Have you tried to create your uniqueness and failed?
It's more than likely that you've tried to create uniqueness before. Yet, it seems a bit of a pain, because it sounds so trite.
Well, how about we look at uniqueness from a “construction” point of view.
Instead of just trying to dream up the uniqueness, how about we look at it with “guardrails” so that we hit the target every time? Let's give it a shot because one—or two of these methods—will certainly work for you.
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Re-release: How To Systematically Generate A Uniqueness (Even If You've Struggled With It Before)
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One of the hardest things that people find is when they have to create a uniqueness.
They think that their uniqueness needs to be a company-wide uniqueness. And usually that's not how we pick anything in life. If you think of any company, say maybe a shoe company like Nike, do you pick it because of the uniqueness? Well, if you do then what is the uniqueness? When you come to psychotactics, do you pick it because of the uniqueness? Of the uniqueness, you still don't know the uniqueness to you. And this is the problem.
You have a good feeling about it, which is a completely different topic.
That is the philosophy of the company. But uniqueness as it used to exist with Volvo and FedEx and all of those brands that you've read about in marketing books, well, that doesn't exist anymore, that used to exist in one on in time, it doesn't anymore. And so uniqueness has to be for every single one of your products or services. I'll just say that again, every single product or service.
So if you go to the psychotactic site, there are products on pricing or article writing or cartooning or whatever. And every single one of them has to have their uniqueness because that is what you buying. You are at that point, you're looking at the product or the service, and you're making a decision.
So it has to have a uniqueness. Why? Because there are lots of article writing courses out there. Some of them are cheaper. Some might be more expensive. Some might be longer, shorter. And sometimes the uniqueness might be within that brand itself.
You might be choosing between the Info Products course or the Article Writing course or the Cartooning course.
And you have to decide, “Okay, why am I making this decision?” When we go about creating uniqueness, we use three systems, and this is something that you can use as well. When you want to get the uniqueness across, what would you do? Well, people tend to pick the uniqueness based on one. Ease or difficulty to a specific promise or result. And the third is the avoidance of downsides.
And talking about downsides, I have to apologize in advance because this whole podcast, it'll sound like a bit of an information. Why? Because a lot of the products and services that I'm going to be talking about belong to psychotactics and why aren't we taking examples from outside because it would take too much time to go looking for all of these specific ways in which this could be solved.
I could do it, but I'm feeling a little lazy today, it's Friday. So we're going to stick with psychotactics. Sorry for the information. I'll try to make it as entertaining as possible.
Let's go back to the three ways in which you can create your uniqueness, either for yourself or for clients.
Let's start out with the Easy or difficulty. So if you go to the psychotactics site and you look at some of the products or services, then this is the way you'd work out Easy or difficulty. Let's say we took the article writing course. At one point it was doing pretty well, but then it took off. And the reason why it took off was because we added a uniqueness.
What did we say? We said it was the toughest writing course in the world. Is it the toughest writing course in the world? No, there might be other courses. There are new article writing courses out every day. But it gave you a reasoning why it is the toughest writing course and how it makes you a better writer because of that toughness.
People are rising to their challenge. So in this case, ease is not the fact that the people are looking for. They would like to be good writers. They would like for a magic one to be tapped on the head.
They would like for some kind of Cinderella situation, but they know that maybe that's not the case.
And so difficulty becomes the uniqueness. On the other hand, And we sell a product that you probably never heard of. And this is a course in Indesign. Now, we create these really nice ebooks and you've read some of them. All of them are done in Indesign. If you were to study Indesign, usually it would take you between 12 to 18 hours. So you'd have to go through an entire course.
And then you'd have to go over it because you've forgotten bits and pieces of it. So let's say another 12 to 18 hours. And then you go, oh wait, the reason why I got into this was because I wanted to create an e-book. I don't really care about in design that much. I'm still looking for that magic wand to be tapped on my head.
So in this case, what we're looking for is they're just looking to get everything done quickly and what we say is that you can get other courses that are cheaper, but with this, you get the whole template. And once you have the template, you can learn this in one hour.
In one hour from now, you will be able to use in design and create your ebook. So that's ease and that's difficulty. When you're dealing with clients, if you're advising clients, then you look at this factor of ease or difficulty. See how you can specify that ease or difficulty and that creates a uniqueness for them. But the same thing applies to you.
If you've got a product or service or you've got multiple products or services, I'm going to do all of this stuff. Well, go with making it easy or are we making it more difficult because both of them work when you specify it correctly? And that's the first thing that we've covered today. We don't have to stop there.
We can go to the second thing, of course.
The second thing that we're talking about is specific results. Have you heard the poem? I am a teapot, fat and stout. This is my handle. This is my spout. When the water boils, here we shout, the pick me up and pour me out. That is an ad.
That's an ad for a teapot. It's got all of the features. This is my handle, this is my spout. It shouts, that's another feature. And it's fat and stout, which means you probably can have a lot of tea in that kettle.
The question that arises is, where is the result?
Because all we have our features and more features and features, they go to benefits. So you have a feature because there's a benefit. Where is the result? How are we going to create any uniqueness from this? What you have to understand is that the way that uniqueness comes about is to make a list of features and then go, I'm going to pick this one feature because this is going to get a result for the client.
But with the deeper, maybe it's really hot, but it's shouting and you can just pick it up and pour it out, which means no burns. So that's a kind of result. And I'll give you another croquery example. At some point in time, we were getting fed up of plates that were chipping that were getting scratched. We happened to be in the shopping center buying something else, and we noticed that someone was selling non-scratch plates and that got our attention.
So that became a uniqueness because it's offering a result.
It's a simple one but it's a result. When we create a product or a service at psychotatics, this is the first question that we ask ourselves, which is what is the result? What's going to happen when people get to the end of this? Hopefully something's going to happen in the middle and towards the end and then finally the end.
What's going to happen? With the cartooning course, there is a lot of stuff that we cover. So we cover shapes and backgrounds and color and contrast, all of these things. And what we want to do is we want to pick up one of those features.
And that is the one probably that clients want the most or the ones that we determine they want the most. In our case, we found out that most of the clients definitely wanted a character like Quattro, which is drawn for psychotactics, which is what you see on the psychotactics website everywhere.
So they wanted this character, and if that's a result that they want, then we go, here's what we are going to promise, that is you're going to learn to create and draw your character so that you can use it in blogs and email, etc.
With the sales page course, we had how to create a sales page in under three days and better than most professional copywriters. And you can do this with any of your products or services because every single product or service, no matter what you make, whatever you produce, whatever you sell is always built because it somehow different or better than the competition.
That's why it exists in the first place. You shouldn't just be opening another cafe and thinking, “Oh, yeah, well, we're just opening one and we'll see what happens.” No. You're doing it specifically because it's different because you're creating some kind of result. And so we've looked at two things.
The first is that there's either ease or difficulty, but the second in this applies to all your products and services is the result. what is the result that people are going to get?
And with that we move to the third part, which is slightly surprising because it's called avoidance of downsides.
Let's say you go to the garage and you want them to go through a warrant of fitness. And they look through the whole car and then they tell you, you know, there's no problem now, but three months from now this tire would need to be replaced. Now, notice they don't sell tires, so it's not something that they're making money off, but they're telling you about a downside and how you can avoid that downside.
Downsides tend to be something that's pretty obvious to everybody and then at other times not so obvious because they can't see what would happen and how they would have any problem down the line. We'll take both those examples. We'll look at the unobvious downside. We're looking at psychotactics, the informational continues.
So this is the presell course. And what presell is, is how do you create this anticipation so that when you are selling your product to service, people buy it on the spot and you're not constantly marketing.
So presell is all of the things that you do to make sure that the event goes as it should, just like a wedding should.
Like everybody has to show up. Everybody has to be dressed. Everybody has to do this and do that. And that's an analogy for how presell works. So what is the downside? The downside is that you create a perfect product, you create a perfect sales page, and then nobody buys. That is the downside. People don't realize that.
They think that if you create a perfect product and you create a perfect sales page, that clients will just buy. They'll just show up on the buy and you put the right price and the buy. And it doesn't work that way.
And many of us have found that out. The way it works is through creating anticipation, where the customer goes from, I'm not interested. I don't know anything to, I want to know more. I want to know more. And that's what presell is about. You're letting them do the downside that they can't see.
So that's the downside that they can't see. The second kind of downside is obvious downside. The uniqueness of that word pricing is that you can increase your prices by 10 to 15% and not lose clients. So this is important because losing clients is a big problem.
Anyone can theoretically increase their prices by 10 to 15%.
We can just go, oh, we're increasing prices by 15%. But then there's a fear, which is why we don't increase it. So how do you do it without losing clients? These are downsides and people will go to a lot of extremes to avoid the downsides. And that brings us to the end of this podcast where we covered three points. And the three points are that you can base your uniqueness on how people pick stuff.
And the first thing is that they're looking for ease, but they're also looking for difficulty or challenge. The two of the phones is not one that's easy. It's a difficult bicycle race. people sign up for it. Based on its difficulty, people also sign up for ease. So ease are difficult. The first one.
The second one is what every product or service should have, which is a specific promise or result. It's a given. And the third one is the avoidance of downsides. And some of these downsides are very obvious, they're blatant. And at other times, the client has no idea what's coming down the track. Absolutely no idea. You have to alert them about those problems. That's how you create your uniqueness.
Now, what are you going to do next? What's the one thing that you can do?
The first thing that you should do is start out with just what result are you going to get? Because all products, all services are going to have a result. Once you've done that, maybe just move to the next stage and look at the downside. What is the downside that's going to affect them?
So, Dartboard pricing, as you saw, has the result, which is how to increase your prices by 10 to 15%. But then it avoids the downside, which is without losing clients. Just the result itself will do the job if you want to make it even stronger. even more effective. One people to pay attention and to remember what you said, then you add the downside. So you have the problem and the solution in your uniqueness and that really gets attention.
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