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How to be a Good Decision Maker: Enhancing Business Choices

Lead Fuze

Making sound decisions is an imperative aptitude that all sales reps, recruiters, startup founders, advertisers and entrepreneurs must excel at. In this blog post, we will delve into various aspects of decision science – from distinguishing between different types of occurrences to prioritizing long-term benefits over short-term gains.

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“Sensemaking” Is Not Just For Our Customers

Partners in Excellence

Brent Adamson wrote an outstanding HBR article on “ Sensemaking For Sales.” One of the most important things Brent discusses is how customers tend to cope when faced so much high quality information. Customers tend to fall back on what they already know and have confidence in. It prioritizes simplicity over detail.

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Sales Persuasion: Recognizing and Beating Cognitive Biases

Sales Hacker

Sales will always be a persuasion game, but the biggest obstacles to success are actually cognitive biases rooted deep in the human brain. It has developed mental shortcuts around rational thought: like factory-settings that help us avoid change by ignoring, rejecting, or modifying what we hear. Attentional Bias.

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B2B Reads: Change Exhaustion, Effective White Papers, and Impact Statements

Heinz Marketing

In addition to our Sunday App of the Week feature, we also summarize some of our favorite B2B sales & marketing posts from around the web each week. How to Talk to Your Audience: The right message to the right people at the right time. In this blog post, Emily Snyder underscores the importance of the buyer journey in sales.

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The “Curse of Knowledge”: How Expertise Can Hurt Marketing

ConversionXL

Your knowledge, in other words, can become a curse—a barrier that keeps you from communicating what customers care about in language they understand. But you have to know how to spot it and how to avoid it. What is the curse of knowledge? Follow-up research highlights how the curse applies to other fields.

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10 Ways to Add Value to Your “Thank You” Page

ConversionXL

These are some of the highest value segments of an online audience, yet what most sites decide to show them is an afterthought. While a short-lived experience, a thank you page reaches visitors while they’re still just a click or two away from a sale ; a confirmation page places added steps between a recent converter and another conversion.

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Maximizing Success: How Content Marketers Can Use AI

Lead Fuze

Visualize a landscape in which you, as a content marketer, wield the capability to produce an abundance of captivating blog articles and social media posts that speak to your viewers. How can content marketers use AI? We’re going to dig deep into how AI’s grasp of user data can help in crafting personalized content.