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This Week’s Brainy Best At-A-Glance

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🧠 Snack: How to use the High-Low Principle

🤓 Breakdown: Get 1,000 retweets on your next tweet

🤩 Resource: A customer-led approach for driving revenue

💡 Spotlight: Increase how many people read your content by 13%

Brainy Snack 🧠

Our minds anchor to information.

Marketers use this all the time with price anchoring.

We’ll show the original price and then the discounted price next to it. This makes the discounted price look like a deal in comparison.

But did you know that you don’t have to anchor to a price?

It’s called the High-Low Principle.

All you need to do is add the highest number first followed by a lower number as the price.

Here are a few examples:

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Brainy Breakdown 🤓

Buyers like knowing that you’ve put effort into your offers.

​A study of homebuyers found that participants rated apartments they thought took 9 hours to find as 36% better than apartments they were told were found via a computer program.

Here’s the catch: all the homes were the same.

​Labour Illusion makes us value something more if we’re told it required a big amount of effort.

How can you apply this to the digital world?

​Nicolas Cole inspired 1,000+ writers to reply and retweet this tweet to get access to his Premium Ghostwriting Blueprint.

His main hook? How long he spent writing the blueprint.

Don’t be shy. Tell your audience and buyers how long it took you to create your offers and products.

Labour Illusion is here to remind you…they want to know.

Brainy Resource 🤩

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Brainy Spotlight 💡

Here’s how to increase how many people read your content by 13%.

And it’s a tip from Davig Ogilvy.

(I knew that second line would get your attention 🙂).

​Eddie Shleyner, founder of verygoodcopy.com and Why We Buy reader, shares a tip from the marketing legend himself.

The tip itself isn’t fancy, but it sure makes your content feel fancy.

This is why we think it works:

#1: The drop-cap grabs attention. It stands out amongst a sea of regular sized words.

#2: The drop-cap makes it easy to start reading. Your mind unconsciously looks to close the loop on what that first word is and suddenly, you’re reading the first sentence.​
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​Damn, Ogilvy really tried it all.

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Until next time, happy selling. 

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