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This Week’s Brainy Best At-A-Glance
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🧠 Snack: The research-backed way to use emojis in your SMS messaging
🤓 Breakdown: Gamify the buying decision
🛠️ Resource: Free copywriting for your products
💡 Spotlight: Getting attention on LinkedIn
Brainy Snack 🧠
There’s a *wrong* way to use emojis in your SMS campaigns.
Studies found that people need context to understand emojis best.
A message like this:
Spend $50 get a mystery 🎁
Will get less engagement than a message like:
Spend $50 get a mystery gift 🎁
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Brainy Breakdown 🤓
Buyers love surprises.
They particularly love MYSTERY surprises. This is because of the Motivating Uncertainty Effect.
When we purchase something that comes with a mystery gift, we feel a rush of excitement.
Seek Discomfort pairs their latest merch drop with a mystery gift that entices buyers to make a purchase.
They could have just told buyers what the gift would be.
But, like jumping to hit a question mark block in Mario, there’s excitement in the unknown that attracts us to make a buying decision.
Brainy Resource 🛠️
Online reviews from real buyers are a goldmine of insights.
You’ll learn what buyers struggled with BEFORE they bought the product and how they felt AFTER.
All in their own words.
Music to a marketer’s ears. 🎶
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Brainy Spotlight 💡
Everyone’s running to LinkedIn to build their audience.
Word on the street is that it’s the new Twitter.
Easy, fast growth. Like the good old days of Facebook in 2017.
This puts everyone in an attention war with each other.
How can you create the most attention-grabbing content in a sea of distractions?
Neal O’Grady, my co-host of the Un-ignorable Challenge and Why We Buy reader, put buyer psychology to work on his latest LinkedIn post.
Not only did he use a face to grab attention in the loud newsfeed.
He also nudged readers to flip to the next carousel image by placing the question, “What are they?” in the bottom right corner of his image.
The results? 465 likes, 120 comments, and 32 reposts.
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Until next time, happy selling.
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