How marketers use gamification to drive sales and how you can too
Our brain reward system is designed to compete. It keeps us alive.
When our ancestors caught a wild animal for dinner, their brains sent a shot of the pleasure chemical dopamine coursing through their system.
Dopamine is one of the feel-good chemicals that our brain rewards itself with for doing…
Rather create the habits that will make you successful
These so-called billionaire routines require one to get up at 4 AM to read, exercise and meditate.
Neither reading, exercising, nor meditating generates any money at all.
Unless you are a fitness model, no one will pay you to go to the gym. …
And how you can implement their methods in your business
Coffee is a highly commoditized product. It can easily be made almost anywhere in the world with widely available ingredients at a very low cost.
Coffee has been around for hundreds of years. …
And how you can apply their techniques to your business.
Twitter hit 100 million active users in 2011 and 10 years later have 300 million users — That is awe-inspiring growth — They are one of the most popular social media networks globally.
However, compared to Facebook, they suddenly look slow and small
Facebook hit 100 million users in 2008…
They generally don’t fill their days from end to end and often work reasonable hours
Successful entrepreneurs are problem solvers, but one of the problems they can’t solve is that there are only 24 hours in a day.
Though, from the outside, it seems that they get more done in a single day than us mere mortals can get done in a week. …
Like with all relationships, what you put in is what you get out
The relationship with your customer is like the relationship with your significant other. You have to work at it every day to maintain and improve it.
If you don’t keep things interesting and exciting, your partner will get bored and eventually move on to someone else.
You may be the…
How you can figure out if you should quit or fight on
You hear time and time again that you should never give up. You have to go through the obstacles to get to success.
Sometimes you need to fight on despite all the difficulties, but other times it may be wiser to quit.
The sooner you quit going down the wrong…
How to tell if a customer is worth the effort
The customer is always right is a slogan that began when customer service and modern retail stores were just coming into existence.
It was a helpful way to train someone in the 1900s who had no concept of customer service.
Now in the 2000s, we know that the customer is…
Whether you trying to grow or just stay alive — you still need a strategy
When you first started, you may have gotten your first customers by word of mouth, through your personal network or walk-ins to your store.
You may now be experiencing a lull in your business, or you managed to catch your breath and are ready to grow to the next level.
…
Your goal should be to guide your customer to success
Your customers don’t care about your business or how long you have been around.
They are neither interested in your achievements nor any other of your business’s milestones.
They care about what you can do for them.
Everyone is on their own journey. We want to be successful and happy…
Altaaf Aboo
www.altaafaboo.com — Join 100k other subscribers by signing up for my private newsletter and get free access to our growth insights and courses
