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Working On Trust

Partners in Excellence

Trust is the cornerstone in developing healthy relationships,whether they be personal or professional. However, there’s a lot of bad information about establishing and maintaining trust–both with your customers and within your organization. We don’t trust those who never trust us. . Walk the talk.

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How to use fan-driven marketing to foster brand love

Search Engine Land

You might operate in what’s classically considered a “boring” vertical such as law, cybersecurity, construction or insurance. As Brittany Hodak wrote in her book about superfans : “fandom and identity are intrinsically linked. How do people become fans and fall in love with brands? The concept of superfans might sound a little strange.

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Poor Charlie's Almanack: The Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger

The Lost Book of Sales

Charlie is simply content to trust his own judgement even when it runs counter to the wisdom of the herd. At best, they are merely the beginning of a proper calculation of intrinsic valuation, not the end. Finally, Charlie seeks to calculate the intrinsic value of the whole business and, with allowance for potential dilution, etc.,

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Are You a Visionary Sales Leader?

Closer's Coffee

For example, a visionary leader would explain to their team why they should be hitting their sales targets , and would also ensure that outcomes are tied to intrinsic motivation. They know that selling is about building valuable, meaningful and trusted long-term relationships rather than short-term transactional ones.

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Why High Cognitive Load Is Costing You Conversions (and How to Reduce It)

ConversionXL

He also broke cognitive load down into three categories: intrinsic, extraneous, and germane. To summarize… Intrinsic – The inherent difficulty of the concept. Germane – The construction of patterns, models and associations. This is partly why site security and trust is so important to website visitors.

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Auth0 and CircleCI — January 31, 2020

SaaStr

In general, people want to pay you for the value that they get so you can have a very open constructive conversation with your customers about pricing and why it’s working, why it’s not working for you and what are the changes that you need to make. I think that’s core to really creating that environment of trust.

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SaaStr Podcast #402 with HackerOne CEO Mårten Mickos: “Customers Want Value + Simplicity: The Must Haves to Deliver”

SaaStr

And that is what your business is about, you will be able to construct packaging that is much more fulfilling for the customer, much more convenient to consume, and much more powerful in delivering the value that you’re trying to deliver, delivering the results. You have to vet the hackers and make sure they can be trusted.