The Operator’s Library · Workbench
The same message that closes one prospect makes another bounce, because they’re not standing in the same place. Eugene Schwartz named five stages of awareness. Say where your best prospects are and this tells you what to lead with, what to skip, and the mistake that quietly kills the pitch.
How this works
A prospect moves through five stages: they don’t know they have the problem, then they feel the problem, then they know solutions exist, then they know you exist, then they’re ready to buy. Your job isn’t to pick the “best” message, it’s to meet them where they are. Sell the deal to someone who’s never heard of the problem and you lose them. Re-explain the problem to someone ready to buy and you bore them out of the sale.
Pick the statement that’s closest to what your best prospects believe right now. The diagnoser names the stage and hands you the message approach that fits it. Most businesses have prospects at several stages at once, so run it per segment or per channel.
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