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Shortcut to Creating a Perception of Value in Absolutely Any Piece of Information

December 28, 2020 Colin Theriot No Comments

“Men value things in three ways: as useful, as pleasant or sources of pleasure, and as excellent, or as intrinsically admirable or honorable.” – Mortimer Adler, Born Dec. 28, 1902.

Mortimer Adler

Mortimer Adler

Let’s make today about practicality. We write to sell things. That’s our goal. Our duty.

And to do that, we have to make people see the VALUE in the offers we make. They need to BELIEVE it is WORTH the money we are asking, and that the item is worth acquiring in the first place.

A lot of the learned and acquired skill of this profession is in knowing the tricks to do exactly that – increase perceived value. But you know I like elegance, and simplicity, so let’s just focus on Morty’s trio…

Three ways to increase perceived value in your offer.

1. It must be seen to be USEFUL. It has to do something for the buyer. Either because it’s a tool that helps accomplish a goal, or because simply owning it creates an identity of some kind beyond the mere object itself. What does the item for sake DO that the owner would find USEFUL?

2. Why is it MORE PLEASANT to own than not? How does it deliver pleasure? Is it pleasing to unbox, to look at, to smell? Is it pleasing to use? Do you get pleasure from the things the item creates or achieves for you? How does it please others around you? How does it make others more pleased with you for having it?

3. How is it EXCELLENT, above and beyond other items of its type? Is it of a certain quality of manufacture? Is it more we’ll made? Is it bigger? Does it come with more of whatever it is? Is it created by someone notable? Is it endorsed by anyone who matters? Do other owners love it? Why do they love it MORE than anything else like it?

Answer some of these questions for your reader, before they think to formulate them, and you’ll be creating a belief – a perception – that your offer has value. Your product or service is therefore justifiably expensive.

Hell, just BEING expensive is a factor that dings all three of Morty’s must-have items.

But there you have it. A short but easy checklist to help you test your work. Do your offers convey as much value for the prospect as possible? If not, know you know how to change it. Increase it. Develop it. Refine it. And put it to work.

So did you find this post valuable?

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