“Nothing has more strength than dire necessity.” ~ Euripides
In sales and marketing, the most basic strategy is an ability to fulfill a need. How can we use this strategy to persuade affluent clients? After all, they seemingly have no needs? Wrong. Everybody needs something. Determining what that something is and if you’re able to fulfill it is the process of criteria elicitation.
If you stop to think about what you are consciously thinking about right now it might be the words that you’re reading. You’re probably not thinking about peeling a banana, or you weren’t until you just read ‘peeling a banana’. If your doctor told you to eat a banana every day for potassium, you might think about bananas more than the average person, certainly less than a banana farmer, but more than average.
There’s no possible reason for us to be thinking about bananas all day and dreaming about them all night. But when necessity, such as your doctor’s advice, intervenes, then bananas become more of a common thought for us.
Consciousness is regulated by the part of the brain called the reticular activating...