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Research says we need reasons to feel confident about our decisions to buy something. That goes for buying a product or buying into a concept or a message. When we feel confident about our decision there’s actually a neuron in the brain that fires up and triggers people to take action. This happens regardless of the amount of information we have, it’s based on the feeling of confidence.
Canon Solutions America is driven to help customers find inkjet success, and one new way they’re doing that is through Project 360. Launched in early 2019, Project 360 is designed to broaden the scope of services that customers receive when they purchase an inkjet press. Most customers already leverage Canon’s Professional Services Analysts and Advisors in the months immediately following installation, but Project 360 is intended to provide support further out — even several years later.
In a previous blog, we delved into the makeup of the sales funnel—the essence of your marketing efforts—and ways to communicate specifically with each stage of the customer’s journey. The top of the sales funnel, as I noted, means assessing new visitors to your website, who perhaps have searched for some particular product or need, or maybe viewed one of the blogs.
Marketing is the life’s blood of your business. Prospects must be found and—somehow—converted into customers. Fortunately there’s plenty of insight into how to do this, because prospects generally follow a clear pathway in making buying decisions. It’s called the sales funnel.
Anytime I do a media training I ask the same question. “How many
messages do you think you should have for your target audience?”
Every time I get the same answer… “Three.”
Three seems to be that magic number. In the literary world there’s the
“power of three”, a writing principle that says things that come in three
are funnier, more satisfying and more effective. Even in numerology
three is considered to be “the perfect number.” Lists that come in three
seem to be easier to remember. No one wants a list of 15 things. Three
