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"Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it's always your choice." --Wayne Dyer
"The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury." --Charlie Chaplin
Here's a bit of an advanced technique. It's called future pacing and it works to remind your prospect or client of all the reasons they made the decision to buy your product or service. It transfers all of these reasons to a future point in time and triggers your prospect to remember them when an anchor is fired off.
Competitive pressures have increased the need for non-profits to become smarter with sales and marketing efforts. Learn some interesting methods to help increase your donor dollars.
Sales Lessons Learned From Watching The Apprentice
Watching the celebrity edition of the Apprentice on television proved to be far more than solely an entertaining experience. This reality show actually provided a healthy dose of business reality, demonstrating many valuable sales lessons that we can all benefit from.
How To Maintain Good Boundaries In Rapport
"It is the business of thought to define things, to find the boundaries; thought, indeed, is a ceaseless process of definition. It is the business of art to give things shape." -Vance Palmer
Picking And Choosing: Power Persuasion Metaphors
While the concept of 'energy' may seem new-agey, I personally find it integral to the understanding of self, which is the first step in understanding persuasion.
Using The Forbidden To Persuade
'Forbid us something, and that thing we desire.' - Geoffrey Chaucer
"The moment one gives close attention to anything, even a blade of grass, it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself." -Henry Miller
Repetition In Threes: Soothing Persuasion
"Rhythm is something you either have or don't have, and when you have it, you have it all over." -Elvis Presley
The Courage To Master Your Fears
"Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear-not absence of fear."--Mark Twain
Blame As Persuasion: Use With Caution
In previous articles I've written about using superstition and people's beliefs as a means to persuade. The term 'everything happens for a reason' is one of these concepts; 'there are no accidents' is another. If you've read these articles, you're already familiar with the power that they can hold in persuasion.
Your Own Personal Genie: Creating Your Universe In Pictures
Is there something that you've always wanted but which has eluded you? Some of us excel in the accumulation of wealth, others of us know exactly how to create the relationships we want, and for others, everything seems to come to them simply.
10 Activities Guaranteed To Prime The Sales Pump
We must develop and invest the proper skills, materials and time in order to reach a wellspring of selling rewards. Here are 10 proven activities to accelerate your success. Try engaging in all of these between now and the end of this year. You will find yourself leaping into the opportunities that 2008 will surely offer.
Adjusting Your Lens For Maximum Persuasion
I've written about framing basics in previous articles. Framing is a vast subject and couldn't possibly be summed up in just a few articles, but it's a foundation.
Self Improvements For The New Year
Here we are again, starting a new year with a clean slate. I love this time of year because it has all the hope of a new beginning and the opportunity to recreate ourselves one more time. I find this a very optimistic time and enjoy setting an intention each new year. The concept of creating our resolutions thrills me as I am relentless about self improvement and welcome every opportunity to map out a beautiful future.
When I was a young man my first job in sales was selling gym memberships. One of the trainers that worked at this gym was a great guy, funny, sociable, and well liked, but he had tremendous difficulty communicating with certain types of people. My favorite thing about him was that he was always himself. This character trait had the downside of putting him against a wall where he became ineffective in his job.
"All that man achieves, and all that he fails to achieve is a direct result of his own thoughts." -James Allen
Setting Your Frame From The Start
How do we begin a presentation? If you were sitting down right now to talk to somebody, how would you start your presentation?
Using Superstition To Persuade: "there Are No Accidents"
'Very superstitious, writing's on the wall Very superstitious, ladders bout' to fall Thirteen month old baby, broke the lookin' glass Seven years of bad luck, the good things in your past