About this episode

Colin Boyd discusses the shift from dopamine marketing to oxytocin marketing and shares strategies for building trust and connection in business.

Countdown timers are dying. Not literally. They'll still work. But they're becoming the marketing equivalent of a used car salesman yelling "ACT NOW!" through a megaphone. In this solo episode of The Expert Edge, I break down the shift from dopamine marketing to oxytocin marketing. Ryan Levesque and Ron Reich call it the future of launches. I call it the only way to build a real moat around your business. Here's the thing: AI can write your emails now. It can create your sales pages. It can produce polished content faster than you can say "ChatGPT." So if you're competing on polish, you've already lost. But AI can't build trust. It can't share your scars. It can't send a shaky iPhone video from your car talking about the thing you've never shared publicly before. That's your moat. That's what separates you from the 10,000 other coaches saying the same thing with the same funnel and the same countdown timer. I walk through four strategies to build connection that actually converts. Not hype. Not urgency. Just real human trust that makes people want to work with you. What you'll learn: → Talk to one real customer (not a made-up avatar) - Stop describing demographics. Find Jack…

Topics covered

• oxytocin marketing
• connection
• trust
• business strategy
• customer engagement

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