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Proof that Your Marketing Should Be About Your Customer (Not Your Company)

By Robert Clarke | Business Development, Conversion Rate Optimization, Landing Page Optimization, Lead Generation | Comments are Closed | 7 February, 2017 | 0

It’s the one simple rule that marketers make all the time (myself included).

  • Marketing is NOT about your company.
  • Marketing is about your CUSTOMER.
  • People don’t care about your company, your mission statement, or your Instagram account.
  • They care about solving their own problems.

As the old saying goes, someone walking into a hardware store looking for a quarter inch drill-bit doesn’t actually need a quarter inch drill-bit – they need a quarter inch hole.

So stop focusing on the drill-bit (your company/product/service) and start focusing on the solution your customer is looking for.

Want proof?

Here’s an example of a recent landing page split test I did for a client that offers sales training.

As you can see from the image below, the only difference in the landing page is the headline:

Headline A: “Canada’s Most Popular Sales Training & Sales Courses”

Headline B: “Looking for Sales Training to Help Exceed Sales Targets?”

The results?

Headline B had a 32.6% lift in conversion compared to headline A.

It’s because headline A is all about the company, and headline B is all about the customer.

The customer doesn’t care if you’re “industry-leading”, “best of breed”, or even “#1”.

The customer cares about having their problem solved.

In this case, their problem is that they need to improve sales.

How do they solve that problem?

With sales training and/or sales courses.

Of course I’m not going to say that this type of approach will win every A/B test for you, but give it a try.

Don’t sell your product or service, sell a solution to your customer’s problem.

Happy split testing 🙂

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Robert Clarke

Robert is Chief Marketing Officer at Sensei Marketing, a Full-Service Digital Marketing Agency located in Toronto, Ontario.

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