Differentiate Your Business For Doubters.

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

Harlow’s babies had oxygen, milk & minimal comfort. After determining objective & subjective life necessities, research could reveal whether subjects/victims tolerate or reject perceived shortages.

Will humans’ toleration end because: 1-relief never comes; 2-remedies are overpriced, incomplete &/or cause other trouble; 3-finished remedies are short-term? How long will anybody wait without satisfaction before seeking relief or surrendering?

Babies couldn’t verbalize feelings, describe unsatisfied needs or dodge harms. It’s like humans trapped in quicksand without recognized escape methods & routes. Outsiders may misperceive & say, “Get out of the puddle!”

Frustrating attempts disrupt functional hope unless people are assured about other testing options & customizing emerging benefits. Failure is disempowering, but power is preserved by learning from evaluated results.

Request customers’ reports for follow-up consultations. Testimonials & case studies can clarify how adjustments brought higher success than comparable efforts without your guidance.

If new customers’ descriptions aren’t clear, compare similar cases. Customers might recognize observations & experiences matching theirs.

Specialist retailers help customers evaluate circumstantial factors, recognize problems & plan remedies. In effect, competitors may be outsiders unable/unwilling to recognize & verbalize problems & remedies.

Customer integration grows stronger as people’s understanding improves consultation participation & perspectives about making higher investments for high-quality.

Will frustration & perceived inconveniences degrade into infuriation & perceived dangers? People might be tempted to emotionally "diagnose" problems, instead of feeling stumped by unfamiliar symptoms. People naturally prepare for recognized problems, right? Could problems be so bad if they don’t fit people’s preparation skills & resources?

Big retail customers might buy/use wrong or inadequate products & think/imagine problems are over.

If problems worsen, people doubt possible remedies.

Differentiate Advantage Offers For Countering Specific Doubts.

Before customers integrate your store into their lives, you’ll have doubts to overcome.

Doubters are stressed & mistrust facts for various reasons. Business differentiation shouldn't appeal to generalized consumers. Easily persuaded customers can build self-confidence & functional hope with products. This momentum & social proof can coax doubters.

Differentiate offers to fill knowledge & physical gaps, so doubters can be attracted by referrals, testimonials & case studies.

Cynics may bitterly believe high-quality doesn’t exist & reject proof. Despite internal conflicting beliefs, doubters may realize or want to believe better truths probably exist externally. Provide & apply those truths to doubters’ circumstances.

Consultations help doubters determine IF better options exist/could be created. Help customers determine indicators of successful problem remedies.

Offer Example: ‘Since cheap products disappoint people & many retailers won’t guide customers, your doubts are justified. For your needed remedies, schedule (Store) consultations for diagnosing problems before trying remedies. Step-by-step customized kits incrementally advance remedies. If preliminary results don’t fit criteria, let’s adjust products &/or instructions for sustainable advantages.’

If they want functional hope, doubters accept case studies. Cases won't happen until people experiment in their circumstances.

Harlow's babies expressed stress but coping mechanisms didn't accurately address problems.

Frustration adds more pain when humans sense, but don't recognize exact problems. After misdiagnosing problems & choosing inappropriate coping mechanisms, people might still trust their diagnoses & become more skeptical of mechanisms.

Depending on perceived options, frustrations could push people to test alternatives or surrender.

Nagging, unresolved subjective necessities seem to grow. Multiple minor complaints combine into major loads.

Though you can’t change people's budgets & credit-limits, your advantage offers can reduce stress. Justify new attempts with functional hope from guidance to adapt specific goals for circumstances.

After desires are justified, budgets & options can be adjusted based on results from case studies & new customer reports.

Example: Option-1 might be immediately effective. Option-2 might be effective longer. Option-3 might be consistently effective, but short-term. Option-4 might be less technical but slowly lose effectiveness despite maintenance efforts.

Which option best fits budgets & expectations? Desirability & pricing might depend mostly on when benefits begin, peak, fade &/or end. Are remedies complete & include long-term prevention? Help customers balance needs, desires, expectations & affordability of creating new realities.

Generally, people invest to enjoy opportunities (pride, status, enrichments) after remedying/preventing stress (ill-health, property damage, social troubles).

For cognitive labor to conquer uncertainty, people must know which facts apply to causes & effects plus advance goal achievements.

Potential Uncertainty Issues: How far will people go mentally/physically to find certainty? What/how much will people do to obtain & maintain opportunities/remedies?

If people start projects, which problems interfere with creating & keeping opportunities? Are stress-levels related to remedy costs & offset by opportunity value?

If problem causes are unfamiliar, people might not know about severity of effects. Perceptions could signify minor causes, so people procrastinate. But what if untreated effects continue, fade or grow?

Is time available for thinking before interventions? If hasty plans don’t fit conditions & goals, is there time to restart?

Solve Confusion Before Problems.

Consumers value people’s knowledge & opinions. Urge niche members to seek your advice after asking how others understand opportunities & problems. Causes & effects may seem minor externally even to empathetic loved ones.

Problems are personally perceived internally & can undermine health in ways outsiders don’t understand.

Case studies & testimonials can explain how your advantage offers relieve specific troubles. Stress-relief clears minds, so customers can conquer other causes.

Some may interpret “subjective necessities” as oxymoronic. Objective necessities fulfill confirmed survival needs & fill/prevent some subjective gaps.

When people are stuck in subjective gaps, causes may be invisible, but noticeable stress effects may be misunderstood externally &/or internally. How long can anybody tolerate subjective stressors?

When total fulfillment isn't possible/available or affordable, which substitutes increase confidence & comfort enough to justify purchases plus learning methods?

Clayton Christensen advocated marketing based on people's jobs-to-be-done. Before/during/after using your offers, how much control/influence do people have over jobs-to-be-done effectiveness & efficiency?

Harlow’s newborns had “job-openings” without information to describe mothers'/“applicants” qualifications & unfulfilled duties, so indefinite/undefined problems/gaps brought definite frustrations.

When you help customers describe opportunities or gaps, jobs-to-be-done descriptions are easier.

Surrogates couldn't guide babies in maximizing benefits like mothers could. If self-determined babies controlled access to milk & "comfort" from surrogates, access didn't increase quality.

Self-determination is important for feeling comfortably secure if people know what they should control & how. But self-determination is incomplete without beneficial, reachable resources &/or ability to acquire better options. Self-advocacy requires knowledge of procedures & evaluating disruptions.

Beholding benefits seemingly indicate opportunity availability, but customers must create & preserve favorable conditions. Without that ability, stress increases if people predict they wouldn’t enjoy those “benefits” again.

If attempts fail as people test methods, desperation becomes another symptom as relief seems further out-of-reach. Without relevant experiences, babies weren’t aware surrogates couldn’t actively fulfill needs. It’s like people reaching for relief without recognition criteria or accurate knowledge for using available resources.

Without criteria to recognize maternal practices, babies wouldn’t automatically recognize authentic mothers. If newborns rejected surrogates & disregarded mothers, unfulfilled needs would cause more stress. Without “trial offers”, newborns wouldn’t recognize mothers’ physical traits as qualifications until demonstrated practices help babies confirm benefits.

Based on human criteria, laboratory conditions may've seemed better than nature, but Harlow's babies became more stressed.

Your perceptions of local conditions & potential advantages aren't enough to persuade niche members. Develop offers based on members' perceptions & understanding. Make it easier by influencing their perceptions & understanding.

Potentially True Analogy: While contractors coaxed people to build the Panama Canal, workers stopped working after satisfying their financial needs. Contractors experienced high living standards, but laborers didn't know earning more money could bring more enjoyment. Contractors distributed catalogs to show advanced products & explained how to upgrade lifestyles. Laborers were inspired & worked longer to finish the canal. This fits my functional hope concept.

Without functional hope, Harlow's babies became more uncomfortable. If they could've understood & believed experiment results were necessary for future functional hope, babies' physical pain might’ve been less distressing. But distress wouldn’t end because upgrades wouldn’t improve surrogates much.

It’d be like tolerating cheap stuff while saving money for upgrading cheap stuff. Advantages would be possible only with high-quality replacements.

If humans feel discomfort worsens & functional hope doesn't exist for recovery, mental stress combines with physical discomfort. This combined stress is hard to resist as fatigue overwhelms people.

If scientists quantified & stabilized total pain, that "progress" wouldn't directly enhance subjective coping mechanisms. Coping mechanisms might be stable or improved if you & your retail teammates offer progress & future functional hope.

Offer Example: ‘Though you’re familiar with your situation, (problem) seems strange. By the time, you learn the definite diagnosis & examine extensive damage; symptoms will worsen while you handle other priorities. You need answers & might need help forming meaningful questions to find appropriate answers. In (Store) consultations, let’s review your pictures, observations & checklists, so we’ll develop questions to bring necessary answers. When people don’t know exactly what’s wrong, any cheap products & chores seem adequate. Before you start, let’s define the impact you need & set your goal, so your product & method choices will maximize your achievements.’

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Customer Integration Is Beyond Niche Marketing. Integrate Advantages Into Specific Lives.

As you integrate into niche members’ lives, learn what’s challenging & offensive.

Examples: Challenge people to test approaches- ‘You’ll develop (benefits) by learning & testing alternative methods. While learning from results, adapt product & method choices. You’ll learn to change your conditions plus adapt to unchangeable factors.’ People feel insulted by accusations- ‘Why haven’t you tried (methods)? Stop fighting changes & use (resources) to manage factors & create (benefits).’

If people can’t handle more challenges, develop offers by identifying current/potential/emerging offenses/storms. Which defensive options (products & practices) increase customers’ confidence & security? Without comparison criteria, people might tolerate insufficiencies instead of maximizing defenses.

Consumers need energy & knowledge to evaluate & prioritize potential risks while monitoring horizons. Knowledge indicates “storm” tracks & severities for planning escape & recovery methods. If people prepare & storms miss them, are preparations sufficient for future “storms”? Could unused preparations elevate security & confidence?

Like all communications, advertising succeeds with content in contexts. Content: Who, What, When, Where, Why, How (Much/Often/Long).

Contextual matters: Why are people with Whom? How do social connections influence purchases? What are benefits people want & can maximize? When & Where can people maximize benefits? Who identifies & overcomes issues affecting your niche? Who influences/controls What (issues & offer purchases)? How Much/Long will people tolerate barely adequate results & Why?

What builds & supports Whose pride & identity? What offends or wounds Whom & could end relationships? Seemingly minor “wounds” are vulnerable to “infections” inhibiting actions & increasing susceptibility.

Vulnerability levels are contextual. Feeling vulnerable to judgment, people want reassurance but may deny image-incompatible psychological &/or physical desires/needs. Example: People feel better after adopting youthful appearances. Negative reactions range from: They look better, but I wouldn’t do it. -TO- Who do they think they’re fooling?

Advantage offers influence thoughts & feelings. Make offers available When & Where niche members’ perceptions are primed for remedies/recovery &/or recreation. Choose media according to members’ likely activities & receptiveness. Since electronic media intermittently exhibit ads, advertisers should link products/services with benefits niche members prefer creating, keeping, maximizing, stopping or avoiding.

Example: ‘With (kit), you’ll create & preserve, then maximize (benefit). Is discounters’ cheap stuff durable enough to maximize (benefit)?’

When recognizing issues, members’ memories (advertising recall) should restart AIDA (Awareness/Attention/Interest/Desire/Action). Your increased understanding integrates members’ concerns into your profession, so members integrate your store into their lives.

Offer Example: ‘Are you frustrated by conflicting options like preparing (property) for rough weather or enjoying (benefit)? Though responsibilities are imperatives, don't miss opportunities for (benefit). You’ll regret missing needed recreation or procrastinating on responsibilities again. (Store & retail teammates) have kits for peak (benefit) experiences plus (property) maintenance & repairs. You’ll be ready for (benefit) when your property is ready for rough weather. Great weather for (benefit) & rough weather won’t wait for you to prepare. If you wait, your responsibilities will weigh on you & (benefit) will be less enjoyable.’

Help People Trust Your Understanding of Their Challenges.

Empathic ads build trust by showing you value customers beyond profits. Deep understanding guides you to avoid irritating customers’ sensitivities while reminding/challenging them to avoid/reduce pain. Empathy includes using ads & words niche members understand. (Slang changes INCREDIBLY fast.)

People are proud of “Measuring Up” & “Having What It Takes”/“The Right Stuff”. Emphasize wisdom of investing in consultations to customize products/services to preserve customers’ right stuff. Review necessary skills & insightful facts customers might lack.

Appeal to customers as wise specialists using skills & knowledge in important issues while conferring with advisors for unfamiliar matters. Analogy: Respected leaders trust advisors to scrutinize evidence & insightful facts.

Offer Example: ‘You have privileges because respected leaders & business owners trust advisors to shape ideas by adding insightful facts to project plans. Different perspectives are applied to observations & knowledge. Businesses & consumers evaluate current conditions & options then consider improvements. You’ll decrease uncertainty & increase value by combining your observations with (Store’s) access to insightful, experiential data & product supply-chains. Your project’s total value is created from quality of your invested current resources & reinvesting your gains for increasing success.’

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

Newborns had internally compatible natural need fulfillment “practices” & abilities. Newborns didn't have a fully functional repertoire for coping with insufficient nurturing.

Babies’ “right stuff” fit their expectations. Babies didn’t choose those circumstances & reacted because they didn’t have “response-ability” (ability to proactively choose responses like Stephen Covey described). Proactivity & response-ability are easier with self-determination to adjust cognitive labor with insightful facts & advice.

Self-determined individuals build functional hope by verifying perceptions, then aligning their choices, goals, needs & values. Experimentation & evaluation can reveal whether aligned choices, goals, needs & values are compatible with specific circumstances.

Apptly, available limited options were unsatisfactory & incompatible with babies' long-term needs & preferences. Babies chose which available surrogates might satisfy short-term deficiencies. It might’ve been narrow freedom, but babies were confined without liberty to explore & pursue options.

With physical liberty, people can obtain resources. Mental freedom opens useful options for resources. Harlow limited useful options. If babies could’ve had improvement ideas, frustrations might've increased.

It'd be like people wanting progress but no liberty to obtain resources & test approaches. Discouraged people might prefer avoiding cognitive labor because of obstacles & crushed hope. Hopeful people transition to functional hope when they're confident & knowledgeable enough to choose & use resources. Help customers preserve functional hope with evaluations to precisely guide steps based on progress & mistakes.

People want liberty to pursue happiness with/without defining personal liberty & happiness. Does goal specificity increase success & satisfaction or failure & frustration? Help customers accurately specify goals & resources, learn from mistakes, then proceed. Help with explanations for preserving liberty & happiness with advantage offers of high-quality products with guided compatible methods.

Offer Example: ‘Before you choose stores, consider which product options will fulfill your expectations of long-term dependability. When will discounters’ cheap stuff lose functionality & become frustrating? By renting products for temporary needs, you get benefits without product storage or disposal. Discounters decrease quality & push cheapness, so customers get disposable stuff to fill dumps. Do some retailers promise friendly-service? Would f

riends leave you frustrated? In (Store) consultations, we’ll identify what’s missing, then plan your goal achievements plus maintenance needs. This is easier because (Store) works with suppliers dedicated to value.’

Case studies & testimonials can explain how your offers provide benefits of confidence & lower stress when customers created advantages. Promote referrals with dual cases & testimonials presenting niche members advising/mentoring others & expressing gratitude.

Offer Fuonal Hope & End Learned Hopelessness.

Babies attempted natural actions & reactions, then learned about results. Without other options, babies retried.

When acting naturally, people expect natural results. Without awareness of alternatives, people might reattempt familiar methods despite negative results. Discounters want consumers to think product versions are alike. Manufacturers succumb to discounters’ cheap product demands & abandon solid reputations.

People might think products are unintentionally inadequate or defective. After product exchanges, reattempts & learned hopelessness provoke low expectations of temporary effects.

Though brands & product appearances are familiar, quality ch

anges aren’t easily observable. If previous benefits seemed adequate, people might blame new unfamiliarities for failures.

Harlow’s newborns didn’t perceive anything familiar, but malfunc

tions became commonly stressful. It’d be stressful for human newbies who don’t identify what/whom to blame, fix or replace.

Without obvious problem reasons/causes, people can’t plan or implement solutions & preventions. People might feel they've restored some control by diagnosing troubles or assigning blame.

Unknown problems are stressful. Diagnoses & names are like handles seemingly increasing familiarity & control plus partially relieving tensions. Unfamiliarity apparently undermines comfort & confidence, so people might expect trouble. People expect satisfaction from familiar products. Even if familiar cheap products are unsatisfactory, they may seem safer than unfamiliar alternatives.

Consultations increase familiarity with businesses & higher quality products. Explanations & guidance decrease risks, so customers feel next steps are on solid ground.

Without insightful, circumstantial facts, people might build comfort zones by believing combinations of accurate, inaccurate &/or misperceived information. Eliminating inaccuracies or misperceptions might leave few “knowns” for implementation.

Tests can convert unknowns into knowns &/or assumptions, so people are comfortable with implementations. When biases & assumptions become fictional foundations, failures are probably blamed on whatever doesn’t fit biases.

Imagine if babies felt response-ability meant they were responsible for making surrogates fully beneficial. It'd be like discounters' customers thinking persistence will make cheap stuff worthwhile. That's not functional hope because manufacturers didn't create enough functionality.

Help customers define conditions & needs/desires before goal-setting because current resources might not be functional for some goals.

Proactive people need step-by-step preparation to fulfill response-abilities. What’s a functional response to conditions? Did conditions disable some resources? Are current or available resources incompatible with goals?

Consultations customize kits to add functionality to incomplete circumstances.

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Successful Returns On Investments & Returns Of Investments

Even without stating “Success Delusion”, you can advertise advantage offers compared with usual conditions plus typical cheap product results.

Goal achievements can seem successful, but will results last long enough for Returns On Investments &/or Returns Of Investments (meaning people regained/saved money, energy &/or time later)?

During planning, expected ROIs might seem bigger than anticipated finished project costs. In hindsight, when people subtract inputs from benefits, results could be negative because of short-term inadequacy plus lack of durability.

Planning should calculate personal costs & rewards plus include product & technique feasibility. Functional hope includes making rewards outweigh mental & physical resource costs.

Since people experience costs before benefits, help customers maintain hope with effective, efficient results so perceived input & output values don't wither.

Example: People invest effortful days into preparations for two-hour parties because delight matters. How much guest & host mental, physical &/or social stimuli make preparations seem worthy of input values?

Without guidance, people might underestimate required exertion & resources for preparation & fulfillment. Progress stops if preparations deplete people's time, energy & money. How can you guide customers to personal fulfillment so they relieve financial & health concerns without trying to push beyond fatigue?

Even if people know benefits are valuable, resource replenishment is necessary for full advantages.

Excessive heat & exhaustion can quickly overcome people's willingness to create advantages. Even when people create expected benefits, fatigue triggers negativity & skews perceptions.

During hot summers, customers might do outdoor projects after work shifts. People need recovery from jobs to work on personal projects.

You could work with nutrition businesses, so customers have full personal functionality while creating other functional advantages. If customers can’t adequately focus & perform tasks, would your offers be fully advantageous? Guidance can reduce stressful confusion & maximize productivity, so efforts aren't wasted.

Offers Can Be Framed From Multiple Perspectives.

Obstacles & miscalculations reduce morale so projects seem wasted & you could lose potential referrals. Make your store an optimal value source so people make referrals to express concern for each other & share optimism.

If people think limitations & problems outweigh perceived options, retailers should describe advantage offers to restore optimism.

Consult with other specialist retailers to develop opportunities to promote. Insightful facts & products should bridge gaps between customers & their aspirations. Find authorities & manufacturers who develop tools, materials & best practices.

Optimally healthy, clear-minded nutrition store customers can optimistically evaluate your advantage offers.

When you guide healthy people's insightful cognitive labor, success is easier. If nutrition retailers offer recovery to your customers, focused cognitive labor can optimize physical effort to 1) effectively avoid mistakes so restarts aren’t necessary & 2) efficiently avoid waste. Increase your total advantage offers with benefit combinations like these.

Whether people consume juices for refreshment &/or nutrition, they could have “better” options. Nutritionists advise avoiding sugary juices because temporary sugar-rushes bring crashes.

When people are exhausted, sugar-rushes can feel like successes before crashes. Vegetable/fruit smoothies have carbohydrates, sugar, protein, fiber plus vitamins & minerals.

Smoothies might taste like failures but aid functionality & suppress hunger distractions. Though sugar-rushes can aid immediate productivity, the success delusion could be nascent breakthroughs interrupted by crashes.

Benefit creation & maintenance require creating & maintaining foundational positive conditions. Foundational positives creation & maintenance require cognitive labor to develop reasonable positive maintenance & improvements plus prevent or restrain negatives.

Example: If people are concerned mostly about rotting wood, they might think success is: 1) removing rotten wood plus preventing future rotting & mold; 2) no remediation but preventing more rotting & mold; or 3) replacing rotten wood without changing causes. Wood replacement expenses & hassles could bring benefits without reducing suffering from mold-induced medical problems.

Though interpretations are subjective, comparisons would be like balancing scales indicating whether positives equal or outweigh negatives.

Some criticize marketers for pushing higher standards on people who have good enough results. Morale can decline when people compare their existence to others’ lives. I don’t advocate urging people to compete socially in matching or exceeding anybody’s achievements. That competition can bring success delusion from temporary personal satisfaction & social status akin to inflating balloons that eventually pop or shrivel.

If people’s satisfaction comes from somebody’s losses, victory can feel like freedom. Losses can feel like jails without access to keys as people struggle for future wins.

When people feel trapped, how do they define freedom? How would people create & retain that freedom? When people pleasantly anticipate renewing personal magic, daily drudgery doesn’t feel like a prison.

How will you describe offers so niche members recognize how that freedom (continues to) fit their lives?

Physical survival can be assured despite people's daily slogs. People can feel mentally like salmon struggling upstream, escaping predators & fulfilling responsibilities but life fulfillment slips away further.

Salmon start journeys with all requirements to arrive, but not to survive or return.

If people perceive preliminary success, they might assume their preparation & resources are sufficient. Projects might fail if people inaccurately assume they've prepared. Remediation fails without preparation for maintenance beyond choosing repair products & learning skills. What are typical shortcomings & biases you can help people overcome?

Differentiation or Commoditization

Retailers assume they're successful because they sell things instead of attracting more customers by offering experiences.

Analogy: Spectators watch bears catch fish. Imagine entrepreneurs feeling successful if tourists watch bears & spend money in towns. Businesses should add value to humans' experiences plus preserve conditions for bears & fish, so tourists might return for nature, comfort & entertaining variety. Other rivers attract bears & fish, so watching them can be a commodity experience.

Commodity products are purchased based on low prices. Commodity purchases have little/no differences in opportunity costs.

If people buy identical commodities from discounters, there are differences in sales floor sizes, checkout lines, driving & parking lot walking. Other than time & energy expenditures, transactions & experiences are about equal.

If you use commodity advertising (Product-XYZ $35) like discounters (Product-XZ $25), consumers think $10 is the only difference because offers aren't differentiated. You'd offer value instead of commodities if you'd explain how XYZ provides better relief or prevention than XZ because you guide customers to maximize XYZ according to their goals.

If products & service-levels are commoditized, would people return t small stores despite higher prices & lower perceived selection?

Retailers Push “Loyalty” Programs. Opportunities Pull Consumers.

Offer valuable opportunities so consumers return to reinvest. “Loyalty” fulfillment costs somebody money &/or effort. Consumers invest money for purchases plus point redemption efforts to increase value.

Through relationships, opportunity offers can keep you in business. “Loyalty” implies relationships but based on what? Relationships can be based on mutual concern about each other's wellbeing. People don't have loyal relationships if they only trade money for products without interactively helping achieve goals.

Sincere loyalty shows concern, so questions & answers are expected & comforting. When you know customers' goals require AB more than BC, you can talk personally about why AB is worth $X plus learning skills.

If you talk impersonally, you might deal with stereotypes & make imprecise recommendations plus provide less value.

When niche members recognize you as a specialist, your sensitive offers are perceived as personal, not stereotype-based.

Though advertising is an impersonal sales method, you can promote your specifically distinctive retailing style. When you treat people as exceptional, they can believe you offer exceptional value. Set people's goal achievement standards high & make it hard for competitors to compare.

Since I'm not in your specialty, I'm demonstrating things with sensitive analogies.

Since June 2022 without human stereotypes, we've extended Marshall Goldsmith’s bear salmon analogy about avoiding success delusion. Please bear with me!

Bear Analogy/Offer Example: 'As a bear, you notice natural changes. Though you coped with previous experiences, you need to refocus & reprioritize to successfully adapt. Though bugs(?), honey & fruit taste good & are relatively easily obtained, servings are inadequate compared to your hunger & nutritional needs. Now in autumn, you're hungrier than usual so you need adequate high-quality, long-term protein. You must retain enough necessary nutrients for when your usual food isn't available. Though you're energized & motivated now, remember last year you felt very sleepy. If you wait until you're sleepy & food is hard to find, you'll be very weak if you survive until spring. Before our local river freezes, it'll have high-quality, high-protein salmon rich in Omega-3 fatty acids you'll need to thrive through winter. Let's schedule a plan consultation now, so you'll be ready.'

This shows an advertiser understands consumers' needs, plus helps consumers understand why they need specific products.

Consultations would create understanding for guiding customers based on what they’re willing to adjust or replace.

Without consultations, retailers wouldn’t know which customers are flexible enough for guided testing of unfamiliar products & methods. People might interpret “unfamiliar” as ‘new possibility’ or ‘unsafe’ & replacing familiar things could feel like potential losses. “Adjustments” could be construed positively as ‘augmenting’ or negatively as ‘destabilizing’ familiar things.

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