Here's What Dog Owners Are Actually Buying (Knowing This Can Boost Your Sales)

If I could teach you one thing to improve how you sell your dog products or services, it would be this.

Almost every dog business owner thinks they know why their customer or client purchased what they sell, but most of them are wrong.

And if you can grasp what Im about to tell you in this short article, it can massively boost your sales and bookings.

To explain it properly, you need to understand how your customer thinks when they're in buying mode, and how you're currently thinking when you pitch your offers.

I've tested this many times, but yesterday gave me the perfect real world example.

While on my daily walk in the park, I got talking to my friend, who owns a beautiful Staffordshire Bull Terrier. He mentioned he was actively looking for a dog trainer to help with a few issues, so I asked him a simple question.

"What are you hoping to achieve by hiring a dog behaviourist?"

He stopped, stared for a second, and said he wanted to stop the dog from barking in the yard all the time.

This is what I call first level purchase thinking.

So I went deeper and asked him why.

"Why what?" he said, tossing the ball for the dogs to chase.

"Why do you want the dog to stop barking?"

"Because it's annoying the neighbours," he said.

Now we were getting somewhere. That's the next level of thinking. Neighbours complaining is never a good thing, but I still felt there was another reason underneath it, so I pressed once more.

"How's Lilly taking all this?" (His wife.)

He looked at me, and I could see I'd hit the sweet spot.

"She's at her wits end. Constantly on at me to sort it out. I don't know how much more I can take."

There it was.

The real reason he wanted to hire a dog behaviourist had nothing to do with the neighbours. He wanted the arguments in his own home to stop. Yes, there were other reasons too, the neighbours, the embarrassment, the desire for a well behaved dog, but the deepest one was right there in his own home.

Your job as a dog business owner is to get to this level when you're selling, whether that's face to face or through your copy online.

Here's another example, this time from the seller's perspective.

Take premium dog food. On the surface you're selling better nutrition, cleaner ingredients, no artificial fillers. You probably mention this in your product descriptions, and rightly so.

But don't stop there.

Go one level deeper and talk about what that actually means for the dog. More energy, a shinier coat, better digestion, fewer vet trips. These are real benefits, and including them will improve your chances of a sale.

But we can go deeper again. Right down to the root reason, the one that rarely gets typed into a Google search or said out loud.

They want more time with their dog.

Dog owners know, somewhere in the back of their minds, that the clock is always running. A Labrador gives you ten to twelve years if you're lucky. A Cavapoo maybe thirteen. And every owner who has ever lost one will tell you the same thing. It goes too fast and it's heart-breaking when the time comes.

So when someone switches to a better food, yes they want a healthier dog, but what they're really telling themselves is this: if I buy the best food, maybe I get an extra year or two.

Nobody writes that in their product descriptions. But it's exactly what a lot of dog owners are thinking at the buying stage .

If you understand that, and you write from that place, even without ever stating it directly, your copy will land differently to the competitor talking only about ingredients.

You're not just selling food. You're selling more mornings, more memories, and a better life with the dog that's become part of the family.

Write from that place and see what happens.

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