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Hello everyone, my name is Clay Collins and welcome to this episode of The
Marketing Show. Today, I m going to talk about something that a lot of people miss. In fact,
a lot of the pros miss this. One of my high-end clients that brings in six figures a year,
is about to bring in multiple six figures a year, and I were talking about this the
other day and he had missed something. And he, in fact, missed something that a lot of
people miss. And so today, I want to talk to you about why your customers think you
are full of crap. I m not saying you are a full of crap, I m just saying that when they
think you are full of crap; this is probably the reason why. So, when it comes to their
money, most people and most of your customers are incredibly, incredibly smart. People inherently
grasp things that they normally do not grasp when it comes to their money. For example,
most people know that if they are buying something that purportedly creates an internal change,
that it s going to change them on some emotional level in terms of their confidence or level
of freedom or something spiritual. Most people know that if they buy something that creates
an internal change and it doesn t create an external change, a very real external change,
that the internal change was bogus. Most people grasp the mind-body connection; most people
grasp the connection between the spiritual and the physical. So, if you sell something
that purportedly creates an internal change and you do not spell out how it s going to
help them on the external claim, they are going to think you are crap. Likewise, if you say
something to help someone with an external issue, let s say money, but you don t describe
the internal shifts that will happen, they ll probably think you are full of crap. And
I ve tested the hell out of this. You need to sell both especially if you sell information
products or courses or consulting or coaching or expertise or advice or anything like that.
If you are selling a transformational experience, if you just focus on the external, people
are going to wonder why it doesn t produce an internal result. If you just sell a change
in mind and it does not affect the body, people will not believe you. So, let me give you
some examples here, and I m sorry about the lighting situation. My studio is in transition
and this is actually some natural light that s coming in through the sunroof. So, if you
are selling freedom and control, okay? You are selling an internal sense of freedom and
control but you don t spell out that it s going to produce some sort of external change
and this is going to vary from market to market and from customer base to customer base. But
if you say that you are selling freedom and control and that you are going to create an
internal shift in them thru meditation or thru whatever you do and that does not produce
an external outcome, again, people grasp the mind-body connection, people grasp the connection
between the spiritual and the physical and the non-physical and the physical. So if you
are selling freedom and control thru meditation or whatever, some kind of internal shift,
and you are not saying that it s going to produce something external, let s say for
example, enough money to do whatever you want, right? You are not selling a path to that while
you are selling freedom and control, then people are going to know you are bogus. Now, it doesn
t have to be, you know, anything on this side, I m just saying if you are selling an internal
you need to know what an external component your customer base wants, okay. So, let s
say it also goes the other way around. So if you are selling enough money to do whatever
they want and you are not talking about how it s going to create an internal shift for
them when they go through your course or your program or whatever you are doing. People are
also going to know it s bogus. It s not possible to make a whole lot of money from nowhere,
from poverty, without some internal shifts happening. And, yes, there are people who
are successful and just selling the spiritual without the physical and there are people
who are successful at just selling the physical without the spiritual. But the people who
sell the most are people who sell both because, again, the human brain gets that connection.
s say you sell confidence around women. So you sell to the guys who want to be more confident
around women. If you don t claim that this is going to help them get a girlfriend and
help them get, maybe, more sex in their life or whatever you are selling, I mean, this is
a biggie for guys, the whole sex thing. If you don t claim that, then people are going
to go, Well, is the confidence around women really real? Is this internal state really
real if it doesn t produce an external outcome? Likewise, if you just go around selling sex,
like, "Hey, you know, this course will help you get laid 10 times a day," but you don
t talk about how the course will also help people create an internal shift, they are not
going to believe that the external is real. Or they are going to see the whole thing as
just a meaningless exercise, because they know that the external without the internal
is likely to just pass away. So why don t people sell both? Why is it that so many people
just sell the external and don t sell the internal while other people just sell the
internal but don t sell the external? I believe that it s because of confidence. People who
sell meditation courses and internal changes often are too scared to claim that this is
going to produce an external result. And I do not believe that it s because what they
do does not produce an external result, I believe that it s because they are so narrowly
focused on what they teach and what they provide that they are often blind to the real world
effects of what they do. So I challenge you to think hard about what you generally sell.
Are you selling the internal or the external? If you are providing the internal, I challenge
you to figure out in a very specific, real way, the external result it produces; the
specific external result it produces. And if you sell the external, then I challenge
you to figure out internally the shift that people make once they ve mastered the external
that you teach. My name is Clay Collins and thank you so much for watching The Marketing
Show.