Feb. 25, 2025

Why Emotional Marketing is the Key to Business Success | RR299

Why Emotional Marketing is the Key to Business Success | RR299

Most buying decisions aren’t based on logic—they’re driven by emotion, connection, and trust.

Chantal Cornelius helps businesses tap into this by using emotional marketing instead of generic selling points. As an international speaker, marketing mentor, and author of Standout Strategies, she explains why traditional USPs often fall flat and how to stand out by understanding what truly resonates with clients.

She shares five success strategies—Certainty, Connection, Contribution, Growth, and Significance—to help you identify your dominant emotional driver and build stronger customer relationships. From refining your messaging to making sales conversations feel effortless, Chantal’s insights will help you attract the right clients and create a business that feels authentic and impactful.

Highlights:

  • Find out how to align your brand with the emotions that truly influence customer decisions.
  • Identify the emotional strategy that best suits your business and use it to stand out.
  • Uncover the power of language and how the right words can make your marketing more engaging.
  • Develop a strategy to attract ideal clients while naturally filtering out those who aren’t the right fit.
  • Apply proven techniques to make sales conversations feel more natural and emotionally resonant.


Connect with Chantal:

Website: https://appletreeuk.com/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chantalcornelius

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/chantal_appletreemarketing

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/AppletreeMarketing


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Transcript
Janice Porter:

Chantal, welcome everybody. Welcome to



Janice Porter:

relationships rule. The podcast that explores the power of



Janice Porter:

connections in business. And today I have with me a second



Janice Porter:

time incredible guest, Chantal Cornelius, an international



Janice Porter:

speaker, marketing mentor and author of the new book, standout



Janice Porter:

strategies outshine your competitors, win new clients,



Janice Porter:

build lasting success. Chantal has spent years researching why



Janice Porter:

traditional USP, unique selling propositions fail, and how



Janice Porter:

businesses can instead leverage emotional marketing to attract



Janice Porter:

and retain clients. And in this episode, we're going to explore



Janice Porter:

why emotions drive buying decisions and how you can



Janice Porter:

identify and use your strongest emotional connection to stand



Janice Porter:

out in a crowded marketplace. So welcome to the show again.



Janice Porter:

Cranial Chantal, sorry.



Chantal Cornelius:

Hi, Janice, thank you so much for having you



Chantal Cornelius:

back. It's it's great to be back again,



Janice Porter:

absolutely. And when we first spoke, which was,



Janice Porter:

I think, around June of last year, we're now in February of



Janice Porter:

2025, and your book came out, I think officially in December, if



Janice Porter:

I'm not mistaken, it



Chantal Cornelius:

was October, October. And then I had an



Chantal Cornelius:

online launch party in in December last year. That's where



Janice Porter:

it was okay and and I just have to tell my



Janice Porter:

audience, because I love connections, and I love how



Janice Porter:

things happen. So when Chantal had her book and we talked about



Janice Porter:

coming back on the show, I said, Can you send me your book? And



Janice Porter:

she said, Well, she would, you know, try, but she's in England.



Janice Porter:

I'm in Canada. And then, of course, we had a postal strike



Janice Porter:

as well that happened in Canada. But she was going to a



Janice Porter:

conference in Costa Rica, which was, I think it was put on by



Janice Porter:

the Canadian the caps Association, right? The Canadian



Janice Porter:

Association of speakers. And I knew several people that were



Janice Porter:

going to be there, and one of them kindly brought the book



Janice Porter:

back for me, our dear friend, Azadeh. So I got to speak with



Janice Porter:

Azadeh and have coffee with her, and a great visit. And I got



Janice Porter:

your book. And so I thought that was really fun, the power of i



Janice Porter:

love



Chantal Cornelius:

the I love the way that worked out.



Chantal Cornelius:

Because, yeah, I was thinking, How do I get the book out to



Chantal Cornelius:

you? I could post it. And then I heard about the stray, yeah, and



Chantal Cornelius:

then you almost randomly said, Oh, but I know as a day, and



Chantal Cornelius:

she's going to be at the conference in Costa Rica,



Janice Porter:

I know, but yeah,



Chantal Cornelius:

it worked. It all was



Janice Porter:

perfect. So we're international connections. Can



Janice Porter:

can manage, can count. Okay, so your book, I'm we've briefly



Janice Porter:

talked about it, about the the strategies in your book, your



Janice Porter:

standout strategies before it was actually published. But now



Janice Porter:

let's get into the nitty gritty. So you say that USPS don't work



Janice Porter:

for service businesses, and I, I understand that. Now, after



Janice Porter:

looking into your book and reading I'm full disclosure,



Janice Porter:

I've read some of your book, not all of your books. So there you



Janice Porter:

go. So how, what's the difference? Like, I love this.



Janice Porter:

It's based on the five strategies are based on



Janice Porter:

emotions, people's emotions, right? And so USPS are all this



Janice Porter:

marketing gobbledy gook and jargon that people use. Is that?



Janice Porter:

Right? More so much, yeah,



Chantal Cornelius:

yeah. USPS are they're not unique. I know



Chantal Cornelius:

the word unique, yes. And the reason, the reason they're not



Chantal Cornelius:

unique, is because everybody says the same. I first noticed



Chantal Cornelius:

this. I started researching this back in 2015 so it's taken, it's



Chantal Cornelius:

been 10 years, and I started noticing people saying the same



Chantal Cornelius:

lines. I'm different because, you know, I'm I'm a marketing



Chantal Cornelius:

consultant. I can say I'm different because I have 25



Chantal Cornelius:

years of experience, or because I work in partnership with my



Chantal Cornelius:

clients, or because I listen to them. But there's nothing there



Chantal Cornelius:

that is, that is any different to what any other marketing



Chantal Cornelius:

consultant



Janice Porter:

say? So, okay, so let's switch it to now the



Janice Porter:

strategies and tell me how that works differently and how it can



Janice Porter:

be more successful.



Chantal Cornelius:

Yeah, this works because people buy based



Chantal Cornelius:

on emotion, right? 95% roughly of our buying decision well, 95%



Chantal Cornelius:

of any decision that us humans make is made. They're made



Chantal Cornelius:

emotionally irrationally and subconsciously. We don't even



Chantal Cornelius:

know that we're making these decisions. Example often use is



Chantal Cornelius:

about first impressions. They say first impressions count, and



Chantal Cornelius:

I walked into a networking event this morning knowing full well



Chantal Cornelius:

that people would be judging me without realizing that they're



Chantal Cornelius:

doing it. So they're forming opinions and having thoughts and



Chantal Cornelius:

making judgments, and it's the subconscious part of their brain



Chantal Cornelius:

that's doing it, and that's. Fine, but it does also mean we



Chantal Cornelius:

have to be very aware of how we walk into networking events



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depression, and what we then do is we back up the irrational,



Chantal Cornelius:

emotional decision with a rational, conscious decision. So



Chantal Cornelius:

somebody might, I might walk into a networking event and



Chantal Cornelius:

somebody might go, Ooh, I don't know why, but I don't like her,



Chantal Cornelius:

and it's because their brain has gone I don't like the color of



Chantal Cornelius:

her dress or her boots or whatever. And then they try to



Chantal Cornelius:

rationalize, well, oh, well, actually, let me go and talk to



Chantal Cornelius:

her and see so our brains are beavering away underneath. It's



Chantal Cornelius:

like an iceberg. There's an awful lot going on under the



Chantal Cornelius:

service, without us realizing until we kind of get to grips



Chantal Cornelius:

with it. This also happens when somebody is thinking about



Chantal Cornelius:

buying something, and particularly when they're



Chantal Cornelius:

thinking about buying a service, because a service is intangible.



Chantal Cornelius:

It's not like like a book. You can't pick it up and go. I like



Chantal Cornelius:

the color, color. I like the size of it. Services, coaching,



Chantal Cornelius:

consulting, speaking, training, they're intangible. So people,



Chantal Cornelius:

the the buyers, the clients, are doing this even more. They're



Chantal Cornelius:

making subconscious decisions about who to work with. I don't



Chantal Cornelius:

know if you've ever had this Janice, you've met somebody and



Chantal Cornelius:

you think, Oh, I'd really like to work with them, and I'm not



Chantal Cornelius:

quite sure why, yes, yes, that's yeah, that's the subconscious



Chantal Cornelius:

going, I've got an emotional connection with this person,



Chantal Cornelius:

right? I think the working with them will get me the results I



Chantal Cornelius:

want, or will allow me to feel the way in which I want to feel.



Chantal Cornelius:

You know, you might. I've done it. I've worked with people



Chantal Cornelius:

where I've gone. I don't know why. I just started a new



Chantal Cornelius:

coaching program, and I met this lovely lady who's also called



Chantal Cornelius:

Chantal, different spelling, and I just went, I think I want to



Chantal Cornelius:

work with her now. I then thought I put myself through the



Chantal Cornelius:

process. Okay, why am I doing? Oh, it's because my subconscious



Chantal Cornelius:

brain has made a connection based on the language that she



Chantal Cornelius:

uses in her marketing, and it's all about growth and development



Chantal Cornelius:

for her. So



Janice Porter:

I find that I always call it, you know, it's a



Janice Porter:

gut feeling, or there's right, it's something that's, you know,



Janice Porter:

intangible for sure. I know you saying that that gut feeling is



Janice Porter:

really my subconscious bringing up what I need to make that



Janice Porter:

connection. Yeah, exactly.



Chantal Cornelius:

Your gut and or your heart will make a



Chantal Cornelius:

decision initially, and then your head will get involved and



Chantal Cornelius:

say, Yes, Janice, actually, you can work with that person



Chantal Cornelius:

because look at their credentials or look at their



Chantal Cornelius:

website, it looks nice. So yeah,



Janice Porter:

so let's just, let's just start with what your



Janice Porter:

five success strategies are, and then, because I've taken your



Janice Porter:

test twice, I want to know how I can make this work for me, and I



Janice Porter:

think that will be helpful for for my audience as well. So go



Janice Porter:

ahead.



Chantal Cornelius:

Yeah, yeah. Okay. There are five strategies,



Chantal Cornelius:

and every business will have one major strategy, one of the five



Chantal Cornelius:

that that is the best one for their business. This isn't about



Chantal Cornelius:

trying to use all five. Remember. This is about being



Chantal Cornelius:

unique. It's about it's about one. Number one is called



Chantal Cornelius:

certainty. It's about being a safe pair of hands. It's where



Chantal Cornelius:

people want to they want a supplier with whom they feel



Chantal Cornelius:

safe and secure, who just gets the job done, who turns up, does



Chantal Cornelius:

the work or or tells them what to do,



Janice Porter:

like like your contractor. You definitely want



Janice Porter:

to have someone that makes you feel safe



Chantal Cornelius:

absolutely and it's the strategy that I use



Chantal Cornelius:

all the time in my marketing business, my client, I do a lot



Chantal Cornelius:

of mentoring, and they want me to tell them what to do. There's



Chantal Cornelius:

no guesswork. It's like, okay, client, do this, this and this



Chantal Cornelius:

to promote your business. And it'll, it'll work. So that's,



Chantal Cornelius:

that's certainty, okay. The second one is connection. This



Chantal Cornelius:

is where people will work with a supplier, or they'll look for



Chantal Cornelius:

somebody who can bring them into a family or a tribe, or help



Chantal Cornelius:

them, help them feel a sense of belonging. And I think you do



Chantal Cornelius:

this to a certain extent with your business. Through LinkedIn,



Chantal Cornelius:

you help people to feel connected to each other. So this



Chantal Cornelius:

isn't about you having a connection to them, it's about



Chantal Cornelius:

you helping them to connect with other people. Okay, it's a



Chantal Cornelius:

brilliant example, actually, of connection. We use LinkedIn in



Chantal Cornelius:

order to connect with colleagues, clients, prospects.



Chantal Cornelius:

Yes,



Janice Porter:

you you use examples of that in your book.



Janice Porter:

All a lot about LinkedIn being a great community for a great



Janice Porter:

platform for that? Absolutely,



Chantal Cornelius:

it's one, one of the best. Yeah, the third



Chantal Cornelius:

strategy is called contribution. This one is, oh, there's a,



Chantal Cornelius:

there's a, there's a fabulous company in the in the UK called



Chantal Cornelius:

stand out socks. I love it because, because they're called



Chantal Cornelius:

stand out and my book is called stand out strategies. Yeah, the



Chantal Cornelius:

company was set up by two. Brothers, and one of them has



Chantal Cornelius:

Down syndrome, which is a learning disability, and his



Chantal Cornelius:

older brother wanted, I've seen a video on them. Ah, okay, yeah,



Chantal Cornelius:

they, they want Dragons Den over here. Yes, a load of funding.



Chantal Cornelius:

I'm wearing stand out socks as



Janice Porter:

well. You need to use those as gifts for your



Janice Porter:

company. Stand out. That's right,



Chantal Cornelius:

yeah. And I did. I ran a big conference last



Chantal Cornelius:

year, and we gave all the speakers stand up as thank you



Chantal Cornelius:

gifts. The colors and the designs are fabulous. They're



Chantal Cornelius:

really they're really bright and funky. I've got yellow and blue



Chantal Cornelius:

ones on today. But of course, you promote. They promote, aside



Chantal Cornelius:

from making great socks, they promote their business on the



Chantal Cornelius:

fact that it was set up to give Ross a job somewhere where it



Chantal Cornelius:

works safely. I've seen the video. It's fantastic. It's



Chantal Cornelius:

brilliant, isn't it? Yeah, and the majority of the people who



Chantal Cornelius:

work there have some sort of learning disability, so when you



Chantal Cornelius:

buy their socks, you get a lovely pair of socks. But you



Chantal Cornelius:

also feel this sense of giving back and helping other people.



Chantal Cornelius:

So that's a really nice example of contribution. The fourth



Chantal Cornelius:

strategy is called growth. This one is about helping. This is



Chantal Cornelius:

where clients either want personal growth or business or



Chantal Cornelius:

both. The two often go together. So this might be somebody



Chantal Cornelius:

wanting to feel motivated, inspired, empowered, excited to



Chantal Cornelius:

go off and do, to do, do new things. I have a coach who



Chantal Cornelius:

motivates me and inspires and excites me about about new



Chantal Cornelius:

projects. So that's that. That's great fun, okay? And the fifth



Chantal Cornelius:

one is called significant, which is all about wanting to feel,



Chantal Cornelius:

wanting to feel seen and heard, wanting to be respected and



Chantal Cornelius:

recognized make a bigger impact that that sort of thing so,



Janice Porter:

but not necessarily making a difference.



Chantal Cornelius:

It could be making a difference. We are



Chantal Cornelius:

making a bigger impact. Yeah, that's an interesting point.



Janice Porter:

Yeah, because I think of contribution as making



Janice Porter:

a difference. And yeah, definitely the people who are



Janice Porter:

influencers, and you know, want to be seen and heard? Do they



Janice Porter:

also want to make a difference? I don't know



Chantal Cornelius:

if they do, then that's even better. Yes,



Chantal Cornelius:

yeah, okay,



Janice Porter:

okay, so, as you mentioned in your book, and as I



Janice Porter:

experienced when we spoke last time, on your website, you offer



Janice Porter:

people the an opportunity to go through a test to determine



Janice Porter:

which their strengths are, which of the five strategies are their



Janice Porter:

dominant ones. And I so have questions, because I did it. I



Janice Porter:

not only did it once, I think I did it twice, and and you've got



Janice Porter:

the results there. So I want you to because I was surprised. So I



Janice Porter:

think my primary one was growth, yes. And when I think of growth,



Janice Porter:

I think of my background as a teacher, and I think of, I think



Janice Porter:

of helping others do better in whatever it is like, so teaching



Janice Porter:

them LinkedIn, so doing better, so that giving them more tools



Janice Porter:

to work with. But I actually thought the one that came up



Janice Porter:

more secondary would have been my strength, one which is



Janice Porter:

connection,



Chantal Cornelius:

connection, yeah, so



Janice Porter:

can you speak to me about how to use both of



Janice Porter:

those are why one would be more stronger just



Chantal Cornelius:

to leave, go on, yeah, of course. And also,



Chantal Cornelius:

for anyone listening, the reason that Janice took the test twice



Chantal Cornelius:

is because I changed the test. Oh, that's right. Initially the



Chantal Cornelius:

test on my website, there were five columns of words, and I



Chantal Cornelius:

asked people to pick the words that they so if you ask your



Chantal Cornelius:

clients, how do you feel when you work with me, you listen out



Chantal Cornelius:

for the words, and then you you tick those words that they say



Chantal Cornelius:

and that, that was the first version of the test, and it



Chantal Cornelius:

worked pretty well, but a lot of people either ticked too many



Chantal Cornelius:

words or not enough. So some, some of the results came out a



Chantal Cornelius:

bit a bit strange. What I've since done is I've combined all



Chantal Cornelius:

of the words into one great big alphabetical test list, and I



Chantal Cornelius:

ask people to tick no more than 15, that's right, and they're



Chantal Cornelius:

the same words. I then run them through a clever system that



Chantal Cornelius:

we've set up, which comes up with a result. And what we're



Chantal Cornelius:

finding is that the second version of the test is more



Chantal Cornelius:

accurate because it's not leading people, right? And if



Chantal Cornelius:

somebody's heard me speak, or they've read the book, or they



Chantal Cornelius:

read articles on my website, and they're thinking, Oh, I think



Chantal Cornelius:

I'm growth. I'm going to tick all the words in the purple



Chantal Cornelius:

column, right? You can't do that anymore, right?



Janice Porter:

I find it confusing as well, because some



Janice Porter:

are nouns, some aren't some. And I always found that being a



Janice Porter:

grammar nerd, I was like frustrated by it. But anyway,



Chantal Cornelius:

that helps too. It's the sort of test to



Chantal Cornelius:

take without thinking about it too, exactly, rattle through it



Chantal Cornelius:

in a couple of minutes. Yeah. Okay, yeah. So both times your



Chantal Cornelius:

top strategy. Came out as growth, which is about helping



Chantal Cornelius:

people and and or businesses to grow personally or



Chantal Cornelius:

professionally. Now, if you're training somebody in how to



Chantal Cornelius:

build better relationships and how to use LinkedIn, more that,



Chantal Cornelius:

for me, definitely says growth, both on the personal and the



Chantal Cornelius:

business side. You could have somebody who is looking for a



Chantal Cornelius:

new job and is using LinkedIn personally to find a job. So by



Chantal Cornelius:

using LinkedIn more and by looking for a new job, they're



Chantal Cornelius:

growing personally, okay. Equally, there are people like



Chantal Cornelius:

me using LinkedIn to grow my business and looking for better



Chantal Cornelius:

ways of better ways of growing it. So it doesn't surprise me



Chantal Cornelius:

that that's that's high for you, because at the end of the day,



Chantal Cornelius:

particularly with businesses using LinkedIn, is about growing



Chantal Cornelius:

a business, about finding more clients and more contacts.



Janice Porter:

So what you're saying then, if growth is my



Janice Porter:

highest result, my strategy. Then in my marketing materials,



Janice Porter:

I need to speak about how I help you the the prospect. Build more



Janice Porter:

relationships, grow your business through visibility,



Janice Porter:

things like that. That would help. Okay,



Chantal Cornelius:

that makes sense. The best thing you can do



Chantal Cornelius:

is actually not use the word growth, okay, because potential



Chantal Cornelius:

clients won't. They don't. What I've noticed is they don't use



Chantal Cornelius:

the five strategy words. You know, people don't come to me



Chantal Cornelius:

and say, I want certainty. They come to me and say, I want to



Chantal Cornelius:

feel safe, I want to feel confident in my marketing. I



Chantal Cornelius:

want to feel clarity. So for you, Janice, have a look at page



Chantal Cornelius:

15 of the book, because that's got the lists on right? This is,



Chantal Cornelius:

this is how they used to appear on the test. Look at the purple



Chantal Cornelius:

list. Yeah, says purple list. So these are the these are the



Chantal Cornelius:

words, these are the emotions and the feelings. This is how



Chantal Cornelius:

your clients want to feel when they work with you. So they want



Chantal Cornelius:

to feel challenged. They want you to challenge them. To be



Chantal Cornelius:

saying, well, okay, why are you using LinkedIn like that? Or



Chantal Cornelius:

actually don't do that, do this. They want a sense of courage and



Chantal Cornelius:

education from you, where you're supporting them, pushing them in



Chantal Cornelius:

the right direction. They want to feel energized and excited,



Chantal Cornelius:

rather than you, rather than coming by going, Oh, I can't



Chantal Cornelius:

stand LinkedIn. I don't know what to do with it. They



Janice Porter:

want my client. This is great. Love it. Yeah.



Janice Porter:

Okay. These



Chantal Cornelius:

words in the purple list, and there are lots



Chantal Cornelius:

more. These are the ones for you to use in your marketing. So



Janice Porter:

even the ones that I didn't highlight that



Janice Porter:

brought me to that list,



Chantal Cornelius:

got it? Yeah. Okay, absolutely, yeah. So you



Chantal Cornelius:

highlighted a certain number of growth words. You highlighted



Chantal Cornelius:

proportionately more growth words than right? You're when



Chantal Cornelius:

you're writing in your marketing, you can be saying, my



Chantal Cornelius:

clients work with me because they want to feel a sense of



Chantal Cornelius:

hope and imagination about where they could go next and how



Chantal Cornelius:

LinkedIn can help them get to where they want to go. And



Janice Porter:

it was interesting that you said, gosh,



Janice Porter:

now I've just gone from my head.



Janice Porter:

Nope, gone, have to come back to it. So I'm sorry. That's



Janice Porter:

probably why I started to interrupt you, because I forget



Janice Porter:

things. I apologize that it's not, no, I'm moving on. So, so



Janice Porter:

Well, I think it's, it's, it's interesting, because we tend to



Janice Porter:

focus too much on us, and we don't think enough about the



Janice Porter:

other person. Like, there's all these lots of coaches I've



Janice Porter:

talked to and and business owners that have taken NLP, you



Janice Porter:

know, they think about the other person more than those who



Janice Porter:

haven't. But the the whole thing is about emotion. It's like,



Janice Porter:

right? And it's funny, you know, I actually, I talked to somebody



Janice Porter:

yesterday who reached out to me from an organization that I



Janice Porter:

belong to, and I thought I knew who he was, because I thought



Janice Porter:

I'd met him before, and I had I was right, but I was also right



Janice Porter:

about my preconceived notion about him, and so he was calling



Janice Porter:

me to see what my take on LinkedIn was, and if I could



Janice Porter:

help him. And I knew, like right away, I knew he wasn't my



Janice Porter:

person. I right. I didn't want that person as my client,



Janice Porter:

because he he wasn't all about connection and about he was



Janice Porter:

about growth, but he was more about give me the numbers, tell



Janice Porter:

me the ROI, if I work with you, it was all of that, that things



Janice Porter:

I couldn't answer, really, because. Because you, you have



Janice Porter:

to do the work. I can't promise it, right, that it's going to



Janice Porter:

happen if you don't go there and do the work. But yeah, I could



Janice Porter:

tell very distinctly that I wasn't going to work with this



Janice Porter:

person. Yeah,



Chantal Cornelius:

and that's, that's one of one, something



Chantal Cornelius:

that I really love about these strategies. I I've, I've had it



Chantal Cornelius:

in the past where I've, I've got it wrong. I've worked with



Chantal Cornelius:

somebody I shouldn't have done because I wasn't concentrating.



Chantal Cornelius:

I thought, well, I need the money, but the more I focus on



Chantal Cornelius:

my certainty type clients, the more I get it right. If somebody



Chantal Cornelius:

comes to me and says, Oh, I'm looking for really fast growth



Chantal Cornelius:

in my business, and can you help me get loads of results in and



Chantal Cornelius:

lots more clients, I say, No, that's that's not who I am.



Chantal Cornelius:

That's not, that's not the way I do marketing. I do marketing



Chantal Cornelius:

with. It's not fun, exciting or sexy. It's it's steady, it's



Chantal Cornelius:

regular. It's telling people what to do. So it means that



Chantal Cornelius:

when we know which is the right strategy for our business, we



Chantal Cornelius:

can get the marketing out there which attracts the right people.



Chantal Cornelius:

And it's wonderful, because it actually detracts the wrong



Chantal Cornelius:

people. It's the wrong people from getting in touch, because



Chantal Cornelius:

they look at our marketing go, oh, actually, well, I don't



Chantal Cornelius:

think I want to work with so I don't want to feel like that



Janice Porter:

well, or they see and they see your name, and



Janice Porter:

they're curious, but they haven't really done their



Janice Porter:

homework to see right whether there's a fit



Chantal Cornelius:

and it means that if, if they do slip through



Chantal Cornelius:

the net, and we end up having client, potential client calls



Chantal Cornelius:

with them, the way I do is I listen to their language. Now,



Chantal Cornelius:

I've been researching this and writing about it for nearly 10



Chantal Cornelius:

years, so it's it's in my head. I can't get it out. But practice



Chantal Cornelius:

this Janice, because the more you talk to people, the more



Chantal Cornelius:

you'll get used to listening to the language that they're using.



Chantal Cornelius:

And if you say to somebody, how would you like to feel at the



Chantal Cornelius:

end of a session working with me, or at the end of six months,



Chantal Cornelius:

if they're saying, oh, I want to feel inspired and motivated. I



Chantal Cornelius:

want to feel optimistic and I want you to, I want to, I want



Chantal Cornelius:

to feel stretched, those are all growth words. Whereas if they're



Chantal Cornelius:

saying, oh, I want, I want, I want to feel safe, that's a



Chantal Cornelius:

really big one for certain. So, yeah, you can, you can be



Chantal Cornelius:

listening out to for what they say well, and



Janice Porter:

just that, that whole questioning piece is



Janice Porter:

something I don't ask. I don't have an I don't find myself



Janice Porter:

saying, how do you want to feel at the end of it? So that's



Janice Porter:

something in itself that I think, you know, or how did you



Janice Porter:

feel at the end of our session? Or, you know, I'm not a



Janice Porter:

psychiatrist or a coach even. I'm right, but I think I um, I



Janice Porter:

often, if I'm talk, if I'm teaching and I'm doing a



Janice Porter:

training on on LinkedIn, let's say, and I'm and I'm talking,



Janice Porter:

and I'll say, I do a little bit, and then I'll say, does that



Janice Porter:

make sense? So I'm getting looking for feedback to make



Janice Porter:

sure that I'm on the right track, or that I don't have to



Janice Porter:

say it again, but that's got nothing to do with marketing



Janice Porter:

strategies. That just has to do with teaching technique. I'm



Janice Porter:

guessing, yes,



Chantal Cornelius:

yes. And what you could do at the end of a



Chantal Cornelius:

session is, is be saying, how was that? How do you feel as a



Chantal Cornelius:

result of that training session? That's and it's get that word



Chantal Cornelius:

feel in Yes, because you could say, how was that for you? And



Chantal Cornelius:

they'll go, oh, Janice, that was amazing, which is lovely, but



Chantal Cornelius:

there's no emotion in there. So if you say, how do you feel at



Chantal Cornelius:

the end of this, yeah, and then it's not what they say,



Janice Porter:

Yeah, that's good. I know that if I've had



Janice Porter:

conversations with prospects and maybe they're not ready to do



Janice Porter:

the work yet, and and they don't want to do it yet. They know



Janice Porter:

that they're waiting to get some money saved up, or they're or



Janice Porter:

they're waiting till they finished some major thing that



Janice Porter:

they're doing. And I remember this girl said to me a couple



Janice Porter:

months ago, I When I'm ready, I know I'm going to work with you,



Janice Porter:

because we had that conversation that built more of the



Janice Porter:

relationship, I think. And then, you know, I've checked back with



Janice Porter:

her just to say hi and whatever, and she says, Hey, I'm, I'm



Janice Porter:

still, you're still on the list, you know. So they get that, but



Janice Porter:

you do have to do that too. You have to follow up. That's



Janice Porter:

another whole story, but you do have to follow up to make that



Janice Porter:

happen. So that was one practical way to incorporate



Janice Porter:

emotional marketing into branding and messaging. Can you



Janice Porter:

give me a couple of other examples that people could use



Chantal Cornelius:

to absolutely it's, it's, it's a three stage



Chantal Cornelius:

process. The first, the first part is using language in your



Chantal Cornelius:

marketing. So, on your LinkedIn profile, on your website,



Chantal Cornelius:

wherever, however you you do marketing is use the language.



Chantal Cornelius:

So use literally, use the words. And I've had clients write



Chantal Cornelius:

phrases like, when clients work with me, they feel x, y z. How



Chantal Cornelius:

would you like to feel? X, Y, Z? That at the end of working with



Chantal Cornelius:

me, so that's that's using in your marketing the second stage



Chantal Cornelius:

is using it in sales conversations. I know that my



Chantal Cornelius:

ideal clients are really looking for confidence and clarity.



Chantal Cornelius:

Those are big certainty words. They are looking for confidence



Chantal Cornelius:

in sharing their marketing message and getting it out their



Chantal Cornelius:

confidence in standing up at a networking event saying, Hello,



Chantal Cornelius:

this is what I do. But also they're looking for clarity of



Chantal Cornelius:

that message. So being able to say what I do is boom, rather



Chantal Cornelius:

than one of the people I met this morning who took about five



Chantal Cornelius:

minutes to tell me all the 69 different things she did. So



Chantal Cornelius:

when people say to me in a sales conversation, what will I get



Chantal Cornelius:

from working with you? Chantal, I say things like, you will get



Chantal Cornelius:

the confidence to deliver your message and the clarity of what



Chantal Cornelius:

that message is. And they go, Oh, that's exactly what I want.



Chantal Cornelius:

And I've been practicing this because I know how to do it. So,



Chantal Cornelius:

yeah, you know it's, it's weaving, it in. If somebody



Chantal Cornelius:

doesn't say to you in a sales call, what will I get? Tell them



Chantal Cornelius:

what you'll get from working with me is, now we can't make



Chantal Cornelius:

anybody feel anything. So you can't say I will make you feel,



Chantal Cornelius:

but you can say you will get a sense of you will feel. So



Chantal Cornelius:

that's part two, that's the sales. The third bit super



Chantal Cornelius:

important is the actual delivery. So the work that



Chantal Cornelius:

you're doing when I'm working with mentoring clients, I tell



Chantal Cornelius:

them what to do. I don't say what marketing do you think



Chantal Cornelius:

would work? I just say, this, this and this. Just do that. I'm



Chantal Cornelius:

very bossy. I'm very straight talking. I have clients who



Chantal Cornelius:

phone me up, saying, Should I be doing this? And I say no,



Chantal Cornelius:

because so so and I've seen, I've seen businesses in the past



Chantal Cornelius:

that sell themselves, let's say on growth, but then try to



Chantal Cornelius:

deliver connection, and there's a huge mismatch, and you'll lose



Chantal Cornelius:

clients. If you do that, it definitely say that again. Say



Chantal Cornelius:

that again. If you so your your strategy dances growth. If you



Chantal Cornelius:

use growth in your sales and marketing. And potential clients



Chantal Cornelius:

came along and went, Oh, that's exactly what I want. That's how



Chantal Cornelius:

I want to feel. They buy in. They pay you some money if you



Chantal Cornelius:

then deliver something like connection rather than growth,



Chantal Cornelius:

they're not going to be happy clients, because that's what



Chantal Cornelius:

not. That's not what they bought from you, that's not what



Chantal Cornelius:

they're expecting. So you have to deliver. It's the same



Chantal Cornelius:

emotion. I used to think there was some leeway. I've changed my



Chantal Cornelius:

mind. There isn't. If people buy certainty from me, I deliver



Chantal Cornelius:

certainty.



Janice Porter:

Okay, so, okay, now I have to back up, because



Janice Porter:

do I mix things up? Is? Is now the question, right? Because I



Janice Porter:

know that if I'm talking to a client or prospect, let's say



Janice Porter:

about LinkedIn training, and they they're looking because,



Janice Porter:

well, they might have, they might already be on LinkedIn,



Janice Porter:

but they don't really use it properly, and they want to up



Janice Porter:

the level of their visibility, and they want to Use it for



Janice Porter:

connecting to people, I usually say quite clearly up front and I



Janice Porter:

don't know I think it's more connection than growth. Is that



Janice Porter:

the thing that I focus more on than not is building



Janice Porter:

relationships on LinkedIn, right? Yeah, because I believe



Janice Porter:

that most people are so focused on content, for example, on



Janice Porter:

LinkedIn, which is you still have to do that but, but it's



Janice Porter:

not, it's more passive, whereas you need to be building those



Janice Porter:

relationships, building connections to boards,



Janice Porter:

relationships to really, I think, to connect with the right



Janice Porter:

people. Because, again, it comes back to the emotion, is the



Janice Porter:

connection to people. So I'm babbling, but do you understand



Janice Porter:

what



Chantal Cornelius:

I do? I get it totally, yeah. So, and this



Chantal Cornelius:

it, you're right some, sometimes it's okay to have two



Chantal Cornelius:

strategies. Okay, one major one and then a little bit of



Chantal Cornelius:

something else. You can't have more than two. Doesn't it



Chantal Cornelius:

doesn't work. So what people are probably doing is they're coming



Chantal Cornelius:

to you because they want to feel more energized and excited about



Chantal Cornelius:

using LinkedIn, right? Which means that in your delivery, you



Chantal Cornelius:

have to energize and excite them. You can't sit there going,



Chantal Cornelius:

well, LinkedIn is not really very helpful, is it? And I don't



Chantal Cornelius:

really like it anyway, you laugh. I went to a workshop



Chantal Cornelius:

recently, and the presenter was teaching us a tool, and then he



Chantal Cornelius:

said, I don't actually think this tool works. Waste of time.



Chantal Cornelius:

Yeah. So, yeah. So, so they buy into you because they want to



Chantal Cornelius:

grow through LinkedIn, so you've then got to give them that



Chantal Cornelius:

excitement motivation. But because you're doing LinkedIn



Chantal Cornelius:

training, you Janice, you only are allowed to sprinkle in a bit



Chantal Cornelius:

of connection, because when you took the test, your second



Chantal Cornelius:

highest was connection one time, yeah, and with LinkedIn, the



Chantal Cornelius:

people, the reason that people use it is it's all, you're



Chantal Cornelius:

right? It's about, it's about building relationships. So it's



Chantal Cornelius:

about, I'm looking at the list of words. It's about friendship



Chantal Cornelius:

and harmony and being part of something bigger. So look on



Chantal Cornelius:

page 15 at the red Yes, those are the connection words, right?



Chantal Cornelius:

You I would really focus mostly on the purple words, the growth



Chantal Cornelius:

words, but you can sprinkle in a little bit of a little bit of



Chantal Cornelius:

the red



Janice Porter:

well. And I also think that it's because some



Janice Porter:

people aren't comfortable building relationship. They



Janice Porter:

would rather do the other so I also have to gage it to the



Janice Porter:

people, right? I



Chantal Cornelius:

think as well, people are coming to you.



Chantal Cornelius:

They are buying growth from you. Got it. They're not initially



Chantal Cornelius:

buying connection, okay? They're buying growth and then you're



Chantal Cornelius:

delivering growth with some connection. If you promoted your



Chantal Cornelius:

business purely on connection, you'd be saying, come and work



Chantal Cornelius:

with me, and I can help you become part of a big community.



Chantal Cornelius:

Yeah, yes, you can, because LinkedIn is one great big



Chantal Cornelius:

community. But they don't want that. That's not, that's not



Chantal Cornelius:

what they buy. So they want, they want to know how to build



Chantal Cornelius:

those connections, yeah, but in order to get growth for



Chantal Cornelius:

themselves or their correct



Janice Porter:

the ROI, yeah, yeah, okay, this is amazing, and



Janice Porter:

I know we could go on forever. So what I'm going to suggest is,



Janice Porter:

first of all, it was very insightful, and thank you for



Janice Porter:

indulging me a little bit there. I hope that my audience will see



Janice Porter:

the power of that, that exercise that we did. And I do believe



Janice Porter:

that, as you that the key to winning clients isn't about the



Janice Porter:

lowest price or the fastest service, it's about making a



Janice Porter:

deep, emotional connection. And I would like to encourage my



Janice Porter:

audience to go to your website, which will be on the apple tree



Janice Porter:

marketing, which will be on the show notes, under the show



Janice Porter:

notes, and to take your test as a start, and then to take your



Janice Porter:

to buy your book, because the it's it's there. I mean, it's



Janice Porter:

really all there. And if they want to work with you,



Janice Porter:

absolutely, to reach out and do so and but dive deeper by



Janice Porter:

looking into Chantal book stand out strategies, which I think



Janice Porter:

they can find anywhere as well as on your website, correct?



Chantal Cornelius:

It's the best place at the moment, is on the



Chantal Cornelius:

website. Okay? This podcast goes out, I will. It is on Amazon.



Chantal Cornelius:

I'm not sure it's working internationally. If you can



Chantal Cornelius:

contact me and I can, we can sort it out.



Janice Porter:

So, yeah, perfect. Okay, so any last words



Janice Porter:

for my audience? Oh,



Chantal Cornelius:

yes. If you're not sure how your your



Chantal Cornelius:

clients feel about you, ask them. Yeah, love that. And the



Chantal Cornelius:

best thing to do is very old fashioned. It's very simple,



Chantal Cornelius:

pick up the phone. Oh, how? You know, have a zoom conversation.



Chantal Cornelius:

Meet somebody for coffee, take them out for lunch. I've done a



Chantal Cornelius:

lot of this, of saying to clients, why is it you work with



Chantal Cornelius:

me? I did a lot of this in the early days when I was first



Chantal Cornelius:

researching this. Why do you work with me? What do you like



Chantal Cornelius:

about what I do? How do you feel when you work with me, and yeah,



Chantal Cornelius:

it's I am also developing another version of the test, or



Chantal Cornelius:

a couple of versions, where you can send the test to clients and



Chantal Cornelius:

ask them to fill it in, and I will then collate all of those



Chantal Cornelius:

results so you could send it to 10 clients. Yes, yeah. I will



Chantal Cornelius:

then collate all of those, all of their answers to make sure



Chantal Cornelius:

that it's growth, pretty darn sure it is, but it's just going



Chantal Cornelius:

to be an extra extra well. And



Janice Porter:

here's something somebody that I know wrote about



Janice Porter:

the other day, and I went at the light bulb went on, and it was



Janice Porter:

basically like, I'm it's about, okay, I do LinkedIn training.



Janice Porter:

One of the things that I encourage people to do is to



Janice Porter:

start, unless they are not allowed to buy compliance



Janice Porter:

issues, is to get recommendations on LinkedIn,



Janice Porter:

because that's the only social proof that we have on social on



Janice Porter:

LinkedIn. So with those recommendations, and I've been



Janice Porter:

very fortunate, and I have a lot of them on there because I ask



Janice Porter:

for them, I can take that information and use it in my



Janice Porter:

marketing as well.



Chantal Cornelius:

You can very definitely one word of caution



Chantal Cornelius:

is that the majority of people, when they write a LinkedIn



Chantal Cornelius:

recommendation do not use any emotional words,



Janice Porter:

oh, I'm going to look at. That. So that's okay,



Chantal Cornelius:

because people, when I was people, have



Chantal Cornelius:

asked me a lot, you know, Can I can I find out from my LinkedIn



Chantal Cornelius:

recommendations how people feel when they work with me?



Chantal Cornelius:

Generally? No, it doesn't work because we don't say to people,



Chantal Cornelius:

could you write me a LinkedIn recommendation that explains how



Chantal Cornelius:

you feel when you work with me? I actually



Janice Porter:

sometimes do ask that. So that's interesting.



Janice Porter:

Okay, I will look, I will look, and I'll let you do



Chantal Cornelius:

it. Definitely, okay, but, but



Chantal Cornelius:

generally, it's much better to just, just pick up the phone,



Chantal Cornelius:

just have a conversation and ask and then, and then listen to



Chantal Cornelius:

what they say. Yes, that's great for building relationships.



Chantal Cornelius:

Anyway,



Janice Porter:

I know, I know magic. It's all magic. So thank



Janice Porter:

you again, and thank you for thank you to my audience for



Janice Porter:

tuning in to relationships rule until next time, stay connected



Janice Porter:

and be remembered. I lost my recording. There we go. Stop



Janice Porter:

recording.