Persuasive.net
The fastest way to learn persuasive communication. Persuasive.net, by AJ Kumar, is a blog about persuasive communication, personal development, NLP, and sales skills

Being a persuasive communicator is absolutely a skill that everyone should learn. Your persuasion skills are what will ultimately get your further life. Some exceptions do apply, but your average everyday folk need to learn the skills to pay the bills.
With that said, sometimes people who use their skills of persuasion or influence, let the [...]

Power. Persuasion. Influence. These are things that we all lust over day in and day out. It is part of human nature to want to be in control (hence the reason we fear death and public speaking, the outcomes are unsure and hence, we are frightened of them.) What this article is going to do [...]

“Hi Billy Mays here…” If you live in the United States, chances are you have see his commercials or heard his unique voice somewhere. Oxi-Clean, Orange Glo, and KaBOOM are just some of the many products  you probably have in your home! I know my mom’s tried a few of his products before. In fact, [...]

Host of Winelibrary.tv, Gary Vaynerchuk has recently exploded into a superstar celebrity. He’s appeared on national TV shows like on The Conan O’Brien and just yesterday, The Jimmy Fallon Show. Gary’s also been in countless news stories, talk shows, magazines, and blogs from around the world.  He’s starting to do for wines what Oprah’s done [...]

These Persuasive Communicators are so good, they’ll sell the shirt right off your back!

By the time he was 13-years-old, Steven Spielberg knew he wanted to be a movie director.  When he was 17, he visited Universal Studios as a tourist. Too much for him to handle, he sneaked away from the group and onto a sound stage where a movie was being filmed.  Finding the head of the [...]

Lying. I believe that if people could learn one communication skill they would want to know how to instantly tell whether somebody is lying or not. And funny enough, most people also want that one magic thing that is going to immediately let them know that somebody is lying, the same way people want the [...]

You can go to a book store and find many books on body-language, communication and persuasion. Many of them seem to cover the same material though: posture, gestures, words that work, etc. Sometimes you can find a book or a blog like AJ’s that has unique insights and applications to help you get better at [...]

“All you gotta do is picture everyone in their underwear…” One of the most commonly used solutions people have for public speaking. Are kidding me? This is your sick perverted advice? No wonder so many people are such terrible public speakers. It’s advice like this and more that set people up for failure when speaking [...]

Are you so good at persuasion that you can ’sell raid to a bug or salt to a slug ? If you aren’t, do you want to be? Since the answer is obviously ‘yes’, why is it important for you to learn persuasion? Do you have some brilliant idea that you think can make you [...]

Wouldn’t it be great if there was some sort of technique that can instantly transform your rapport building skills to the next level? Something so secret that very few people know about it or better yet know how to use it. Luckily, I understand well so I will do the right thing and teach it [...]

I get several emails everyday usually talking about the same thing.
“using persuasion to make people buy something or do something is unethical”
Okay, so let’s have a good ol’ fashion debate about this.
Topic: Is it Unethical to Persuade, Convince, or Influence Someone?

Almost everybody in their life have used generalized terms as a form of exaggeration to make a point. To generalize something means to create a very broad view for a particular scenario.  For example,  if you have kids, then I am sure you have heard the phrase, “come on…everyone’s going…” or “the test was so [...]

Has your mom or dad ever told you as a child to never interrupt someone while they are talking? Well I hate to be the one to say this to you, but they are dead wrong! A few years ago I was introduced to a very simple yet weird communication technique. Even though this technique [...]

I just wanted to personally thank the people at Motive Interactive for sending me a free iPod. All I did was follow @motive on twitter.com and retweet the contest details.  Motive Interactive has a bunch of cool prizes that they’ll be giving out, one of which is an iPod every week for the duration of [...]