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The Secret to Becoming an Expert in Your Customer’s Eyes?

Author: Sean D'Souza


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How do you become an expert in your customer’s eyes? How do you become the person the customer most wants to work with? How do you then increase prices 500% and still have customers wanting to work with you? To understand how this unusual situation occurs, let me tell you a story: I was a […]

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How Do You Make Your Trigger Statement Memorable 100% Of The Time

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Information Product Goodies: Psychotactics

“30 Seconds. Just spray and walk away”. In New Zealand, right before the brand “30 Seconds” came along, there may have been dozens of mould and moss removers. So why did “30 seconds” stand out? Ok, it’s time to cover your eyes for a few seconds and try to recall what “30 seconds” asks you […]

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Why New Products and Services Create Risk

Author: Sean D'Souza


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The Early Years-Psychotactics-Moving to New Zealand

This is a continuation from Part 1:Why Clients Don’t Buy (Understanding The Elements of Risk): Episode 81 Part 2: Why The Risk Factor Changes With Every Version Of Your Product/Service Adele—yes, the one and only Adele—the superstar singer/writer did something naughty. In November 2015, a small group of Adele impersonators gathered backstage to take a […]

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How Pre-sell Plays A Crucial Role In Risk-Reduction

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How Pre-sell Plays A Crucial Role In Risk-Reduction

Why do clients hesitate like crazy when they are about to buy? Risk doesn’t just come in one flavour, yet The Brain Audit takes away a ton of that risk. In this article on pre-sell,  we take a forensic look at what happens when you release a new version of your product or service. Is […]

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Announcing: How To Become An Expert In Your Industry

Author: Sean D'Souza


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Imagine you had a fairy godmother. And she gave you one wish: The wish of ‘perceived expertise’. This ‘perceived expertise’, means that your customers would look at you and say: “There goes the expert in the field. I only want to work with her/him.” I had such a godmother. And I got a wish from […]

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Why Clients Don’t Buy (Understanding The Elements of Risk)

Author: Sean D'Souza


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The Early Years-Psychotactics-Moving to New Zealand

If you were to boil down marketing to a single word, it would be “risk”. When a client is ready to buy they still hesitate. Even when there’s a sense of urgency on their part, they still go through a series of steps before they come to a decision. What are those steps? Why do […]

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Announcing: Free Goodies +Psychotactics Online Courses

Author: Sean D'Souza


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Psychotactics Online Courses Sequence

Do you remember trying to learn a new language? The word “trying” is important, because most of us never do get fluency in a language. And yet, there was one teacher who promised like what seemed impossible. He promised to teach the guts of a language in an incredibly short time. “10 hours, you can […]

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The Polaroid Moment—How To Predict If Your Business Is Going To Succeed

Author: Sean D'Souza


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Polaroid Instant Camera

  In 1947, inventor, Edwin Land had a “tiny” issue on his hand Land and his daughter were enjoying their day out, and Land was busy snapping pictures of his daughter. But she’s wasn’t impressed. She wanted Land to show her the pictures he’d been taking with his camera. She wanted to see the images “right now”—and this […]

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Good to Great: How To Escalate The Path To Greatness

Author: Sean D'Souza


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The Early Years-Psychotactics-Moving to New Zealand

How Do You Escalate Your Path To Greatness When Jim Collins wrote “Good To Great”, he did talk a fair bit about the Hedgehog Principle. But what he stresses more on, is quite another concept called “Preserving the Core and Stimulating Progress”. Why does this concept matter so much? And how do you combine the Hedgehog Principle […]

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Next Marketing Strategy Article: Good to Great: How To Take Your Small Business To Greatness
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Good to Great: How To Take Your Small Business To Greatness

Author: Sean D'Souza


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Good to Great: How To Take Your Small Business To Greatness

Can A Small Business Achieve Greatness? There are two options in life: greatness or mediocrity. But greatness seems so elusive, even so pompous. How do you call your work “great”? How do you even know or benchmark “greatness?”. And can a small business achieve greatness or do you have to be a dominant player like […]

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