How Catalysts Overcome Barriers and Drive Product Adoption & more

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Today at a glance:

• Article: Pull, Don’t push

• Post: Ai Landscape

• Media: Bard vs ChatGPT

• Tool: Video editing made easy with Ai

• Framework: SPIN it your way

One Article:

Pull, Don’t Push: How Catalysts Overcome Barriers and Drive Product Adoption

Catalysts don’t just create change by pushing harder or exerting more energy, Berger says. Rather, they find success by removing or lowering barriers to change. 

Through his research, Berger talked to dozens of these types of change agents across all different disciplines — from top salespeople and founders to hostage negotiators, substance abuse counselors, and parenting experts. In all lines of their work, he found people tended to run into the same five barriers to change, which he distilled down into a helpful five-step framework called REDUCE (reactance, endowment, distance, uncertainty, and corroborating evidence). Stretch your legs, have that coffee nearby, and dive into this, it’s worth 10 minutes of your time.

One Post:

Sequoia Capital recently mapped out the AI landscape. It’s beautiful and daunting at the same time. Let the AI revolution begin!

One Media:

Google wasn’t letting ChatGPT take the pie, they want in too! CEO Sundar Pichai announced the launch of Bard, an experimental conversational AI service. With Ai tools everywhere in the market, this is going to be an interesting battle between the 2 tech giants. You can read more about Bard here.

One Tool:

Descript is a new kind of video editor that’s as easy as a doc. Its AI-powered features and intuitive interface fuel YouTube and TikTok channels, top podcasts, and businesses using video for marketing, sales, and internal training and collaboration. Descript aims to make video a staple of every communicator’s toolkit, alongside docs and slides.

One Framework:

The SPIN selling framework is a customer-centric sales methodology that was developed by Neil Rackham in the 1980s and is based on extensive research.

Who: The SPIN framework is intended for use by sales professionals who are selling complex products or services and need to identify their prospects' specific needs and pain points.

How: SPIN stands for Situation, Problem, Implication, and Need-Payoff. The framework involves you asking a series of questions to understand the prospect's current situation, the problem they are facing, the implications of that problem, and the benefits they would realise by solving the problem.

When: The SPIN selling framework can be used at any stage of the sales process, but it is particularly effective when you are trying to uncover a prospect's needs and build rapport.

When to use: The SPIN selling framework is best used in B2B sales when selling high-value or complex products or services, where the decision-making process may involve multiple stakeholders and a detailed understanding of the customer's needs is crucial. It is also effective in situations where your customers may not fully understand their needs or the full implications of their problems, and you can help educate and guide them through the process.

Overall, the SPIN selling framework is a proven approach to identifying and addressing prospects' needs and can be an effective tool for you looking to close more deals and build stronger relationships with your customers.

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