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For Marketers

Craft messages that captivate and convert.

The offer is good, the page is clear, and conversion is still flat.

Clarity is not persuasion. A visitor who understands your offer perfectly can still fail to act, because acting requires certainty that copy alone does not supply. The seven principles describe where that certainty comes from, and where to place it on the page.

Dr. Robert Cialdini, founder of the Cialdini Institute

Science-Backed Marketing

Where the page loses them

Most campaigns spend everything on the message and nothing on the moment before it. The research covers both.

01

Attention, before the message

What a reader is thinking about in the second before your message arrives changes how they read it. Pre-Suasion is the study of that second, and it is the one most campaigns spend nothing on.

02

The gap between understood and acted on

Visitors who follow your argument perfectly still fail to convert, because understanding is not certainty. Social Proof, Scarcity and Commitment supply the certainty, and they work best placed at the point of hesitation.

03

Why they believe you and not the next tab

In a category where everyone claims the same things, claims stop counting. Authority and Liking are what a reader weighs instead, and both can be earned honestly.

In the Room

Learned with peers, not from a lecture.

The POP Workshop is two days of hands-on work at round tables. Participants work through each principle together and practise it on situations from their own work.

A full room of participants at round tables during a Principles of Persuasion workshop
A Principles of Persuasion workshop, 2019
Two participants discussing a case at a POP workshop table
Participants working a case together
Dr. Robert Cialdini with a full workshop cohort holding signs about the principles
A POP cohort with Dr. Cialdini
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“His work in codifying human behavior has been priceless.”
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Rory Sutherland

Vice Chairman, Ogilvy & Mather

Your Next Step

Find out where the page is losing them.

Sixteen questions will show which principles your campaigns lean on and which one is missing — because a gap you have not named is a gap you cannot fix.

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The principles, applied here.