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This Week’s Brainy Best At-A-Glance
Read time 2.3 minutes
🧠 Snack: Why mistakes are a good thing
🤓 Breakdown: How to get big name celebs to endorse your products (for free!)
🤩 Opportunity: Leave feedback, get paid
💡 Spotlight: Figuring out what your buyers want but can’t tell you
Brainy Snack 🧠
What happened after Elon cracked the “indestructible window” of the cyber truck?
Tesla pulled in 250,000 reservations.
How the hell does that work?
Well, people don’t want perfection. They want relatable.
It’s called the Pratfall Effect.
Flaws humanize brands and products.
It makes us like them more.
Brainy principle used: Pratfall Effect
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Brainy Breakdown 🤓
Paying celebrities to endorse products is one of the oldest in the marketing playbook.
But it’s expensive.
Kim Kardashian makes $1 million for a single Instagram post. That’s the power of the Halo Effect.
SURREAL capitalized on the Halo Effect without shelling out big bucks.
They added famous names to their campaigns with asterisks telling buyers these famous names are just your average joe and jane.
Joe and Jane just happen to have the same names as Serena Williams, Michael Jordan, and Dwayne Johnson.
Pretty crafty, SURREAL.
Brainy Opportunity 🤩
Brainy Read 📕
I often get emails from Why We Buy readers who love the newsletter and want to go deeper.
What’s the first book I typically recommend? What Your Customer Wants and Can’t Tell You by Melina Palmer.
Melina explains the neuroscience driving consumer behavior and explains how to use that knowledge to improve pricing, increase sales, and create better “brain-friendly” brand messaging.
If you’re new to the fascinating world of behavior science, it’s a must-read.
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Until next time, happy selling.
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