risks without knowledge for identifying or measuring unfamiliar causes & effects. When uncertainty doesn't diminish, people don't know how to confirm step-by-step progress.

People might follow instructions but miss unexpected indications of drifting off-course. After misjudging conditions, people may use products "as directed" & assume repairs & preventions are complete. While people attend to other issues, unresolved & unprevented problems erupt. People might miss evidence of gradual deterioration until results fail.

People may attribute failures to unfamiliar products & methods because comfortable things are familiar & probably seem efficacious. When people continue what they perceive as "working", familiarity increases. When things don't "work", people change direction if they're willing to disrupt familiarity. Others may stubbornly dig deeper to avoid negative admissions.

Practice makes perfect if goals are practically pursued with compatible practices & products plus expectations are updated according to new insightful information & observations.

Without clear insightful knowledge & expectations for choosing & using products, people could run out of potential/unexplored directions/options & feel stuck.

Is momentum preserved, increased or decreased when people turn? People turn while testing directions & approaches for exploring expectations & goals. Organize tests for learning from results. Without full step-by-step & turn-by-turn awareness, actions may eventually bring good or bad results without people remembering & learning reasons.

Mistakes can seem partially, temporarily beneficial until people compare resource costs to "benefits" & contrast potential benefits from better resource investments.

Without guidance in creating advantages, people's minimally productive steps can create temporary distance/relief from growing problems. That relief can be like milk from wire surrogates because positive results might not be durable benefits.

Explain how you collaborate to make people's desired values achievable. This can preempt "Been There, Done That, Didn't Work” objections. When new interests & curiosities connect with people's desire, explain what makes your offer & changed conditions different.

AIDA Explains Why Advantage Offers Are Different & Better.

Create Awareness of new experiences. Inspire Attention by presenting experiences as opportunities. Increase Interest with methods for niche members to use products. Prompt Desire with compelling descriptions to ignite familiarity. Urge Action by helping members justify purchases.

When people generalize dissatisfaction with other unfamiliar products & methods, familiar problems may feel better than potential risks. Subconsciously, "unfamiliar" seems synonymous with "risk" & "dissatisfaction".

As people continue goal journeys & achievement maintenance, correcting small diversions might be cost-effective/efficient.

For general instructions, what would indicate emerging disruptions? In consultations, people might not notice or believe they’re on-course to hit obstacles or hazards. Without rethinking choices, people may notice trouble & blame others which fits an external locus-of-control.

They might think they’d succeed if they could catch-a-break. If they don’t define “break” or “catch”, they might overlook opportunities & remedies or be unprepared to capitalize.

When you learn their criteria or nebulous standards, you can develop functionality & procedures to inspire functional hope. Explain how your advantage offers bring customers control for resisting disadvantages & maximizing their internal locus-of-control by customizing advantages.

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Help Create & Maintain Advantages, So Niche Members Don't Settle for Easy-to-Reach Surrogates.

I'm analogizing this experiment (below), not advocating it. “Monkey” can be a slur. Let’s call them “babies”.

I've interspersed experimental extrapolations/interpretations & marketing/psychological applications.

With coordinated offers & referrals, retailer teams convert customers' benefits into advantages. Your team's communication helps customers avoid dashing between stores & websites like these babies.

If your team doesn't offer advantages, consumers might perceive you as replaceable, commodity surrogates. You'll replace surrogates if your advantage offers are compellingly described for niche members' lives.

Analogy: Harry Harlow tested primate babies with “surrogate mothers”. (Check search engines.)

Babies fed from wire-framed surrogates outfitted with milk bottles, then returned to comfortable cloth-covered surrogates. When cloth surrogates had milk, babies preferred them.

Babies endured incomplete experiences with uncomfortable, inadequate surrogates. Negative anticipation might’ve counteracted short-term relief as babies tolerated growing stress. Minimal physical features (milk & cloth) became less beneficial. Though one stress was temporarily eased, other long-term stresses created/extended tension.

If they could think like humans, these babies might’ve felt extreme tension when they realized necessities are missing without knowing what or why. If somebody could identify & describe missing benefits, replacements could be found or developed.

Hope is easier with knowledge. Guided identification & descriptions increase functional hope, so less-stressed customers are clear-minded & open to logical persuasion. Though persuasion can start with negative emotions, advantage offers should bring positive emotions because people feel/anticipate relief.

In-store experiences should confirm rational decisions & link logical & emotional comfort with your store.

Offers Should Start Satisfying Expectations Before Store Visits.

Like distracted humans, these babies didn’t form/have accurate expectations, but presuppositions bred frustration like humans mistakenly presupposing stores offer value.

When discounters' offers are incomplete, humans have personal, social & financial reasons to patronize multiple stores. Consumers’ reasons are your opportunities. People consciously expect cheap prices, so "saving” money increases enthusiasm. Without product specifications, people become frustrated because running store-to-store doesn't bring full remedies.

With limited knowledge & experiences, distracted consumers may perceive they're up & running but are down to barely crawling. Efforts might start well with cheap stuff, so people focus on other priorities & don't notice cheap materials breaking down.

People perceive the same products though brands cheapen product versions to appease discounters.

When standards & expectations feel normal & don't evolve, people are surprised when conditions devolve. Like babies choosing surrogates, consumers might dash to other discounters whose products have different deficiencies.

Reality becomes harder to accept, for people stressed by: unfulfilled needs, health/energy levels, priorities/time pressures, etc. Advantage offers reduce hardships & make reality more acceptable.

Yearnings probably interfered with babies' limited comfort with cloth surrogates. While with cloth surrogates, would babies ignore hunger to avoid needing wire surrogates until hunger is overwhelming? Babies were probably tense while drinking milk from wire surrogates.

For full restoration, babies need nourishment plus assurance of protection to avoid losing energy to excessive tension.

Babies' habitual tension could persist after transitioning to biological or cloth surrogates without long-term assurance.

Without uninstalling inadequate products, residual problems remain. If discounters allow refunds/exchanges, removing/uninstalling cheap products prolongs projects & delays benefits.

While coping with accident damage, people might minimally benefit from attempted repairs with cheap products. For full recovery, injured &/or exhausted people need advantages of long-term assurance, comfort & productivity. If injuries &/or exhaustion diminished work quality, benefits might be nonexistent & maintenance might not prevent damage.

Needs & desires collide while desires influence expectations & skew perceptions of “progress”.

Conflicts arise when people want enjoyable activities while avoiding/rejecting “necessary” hassles/uncomfortable tasks. Explain why high-quality products & detailed guidance are necessary for effectiveness & efficiency.

Babies weren’t relieved by two surrogates “fulfilling” basic needs. Without conscious criteria, babies expressed frustration because surrogates can't satisfy all psychological & physical needs. Even if babies grow physically, they won’t thrive without guidance & sanitation.

Two inadequate options didn’t give babies anything to improve experiences between visits.

Despite knowledge & experiences, consumers may be ill-prepared for complex details & ill-served by factless product-price ads. People need insightful information for stress-relief & clearly considering offers. Implementation consultations come later.

Use advantage offers to explain quality & inspire positive feelings, so people link positivity to you, your store & offers.

Babies Don’t Understand Limitations.

Advantage offers build understanding. If projects fail because combined product instructions aren't condition-specific, dissatisfied customers might submit bad reviews.

Customize kits for customers’ achievements in local conditions, so high expectations boost customers’ enthusiasm for projects. Enthusiasm energizes people who pay attention to details when success is probable & advantages are treasures worthy of financial, mental & physical investments.

If people feel stuck between inadequate options, details bring unnecessary frustration. Even if babies habituated to surrogates, familiarity brings more dissatisfaction.

Though people prefer confidence from fulfilled expectations, people may expect uncomfortable negatives. Familiar problems may be predictably distressing.

Explain details to various sub-niches while comparing before-&-after case studies. If your ad is online, prompt consumers to click for more information. If unfamiliar details seem overwhelming, consumers can scroll back or click links for information sources.

Help customers learn from personal histories & case studies.

With limited personal histories, babies feel unfamiliar, unexpected needs; priorities are pains or discomfort babies don’t understand. They know something's wrong & don't have remedy criteria. Babies don’t know if problems might fade, worsen &/or were worse for anybody else.

Without (cases studies) experiences & observations, babies' lives overflowed with uncertainty. They wanted immediate relief & tolerated partial stop-gaps because surrogates were vaguely mother-like in appearance & need-fulfillment. Babies could habituate to adequacy without knowing consequences of incomplete results.

AIDA Applies to Goal Achievements & Maintenance.

Without Awareness of adequate motherhood standards, babies might not pay Attention to real mothers without knowing they should be Interested. Though babies Desire combined food & comfort, acquiring mothers wouldn't be a prioritized Action despite better nutrition in milk specifically for them.

Analogy: Though people learn nutrition is important, they need knowledge to identify, locate & use nutrients. General nutrition won’t suffice for life-stage nutrient needs.

Retailers should guide people with insightful knowledge & convert Awareness into Attention & Interest.

With help in defining gaps & diagnosing problems, lives can be journeys into certainty. Retailers should mentor customers like parental friends setting guidelines, so customers discern best &/or worst practices. This certainty aids further clarification as people compare observations & facts during planning & implementation.

Gap recognition is important, so people don’t misstep or find only expected gaps. Certainty about causes & effects aids theories & testing to determine what brings satisfactory progress.

Biases Influence Prioritization.

Even if all (including solution & prevention projects) seemingly fails, new priorities are whatever hurts beyond current/previous pains. Babies have few memories & alternative perceptions, so proximity is their reality & surrogates are close.

Like consumers with only inadequate options, babies don't have reliable evaluation criteria. Your advantage offers could be niche members' last chance to avoid failure.

Limited experiences indicate immediate (ill-prepared) actions seem proper.

People don't know which facts they lack. Retailers often don't consider niche members' factual gaps. Though niches exist because members have specific interests & desires, members lack Awareness beyond narrow/limited observations & experiences. Even if people observed/experienced issues, some facts aren't obvious, so full interpretations aren't possible.

Biases often substitute for facts. Undisputed biases can become stronger. Though you might not know specific biases, help customers identify gaps, then explain how gaps interfere with achievements. Biased emotions can override/overload logic. When people claim biases are logical, create cognitive dissonance so people invest cognitive labor to accept beneficial insights & are apt to remember advantageous facts.

Which accomplishments do niche members want? Which case studies demonstrate desired accomplishments? Which beliefs & facts inspired customers to achieve those goals? How do those inspiring beliefs & facts compare to contrary limiting beliefs?

If people observed/experienced failures, possible reasons are inadequate products, inaccurate beliefs, misapplied facts &/or misinterpreted conditions. Consultations can overcome those reasons & help people discard negative biases.

Learn your niche's communication methods. Express your understanding with exploratory what-if questions. As niche members' understanding integrates with yours, progress increases.

Experimental babies didn’t have stated criteria but complained because they knew something was wrong/missing.

Complainers might think complaining is their only practical option. You might need to philosophically carry them to clear viewpoints & gesture toward valid points. Like human babies, consumers can feel bogged down & immobilized.

When failed communication becomes apparent, you can adjust & evaluate responses. Sometimes, people feel better when somebody shows enough concern to communicate. People hate indifference.

Show by comparison, you're more concerned than competitors. If your concern isn't obvious, consumers will cry louder for somebody else & express baby-like disgust without explanations. If consumers don't explain, review your efforts & compare previous responses.

Offer Example: ‘If you notice desired achievements like (advantages), you could copy what others did or think goals are out-of-reach. Here’s your better option: At (Store), let’s study your conditions & case studies to find specific products, insights, methods & skills for achieving & combining (benefits) into (advantages).’

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That’ll Never…Wow! It Works!!! Because We Added Value!

Let’s continue with events for helping consumers reset perceptions & positively evaluate options.

Sponsored events expand advantage offers as you enhance customers' productivity by decreasing stress.

Prolonged, intensive thinking increases tension which triggers defensiveness without clarifying remedies. Relaxation decreases defensiveness & opens minds.

Open-mindedness aids planning/goal-setting as you help customers select products & methods, then test preliminary approaches. After enjoying events, clear-minded customers evaluate preliminary results. With fresh perspectives, customers’ evaluations indicate whether to continue or adjust.

People should test perceptions & practices as conditions change.

Successful experimentation lifts people from dark valleys & makes peak experiences reachable. Deep valley navigational indicators are more limited than at sea-level. Celestial experiences sink if people navigate with incorrect celestial bodies.

While goal-setting, people should learn indicators for specific journeys. Storms obstruct vision & people go off-course. When contrary indicators are perceived as storms, people resist necessary changes & stay on-course. Which facts/clues interpret contrary indicators?

People may habituate to hard-to-change experimental/preliminary results because other attempts seem riskier.

Recreation Enables Satisfaction.

If people don’t cognitively adjust to current reality, biases become indicators/standards. During rests, reality bypasses biases & influences thoughts which are more comfortable than external opinions.

Decisions are based on personal interpretations of "evidence".

Reality changes while people narrowly focus ahead & hope/think "evidence" remains unchanged. Biases affect whether people notice unexpected things or think nothing matters except top priorities. Which criteria indicate priorities should change?

Analogy: Floods seem inevitable everywhere to valley dwellers who think everybody's vulnerable. Precautions seem impractical, so people prioritize controllable (possibly less important) issues.

Progress comes from forward momentum plus harnessing approaching opportunities, avoiding threats & ignoring distractions, including bland advertising.

Encourage consumers not to settle for tried-and-true options from different conditions. Roof gutters & downspouts are tried-and-true for reducing basement flooding. Catastrophic floods are at ground-level.

Learn & adapt people’s perspectives & experiences while testing. Don't assume people are correctly aware of problems, remedies &/or your store.

Old Marketing Implies Old Offers.

Experimental offers help people compare evolving experiences & expectations mentally & in real-life.

Marketing experiments & adaptations help customers experiment & adapt options for eliminating/reducing new risks & conflicts. Despite prioritizing familiarity, people want the latest, most effective, efficient options. Worn-out advertising implies outdated options.

Respite refreshes/reorients & opens minds, so thoughts are clarified. Old & new product results seem alike when minds habituate to situations & miss incremental changes. Progress & regression become apparent after fresh glances or full reevaluations, especially with updated criteria.

Use events & advertised product criteria to refresh people's perspectives for justifying new decisions. Restoration resets perceptions/perspectives for fully testing & comparing remedies to emerging trouble.

Stephen Covey emphasized urgent, important matters & advised sharpening personal “saws”.

Educational, entertainment events can refresh minds while presenting urgent, important information.

When fatigue dulls minds, results are dull. Analogy: During meal preparation, sharp minds discern unappetizing vegetable parts & sharp blades enable effective, efficient cutting without crushing veggies.

Personal preparation should include rest & high-morale. Fatigued people might not notice low-morale decreasing performance.

Meaningful successes are achieved by clear-minded people overcoming risks & conflicts. Compared to risky purchases, do consumers understand how your offers decrease risks & conflicts? After mentally advancing through problem/opportunity Awareness, Attention to, Interest in & Desire for advantages, people hesitate because purchasing Actions have consequences.

People risk insufficient funds after purchasing. Expenditures can spark internal & interpersonal conflicts.

Since consistent stress often affects other life aspects, people feel doomed when they’re fatigued by unrelated accumulating problems.

You expect consumers to spend money they’d rather keep or spend on something else. Sponsor events to develop rapport & goodwill instead of being part of consumers’ generalized stress. Retailer teammates’ customers can receive event offers & invite others. If your combined customer-base is too small for an audience & event promotion is too expensive, add charity fund-raising so publicity raises awareness.

Explain purchase advantages & consequences of not purchasing. Examples: undesirable status quo, problems worsening & FOMO. Pro & Con Charts can compare purchase benefits with nonpurchase consequences.

Intense Positives Offset Intense Negatives.

Horror stories can distract anxiety patients from real or perceived threats. (Search ‘Spooked’ Podcast Producer Eliza Smith.)

This seems counterintuitive/crazy but possibly cathartic (flushing mental residue, then resetting). Despite acknowledging fiction, patients expend energy to absorb intensity which triggers mental & physical tension. It’s effective because it’s imaginary, so people can escape if it’s too intense. Patients can control external exposures by leaving physically or switching off electronically.

Internal anxiety is harder to avoid but can be opposed without excessive measures. As treatments, products & methods can decrease/eliminate stress-triggering problems, events can relieve stress other treatments won’t.

After wringing residue from mental “sponges” &/or releasing pressure, customers can absorb resources. If conditions squeeze customers, how should they break that grip?

Your retailer team’s advantage offers & events guide customers in creating routes to leave, recover, plus gain insightful knowledge & methods to proceed incrementally while evaluating emerging results. When imaginary stimuli stop bringing relief, people can disconnect or alter approaches. If each effort brings temporary relief, results could indicate what to continue, discontinue, increase or decrease.

Like speed blurring drivers' vision, hasty people could miss details & be shocked by results.

Incremental progress might disappoint people. Testimonials & case studies can demonstrate how increments are achieved & integrated. Small improvements should be interpreted as successful experiments to consolidate into advantages. Disappointments are feedback about aiming/direction, target types/sizes, distances &/or choosing conditions & basing goals on abilities in specific conditions.

Despite tolerating but not controlling factors, people can try resettling/reoccupying their rightful places/spaces to limit vulnerability. As control slips, stress increases & makes control harder so people don’t recognize their lives or personal conditions as what they planned. If plans seemingly never work, people surrender & retailers lose customers.

Difficulties Seemingly Dig Claws In Without Letting Go.

Despite frustrations, functional hope encourages striving to loosen or break troublesome grips. If attempts fall short, guide people in learning from results to make products & methods compatible with changing conditions.

Constant cognitive labor adds fatigue & frustration. During conscious breaks, subconscious minds can clarify questions & answers about processing & integrating details to innovate ideas for testing.

After major attempts, consider what’s different about products, methods & conditions? What would make those differences/changes beneficial or less troublesome? Are those differences inconvenient bumps or overwhelming obstacles?

If there aren’t case studies, what indicates alternative routes to advantages? People might perceive alternative routes as identical or like previous rocky roads. Though refutation can be hard, explain how advanced inputs bring advantageous outputs.

When stress warps thoughts, changes could be misunderstood. Help people feel better & clarify perceptions.

Stressors don’t seem so bad when comedy diverts attention & people laugh. Thoughtfulness, productivity & joy aren’t compatible with anxiety. Productive thoughts can flow while minds are free.

Theory: As subconscious minds strive for homeostasis, fluctuating stress & relief disrupt habituation. Positive experiences bring conscious enjoyment for restoring/resetting homeostasis while subconscious minds analyze causes & effects.

Resets might not be peaks but can bring higher beneficial increments leading to advantages. Whether advancement is short or long-term, help people associate your retailer team’s advantage offers & events with personal positive resets. Remind customers/event participants about benefits & offer insightful knowledge & methods to combine benefits into advantages.

While positives interrupt negative patterns, people can function & respond to offers including test messages about general or specific relief.

Retailers might hesitate about specific offers applying to issues or personal desires consumers won’t acknowledge.

When responding to offers, people can embrace or disregard multiple specifics without acknowledging problems. Reticular-Activating-Systems can grasp any applicable benefits & urge conscious minds to fulfill AIDA. Listing multiple specifics invites people to accept desired benefits.

Offer Example: ‘(Event) includes (subject specialists) & (entertainers). You might need information about (subjects) or relief from (problems) & concerns about (emerging troubles). (Entertainers) will bring you joy, so you can set stress aside & absorb facts from (subject specialists) empowering you to create (advantages). (Retailer teammates) have high-quality (materials) & specialized (tools) plus tips for applying insightful knowledge. (Event) combines dual benefits to boost your mood & productivity. (Retailer teammates) are dedicated to improving local people’s lives.’

Deliverance might be incremental & essential for functional hope. When people are relieved, minds are open to positive impacts. Overwhelmed people overcome negativity & validate functional hope while incrementally increasing successes.

Excessive mental & physical stress wastes energy. Examples: Ignoring headaches & other internal distractions requires energy needed for external activities. If you tense muscles past fatigue, tension is involuntarily released but pain remains while your anatomy uses energy to clear cellular waste. When tension isn’t released, inward blood flow & energy renewal are restricted because waste is retained.

Cells & people’s lives need available capacity to receive resources. As people try squeezing in more work, they might block necessary renewal for productive & innovative energy.

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Reduce Customers’ Stress with High-quality Products, Insight-based Methods & Sponsored Experiences.

Seemingly short-term issues can necessitate time-consuming relief & preventive maintenance.

Customer integration becomes like people reaching into closets for similar or upgraded resources for recurring or long-term issues. When retailers integrate into lives, consistent offers inform/remind customers about conveniently available resources. Like valets monitoring closets, retailers should anticipate customers' needs/desires.

Functional hope is dashed by uncertainty about problem diagnoses, remedy dependability & personal abilities. People reach for certainty & preparedness from customer integrators having local knowledge & product specifications for determining what fills gaps.

Consumers strive for functional hope to confirm current progress creates & conserves goal achievements.

People need morale boosts when projects are long &/or expected trouble potentially defeats prevention efforts. Though people might like persisting to finish projects, intermittent rest is important.

When you explain causes & effects of their challenges, justify/give “permission” for customers to refresh & return with renewed perspectives. Explain how unrelieved stress aggravates other problems.

When people are fatigued or too mentally & physically close to problems, they might miss big picture factors & may be frustratingly unaware of progress. Big picture factors might distract confused people who continue without noticing mistakes disrupting progress.

With retailer teammates, you can boost progress with resources & relieve stress with event sponsorships.

Between steps & after achievements, spectator entertainment & recreational challenges are diverting. Events can bring quick relief, but anticipation (based on compelling descriptions) & memories bring some freedom.

Despite great endurance today, tomorrow’s stress plus unresolved issues pile on people who need escape.

Though people coped before, individual differences & stress severities change tipping points. So, like teeter-totters/see-saws raise people, more leverage &/or weight is necessary to raise people above troubles or temporarily lift loads.

As stress continues, minds focus on but eventually magnify perceived immediate threats. Relief lets minds rest while backing away & gaining wider understanding of how factors interact positively or negatively.

Hopeful people seek offers & become frustrated without clearly understanding causes & effects. Customer integrators explain how high-quality products & insightful knowledge effectuate each other. Despite how much cognitive labor people invest, they might not understand why previously successful products & knowledge become inadequate after conditional changes.

Unrelated Entertainment Interrupts Mental Patterns by Resetting Moods & Thoughts.

People don't feel free to step away if progress/project completion requires vigilance. Total vigilance requires restorative self-care.

Like a combined Atlas & Sisyphus analogy, people's worlds are on their shoulders. Shrugging would cause their worlds to roll off which necessitates retrieval & heaving while restarting uphill. Explain how advantage offers bring maintainable progress without constant sacrifices.

Full relief & prevention can be time-consuming even for short-term issues. Consumers have many simultaneous recurring & long-term issues. Customer integrators learn customers' goals & obstacles. Inventory & knowledge-bases are necessary resources to reduce local obstacles & establish achievement routes.

Hopeful people seek offers & become frustrated without clearly understanding causes & effects. Customer integration builds functionality so customers develop functional hope when specialist retailers determine criteria for conditions & goals.

Retailers Can Sponsor &/or Create Events.

Events link sponsors with entertainment benefits. Offer post-event advantages to increase value. When events empower customers &/or boost moods, you can renew some benefits with reminders.

When events relate to advantage offers, your messages add value to events. Example: Contestants use tools & materials to achieve enduring success. Supply products & include messages so audiences observe & desire advantages.

Advantage offers bring necessary effectiveness & efficiency for escaping stress & gaining freedom to pursue enjoyment.

People might not experience freedom because heavy stress disrupts essential positive feelings, energy & strength for confidently settling issues. Fatigue decreases confidence & that condition reduces energy & motivation.

Public event attendance requires personal freedom to mentally & physically set stressors aside. Events help people recover energy & functional hope messages restore motivation.

Functional hope ensures progress won't deteriorate while people recover. After recovery, people have clearer minds to focus on the present, so they remember & process details.

Retailer Teams Provide Resources for Progress &/Or Recovery.

Though people need to compartmentalize to limit stress exposure & fully focus, develop advantage offers for total life contexts.

Offer Example: 'When you (action), your progress is secure because (Store) offers advantages of high-quality (products) plus implementation guidance. Enjoy recreation after finishing project steps, so you’ll return refreshed & fully benefit from (result). Despite feeling relieved by finished projects, discounters’ customers may stress over poor quality. (Store) advantage offers bring assurance, so you’ll know project steps are secure as you rest before preparing for more progress.'

Help customers determine if they want events related to regular experiences or activities to draw attention from concerns.

Do customers want connections with similar people for comradery & be pleasantly distracted or share insightful information?

Temporary breaks ease stress & open minds to confidence-building insights for confronting troubles.

Advertising & event combinations may bring what’s needed, but people are Interested in fulfilling Desires. So, build AIDA including pleasant anticipation.

Explain event criteria so expectations lead to accepting experiences & people will acknowledge then use offered value. If events go as you intended but differently than participants expected, you might feel successful but participants won't achieve fulfillment.

For maximum positivity, which patterns should customers support, adjust or temporarily interrupt? What can customers integrate before events to maximize experience value? What will you offer during/after events to expand value?

How much excitement/adventure will maximize entertainment? Do people want transitory experiences to clear mental/physical slates?

States-of-being can have definite or nebulous boundaries. Eventually, people need reboots to clear residual stress. Without clear boundaries, residual stress traps people who don't know if they're getting out or going deeper.

Overwhelmed people deal with nebulous boundaries while trying to transition between responsibilities. Clear focus is necessary to maximize benefits but residual stress weighs on people or pulls them back.

Unrelated events can beneficially divert attention from long-term tasks & relieve neural networks developed for optimizing functions. Total life functionality declines when people aren't psychologically & biologically restored.

Even thoroughly equipped consumers need rest without losing progress. Your advantage offers & event sponsorships can help customers return to tasks without having to restart momentum.

In personal & public events, do people want to be entertained, or be entertainers?

How much skill & luck maximize adventures? What's the minimum accepted excitement? How long will active excitement last?

How much fulfillment will exciting memories restore? Which souvenirs & sensory reminders will bring back/hold benefits? What can be added later for variety without losing desired familiarity?

Familiar aspects connect new experiences with life factors people want to retain & can help them obtain compatible experiences & resources for integrated benefits.

Here’s a summary of Jeff Snyder’s “Crafting Effective Brand Activations: How To Align With Community Values”. https://www.mediapost.com/publications/article/401605/crafting-effective-brand-activations-how-to-align.html

Synder wrote right brand activation events are game-changing decisions. Beyond visibility, events create connections & foster long-term brand loyalty with the right audience.

With relevant events aligned with community values, brands can craft deeply resonating experiences for fostering relationships.

Brands can build trust by demonstrating deep understanding & respect for their community's values.

By resonating emotionally, brands can create stronger personal relationships with audiences. With emotional brand connections, customers are 71% more likely to recommend brands.

Brand activation creation involves close attention for managing audience emotions. With direct audience engagement, brands can create personalized resonating experiences.

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Synder wrote about personalized resonating experiences. Public events can resonate in people like bells responding to vibrations matching their general or specific tones/frequencies. (If you want physics details, you can search frequencies & resonance of bells & crystals.)

Physical properties determine which megahertz ranges cause object vibrations. Think about how glass shatters during exposures to sound frequency & duration. That analogizes how much & long people can withstand specific stresses.

Distracted workers might be unaware of which stress will cause breakdowns. Despite previous stressful experiences triggering symptoms, people survive & think they, loved ones or possessions will be OK. People, plants & buildings survive storms but become too weak for subsequent minor weather.

Specialist retailers should share criteria so niche members are aware of excessive stress indicators.

We’ve been analogizing salmon based on Marshall Goldsmith’s "What Got You Here Won't Get You There".

What’s necessary for people to Get relief (“There”) & return (“Here”) after projects?

After thriving in oceans, are salmon equipped to survive in (somewhat familiar) natal rivers? Success delusion seemingly causes salmon to believe they’ll automatically survive after spawning & returning to oceans.

People are warned: Correlation isn’t cause & effect. Warn people about comparisons.

Though some major factors are similar, people might fail despite previous success with discounters’ products. As problem severity increases, quality of discounters’ products decreases.

Help customers evaluate all relevant factors instead of rushing through research & comparisons. Events can be breaks from stress & rewards for starting, progressing &/or completing projects.

No matter how urgently important goals are, ensure you & niche members also establish & preserve good health. Health affects personal longevity & how long people actively enjoy or remember advantages.

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Create Enough Control to Preempt Customers’ Hesitation.

We’ve covered helping customers gain/regain control with advantage offers.

Case studies demonstrate successful methods for incrementally influencing conditions & easing stress, so customers confidently, precisely focus on details.

People are distracted & lose track of details when priorities & stresses pile-up. If efforts & resources are expended on Priority-1, would people lose Priority-2 limited-time opportunities? Would Priority-3 problems become worse?

People don't like settling for less than their aspirations.

Compare case studies of people who: 1) did & didn’t invest in advantages &/or 2) succeeded because they stopped hesitating. Describe everything customers gain from advantage offers, so do-it-yourselfers don’t resist full-service offers.

Offer Example: ‘Though you're rightfully proud of your skills, are you prepared as challenges of (season) approach. As you repair __, can you fully prepare for (opportunity)? If you run out-of-time, anticipation will become stress. (Contractor) can quickly repair __ while you learn about (opportunity) options & enjoy the anticipation. (Contractor) will help you proudly fulfill priorities plus enjoy (opportunity).'

Ask about customers' impressions before & after projects. Testimonials may express, 'Though others enjoyed (advantage), I hesitated after friends failed with cheap products. (Store) consultations showed success comes from (brand) products & planned projects. I can't bring back lost opportunities. I'm glad I have (advantage) now.'

Customer integration advantage offers & in-store experiences can inspire testimonials like that.

To develop offers, answer these:

After discovering opportunities, why do people advance, hesitate, not try or quit? Without insightful knowledge, consumers might have regrets after misunderstanding circumstances & offers. Advantage offers should clarify problem remedies & opportunity maximizing.

For your niche's circumstances, what makes customers' needs/desires urgent? What about that urgency makes your offers essential? If customers don't have money & time for urgent projects, what's the next best occasion & how does it compare to the best?

Limited-time offers are arbitrary. What makes any expiration date better than another? Why did customers perceive your suggested actions as superior to competitors’ offers? What would inspire customers’ self-confidence & confidence in products?

Uncertainty seems to justify hesitation. Raise assurance enough to make hesitation unnecessary & counterproductive.

Case studies help consumers relate to customers’ stories plus understand your insightful services bring more benefits than competitors' generic results. By comparing advertising & in-store experiences, consumers will recognize product value increases because of your understanding & desire to learn.

Advantage offers convert customers’ wishful thinking into functional hope. Customer integration practices are bridges bringing customers back for more value.

Use Customer Intimacy & Product Leadership to compete with competitors specializing in Operational Excellence/Leadership.

Progress & Stagnation - Which Brings More Risks?

Whether perceptions are accurate or false, what would indicate consumers should wait for information or stop projects? What would consumers gain &/or avoid losing if they wait or stop?

Issues have multiple factors & actions might affect some factors more than others. Consider positive & negative causes & effects. What if "A" happens, but "B" doesn't happen as expected?

Offer Example: ‘Let’s be realistic. People hesitate because they don’t know how to create & preserve (advantage). They don’t want to fail or lose (advantage) after succeeding. (Store) advantage offers include high-quality products chosen for your goals & circumstances so you succeed. You'll learn preventative maintenance specifically for (advantage) & won't lose enjoyment & fulfilling memories. Instead of thinking about risks of losing (advantage), consider what you’ll lose if you never have (advantage). (Store) is dedicated to functional hope, so avoid wishful thinking & we’ll build functionality.’

“Normal” Normally Isn’t.

We're avoiding human stereotypes by anthropomorphizing bears & salmon while continually expanding Marshall Goldsmith’s analogy to avoid success delusion & spawn insights.

As predators, salmon & piranhas have different tastes & abilities. Piranhas may be satisfied if they eat enough bears. If bears stay away, what will piranhas do? Can salmon better defend against or escape from bears or piranhas?

Bears are major threats, but salmon shouldn’t rush into alternatives without considering potential problems then testing effectiveness & efficiency. Though piranhas bring advantageous relief, disadvantages negate advantages.

Since they don’t always survive bear attacks, salmon don't develop self-defense techniques. Piranhas are unfamiliar with local conditions & to salmon. Species differences bring unpredictability.

When salmon react to unexpected effects, their reactions can cause unexpected effects. Though fish seem familiar & salmons’ circumstances are familiar, it’s important to avoid force-fitting facts & biases. Salmon & piranhas might bond based on similarities, but their mission success could be jeopardized by ignored differences.

Case study similarities might be incompatible with goals. Cold, oxygenated fresh & salt water are good for salmon but not piranhas. After meeting salmon in oceans, piranhas had difficulties switching to swimming upstream in rivers.

Salmon described conditions as normal except for bears, so piranhas thought they’d easily adjust to environmental & work conditions.

Their species might not survive if salmon stop spawning because of bear attacks. Salmon leaders could promise followers safety with a slogan: 'Piranhas will swim with us!' Followers might misunderstand & ask, 'Will bears eat piranhas not us?'

Effective offers require clearly understood advantages.

Be Careful What You Wish For!

Outsiders’ observations & experiences affect perceived logic of people's plans. Others might not notice causes or recognize slowly emerging internal & external effects. Learn about niche members, so you can blend objectivity with their subjective perceptions.

Help customers interpret observations & experiences with insightful knowledge. People might assume correlation is causation or concurrent effects have the same cause.

Many bears switched to other “normal” conditions by moving upstream to shallower water to avoid drowning. Some piranhas claimed success when few bears attacked. Salmon retorted, “Bears weren’t expected to attack YOU!”

It’s vital to define success metrics, expectations & impressions (“normal”).

Fish assumed they’re safe until they couldn’t swim & flee in shallow water. Bears learned to decrease their disadvantages & increase salmons’ & piranhas’ disadvantages. Swimming difficulties impeded almost 100% of their plan.

Commit to Goals, not Methods.

Salmon seem committed to spawning without considering alternative times & locations could better fit their requirements.

Help customers recover from mistakes & avoid risks. Encourage openness to input. Determine project irreversibility points when customers can consider stopping to resell kits.

Sales may be final, but resale & rentals open options when conditions make plans unsustainable. Resale values are lower than retail prices, but when customers invest in top-quality products, some value is retained. Discontinue if rental/resale promotions become unprofitable.

Offer Example: 'Plans go astray when people misinterpret information & observations. Customers take responsibility for consequences & consult with (Store) to reinterpret & replan. Don’t reject negative reality. Report triumphs & tribulations, so we can change methods & resource combinations to decrease negatives & increase positives. Ask for information packets from (Store). If you're serious about creating benefits, let's plan positive steps. (Store) has rental tools & used materials for beginners.'

If customers inquire without buying, offer consulting: 'If you're inquiring because of curiosity, I'll supply information packets. When you’re ready to create (benefits), let me know you're ready to plan.'

People should prepare for more, similar & less stressful conditions to ensure they maintain control. Progress isn't permanent without consistent or adjusted efforts.

Which resources should be reserved for future prevention or repairs? How much control do customers need for being & feeling safe? How much control & risk can they afford? How much & what kinds of controls are practical, attainable & sustainable? How much & what kinds of risks are possible, practical &/or tolerable?

Products May Be Low-Priced or Seem Impressive, But Prices or Impressiveness Don't Solve Problems.

Bears decreased attacks when piranhas were present, so hungry piranhas blamed & attacked salmon. The next attempt was piranhas wearing salmon costumes to fool bears. What could go wrong?

That's a discounter question. Instead of real remedies, discounters try imitations.

Piranhas couldn't fight in costumes & were vulnerable because of trouble removing costumes during attacks. Hungry bears eat whichever fish are vulnerable. Hungry, costumed piranhas fooled & bit salmon. Some salmon tried piranha costumes but were attacked by salmon gangs. Bears swarmed in while fish were fighting.

Remote-controlled piranha drones didn't work for thumb-less salmon.

Discounters advertised preprogrammed Piranha Drone-Amatics. Those drones had impressive names & scary appearances, but bears weren't impressed or scared.

Real problems are like that. No matter how cheap discount products are, problems aren't impressed. Problems grow despite or because of cheap products. Low-prices bring instant gratification, so explain why advantage offers establish long-term gratification of functional hope.

Product prices & appearances don't increase functionality. Functional hope brings personal benefits when functionality increases opportunities &/or decreases troubles.

Cheap prices let people keep money, but are they comfortable with incomplete remedies? How much & what kinds of functionality bring hope? It's important to know what went wrong & could fail without full remedies.

When they haven't fully defined problems, consumers don't fully understand necessary functionality. Differentiate your store by explaining how to create functionality in specific circumstances to increase customers’ understanding & functional hope.

As a specialist retailer, increase customers’ satisfaction by helping with cognitive labor.

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Avoid Encouraging Consumers to Ignore Advertising.

People avoid wasting resources on anything perceived as unproductive.

You'll maximize advertising efficacy by testing offers & using consultations to learn consumers' perceptions of current & potential circumstances. While withholding direct criticism of customers' goals, you can lead people to persuade themselves to adjust perceptions & goals.

Offer Example: '(Store) offers (products) & insightful knowledge for shaping (results) into advantages. Imagine checking your house for (problem) without dread because (Store) guidance will link your product choices with instructions for achieving your goal. You can end (problem) & create progress with less stress because you created new advantages.'

Don't risk big bucks without knowing how consumers perceive reality. Learn their beliefs about their abilities to shape reality. Consistently test offers & adjust after interviewing respondents.

Apparently, retailers assume consumers are motivated to accept ads. Consumers consistently need/want benefits, but questionable claims & bland offers indicate advertising isn't worthy of attention. Advantage offers build on Awareness by earning Attention, Interest, Desire & Action.

Advantage Offers Motivate Consumers To Accept Ads.

People are motivated or naturally inclined to approach familiar locations & resources for opportunities plus avoid potentially threatening unfamiliar things.

Advantage offers are different than competitors' bland ads & stimulate curiosity by establishing consumers' awareness of valuable options for creating remedies & opportunities. Ads should demonstrate you understand niche members enough to help them escape trouble, change directions & achieve goals.

Overwhelmed people temporarily avoid exploration & might skip limited time/supply offers, while resting or recovering from stress. Avoidance can become habitual stagnation despite an uncomfortable status quo. Habits seemingly have gravitational pull & breaking free includes techniques for maximizing products to establish traction & momentum.

Setbacks Break Momentum by Undermining Traction

Advantage offers explain basics so consumers recognize their circumstances & realize you can guide their steps for maximum traction & minimum slippage.

Even uncomfortable mistakes can become habitual when overwhelmed people don't recognize negatives or positive alternatives. Explain why offers are viable options via step-by-step understanding. Example: (Symptom) indicates (cause). Step-1 uses (product) to start (process) which is necessary because __.

Build insightful local knowledge to develop questions about maximizing suppliers' offers & for guiding customers' expectations & actions.

Ask customers for reports plus request suppliers' testimonial & case study files to demonstrate why product & technique combinations bring advantages. These establish foundations for offers & consultations. Exchange insightful information in updated consultations when customers return for more advantages.

Adapt insights into offers. Example: Customer- 'When I used (products & techniques), I got (benefit).' Retailer- 'By adding (Product-A & Technique-B) to (benefit), you can increase it to (advantage).'

Future Offer: 'It's time to plan for (benefit). (Store) consultations explore your expectations to refine your goals. Let's consider your skills & conditions, so you'll sharpen your ability to do (techniques) & maximize (products) for creating (advantage).'

Increase Your Sales by Increasing Value.

My advice integrates your store into customers' lives & integrates their successes into your success. If you reject this advice, how will you differentiate offers & your store?

Typical advertising ('Product-X $7.99') doesn't offer better experiential opportunities or observable remedies. Would you buy from somebody yelling, 'Widgets $56'

Test compelling descriptions because people might ignore nondescript or redundant offers. When you test product combinations & offer statements you might attract consumers who weren't impressed by previous offers.

Motivate People to Move Toward Your Offers.

When actions & increased comfort correlate, people feel approaches or avoidance bring progress.

Advantage offers induce people to approach for new & upgraded experiences or problem avoidance. Activity exploration & planning can increase motivation because people anticipate better options especially when your retailer team offers disruption avoidance. How much disruption is preventable if customers can prepare?

Analogy: As Problem-ABCD starts, can customers avoid D, reduce C & quickly repair AB damage? After repairs, which offers would help customers personally recover enough to enjoy opportunities? How can your retailer teammates help customers confidently prepare for trouble & plan opportunities?

As stress dispels positivity from people's minds, how will you explain offers so functional hope & motivation relieve stress. After consumers feel that relief, they want more. Help people accept your advantage offers by explaining how you improve functionality.

Consider Consumers' Issues When You Develop Offers.

Do customers have updated knowledge about problems & techniques while planning to approach opportunities & avoid problems? If you don't offer knowledge updates, how will customers choose the best retailer, products & techniques?

If people are dissatisfied with previous offers & uninterested in stale promotion methods, how will you achieve AIDA?

Determine whether to motivate consumers to continue actions, adjust or change directions. After that, find THEIR reasons for actions instead of trying to persuade people to adopt YOUR motivations.

To prepare for or preserve opportunities, which disruptions do customers need to avoid? Do consumers recognize existing disruptions? How do consumers define opportunities & disruptions? How do you help customers maximize opportunities & minimize disruptions?

Fill consumers' knowledge gaps with insightful facts to create understanding of ways your offers fill gaps between conditions & consumers' goals.

Help consumers understand facts. Expectations drive purchases when people make assumptions about conditions, products & methods. As you learn about common assumptions, your ads should clarify issues. Do niche members expect superior advantages from generic products or methods?

Assumption-Based Actions Resemble Magical Thinking.

As we continue with magical thinking from January, let's avoid more human stereotypes by anthropomorphizing bears & salmon & extend Marshall Goldsmith’s analogy about success delusion.

I don't mean people believe they're magical.

Human nature imitates salmon nature when anybody assumes experiences indicate future consequences. Ocean-bound salmon swim to opportunities & away from problems. Rocks, logs, weeds & predators in shallow rivers are unfamiliar challenges for salmon.

Predators notice salmon swimming/leaping over obstacles. Air-borne salmon swim (they can't fly) & try swimming motions to break predators' grips. They swim toward spawning areas as if swimming is their only requirement. Their main activity is swimming since it matches their abilities. Swimming has always been sufficient, why change now?

If they prepare & don't let predators take control, salmon could use their tails to slap predators then escape while predators attempt self-defense. (It works in cartoons! OOPS! Magical Thinking!)

What would demonstrate benefits of preparations, so people accept offers? What could persuade people to adopt other resources for more abilities & be thoroughly prepared? How would you explain thorough preparation based on customers' needs/desires, goals & expectations?

People's actions & attitudes seem to mimic spawning salmon as they return to natal rivers without considering other options & planning precautions. Salmon hatchlings don't have the same experiences as adults swimming upstream. If they'd remember any details, evidence-based comparisons could be reality checks.

Consultations could prompt adults to remember river & personal conditions. For multiple spawning species, adults' case studies would help future spawners.

You can work with groups to create advantages based on members' varying experience levels. You & members can combine experiences, insights, & knowledge with physical resources to spawn advantages for each.

Conditions Analogy: 'Salmon hatchlings swam through small spaces & weren't noticed by predators. While swimming/leaping over rocks, adults are caught or barely escape. If they had known water-levels (condition-A) would change; they would've searched for camouflage (resource-B) & prepared to blend in (do action-C), so they could spawn (achieve result-D).

Human Consultation: As you remember (condition-A), what do you expect when you return? By looking at these pictures or scouting the area, you'll notice (condition-A) changed. Do you want to achieve (result-D)? Are you prepared to do (action-C)? (Discounters) have (resource-B-minus) & don't demonstrate it. I'll demonstrate how to use (resource-B+plus). Its advantage over (resource-B-minus) is __. (Resource-B+plus) makes (result-D) achievement easier because __.'

Many fish aren't threatened by bears & don't have lessons for salmon. They need to consult with or be escorted by piranha because salmon physical options are limited. Choices seem to be pre-ordained by salmon nature but self-inflicted limits are optional.

After bears teach cubs about piranha, salmon could use Anti-Predator-X piranha drones. (Work with me, OK!?)

What evidence would show which product & technique options advantageously fulfill desires so customers are persuaded to invest?

Great Lakes salmon might reject anti-predator products because salmon eat other species. If you offered Anti-Predator-X $38 without explanations, it would be irrational to expect anybody to magically recognize it & its benefits.

Salmon busily strive to fulfill responsibilities without knowing about land-based predators (humans & birds) because few salmon escape & inform others. After surviving for years without protection, salmon might magically assume a need for protection is a myth because salmon are the only serious predators.

Some sport-fishers catch-&-release salmon, who could think they escaped but deny being caught.

You won't persuade everybody. You only need to attract the persuadable with questions braggarts won't answer. Fishing-line breakers could claim they're too smart to be caught but how did they get that hook-shaped mouth jewelry?

Consultation Analogy: 'Lures seem attractive but real organisms look like (insects) & move like (wiggling motion). Use Hook-Detector to confirm safe food.'

Thank you for using my blog. Please let me know if I should clarify anything.

Copyright 2024 Dennis S. Vogel All rights reserved.

When you compete against big businesses with big budgets you need powerful marketing strategies & tactics. You'll find them here- https://thriving-small-businesses.blogspot.com/