Persuasive Messages
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Thursday, August 14th, 2008When you learn how to win friends and influence people through using various communication techniques, you can improve all your relationships and enhance the quality of your life.
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10 Practical Uses For Psychological Research in Everyday Life
Thursday, August 14th, 2008People love to give each other advice. The web is full to bursting with all types of pseudo-psychological advice about life. The problem is, how much of this is based on real scientific evidence? Well, here on PsyBlog we’ve got the scientific evidence. So here’s my top 10 list of what you can learn […]
Being Persuasive by Getting Personal
Monday, August 4th, 2008In business, we have rules of decorum, obviously, but I am of the opinion that some rules were meant to be bent. Not broken entirely, but molded and bent to suit your persuasive needs.
Part of "professional decorum" is not getting "too personal." But I contend that personal is exactly what people crave.
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Ten Timeless Persuasive Techniques
Wednesday, July 30th, 2008Want to convince your readers to do something or agree with your point of view?
OK, that was a silly question. Of course you do.
Persuasion is generally an exercise in creating a win-win situation. You present a case that others find beneficial to agree with. You make them an offer they can’t refuse.
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How to Become a Master of Persuasion
Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008Your powers of persuasion will earn you the support and respect of your customers, bosses, coworkers, colleagues and friends. The ability to persuade others . . .
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Test Yourself: Body Language and Persuasion
Tuesday, July 8th, 2008Facial expressions can be good predictors of what the person you are persuading is thinking, but it requires fairly significant study. Body language and facial expressions when combined offer an even better picture of how your message is being received. Many people believe that they are good interpreters of body language and facial expressions, […]
Harnessing the Science of Persuasion
Wednesday, June 25th, 2008Do you have it—that magical power to capture your audience, sway undecideds, convert opponents? In an era of cross-functional teams and intercompany partnerships, masters of persuasion exert far greater influence than formal power structures.
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Emotional Persuasion through Storytelling
Tuesday, February 19th, 2008I cry during movies. I’ll admit it. I’m absolutely comfortable with it and not ashamed in the slightest. Stories have been used to elicit emotional responses, whether by design or by accident, since the beginning of man and some of the best stories are extraordinarily moving.
That emotion may manifest as heartbreaking or uplifting or […]
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly, and How to Talk with Prospective Clients
Tuesday, February 5th, 2008We recently went to a sales presentation that was very educational in some very unusual ways. It wasn’t the information from the presentation that was educational. How the person made her sales presentation was the educational part. Her personality and style of asking questions didn’t do much for attracting clients. It in fact was […]
A Different Kind of Difference
Thursday, August 30th, 2007The most effective form of communication occurs when there is a fluid sharing of ideas between two or more individuals with a common objective. Your prospective customer, no matter what level in life or company they are in, must be able to trust and understand you before doing business with you. They are putting their […]
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