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Jun 2021
30m 41s

Find Out What Your Customers Can't Tell ...

ROGER DOOLEY
About this episode

Melina Palmer is the founder and CEO of The Brainy Business, which provides behavioral economics consulting to businesses of all sizes from around the world. Melina obtained her bachelor's degree in Business Administration: Marketing and worked in corporate marketing and brand strategy for over a decade before earning her master's in Behavioral Economics. She has contributed research to the Association for Consumer Research, Filene Research Institute, and runs the Behavioral Economics & Business column for Inc. magazine.

Listen in as Melina shares her extensive insights into all the things that customers want but cannot tell us they want, including whether you should lead with the most expensive option when it comes to selling and how to use partitioning to our advantage. We also dive into some of the neuroscience behind behavioral economics and discuss why people buy and how to use that "why" to build better sales, relationships, and messaging.

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