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The Marketing Book Podcast

426 Magic Words by Jonah Berger

The Marketing Book Podcast

Douglas Burdett

Sales, B2bmarketing, Contentmarketing, Marketing, B2bsales, Socialmedia, Business, Entrepreneurship, Digitalmarketing

4.9868 Ratings

🗓️ 10 March 2023

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Magic Words: What To Say To Get Your Way by Jonah Berger

About the Book:

New York Times bestselling author Jonah Berger’s cutting-edge research reveals how six types of words can increase your impact in every area of life: from persuading others and building stronger relationships to boosting creativity and motivating teams.

Almost everything we do involves words. Words are how we persuade, communicate, and connect. They’re how leaders lead, salespeople sell, and parents parent. They’re how teachers teach, policymakers govern, and doctors explain. Even our private thoughts rely on language.

But certain words are more impactful than others. They’re better at changing minds, engaging audiences, and driving action. What are these magic words, and how can we take advantage of their power?

In Magic Words, internationally bestselling author Jonah Berger gives you an inside look at the new science of language and how you can use it. Technological advances in machine learning, computational linguistics, and natural language processing, combined with the digitization of everything from cover letters to conversations, have yielded unprecedented insights.

Learn how salespeople convince clients, lawyers persuade juries, and storytellers captivate audiences; how teachers get kids to help and service representatives increase customer satisfaction; how startup founders secure funding, musicians make hits, and psychologists identified a Shakespearean manuscript without ever reading a play.

This book is designed for anyone who wants to increase their impact. It provides a powerful toolkit and actionable techniques that can lead to extraordinary results. Whether you’re trying to persuade a client, motivate a team, or get a whole organization to see things differently, this book will show you how to leverage the power of magic words.

About the Author:

Jonah Berger is a Professor at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, an internationally bestselling author, and a world-renowned expert on word of mouth, social influence, consumer behavior, and how products, ideas, and behaviors catch on.

He has published dozens of articles in top-tier academic journals, teaches Wharton’s highest-rated online course, and popular accounts of his work often appear in places like The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Harvard Business Review.

Over a million copies of his three previous books, Contagious, Invisible Influence, and The Catalyst: How to Change Anyone’s Mind are in print in over 35 countries around the world.

And, interesting fact – one of his very first jobs was as the Easter bunny at the mall!

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This is Jonah Berger, author of Magic Words, What to Say to Get Your Way, and you are listening to the

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Marketing Book Podcast.

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Welcome to the Marketing Book Podcast, helping you keep up with the smartest thinking in the quickly changing field of modern marketing.

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And now here's your host, Douglas Burdett. Hello, thanks for joining me on the marketing book podcast where each week I publish an

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interview with the author of a new marketing or sales book and which has been

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named as one of the top marketing podcasts by Forbes and LinkedIn amongst others.

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Don't worry about taking notes you can find links to

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everything linkable in this episode's website page at marketingbook podcast

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dot com and since I get to read every book featured on the show if I can recommend a

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specific marketing or sales book or

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any other resource I know of for whatever challenge you're facing

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send me a LinkedIn connection invite with a message that you're a listener and I

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will do my best to get you pointed in the right direction.

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This episode is sponsored by marketing architects, creators of the all-inclusive TV advertising

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concept that's so revolutionary, they wrote a book about it. I'll tell you more and how to get a copy of

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the book in a few minutes. Now let's get on with the show.

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Today we welcome back, Jonah Berger for the third time to talk about his book Magic Words,

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What to Say to Get Your Way, published by Harper Business. Jonah Berger is a professor

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at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, an internationally best-selling author and

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world-renowned expert on word-of-mouth social influence, consumer behavior, and how products,

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ideas, and behaviors catch on.

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He has published dozens of articles in top-tier

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