Brenna McGowan, a master of pre-launch techniques, shares her insights on Anticipation Marketing™, a powerful tool for generating trust and excitement before a product launch. She emphasizes the importance of understanding your audience's needs and creating curiosity through strategies like open loops. Brenna also discusses how to build relationships to enhance engagement and ensure your prospects feel ready and eager to buy. Her approach not only captivates potential customers but also simplifies the sales process for effortless conversions.
Anticipation Marketing™ effectively builds trust and excitement, ensuring prospects eagerly await product launches by fostering familiarity with the offer.
Incorporating audience feedback through polls and surveys enhances customer engagement and investment in products, boosting the likelihood of future purchases.
Deep dives
Understanding Anticipation Marketing
Anticipation marketing is a strategy designed to build excitement and trust before a product launch. It focuses on creating curiosity and preparing the audience for an upcoming offer, thereby shifting their perspectives positively. This approach not only primes potential customers but also fosters a sense of desire for the product, making them feel emotionally invested in what is to come. By gradually familiarizing prospects with the new offer in an engaging manner, businesses can ensure that their audience eagerly awaits the launch.
Engaging Customers Through Buy-In
Incorporating audience feedback into the pre-launch process significantly enhances customer engagement and investment in the product. By asking for opinions on aspects like product names or features, marketers can create a sense of involvement that makes customers more likely to purchase when the product becomes available. This buy-in can be achieved through simple market research, such as polls or surveys, which not only inform product decisions but also generate buzz prior to the launch. Examples include soliciting opinions on potential course modules or sales page designs to involve the audience in the creation process.
Leveraging Open Loops for Engagement
Open loops serve an essential role in anticipation marketing, as they pique curiosity and encourage audience engagement. By strategically leaving questions unanswered, marketers can create a compelling narrative that keeps the audience coming back for more information. This method enhances customer retention and interest, as people desire to close these loops by engaging with the future content. The phenomenon can be seen in various contexts, like movie trailers or social media strategies, demonstrating the effectiveness of leaving audiences wanting more while building anticipation for the final offer.
Our returning champion is Brenna McGowan, the master of the pre-launch.
Today she’s going to tell us about a special pre-launch technique called Anticipation Marketing™.
Perhaps the best advantage it gives you is it puts you front and center in your prospects’ minds, and at the same time gets them eagerly looking forward to getting the full details about what you’re going to launch.
Maybe even more important is that it revolves around one word: Trust. As we’ve talked about here before, and as you know, right now trust is at an all-time low.
Lots of reasons for this, but you don’t want low trust to interfere with your launch.
Anticipation Marketing helps you build trust by gradually getting them familiar with your new offer, in an unobtrusive and exciting way so they just can’t wait for the launch itself!
Your free personalized launch calendar from Brenna:
https://brennamcgowan.co/launchcalendar Download.
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