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This Week’s Brainy Best At-A-Glance
Read time 2.5 minutes
🧠 Bite: Increasing conversions by 33% with one word
🤓 Breakdown: The emotion 2x more powerful than pleasure
📖 Read: Get the latest marketing research in your hands
💡 Spotlight: 9 ways to write attention-grabbing hooks
Brainy BITE 🧠
What’s the difference between getting somebody to say “yes” to your request 60% of the time versus 93% of the time?
Sometimes it’s just one word. Because.
According to Psychology Today, a 1978 Harvard study found that 60% of people waiting in line said yes when asked, “Excuse me, I have 5 pages. May I use the Xerox machine?”
The surprising part? 93% of people let someone cut them in line when asked, “Excuse me, I have 5 pages. May I use the Xerox machine because I have to make copies?”
Yep, that tiny change drove a 33% increase in conversions.
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Brainy Breakdown 🤓
Humans hate losing.
That’s because (😉) the emotion that comes with loss feels 2x more powerful than the one from gain.
You can get more attention on your ads by speaking to your audience’s fear of losing.
Instead of saying, “Keep more of your customers” in their Facebooks ad copy…
ProfitWell says: “Sick of losing customers to cancellations?”
By highlighting potential losses first and then following up with a gain-focused call-to-action, ProfitWell covers their bases and (likely) earns more clicks.
Brainy principles used: Loss Aversion and Negativity Bias
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Brainy Spotlight 💡
What’s the #1 storytelling rule of all time?
You have to start with a hook.
If you don’t draw readers in…you’ll lose them to the next stimulus that flickers across their screen.
What defines a great hook?
Neal O’Grady, Why We Buy reader and our partner in the Un-Ignorable Challenge, explains the 9 ways to write attention-grabbing hooks.
Read the other 8 strategies for writing a compelling hook here. (You’ll also get 2 examples per hook from some of your favorite internet celebs).
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