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How to convince people to buy without being pushy

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Re: How to convince people to buy without being pushy

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>>You started to read 100 books a year, you are also known to spend three months vacation every year and you wake up at 4:00AM every morning.

Groan. Another 4-hour-workweek virtue signaling superman here to tell us how we're all inferior?

He starts off with an analogy about an airport and red/purple/green bags that makes no sense at all. Switched it off, no time for this nonsense.

Re: How to convince people to buy without being pushy

#6

Can someone explain the red-bag purple-bag analogy they use at the beginning? Made no sense to me.

It's not a great analogy IMO. It's just stating that if you don't address all of your customers' concerns, they will stall. I've got seven metrics [red bags] on which I evaluate these vendors, and your webpage covers five of them in ten bullet points. I wonder if it will handle these other two criteria, hmm. I'd better put this in a queue to think about later (keep waiting for my bags). Vs: "all my bags are here, shut up and take my money!"

Re: How to convince people to buy without being pushy

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post #4

>>You started to read 100 books a year, you are also known to spend three months vacation every year and you wake up at 4:00AM every morning. Groan. Another 4-hour-workweek virtue signaling superman here to tell us how we're all inferior? He starts off with an analogy about an airport and red/purple/green bags that makes no sense at all. Switched it off, no time for this nonsense.

I didn't listen to this, but I have read The Brain Audit and it was actually a decent book. Some of it was pretty obvious, but some was quite enlightening. Of course, I say that as someone who read it while not having anything to sell and therefore didn't try it out, but it lines up with other stfd I've read elsewhere.