The Simple Science Of How Prospects Judge If Your Business Is Sponge Worthy

Highly competitive companies appear less compassionate and this can negatively impact your prospect’s perception of your trustworthiness.

Ryan Chute

April 3, 2021

The Simple Science Of How Prospects Judge If Your Business Is Sponge Worthy

Are you sponge-worthy? If so, you pass the first test customers have that lets you in their pants (to get to their wallet). Here are the two first things science tells us your prospects are judging you on:

Your warmth
Your competence

Professor Cuddy, et al., of Harvard University has been researching the stereotype content model for over a decade. According to the model, when you portray yourself as warm, non-competitive, and friendly, people will feel like they can trust you.

If you also seem competent, for example, if you perform your job well and you have a good vocabulary, people will be more likely to respect you.

PRO TIP: You must show warmth first, then competence.

From an evolutionary perspective, it’s more important in survival to know you can trust that someone is not going to take advantage of you, rather than being proficient in your work. When researchers looked at the cross-cultural differences between 10 non-US nations, they found the same stereotypes to be true regarding warmth and competence. This would suggest a psychological norm, allowing for businesses to form policy that best serves to develop a positive customer image, or buying experience, as it were. In the same study, they ascertained that in highly competitive groups, that competence was perceived as high, but warmth was lacking.

If you are a highly competitive company, this can negatively impact your prospect’s perception of your trustworthiness.

In a complementary, but separate study of consumer behavior by Avery, Malone, and Fiske of Harvard University, it was revealed that brands are simply an extension of how we judge one another. Basically, people view brands like people and judge them accordingly. So if you want to be the business or salesperson that people love the most and think of first, start by letting your warmth shine through. Good selling.

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