4 Ways You Can Humanize Marketing and Build Relationships
Treating people like leads instead of humans just doesn’t work. It doesn’t sell. It doesn’t push you to any level of success. You want to suck at marketing or sales? Dehumanize your prospects. And dehumanize your interactions with them. What if you put your full attention on one customer, one buyer, one potential at a time? Could you do a better job connecting and building a relationship?
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