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Consider a few basic, macroscopic rules that will take your word and phrase from drab to fab:
- Show, Don’t Tell: Use concrete examples and anecdotes to illustrate your points. I worked with X to design Y and Z which led to an uplift in $AM and B%” says a lot more than "I am a great designer.”
- Use Active Verbs : Active verbs make your writing flow dy
Tom White • Why Less Is More When Pitching Yourself
As non-coercive marketers, we don't agitate insecurities or spin up new ones to make the sale. We strive to see the inherent enoughness of everyone, and speak directly to that part. That's at the core of how we enable empowered decisions—by speaking to people as if they are already enough , and giving them the time and space to start trusting that
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There are many traps, both logical and emotional, that can get in the way. Steve Jobs’s philosophy is one school of thought that can be misapplied ––“Some people say give the customers what they want, but that's not my approach. Our job is to figure out what they're going to want before they do.”
Every • What I Learned at Clubhouse - Every
Peter Drucker famously remarked that ‘culture eats strategy for breakfast’. So what exactly is the culture of a company, a community or a society? Culture is the expression of a group's level of consciousness; their collective clarity of understanding. And the thoughts, words, actions and artefacts that make sense from that level of understanding.
Jamie Smart • Results: Think Less. Achieve More
Stop thinking of product-market fit as a yes or no question—but instead as a process of finding fit with more segments of the market.
Lenny Rachitsky • A guide for finding product-market fit in B2B
The goal of non-coercive marketing is to give everyone who enters your world all of the information they might need to make an empowered decision. No hiding. No inflating. No bullshitting. Just truth.
rob hardy 🦌 • Non-Coercive Marketing: A Manifesto
Non-coercive marketing starts from the assumption that you, as the business owner and/or marketer, are already enough. It acknowledges that while growing businesses can be fun, challenging, and meaningful, it's not a requirement for wholeness or self-esteem. Oftentimes the most courageous, life-affirming choice you can make is to break free from mi
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