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Do you know I probably shouldn't be teaching you this? So you must promise not to use it for evil. There's a little trick in persuasion that works better than any pitch deck or hard sell, and it's called trust signaling, and it's terrifyingly effective. We're not great at spotting expertise, but we're surprisingly quick to trust someone who talks as I'm spending more. In this video, I'm going to show you why telling someone not to buy can change everything in how they see you. Most people think persuasion is about convincing someone to say yes. They watch generic sales training, learn callediani principles, and start overselling. I mean, these techniques may work on everyday bios, but they fail completely with high no-worth individuals. They're not interested in pressure or persuasion theatre. They reward the person who proves they can be trusted, and nothing proves that faster than this sentence. You don't need the more expensive option. Let me explain how this works. When your car is in the garage and you get that dreaded call, you're expecting pain. But then the mechanic says you don't need the £1,000 factory pot. The aftermarket one is just as good. In that moment, they have full control. They could have taken the money. Instead, they protected you from it. That is a trust signal. In my world, we call this an inverse incentive. Your brain recognizes that someone has acted against their own short-term gain. And when that happens, loyalty locks in. You've already decided this is my garage now. You'll drive past cheaper options just to stay with them. It's the same with high no-worth individuals. They are constantly shown the most expensive version. The ones they return to are the few who prove the value of the relationship over the margin. This isn't about avoiding upgrades. High no-worth individuals love an upgrade. This is different. Trust signaling works because you showed that you are willing to give up a little in order to protect them. I've trained many clients to use trust signals. The most successful examples all begin the same way with restraint. Now I work as a behavioral advisor to a very old, very famous private bank. So I was asked to help a team who looked after some of their most valuable clients. Technically brilliant, but something wasn't quite right. And the board couldn't put their finger on it. After observing, it turned out that every client idea, every product suggestion, was met with extreme enthusiasm. They thought this showed great service. But what it really showed in the mind of the high no-worth client was insecurity. So we worked on restraint. I told them to stop defaulting to yes and start saying, "You don't need that." The first time they tried it, it was a review with one of their biggest clients who wanted to move into a fund that looked impressive but wasn't suitable. So the lead banker said, "You don't need this one." It looks good, but it doesn't fit what we're doing. The client nodded, said nothing, and changed the subject. The room went quiet. And the lead banker looked at me like I'd signed his execution order. When we left the meeting, panic and pandemonium broke out. I told them that the client had been impressed and would be fine. I was told that behavioral profiling and analysis was basically horoscopes. I was persona non-grata. A week later, the client called and asked them to take over two more family accounts. Now, I'd be lying if I said I was tempted to do the told you so dance. But I restrained myself. Their close rate didn't drop. Their retention rate, in fact, went up, behaviorally saying no with authority. Bill's more trust than saying yes with enthusiasm. The people we trust most aren't the ones who sold us the most. They're the ones who once told us not to buy. Tell someone not to spend their money and they'll spend it with you forever.