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Tell them where they stand against their peers

Comparison with people like them moves more households than appeals to saving money, helping the planet or doing the right thing, and a large share of ordinary thinking is spent on comparison anyway. Frame the message around their position relative to the neighbours rather than around the principle.


The method

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    Frame your message around where the buyer stands relative to people like them, which moves more people to act than appeals to saving money, helping the planet or doing good.


What it returned

  • 10%

    Alex Laskey's peer-comparison line, telling households their neighbours were doing better, beat every other message tested. Psychology Today puts the share of our thinking spent on comparison at 10%, and Social Comparison Theory dates to 1954.


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