Archive for the 'Sales and NLP' Category

Free Persuasion Skills Competition

Thursday, June 4th, 2009

Exclusive Persuasion Skills Video Competition
I recently recorded a video training two NLP Master Practitioners on various techniques from The Persuasion Skills Black Book. It contains me overtly and covertly demonstrating many techniques as well as explaining some key distinctions, patterns and ways of making NLP Language Patterns work. You can see the beginning of this […]

Using Values Elicitation as a Persuasive Technique

Thursday, May 28th, 2009

Persuasive Techniques on the Telephone
In the Advanced Persuasion Patterns Programme we talk about eliciting values and then linking your product or service to those values and a way to sell. A few weeks ago we did a short mini series on Tim using NLP Questions on the telephone.
As a result of that series Geraint emailed […]

Developing Persuasive Questions for the Telephone

Tuesday, May 26th, 2009

Developing NLP Questions as a Persuasive Technique
As a result of the mini series on Telephone work and persuasion techniques here is an email I got from Tim.
You can read the original email that started this string of Persuasion Skills for the Telelphone if you need to refresh your memory.
Received: Wednesday 6th May
From: Tim
Hi Rintu,
Thanks for keeping […]

Questions to Build Rapport and Lead to Results

Friday, May 15th, 2009

TeleSales and NLP Questions
In this mini series NLP Techniques for the telephone we have discussed:

Attitude and the impact on your behaviour
Why building rapport is not always a good thing
Questions that allow you take the lead and build rapport

In this final post of the series we will look at sequences of questions to point your prospect […]

Why Building Rapport is not always good idea

Thursday, May 7th, 2009

Rapport Building and when not to do it
I am of a view that rapport comes in different flavours. Having rapport in a general sense is generally good and can be a real hindrance in some situations.
Having rapport means you are entering the world of the person you are talking to. You are pacing their beliefs, […]