Psychological Marketing

1) Follow up. 2) Follow up. 3) Follow up. 4) Follow up. 5) Follow up. 6) Follow up. How do I know this to be true? Because recently we launched a book on Membership Sites. As is the norm, we give the best price to our members at 5000bc. We also let them know about [...]

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Haven’t you ever been in a group where there’s a slacker? Everyone’s working really hard, but there’s this one person that won’t do much, and so everyone else has to work a lot harder. On a sales page, or in your brochure, you’re going to have a similar problem if you have sugary testimonials That’s [...]

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I like tequila. And I also like lime juice. When you mix the two together, with a bit of Cointreau, you get a yummy margarita. The results aren’t quite so good when you mix up your testimonial with critical appraisal. So what is the difference between a testimonial and a critical appraisal? As you probably [...]

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As you chomp into any dish, something happens in your brain. Your brain analyses the contents of the dish, compares it what it knows and then spits out a critique. So the dish could be too salty, too sweet—or, or, or,—it could be just right, or even better than you’ve ever tasted before. In a [...]

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It’s not like you haven’t tried getting testimonials before. You sure have. You have at least some testimonials, but  somehow they don’t have that snap, crackle and pop! There’s a reason why testimonials fall short of the mark Mostly it has to do with the length. And yes, yes, the detail. Instead of a testimonial [...]

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  In less than a month from now, it will be 10 years that Psychotactics has been around. And we think it’s something worth celebrating. So what can we do? Even if you’ve never posted before, I’d encourage you to volunteer your ideas so that we can make this event something special. Will you help [...]

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Nothing bugs you more than a painful client. A client who hassles you at every step of the way. A client who won’t pay on time. A client who takes up so much of your energy that you get drained. I used to have clients like that And then at some point I stopped getting [...]

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Take out that cell phone from your bag.
 And look at the features. It can tell time; it can be a stopwatch; it can keep diary 
appointments; it can help you pass time with ingenious
 little games; it can probably take photos; send text messages;
 maybe even double up as an mp3 player or a torch. You could probably [...]

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Imagine you had a handicapped child. And now this child is twenty years old and reasonably self-sufficient. Self-sufficient enough for you to decide you want to get back in the work force. But twenty years have passed. What will you do? 
Your qualifications are worthless. 
Your experience doesn’t count for much.
 And you’re intimidated as hell. So let’s [...]

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Ronald was a good friend of mine. And Anita was his girlfriend. Well, not any longer. She was now his ex-girlfriend. They’d split up. And I got asked for my feedback: “So, what did you think of her, anyway?” Well, I told him what I thought about her. Did you ever get the feeling of [...]

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Imagine this. Imagine you move into a neighbourhood and a neighbour brings across a big cake. What happens to you instantly? There you are, with all your unpacked boxes, a to-do list so long it stretches all the way to Geneva and all that you can think of, is how to pay that person back. [...]

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Yesterday I went to buy some walking shoes. And I ended up spending $2000. And that’s not counting the shoes. Now, did that opening get your attention? Sure it did. It sucked you in. And the reason you hear that strange sucking sound is because I didn’t start off the article like most people do. [...]

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