Lessons & Ideas

There’s a simple principle I have to make a conscious effort to remind myself of on a regular basis.

Keep. It. Simple.

Too often we add complexity to our lives instead of doing more of what’s working.

It’s a simple concept that so many of us forget but is so important for not only personal happiness, but success in business as well.

We’re actually bringing something back business-wise that worked really well a few years ago…because it WORKED.  

I’ve outlined how I’m personally applying it to life and business along with some ideas of how you can too on today’s podcast episode.

When you’re faced with hurdles or problems in your business (a common one we hear is “I can’t figure out how to get new clients), how do you respond?

I know many times in life, even sometimes today, I go into what I call the “mystery box”.

The mystery box is that sort of emotional place you go to when you feel a bit helpless and anxious about a problem and the solution is seemingly a mystery.

It’s a sucky place to be.

But anytime I find myself there, I quickly re-orient, and put myself in the “math box”.

THIS is where solutions present themselves.

I recorded a short podcast episode about how I leverage the “math box” to find solutions to nearly every problem or hurdle in business…including getting new clients.

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Your product most likely has one of these 3 problems:

1. Seems to complicated

2. Problem isn’t acute enough

3. Price seems too high

These 3 problems create the vast majority of buying objections that your prospects will have. And most products have 1 of if not all of these problems. In fact, some products have such strong resistance that it will all but stop buyers if they are not addressed head on.

How do you fix this?

Redefine the product.

Redefine by rearranging your prospects perspective of the product. When executed well the problem naturally dissolves.

Chapter 10 of Breakthrough Advertising covers this technique in depth. It outlines a custom tailored solution for each of these three problems.

Here is a brief rundown of how to handle each problem:

1. When the product seems too complicated?

Simplification: When the product seems too complicated or hard to use it needs to be redefined. Simplify the product by taking them from hard to easy with a few simple ideas strung together so that what seems complicated to them becomes brain dead simple and obvious.

2. When the problem isn’t acute for enough people?

Escalation: When the problem is not important enough or appeals to too small of a market it needs to be redefined. Escalate it’s importance with one of these 3 approaches: a) shifting to higher level area of their life b) showing how something else they want depends on it c) show how they’ll really need to use it more often than they think.

3. When the price seems too high compared to the alternatives?

Price Reduction: When the problem is that the product costs too much.compared to typical alternatives the product needs to be redefined. “Reduce” the price in your prospects eyes by one of 2 methods  a) show the cost of not fixing problem b) change the comparison to another class of product.

In this episode I’ll walk you through 3 Facebook ads that show these techniques in action: