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Five Decisions Every Buyer Makes Before They Contact You

Five Decisions Every Buyer Makes Before They Contact You

By Business Strategy & Positioning, Conversion Optimization & Sales Psychology, Influence & Consumer Psychology, Lead Generation & Demand Creation, Marketing Strategy & Growth, Thought Leadership & Authority Building
Five Decisions Every Buyer Makes Before They Contact You By the time a prospect picks up the phone, sends the email, or fills out the contact form, the most consequential part of the buying process is already over. You heard that right. Not the negotiation. Not the evaluation. Not the…
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Why Clients Default to the Biggest Name in Your Category

By Conversion Optimization & Sales Psychology, Business Strategy & Positioning, Influence & Consumer Psychology, Marketing Strategy & Growth, Thought Leadership & Authority Building
Why Clients Default to the Biggest Name in Your Category (And How Smaller Companies Can Compete) In 2015, Arup — a 17,000-person engineering consultancy — won the structural design contract for the Sydney Metro, one of Australia's largest infrastructure projects. They were competing against firms with three to five times…
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Why Some Brands Win Before the Conversation Even Starts

By Business Strategy & Positioning, Case Studies & Real-World Examples, Conversion Optimization & Sales Psychology, Influence & Consumer Psychology, Marketing Strategy & Growth, Thought Leadership & Authority Building
Why Some Brands Win Before the Conversation Starts HP Field Notes | Highly Persuasive Research from the Harvard Business School tracking 7,000 B2B purchasing decisions across industrial and professional services categories found something interesting. Brand recognition was a stronger predictor of shortlisting than technical capability scores, price competitiveness, or prior…
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What Your Website Communicates to Buyers Without Your Team Present

What Your Website Communicates To Buyers Without Your Team Present

By Business Strategy & Positioning, Conversion Optimization & Sales Psychology, Marketing Strategy & Growth, Thought Leadership & Authority Building
What Your Website Communicates to Buyers Without Your Team Present Before any conversation, any meeting, any proposal — the buyer looks you up. This happens consistently across engineering firms, manufacturing companies, logistics operators, consulting practices, and every other category where the work is complex and the stakes are high. The…
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The Empty Statement Problem — And How to Know If Yours Is Real

The Empty Statement Problem in Business — And How to Know If Yours Is Real

By Business Strategy & Positioning, Conversion Optimization & Sales Psychology, Influence & Consumer Psychology
The Empty Statement Problem in Business is Real & It Has Major, Often Hidden Consequences 2018, a mid-market logistics company in the American Midwest spent $120,000 on a brand refresh. New website. New messaging. New tagline. The centrepiece of the project was their newly articulated differentiator: "We combine innovative technology…
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How Brand Friction Adds Months to the Average B2B Sales Cycle

By Conversion Optimization & Sales Psychology, Branding & Identity, Business Strategy & Positioning
How Brand Friction Adds Months to the Average B2B Sales Cycle Nobody talks about the speed or momentum a brand creates. They talk about awareness. They talk about perception. They talk about "brand equity" — that wonderfully vague term that means everything and nothing. But the most commercially valuable thing…
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why buyers get cold feet at the last moment of the sale

Why Prospects Hesitate at the Last Minute — And What’s Actually Happening

By Business Strategy & Positioning, Conversion Optimization & Sales Psychology
Why Buyers Get Cold Feet The proposal has been reviewed. The scope is agreed. The timeline works. The budget is there. Your champion has confirmed — verbally, enthusiastically — that this is moving forward. And then, right at the last moment, everything stalls. The signature doesn't arrive. The "just a…
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