Do you have a gravity well mapped out for your business?
"What's a gravity well?"
I'm glad you asked. This is the time of year when everybody is writing about New Year's resolutions and taking all of those tiny steps towards making progress on your projects and building your business. Marketing to Women Expert, Michele Miller, does a good job of telling you how to use those baby steps for yourself. Roy H. Williams even talked about it in the rabbit hole of this week's Monday Morning Memo.
Yes, you can accomplish BIG things with small steps.
"What about the gravity well?"
I'm getting to it. Think of a big hole in the ground with a gradually sloping spiral staircase going down into it as it narrows to a point at the bottom. Your customer stands at the outer edge peering in.
Do you offer her an easy way to enter your gravity well, or do you expect her to dive straight to the bottom where she will enjoy a lifetime relationship with your business?
If she takes a couple of steps down the well, and she doesn't like it…well, she can still get out.
But, if you have no baby-steps, most of your potential customers will be quite hesitant to make the big leap.
What are some of the baby steps you can offer?
- Samples
- Risk-reversal, money back guarantees
- Short engagements with no strings
- Overnight test drives
It beats the heck out of a big "Buyer Beware" sign.
"What's your point?"
Here's the point…if tiny steps of accomplishment will bring about YOUR goal, offering tiny steps of engagement to your potential customers will help them bring about THEIR goal…which is to have their pressing problems solved…by YOU!
Describe your gravity well in the comments.