Standing-room-only Close

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Technique

Show how other people are all queuing up to buy the product.

Indicate that the other people are known to or are like the other person.

Hint at how they may be left behind by others or even seen as slow and backward by not buying the product sooner.

Combine it with hints of scarcity, showing how the product is so popular you may run out soon.

Examples

I had six people in here yesterday and every one of them bought several of these.

Other departments are applying. I'd get my application in quick.

They are jumping off the shelves like hot cakes, sir.

I don't know how many more people will be here tomorrow.

How it works

The Standing-room-only Close works by the Evidence principle, where the evidence of other people's interest in the product socializes it.

It shows that the person is not an early adopter but runs the danger of being in the late majority or even seen as a laggard.