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Thursday, March 29, 2007
The Two Reasons People Say No -- From Seth's Blog...
"It's been done before" "It's never been done before"
Even though neither one is truthful, accurate or useful, you need to be prepared for both.
Slick (as one comes to expect fro Seth Godin), but a little simplistic, since there's also "We don't need to do that." (Layer 1 of resistance), and "That won't solve our problem." (Layers 2, 3), "But if we do that, we'll have a problem with..." (Layer 4) and "We could never make it happen." (Layers 5, 6)
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