217-A Simple Decision Framework: Costs vs Benefits and the Ben Franklin Close

Published: July 6, 2015, 4 p.m.

I used to think that everyone knew how to make decisions. Since starting Radical Personal Finance I've come to learn that some people don't have a clear decision-making framework.

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Today, I share with you a dirt-simple framework of costs vs. benefits, plusses and minusses. In sales, it's called the Ben Franklin close.

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Use it.

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Write it down.

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Joshua

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