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Puppy Close
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TechniqueThere are a number of variants of Puppy Close. Give them the product to try out. If possible let them take it home. Like a puppy, it should sell itself. Be charming and cute, just like a puppy dog. Flatter them. Be very nice. Act something like a good child who deserves a reward. Another variant is to frame what you are selling in the same cute and fluffy light. Examples
How it worksThe Puppy Close, when you give them the item to try out, works by the investment principle, where as they spend time with it they grow closer to it as they associate their identity with it. The Puppy Close, when you are acting in a cute way, works by appeal principle, where you appeal to their kind and gentle nature. By framing the other person as good and kind (with which, of course, they agree), you also invoke the consistency principle, where they then feel obliged to act in alignment with the way you have described them (and they have accepted as an accurate and true description). Acting in a child role is playing the Parent-Child game from Transactional Analysis. Where you act as a needy and deserving child, you invoke the Nurturing Parent in them. See alsoAlignment principle, Appeal principle, Consistency principle, Framing principle
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