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The use of personal experience to convince. By describing the successes or failures of ones own experience lends credability to the pitch. " I tried doing that exactly the way you did, but it didnt work because..." or " I followed this path and got this result..."

Use of the testimonial is common in Evangelical Christianity, commercial advertising, advocacy advertising.