Tuesday, September 11, 2007

Stop!!! Give a look

Do you make a Note ..................

  • Your biggest competitor is not a competitor; it's your prospect's indifference.
  • Your second-biggest competitor is not a competitor; it's your prospect's distrust.
  • Your biggest obstacle is whatever stereotype your prospect has formed about you and your industry.
  • Prospects decide in the first five seconds.
  • Prospects don't try to make the best choice. They try to make the most comfortable choice.
  • At heart, every prospect is risk-averse, and risks are always more vivid than rewards.
  • Beware of what you think you know or have experienced; memories fail people constantly.
  • For the same reason, beware of what others say they know or have experienced.
  • Certainty is a trick your mind plays on you; keep yours open.
  • If everyone likes your idea, it's not an idea. Good ideas always make enemies.
  • Don't create something that everyone likes; create something that many people love.
  • Research never shows anything; it only suggests.
  • Never take seriously what people say they think, because people are never sure. Trust only action.
  • The more similar two things appear, the more important their tiny differences. Accentuate the trivial.
  • Your most valuable salesperson is the person who answers your phones.
  • You must improve constantly, because people's expectations rise constantly.
  • Whatever you are doing, do it faster. Speed always sells.
  • People don't care how good you are. They care how good you can make them.
  • The best companies don't make the fewest mistakes; they make the best corrections.
  • You cannot convince someone you have a superior product at a low price. Make up your mind.
  • We call them "premium prices" because a higher price represents insurance that your product will perform.
  • "Value" is not a compelling message or tenable marketing position, because every product that survives in a market has demonstrated it gives value for the price it commands.
  • Despite all the warnings, all people judge books by their covers.
  • People hear what they see; you must communicate visually.
  • The more complex our society becomes, the more valuable your brand becomes.
  • When in doubt -- which is almost always -- people choose what feels familiar.
  • Brands do not just attract buyers; they improve customers' satisfaction. Brands have placebo effects.
  • No intelligent person should be influenced by advertising, but every intelligent person is.
  • Simplify everything: your name, your message, your design. Strip away everything until only the essence remains.
  • If it takes 50 words to make your pitch, I will buy from the person who can do it in 20.
  • Communicate one important message and people will think three good things about you; communicate three messages and they will think nothing.
  • People don't learn from descriptions. They learn from stories.
  • If you prove it, you don't have to say it. If you don't prove it, saying it is a waste of everyone's time.
  • There is no such thing as "best."
  • Ordinary names, ordinary words, and ordinary images warn us that you must be ordinary, too.
  • Lincoln didn't have slides at Gettysburg.
  • Never criticize your competitors.
  • The fastest way to improve your communications is to cut them in half.
  • The second-fastest way is to try to eliminate every adjective.
  • The ultimate test of a communication: Does it make people stop what they are doing?

2 comments:

Tulika sheel said...

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Unknown said...

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