If applied correctly the principals, methods, and efforts described in this book will completely revolutionize your organizations approach within the scope of product development, marketing, sales, and advertising. This is a phenomenal book for anyone to understand how to incorporate proven behavioral psychology, and new information gathered from neurological consumer testing into their business tactics.
To outline briefly, in order to maximize your persuasion, you should include these six elements:
1. Add a grabber of attention - communicate your value in a way that goes beyond simply using words. This can be by the means of a prop, minidrama, or story.
2. Define your claims - communicate your claims through contrastable benefits (the top 3 unique reasons why prospects should decide to buy from you.
3. Your big picture - a simple graphical representation of how your product, service, or idea will impact your prospect or audience. Visual stimuli is critical to engage the primal brain.
4. Your proof of gain - add contextual proof of value that reinforces your organization/products claim.
5. Reframe objections - break down objections you receive and reframe them in a way that can uproot the negative emotion associated with the fear of regret.
6. A closing - repeat your claims and ask a client "What do you think? Where do we go from here?"
All in all, it was a great book, and the market research startup I work for will be applying insights brought up from reading this book to revamp our communications and client-facing materials.