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On your walk to the parking lot at the end of the day, you find a $50 bill on the ground. But as you bend over to pick it up, you notice a dent on your bumper that wasn’t there before.
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On a good day, that dent in your car is an, “oh well… that stinks” situation. On a really bad day, it’s more of a, “Nooooooo!!! This is terrible! What else could possibly go wrong today?”
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The Law of Contrast explains how we react when we’re presented with two different choices or alternatives at the same time.
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If your dentist straight up tells you that you might need a filling and that it costs $300, you might think, “Dang! $300? That’s a lot of money!”
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Providing six options this way accomplishes a few very important things…
- It provides options, not ultimatums for your customer
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- The more premium options create contrast, raising the perceived value of all of the options, and making the lower and mid-range options appear more reasonable and affordable.
The most important part of the Law of Contrast is that it gives you the ability to shift the focus of the customer. By providing a couple more permanent solutions that have higher prices, you’re focusing the customer’s mind on a higher value.
Because when you offer something with a higher cost first, things that are less costly than the higher item will be viewed as even more reasonable.
How to Put Contrast to Work For You
We teach our Total Immersion students to create their top (first) option to get a “no” from their customer. It should be a very high-end, high-investment option. Almost unreasonable so.
Why do we teach that?
Because when faced with a high, almost unreasonable price, the human brain begins to search for a more reasonable offer. At the same time, upon seeing an expensive solution, we incrementally raise our expectations of all solutions.
When we present our high-investment premium solution first, followed by very good but more affordable mid-range and economy solutions, the customer sees the value in those options and perceives them as much more reasonably priced.
While most contractors are still throwing one price ultimatums at customers, our Total Immersion students have been showing each customer 6 options. The result?
Nationwide, over 74% of our client’s customers are choosing in the middle. That represents a significant upward shift in sales and revenue… and it’s all because of the Law of Contrast.
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