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Demand-Side Sales

Bob Moesta

”If the push and the pull are not greater than the anxiety and the habit, they’re not going to move. In business school, we are taught to add more features and benefits, which would create more magnetism, pushing people to buy our product. It’s not true! We’ve got to reduce their anxiety.”


the place where we once had a picnic
is now underwater

that one thick branch
of the shade tree
is now hovering
over the rippling surface

its trunk submerged—
holding its breath
for us

Last updated: August 8, 2023