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Are You Using This Emergency Email Tactic In Your Marketing?

Author: Sean D'Souza


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Are You Using This Emergency Email Tactic In Your Marketing?

If your business stops and sputters for any reason whatsoever, here is an excellent email tactic that you can use in your marketing. No matter whether you’re marketing online or offline, here is how you can get your sales rip-roaring once again. All you need is an understanding of this powerful facet of customer psychology, […]

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Does your marketing strategy ever drive up to Echo Point?

Author: Sean D'Souza


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Does your marketing strategy ever drive up to Echo Point?

Most marketing strategies go phooey, not so much because they’re not good, but because the strategists don’t drive their marketing strategy to Echo Point. Not sure what that means in marketing terms? And how it can affect your marketing plans? Read the article to find where you could be going all wrong. Here’s how mums […]

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Next Marketing Strategy Article: Why Processing Time Is Critical For Consumption
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How to Avoid Participants Tuning Off During Workshop Assignments

Author: Sean D'Souza


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Seminars are just information dumps Yes, I don’t mind going to a seminar, but it’s just a newsreel. You then have to go out and do all the hard work. In fact, everything that’s being taught at that seminar could have been downloaded on a PDF file and an audio (if not video). But let’s […]

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Next Presentation Techniques Article: How To Get Clients To Participate: The Common Knowledge Pool
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The Customer Stampede: How can you harness it?

Author: Sean D'Souza


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Does your marketing campaign tend to go suddenly quiet? The phone should be ringing off the hook, your web server should be crashing with the number of orders, yet all you hear is the sound of silence. One psychological factor could throw your entire marketing campaign out of whack. What is that factor? And how […]

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Next Consumption Article: Why Processing Time Is Critical For Consumption
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How We Confuse the Heck Out Of Our Customers

Author: Sean D'Souza


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You first hear a jingle in the distance. It’s soft but audible. And it’s kind of familiar. About four seconds and one millisecond later, you hear doors being slammed. Excited, shrill voices fill the air. The quiet of the afternoon is suddenly punctuated with kids enthusiastically scanning the horizon in anticipation of something. That something […]

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Next Psychological Marketing Article: Why Demonstration Compels Customers To Buy
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Why Processing Time Is Critical For Consumption

Author: Sean D'Souza


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Do you remember what you’ve learned? Or are you a Sponge Bob? Soak a sponge with water. It will absorb all the water willingly.
 And as you pick it up, the soaked sponge will drip.
 A good chunk of the water will drippity-drip all over you if you’re not careful. But let’s say you are […]

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Next Consumption Article: The Two-Options Sale Strategy That Boosts Sales
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How Packaging Drives Consumption (And Value)

Author: Sean D'Souza


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You probably don’t know Joshua Bell. Well I didn’t. But I wasn’t alone. On Jan 12, 2007, about a thousand and seven people passed by Joshua Bell. You see Joshua was playing his violin–busking as it were–at the L’Enfant Plaza metro station in Washington D.C. At this mornings rush hour, the crowd surged past him. […]

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Next Branding Article: The Fundamental Flaw in Creating Your Uniqueness (USP)
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Can You Really Create Persuasive Sales Copy out of Thin Air?

Author: Sean D'Souza


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“Draw a dog.” Those were the commands of the art teacher to a bunch of five year olds. They didn’t know it just then, but they were part of a psychological experiment. The command reverberated through the room with a varying effect. Some kids furrowed their eyebrows. Some scoured their brains for inspiration. Others chewed […]

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Next Copywriting Article: How a Single Bullet Can Get a Customer To Buy
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The Two-Options Sale Strategy That Boosts Sales

Author: Sean D'Souza


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Choice is a good thing Yes, but too much choice is a bad thing. It confuses customers and causes them to abandon whatever it is you’re selling. So what if you have many products or services to sell to your customers? What should you do? You should use the Two-Options Sale Strategy in your email […]

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Next Consumption Article: Why You Feel The Need To Overstuff Your Clients
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How to Stand Out In A Crowded Marketplace: The Zap System

Author: Sean D'Souza


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Sir Freddie Laker, veteran of the now bankrupt Laker Airways, had some sombre advice for Richard Branson. Richard was about to start up Virgin Atlantic and wanted some words of wisdom. As Richard Branson tells the story, “Sir Freddie sat me down and said, ‘If you’re going to take on PanAm, TWA and British Airways, […]

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