Mike McHargue explains the science of why our brains pay attention to negative things and how it can be applied to our businesses without being manipulative
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Identifying and addressing the external, internal, and philosophical problems that customers face in marketing campaigns can lead to more impactful and meaningful messaging.
Creating a compelling villain in storytelling and marketing can generate a sense of urgency and motivate the audience or customers to take action.
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The Power of Goal Setting
Setting goals and having a clear vision for the year can lead to personal and professional growth. Despite initially being skeptical about goal setting, the host shares their newfound enthusiasm and commitment to setting goals for the year. They discuss the importance of defining specific objectives and developing a plan to achieve them, using their own examples of academic and personal goals.
Identifying and Agitating Problems
In marketing, it is crucial to identify and agitate the problems that your customers face. By addressing the external problem that prevents customers from achieving their desired outcome and understanding the internal emotions that arise from this problem, effective marketing messages can be crafted. Furthermore, highlighting the philosophical problem that your brand aims to solve adds a deeper meaning to your products or services.
The Attraction to Negativity
Humans have an innate attraction to negativity due to our evolutionary survival mechanisms. Our brains pay more attention to negative stimuli as a means of protecting ourselves from potential threats. This tendency is exploited by media outlets and marketing messages that use negativity as a way to capture and maintain attention. Understanding this attraction to negativity can help businesses create compelling stories and messages that resonate with their target audience.
The Importance of a Compelling Villain
In storytelling and marketing, having a compelling villain is essential for creating a captivating narrative. Villains represent high stakes and create a sense of urgency and unity among the audience or customers. By identifying a villain, whether it be an individual or a problem to overcome, brands can motivate their audience to take action and rally behind a common cause.
Want to make your brand’s messaging exponentially more powerful? Learn how to define a villain for your customers. That’s because our brains are hard-wired to pay attention to negative things -- threats, villains, potential losses. On today’s episode, Mike McHargue (a.k.a. “Science Mike”) explains the science of why this happens. And don’t worry -- he uses simple terms we can all understand and apply to our businesses without being manipulative.
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