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November 15, 2012
 A
Sudsy Sale
Alexa B. found herself in NIH, (No Interest Hell). She tried everything to get
commitment from her real estate brokerage client on the east coast to do
branding advertising on her very popular and, for them, very appropriate
advertising venue.
She met with him in February. He wasn’t interested. He felt word of mouth was
his best sales tool along with various events his firm sponsored to attract
interested buyers. He was deaf to all the supporting data Alexa had about her
website’s visitors and their potential value to his brokers. He just did not see
why he should advertise.
Alexa continued to stay in contact with him for months with emails and phone
calls, all of which he dodged.
Then, one day, Alexa noticed that his company was hosting an upcoming event. “I
reached out immediately with an ‘It's been a while!’ e-mail and, to my delight,
he actually responded.”
“We were in the meeting again discussing the value of how advertising could
bring visibility to, and support for, the success of his event. I could see that
nothing I was saying was really resonating until, exasperated, I pointed out
that Proctor & Gamble doesn’t sell soap by just keeping it in the closet. He
chuckled, paused, then, said, ‘That is so true.’ And he agreed to advertise.
Change the Movie in Their Head
We do what we see. Alexa’s prospect originally saw no value in advertising. Once
she replaced the “no value in advertising” movie playing inside his head with
the P&G metaphor movie, he immediately saw the wisdom of advertising. Changing
minds can be as simple as that.
What movie is playing in your listeners’ heads? What metaphor image can you use
to replace it to get the result you want?
Make what you say pay — with metaphors.
Anne Miller
Always Nice to Hear From Readers…
"Thanks for providing the key stories that help us advance
our business and opportunities."
Dan Bassford
President, Sanford Rose Associates – Greensboro
Two
Favorite Metaphors from the Recent Election
Describing the 2nd Presidential Debate, which, as you recall was
very contentious and held in a Town Hall meeting format: Obama and Romney were
"like two roosters in a ring." Like "Abbott & Costello for angry people."
See my letter
in The Wall Street Journal
about the power of metaphors to ultimately trump story-telling
because of increasingly shorter and shorter attention spans of listeners.
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