How Story Selling Persuades Without Detection And Under The Radar Stories are powerful tools for persuaders. Compelling storytelling automatically creates attention and involvement with your audience. We can all think of a time when we were in an audience…
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Episode 374 – 10 Psychological Techniques (And Tips) To Sell More And Persuade Faster #1
10 Psychological Techniques (And Tips) To Sell More And Persuade Faster #1 One of the biggest challenges we face is that we think, and our audience thinks, we are logical creatures. But most of the time, we don’t know…
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Episode 128 – Is Your Presentation “Interesting” or “Persuasive?”
Have you noticed the dramatic changes that have evolved in presentations, communication, and training over the last twenty years? The basic focus used to be on education. Many people are still trying to educate and they always lose their audiences.…
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Episode 100 – Shameless Bribery and Using Testimonials
It’s been 100 episodes! After inserting some canned applause and patting themselves on the back, Kurt and Steve discuss why disobedient kids may actually make more money as adults. They then proceed to insult people who don’t listen to their…
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