TY - BOOK AU - Mills,Harry TI - Secret sauce: how to pack your messages with persuasive punch SN - 9780814438060 (hardcover) AV - BF637.P4 M523 2017 U1 - 153.8/52 23 PY - 2017///] CY - New York, NY PB - American Management Association AMACOM KW - Persuasion (Psychology) KW - Interpersonal communication KW - Business communication N1 - Includes bibliographical references; Secret sauce: the magic recipe for measuring persuasive impact -- Simple: one central truth, easy to grasp and picture -- Appealing: different, valuable and personalized -- Unexpected: surprising, intriguing and seductive -- Credible: trusted, transparent and verifiable -- Emotional: warm, arousing and plot-driven -- The sauce persuasive impact test -- Predict, test, learn: lessons from J.C. Penney -- Make it easy, make it effortless: don't make it hard to say yes -- Message magic in the 21st century: lessons from buzzfeed -- The power of situations: how context shapes the way we behave -- The confirmation bias: the mother of all misconceptions -- Framing: it's not what you say-- it's how you say it -- Social proof: everyone is doing it ER -