The goal of “Mindful Marketing” is to focus the consumer on the consciousness of the intention and to notice the unique details.

Evoking Interaction Through Mindful Marketing

Modern consumers are more informed and more selective than ever before. They have a world of information, opinions, and resources at their fingertips at all times, and traditional marketing techniques do not cut it anymore. Most Americans– particularly younger generations– do not trust traditional advertising, and this poses some obvious problems for marketers.

But while average consumers are not as trusting as they once were, modern consumers can be more loyal– and vocal about their loyalty– than any generation before, once your company makes a meaningful connection with them. So how do you advertise to those who reject advertising and gain the trust of those who are naturally suspicious? The key is to create evoking content.

What Is Evoking Content?

It’s essentially what it sounds like. Evoking content is the kind of material that evokes an intended emotion from your target audience. Your marketing efforts should not be geared at making a customer think a certain way about your brand; it should always be intended to make them feel something specific about your product, service or company.

Of course, some emotions are relatively easy to evoke from the general public. For instance, you could almost certainly think of hundreds of things off the top of your head that would evoke anger or disdain if you posted them. Negative emotions are always easier to elicit, and this is partly why so many lazy (and cheap) marketers utilize this concept with shock headlines and clickbait.

Share the Feeling

The marketing department at Facebook teamed up with researchers at Cornell University to perform a study of how users related to the posts they read. The researchers altered the news feeds of over 500,000 subjects to include substantially more positive or negative emotional posts. Those who received more positivity in their news feed consistently posted more positive material. Not only that; they also posted more often.

A similar study by a team at the University of California San Diego found that something as simple as a positive emoticon could create substantially more positive reactions and provide more reactions overall. Simply put, positive content creates positive reactions in readers. If you do not yet see how this could relate to your marketing efforts, you haven’t been paying attention.

Mindful Media

The goal of mindful media is to evoke non-reactive awareness and curiosity in the minds of your customers through positive evoking content. To put it more simply, you want your customers to feel something good about your brand and understand why they feel it.

Let’s face it, in this era of blogs and user-generated content, anyone can create content that is interesting. A talented marketer can consistently create content that is interesting and intriguing, eventually evoking a reaction from the reader. While mindful marketing is still geared towards the eventual action of purchasing, it is more focused on the process and feelings involved in getting there. This not only elicits a purchase– it creates loyal customers, long-term relationships, and brand evangelists.

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