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Integrated Marketing and Social Networks

Coaching Tip

“The way something is sold influences the way it is made, and the book industry has always been about bookstores,” said business book writer Seth Godin. Seth Godin: Poke the Box. Sources: The Wall Street Journal, [link] and Forrester Research, Inc. To read more: [link].

Marketing 102
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Stimulate Your Customer's Lizard Brain to Make a Sale

Harvard Business Review

This idea is supported by Forrester Research, which found that 65% of high-level decision makers give their business to the company that creates the "buying vision," versus 35% who acknowledge putting candidates through a fair-and-square "bake-off." The brain stem and other brain structures are responsible for your survival.