Owen Bolwell

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Playing Hard to Get: How The Effort Justification Effect Works

Playing Hard to Get: How The Effort Justification Effect Works

Conversion

The counterintuitive truth about luxury brands: adding friction to the customer journey often increases the perceived value of the brand and product. When Hermès makes you wait years for a Birkin bag, they're engineering desire. When Gucci makes you wait behind the red rope outside their store, they’

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Scarcity: Status Signalling in Luxury Markets

Scarcity: Status Signalling in Luxury Markets

Conversion

Robert Cialdini's research on scarcity flips completely when you move from low-ticket ecommerce into luxury markets. Here, scarcity maintains exclusivity. It lets customers signal their status. The Psychology Reversal For cheap products, we use scarcity to speed up decisions and beat analysis paralysis. "Act now before

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How I Sat My Way Into The Career of My Dreams

How I Sat My Way Into The Career of My Dreams

Mindset

What do you do when you want something so bad? How long do you wait? How many times do you need to hear the word ‘no’ before you stop? What are you prepared to do? Day 1 A twenty three year old guy walks into the reception area of your

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