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So What Makes YOU So Different?
By:Scott Patterson
When I first begin to work with a new client I ask them one simple question, so what makes you different from your competition?
The usual response I get from 99.9% of business owners is: We provide better customer service or our product is better quality. This response is returned with such pride and they truly do not understand why they get minimal phone calls from their advertising.
The next thing I do is grab a copy of the Yellow Pages and open it to the relevant section that their business is advertised under and show them, look every one else is saying the same thing. Gues what? Your website is no different.
And most the ads in the Yellow Pages are name, rank and serial number style ads, you might as well just photo copy your business card and stick it in there.
But the truth of the matter is that the business owner has absolutely no idea of how to differentiate themselves from their competition.
Now better service or better quality are just fluff words in my opinion. They mean nothing, especially to a new prospective client, all they are concerned with is: What's in it for me? Or what deal can I get?
This is where most advertising falls down. Even though when you look deep enough into a business they actually do in fact have real differences, the problem is they don't advertise it.
So you see your USP, that stands for Unique Selling Proposition or similar words to that effect. This basically means what makes you stand out from the crowd.
I'll give you an example to make this more clear: A driving school I worked with had their USP as; You Learn Stress FREE Or You Don't Pay, GUARANTEED!
They surveyed their client base and found this to be the number one frustration their current students were experiencing, so they built a guarantee around it.
What can you do in your business?
Now that may seem a bit scary to some people at face value but once you investigate their stats, they came into the market place of 200 competitors in their local area.
Once they started promoting this ad, they grew within 18 months to be the 2nd place behind the market leaders who had been established for 56 years.
Why?
Because they offered a real difference, everyone else was saying the same thing: We offer the best service, but these guys backed it up with proof and said we are willing to put our money where our mouth is and if your not happy then we will refund your money.
And the best part is, that out of 3000 students they taught over that period only 3 people asked for their money back, and they charged about $10 more per lesson than the other 198 Driving Schools they were competing against.
So you can now see the power of differentiation when used effectively. Now the next question is: What are you doing in your business that makes you different from everyone else? Once you work that out, advertise it everywhere.
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Article keywords: Lead Generation, Marketing, New Customers, Clients, More Business, Prospects, get more customers
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Scott Patterson has been involved in Marketing for the last 17 years, by applying techniques he was able to learn for the masters to grow his own businesses and but many of his clients businesses up to 600% in 3 months.To find out more visit http://www.argonyx.com
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