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Focus on pain and fear.

Focus on pain and fear. For example, I'm the sole technical person for a number of projects. I leave my phone on at night, so that I can be alerted if things go terribly wrong. That's both a pain and a fear. It's painful to be on-call all the time, and I'm afraid due to being the single point of failure, as well as the person responsible for cleaning up a mess. (I'm lucky to live in a time when there are great tools available to make problems extremely rare, but you get my point.) If someone pitched me: "Turn your phone off at night", that'd really hit home for me. You need to find a similar way to illustrate how you're going to alleviate a pain point.

Posted by smt88 on Jan 20, 2015, 5:41 AM

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Focus on pain and fear.

smt88Jan 20, 2015, 5:41 AM

Focus on pain and fear. For example, I'm the sole technical person for a number of projects. I leave my phone on at night, so that I can be alerted if things go terribly wrong. That's both a pain and a fear. It's painful to be on-call all the time, and I'm afraid due to being the single point of failure, as well as the person responsible for cleaning up a mess. (I'm lucky to live in a time when there are great tools available to make problems extremely rare, but you get my point.) If someone pitched me: "Turn your phone off at night", that'd really hit home for me. You need to find a similar way to illustrate how you're going to alleviate a pain point.

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