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Sales Psychology - The 4 Personality Types jamesblute.com
TQM (The Quant Method) identifies the personality types of clients' prospects and customers. Not only does each personality type respond to a different marketing approach, but we find that when we communicate with them in the...

Avoid These Top 10 Presentation "Pet Peeves"
It's Not What You Know or What You Say That Counts ... It's What People REMEMBER You Said and How You Made Them FEEL!
MATTRIXX Institute of Subliminal Influence and Persuasion mattrixxinstitute.blogspot.com
Heard at a recent political strategy workshop ... "Just because we've always done it this way doesn't mean it's not incredibly stupid!" Would you like to know how to alienate your audience and virtually guarantee a continued...

The Psychology of Resistance
How you can use psychological leverage to get past your customer's resistance to "being sold."
Psychology of Resistance upstartnation.biz
"People don't like to be sold but they love to buy." That’s the marketer’s challenge. People want to buy things to satisfy their desires and remove unpleasant aspects of their lives. They just don’t want to feel like they’re...

So what are these mystical super powers that precede the sales adage of features and benefits... Psychological Triggers.

One day in the early 1900s, a prominent American businessman named Claude C. Hopkins was approached by an old friend with an amazing new creation: a minty, frothy toothpaste named “Pepsodent” that, he promised, was going to be...

Just curious: why do 9 out of 10 web articles have numbers in the title?
You know, "10 Top Twitter Tricks" or "5 Great Social Media Strategies" or whatever. Are people really more likely to read those articles ...

What about persuasion profiling? Is anybody already using it? And how does it work for you?
See also this Wired article on Persuasion Profiling.
A new profiling technique doesn't just find content you might enjoy. It learns exactly what makes you tick—and buy.

Human beings have a deep longing to BELIEVE.
Here are 4 principles to earning trust faster than you may have thought possible.
Telling the Truth, Strategically donnie-bryant.com

Book Recommendation: Speaking PowerPoint jackmalcolm.com
Speaking PowerPoint by Bruce R. Gabrielle is one of the best books on slide presentations I have seen in a long time because it is full of practical suggestions, solidly supported by evidence, and clearly and compellingly written.

The Talent that Really Matters jackmalcolm.com
It’s very fashionable in a lot of business writing to focus on the importance of hiring only the most talented people you can find and then compensating and motivating them to do their thing. It sounds logical, but it’s built on the false premise of “natural” talent.[1] Why do so many


The Ophiuchus Effect
The human mind automatically moves into self-defense mode when confronted with any perceived threat to one’s view of the world and his ...
Gamechangers: The Ophiuchus Effect upstartnation.biz
The rumors of a mysterious 13th zodiac sign that abounded early this year reveal a powerful principle of persuasion.
