When pizza on a mountainside can be just as good as dinner at the Ritz…
If I was to ask you to hazard a guess at what would be the perfect dining experience for
yours truly … I expect you might conjure up images of a Michelin starred
restaurant with an extensive menu, carefully matched wines for every course,
all cooked by some shouty chap you’d normally expect to see on television.
And that, certainly, was right up there … until about a week ago … But I
now have to declare that, whilst on a recent short break somewhere nice and
warm, I had one of the best – if not the best – dining experiences of my life
… eating a pizza halfway up a mountain…
We’d been invited by a friend to accompany him on a visit to a former colleague
of his, a restaurant owner who had now opted for a quieter life up in the hills
running his own small pizza delivery business … so we armed ourselves with a
few carefully selected bottles of red wine….and set out to sample this more
‘rustic’ fare.
Admittedly it wasn’t just pizza … there were mushrooms in a amazing cheese,
tomato and garlic sauce, the most perfect bruschetta with fresh tomatoes garlic
and chilli … and of course I ‘may’ have augmented my own pizza with just a
little extra cheese (well, there were too many different varieties to choose
from to pick just one or two) And this, eaten in the open air on a gorgeous
evening surrounded by good company … well, it really couldn’t have been any
better…;-)
Proof then, you’ll agree, that something doesn’t have to be all polished five
starred excellence, as long as it all fits together and each of the elements
involved compliments all the others perfectly…
We can, of course, implement this principle into our online endeavours,
something that may prove invaluable for those who are wondering how they could
ever possibly compete with others who might have ‘big shiny’ websites and ‘big
shiny’ products to offer.
Rustic and honest is just as good as
posh and shiny and way better than shiny and smarmy!!!!
A product made of quite simple, congruent parts that will work perfectly
together and give the user exactly (or even exceed) what they were expecting
will win you more long term customers than something that looks ‘the business’
but ultimately doesn’t deliver.
Even if you don’t have any products of your own, you can ensure whatever
processes you do have (whether it be adding people to your list or directing
them toward somebody else’s offer) flows congruently…
For instance, you could have the same header, fonts or imagery on your thank
you page as you do on your squeeze page … so that your visitor knows where
they are and what is going on right through the process.
The last thing you want is for your visitor’s confidence to be ‘jarred’ by
something inconsistent that makes them have second thoughts about joining your
list or taking up an offer, but instead try and make all parts of your buying
or ‘signing up’ process just like a ‘well greased chute’ delivering them either
to your list or making them a customer…
Publisher, Tim’s Business
Lowe Down




