Archive for the 'A Beginner’s Guide to Advanced Persuasion' Category

How to Use Metaphor as a Persuasion Technique

Monday, December 21st, 2009

Using Story Telling to Embed Commands
The following story is an example of how you can use your persuasion skills in a very covert way. The example itself demonstrates how you can pre-teach a process. In this particular case we are pre-teaching a process to change someone’s mind set using their imagination.
Multilevel Persuasion Skills
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Covert Hypnosis, 3 trance phrases and how to use them

Monday, December 7th, 2009

Three NLP Language Pattern Phrases and How to Use Them
Imagine the possibilities of being able to talk people quickly into trance. You might suddenly find yourself persuading people to your point of view automatically. If you were to find a simple way of doing this how much more persuasive would you be?
In this article we […]

6 Reasons Why Stories Are A Powerful Persuasion Technique

Monday, November 30th, 2009

NLP Metaphors and Persuasion Skills
A few years ago I was lucky enough to meet an old man who was a great persuasion expert. He gave me 6 ways that metaphors are used as powerful persuasion techniques. He then told me key secrets on how to make metaphors and stories work. In a half hour conversation […]

7 Reasons You Must Learn Embedded Commands

Thursday, November 26th, 2009

There is a way that  you can embed commands  into your language. This won’t automatically make anyone do what  you want  them to do. But by the nature of how embedded commands work they will have to think about the thing  you want  them to think about however briefly.  What they do from there is […]

Frying the Brains of Managers using NLP

Tuesday, November 17th, 2009

Using NLP to manage your boss
In the last two post we discussed via an experiment with Steve how to use a string of logic to get a result. In this post we will look at how Steve took that same idea and used it to manage his boss.
The Situation
Steve is an exceptionally good salesman working […]