One of the most challenging professions you can get into is the industry of Public Relations. The challenge isn’t necessarily a physical difficulty, but a psychological one. PR people, sometimes referred to as “Spin Doctors”, are responsible for preventing any type of damage to their client’s reputation. They possess the linguistical talent to sway you [...]
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How To Handle Objections, After You’ve Made The Sale
Has there ever been a time you persuaded someone to do something or buy something? Then the person came back to you a couple hours, days, or weeks later and changed their mind? This is a very common occurrence, let me explain. When people are influenced to make decisions by some type of “sales person”, [...]
How to Use Someone’s Past Experience to Your Advantage
Most people make decisions based on their past experiences, cultural background, and beliefs. Ultimately, every experience a person has gone through, significant or not, will play a role in how a person makes a decision today, in present time. Now this concept can be used both in your favor, or against you, depending on your [...]
7 Ways To Motivate Your Employees Without Being A Jerk
Most employees behave very similar to children. They fiddle around twiddling their thumbs together when there is nothing to do. They grunt, moan, and groan when they must get up in the morning to go to work (children go to school). And the biggest similarity is the rush of excitement they have when it is [...]
How to Convince a Girl to Buy You a Drink
For years it has been the other way around now hasn’t it. The man gets up the courage to walk over to the woman and shyly asks her if he could do her the honor of buying her a drink! She says yes, you buy her the drink, if she is nice you talk for [...]
Liar Liar, Pants on Fire: How to Catch a Liar
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 [...]
Interrupting Someone is Not Rude, It is Persuasive!
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 [...]
How Using “Tie Downs” Can Make You A Persuasive Communicator
Have you ever spoken to someone in the past who was really drawn to what you were saying? Like you were just talking and they couldn’t help but to keep nodding their head and saying words like “yeah”, “uh-huh”, “then what happened”. When you are getting eager reactions such as those from your listeners, doesn’t [...]
Influence Someone by Creating a New Reality
Convincing someone is a prestige art that requires powerful persuasive communication. Your thoughts mainly consist of your beliefs, emotions, and concepts. How you present yourself to others determines whether or not they listen or do what you tell them to do. This occurs within the first minute of
Can You Persuade Someone and Not Be There?
Have you ever influenced someone to do something or buy something? Then after they made the decision, there was an opposing influence greater than your own which caused them to reconsider. Most of you are nodding your head YES. It seems as if no matter how good you are at persuading someone, people can easily [...]
How to Win an Argument
The ultimate goal for an argument is not to have a contest to see who can yell the loudest, it’s about having the other person(s) believe and agree on your point of view. Being a powerful communicator means that you must be able to
The Needs That Influence the Way We Live Our Lives
Certainty – Humans are beings of comfort and complacency. It is true that there is no guaranteed certainty, however, we much want certainty that we will live to see tomorrow, that the electricity works, you still have your job. Uncertainty – Ironically, with too much certainty our lives would simply be
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The 5 Most Persuasive People On Planet Earth
