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What if I told you that 80% of your perfectly crafted sales call is instantly forgotten?
All the slides you polished, the transitions you rehearsed, the features you meticulously explained. Most of it vanishes from your prospect's brain the moment they click "Leave Meeting."
But they will remember two things:
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The most intense moment.
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The very end.
This isn’t my opinion. It’s the Nobel Prize-winning work of psychologist Daniel Kahneman, and it’s called the Peak-End Rule.
His research proved our brains are lazy storytellers. They don’t remember the whole movie. They remember the biggest plot twist (the Peak) and the final scene (the End). Everything else gets blurry.
Most reps let these two critical moments happen by accident. Sales professionals engineer them with absolute intention.
Here’s how...
1. Engineer the Peak
The “peak” isn’t about being loud or flashy. It’s about creating a moment of intense relevance that jolts your prospect out of their Zoom fatigue. It’s a spark of insight so sharp it makes them sit up and think, “Oh, shit.”
This could be:
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The Gut-Punch Insight: Sharing a perspective on their problem that they've never considered before.
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The Shocking Statistic: A data point so compelling it completely reframes the cost of inaction.
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The Mirror Story: A customer story so specific and relatable they see themselves in it perfectly.
Your job isn’t to drag them through endless slides. It's to find and deliver that one moment of piercing clarity that makes the entire conversation worthwhile for them.
2. Nail the End
This is where most sales calls die a slow, painful death.
The average rep ends