You have a killer product or service. You know you’ve got a competitive edge. You know if people just knew about it, understand how it could help them, they’d buy tons of what you have to offer. So you hire an ad agency, spend a lot of money, and run a wonderfully creative ad campaign. And an amazing thing happens……nothing.
You spend thousands, even millions of dollars creating a brand that’s “women friendly.” You tout your contributions to breast cancer funds. Your advertising shows women enjoying your products. You “break the mold” like the advertising for the “right hand ring” touting women’s strength and independence. Yet the very audience you want to attract ignores you and all your perceived good deeds.
You create a website with stunning graphics, cool gadgets, and do usability testing out the wazooo. You’re convinced visitors will love your new website. You watch the conversion rate numbers anxiously awaiting the increases you’re sure will come. Yet you find after all that time and effort, you’ve barely moved the needle.
What’s going on? What the HECK is going on here?
You’ll find the answers in “Waiting for your Cat to Bark – Persuading Customers When They Ignore Marketing” by Bryan and Jeffrey Eisenberg and Lisa Davis.
I don’t talk in this blog all that often about Future Now and my family there. Bryan and Jeffrey pretty much saved my soul when they rescued me from the radio/ad agency world and introduced me to the wonderful world of the Internet.
Over the last 3 years I’ve shared in the privilege, honor, intellectual discussions, screaming matches and massive headaches of the creation of Persuasion Architecture TM. I’ve watched the transformation of what was a largely intuitive process done mainly inside Bryan and Jeffrey's heads, into a full fledged persuasive system. I’ve watched the development of everything from the software to the thought processes. It’s been an amazing thing to behold, to see the maturation of Persuasion Architecture TM and the results it’s generated for companies all over the world.
In Waiting for Your Cat to Bark, you’ll learn the incredible power of Persuasion Architecture TM, and how to apply it to your own efforts.
If that doesn’t sound exciting enough – let me put it another way. You’ll understand why that advertising campaign you thought was so great didn’t increase your sales. You’ll learn why your efforts to create a certain “brand” didn’t resonate with your customers. You’ll learn why your wonderful new website didn’t generate the results you wanted.
This is NOT just a book for web marketers. These principles can be applied to every area of your marketing efforts. I guarantee you will learn something about your customers, your business and yourself.
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I have not read this book but have read the authors' book on copywriting and it was fantastic. I never realized that just tweaking a headline could make such a difference in conversions. Also, I have been using a program called Glyphius, which uses statistical analysis to help you find the best type of headline. Very cool.
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Posted by: law of attraction book | February 14, 2008 at 09:10 PM
"Waiting for Your Cat to Bark"...I wish I'd thought of that title :)
...but then that's all part of 'persuasion' isn't it?: getting prospects to take notice and then take action.
Posted by: Paul (Internet Marketing) B. | August 08, 2008 at 08:19 AM
Sounds interesting. I know how frustrating it can be when you're trying out advertising and it just isn't getting results, and you have no idea why. Might have to take a peek at this.
Posted by: Online Copywriter | October 03, 2010 at 02:31 AM
Rhianna Your proclamation is a cloempte fabrication of your indoctrination and ignorance of the facts. Again and again you make statements that are very feeble and additional evidence that you support anything that fits your small box agendas. This proclamation: You are not on the same parr as MDs, and conventional medicine isn't the chief cause of death, stop lying is fake and you know it or at least should know it. You do need to free physically from the lies you mediate.Here is a study that was done that proves the chief cause of death in the U.S. is from iatrogenic problems. The number of deaths far exceeds any one major disease.In July 2004, Gary Null Ph.D, Carolyn Dean M.D., N.D, Martin Feldman M.D., Debora Rasio M.D., Dorothy Smith Ph.D. wrote a paper that revealed very disturbing facts regarding an annual iatrogenic (induced inadvertently by a physician or surgeon or by medical treatment or diagnostic procedures) death rate of 783,936 in one year. It is additional disturbing to realize that as few as 5 percent and only up to 20 percent of iatrogenic acts are ever reported. This means that that iatrogenic death rate of 783,936 is much higher.As we look at the causes of death from degenerative diseases and other causes in America in 2004, it is obvious we are not excellent at solving this problem on any level. Deaths from: Heart Disease 652,000, Cancer 553,000, and Stroke 150,000.When comparing the iatrogenic acts of modern medicine in America with the statistical numbers of public dying of any particular disease, it is evident that the American medical system is the chief cause of death and injury in the United States. And when we look at the cost of these iatrogenic deaths, the cost is in the billions.A definitive review and close reading of medical peer-review journals, and government health statistics shows that American medicine frequently causes more harm than excellent. The number of public having in-hospital, adverse drug reactions (ADR) to prescribed medicine is 2.2 million. Dr. Richard Besser, of the CDC, in 1995, said the number of unnecessary antibiotics prescribed annually for viral infections was 20 million. Dr. Besser, in 2003, now refers to tens of millions of unnecessary antibiotics. The number of unnecessary medical and surgical procedures performed annually is 7.5 million. The number of public exposed to unnecessary hospitalization annually is 8.9 million.In watch to chiropractic care helping diseases of any kind other than muscle or skinny problems, you are again cloemptely out of your league of understanding. Chiropractic care is more preventative all ears and helps all kinds of diseases that modern medicine cannot because it provides very excellent immune improvements to the body that drugs do not and in fact, most drugs hurt the body in many ways. These side effects from drugs and interactions that take place with drugs are killing public everywhere. When did a chiropractic adjustment kill someone?Your non descript, non committal, double talk is getting very ancient to most public here, except for the small group that follows you nearly vomiting the typical indoctrination.Excellent luck to you
Posted by: Rafael | July 18, 2012 at 05:09 PM
anonymous 10:11:No, the doctors have just spluteaced as to why I had a heart attack but were never sure. They thought I had a coronary spasm in an artery and got a blood clot caught in it which caused the heart attack.
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