Is mimicry the key to sales?

From Harvard Business Review:

Retail salespeople who subtly mimic customers’ speech and behavior are more successful at selling… 78.8% bought such a product from mimickers, compared with 61.8% from nonmimickers. Afterward, customers who had been mimicked were more positive about the salespeople and the store.

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