The Pity Party Sales Pitch: When Manipulating Your Customers Works (Or Backfires)

Some sales tactics end up deceiving the sellers most of all

Rachel Greenberg
Entrepreneurship Handbook
8 min readNov 30, 2023

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The pitfalls of a pity party sales pitch: When manipulating your customers works (or backfires). Some sales tactics end up deceiving the sellers most of all; don’t fall prey to your own tactics just because they “work”.
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As entrepreneurs, representatives of our own brands, and in many respects, salespeople ourselves, we can likely point to our go-to toolbox of tried and true tactics that comprise any good sales pitch. To name a few:

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