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There has to be a way to inform me about amazing value without employing any manipulation tactics, espionage tools, and psychological terrorism.
by disintegore 4y ago
There has to be a way to inform me about amazing value without employing any manipulation tactics, espionage tools, and psychological terrorism.
- mancerayder 4y agoAnd repetition.
- simonw 4y agoAn important lesson I've learned in my career: don't resist repeating yourself. You can communicate something to someone extremely clearly and they'll have forgotten a week later, because they have a whole lot of other things going on in their lives. When I worked at a large company I started out incredibly frustrated at feeling like I was having the same conversation over and over and over again. Eventually I realized that repeating myself was part of the job.
- disintegore 4y agoUnderstandable but I imagine you're not trying to sell your coworkers penis enlargement pills.
- Dylan16807 4y agoThe problem there is that it's a fake product, not a moderate amount of repetition.
- RGamma 4y agoA concise, curated web directory would be nice. Sometimes I use Wikipedia lists of software; just something more general and standard.
- yifanl 4y agoThere is, it just requires that the field be clear of others employing any of those tactics, otherwise they'll naturally dominate with their much louder megaphone.
- jnwatson 4y agoThis. I spent several years in sales and then dabbled in marketing. It is entirely possibly, even superior, to have a completely ethical sales process (at least in a technical market). In marketing, psychological manipulation is part and parcel of the task. You can’t get to step 2 before you want to take a shower to wash the ick off.