What are your clients really buying? (the feeling beyond the product or service you provide) by Mark de Jong

Mark de Jong

Relief, mostly. The rational case is easy to state: save time, plan faster, grow revenue. But underneath that sits something people rarely say out loud: they feel exposed. A messy planning process makes them look incompetent in front of colleagues, customers, their own boss. What they are really buying is the confidence that nothing is about to blow up on their watch. Sell only the rational benefit and you are competing on features. Find the fear underneath it and speak to that, and the product becomes the thing that makes them feel safe again.