Why Do Customers Lie to Salespeople? | BNET

I recently posted a gallery of the 10 most common lies that customers tell.  Most of those lies are, of course, directed at salespeople, since they are the main interface between a customer and the firms from whom a customer buys.

As I read over all those different lies, I realized that there was one unifying element that lay behind all of them: a lack of connection.  Most people don’t hand their  colleagues, friends and family a line of BS, because that would be a violation of a social contract.

Great article from Geoff James on connecting with customers. True for product managers as much as for sales people.

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