Maximize Your Influence

Great persuaders gain control over their destiny by controlling and directing their thoughts. Considering that our actions are emotion-driven and our emotions are thought-driven, we've got to get our thoughts on track. They determine everything! What's the Cost of Self-Control? New Study Tabulates the Bill What are the other elements of your success? What pieces are you missing? How can you reprogram your brain for massive success? Join me for this week's podcast on The Mindset Of A Successful Salesperson. We will take a deep dive into success skills, personal mastery, and self-persuasion.

No one can follow through on an act or message without first thinking or seeing in their mind that it is possible to accomplish it. You can mentally achieve participation by helping your audience visualize and see in their mind how your product or service will help them. How are you doing creating images in the mind of your prospect? Are your prospects questioning your credibility? Have you lost trust with people? Evoking the Imagination as a Strategy of Influence Join me for this week's podcast as we tackle both issues that hurt your ability to influence. The podcast is Lost Trust? - How To Rebuild Credibility In A Skeptical World.

There are many studies the reveal the relationship between visualization and success in sports. There is a well-known study done by Russian scientists. They wanted to know the relationship between physical and mental training and what is the most important. What Is the Ownership Effect Are you able to help your prospect visualize using your product/service? Do you want more tools to help people visualize the solution? It is all about increasing mental involvement and painting that picture. Join me for this week's podcast - Paint The Persuasion Picture – Keys To Mental Engagement. We will discover the keys to visualization and influence.

Just because you can create a PowerPoint does not mean you know how to communicate, inspire and present. Sure, you can give a presentation, and no one leaves the room; it doesn't say anything negative, but did you really have charisma? Did you influence them to your point of view? When preparing your presentation, be sure you have several ways to support and enhance your message. Great persuaders use presentation aids that will, concisely, and efficiently deliver their main points. Visual aids should improve your presentation and help keep people's attention, but visual overload will distract from your message. Are your visuals persuasive? Are you abusing powerpoint? Are you violating the common powerpoint mistakes? Want to know how to use powerpoint to become more influential? Well, I have the answers….Join me for this week's podcast - Break Your Powerpoint Addiction – Mistakes Draining Your Influence. We will discover how to use visual aid that will help you persuade and influence.

Preparation is the magic ingredient to all successful negotiations. When negotiating, you have to be prepared for anything. You need to know the ins and outs, the intricacies of both sides. The more you prepare, the more knowledge you have, you will get a better deal. Five Presentation Mistakes Everyone Makes Negotiation is part of everyday life. As they say - You deserve what you negotiate. The challenge is negotiation has changed. Many people are using some old-style, outdated, cheesy tactics that need to be retired. Join me for this week's podcast - The 7 Deadly Negotiation Sins - Mistakes Costing You The Deal. We will talk about the blunders you are making and how to fix them to increase your success and influence.

The research shows that when you create a positive perception with your prospect, you have an 85 percent chance of influence. On the other hand, you have only a 15 percent chance of influence when you make a negative perception. Rapport is key to influence, networking, and building future strategic relationships. Know when you are connecting with someone or repelling them. Join me for this week's podcast on Networking and Building Strategic Relationships – Interview with Ivan Misner. We will take a deep dive into the keys of how to build strategic relationships. We are also going to talk about the new tools for prospecting for these new times.

Persuasion occurs when your ideas are so convincing that the other party adopts your point of view. With persuasion, there is no compromising as there is in negotiation. Instead, the other party willfully and enthusiastically abandons their position to embrace yours. Want to learn more about emotion and ego in negotiation? Wonder the best raise to ask for a raise and earn what you are worth? Join me for this week's podcast as I interview the author of Mindful NEGOtiation - Gaetan Pellerin. We will take a deep dive into how negation has changed in this new Pandemic world.

Join me for this week's podcast for some incredible free gifts. This is podcast 400 and will deliver some great content and influence gifts to take your skills to the next level. This podcast will do a 180 from other podcasts. Instead of helping become more influential, this podcast will reveal the art and science of resisting the persuasive attempts of others. "FROM JERUSALEM TO JERICHO"-A STUDY OF SITUATIONAL AND DISPOSITIONAL VARIABLES IN HELPING BEHAVIOR Help me celebrate podcast 400 on How to Resist Influence and Coercion.

Influential people not only express themselves in positive nonverbal ways. They also use nonverbal behavior to captivate and persuade their prospects. During each encounter, Influential people are careful what gestures they use and don't use. Being Nice To Others Makes Them More Likely To Be Nice To You Body Language Guide – Crossed Arms and 17 More Cues to Know Discover how to read other people's body language and what it means. Especially how to read their arms movements and what it means. I will also reveal that what you are doing with your arms could help or hurt your ability to persuade. Find out how to use your arms to be more persuasive. Join me for this week's podcast on Reading Body Language - What Your Arm Movement Says About You

The Law of Verbal Packaging states that the more skillful a person is in the use of language, the more persuasive they will be. People are persuaded by us based on the words we use. Words affect our perceptions, our attitudes, our beliefs, and our emotions. The words we use in the persuasion process make all the difference in the world. Language used incorrectly will trigger the wrong response and decrease your ability to persuade. Word skills are also directly related to earning power. People prefer friendliness, trustworthiness in teammates over skill competency Successful people all share a common ability to use language in ways that evoke vivid thoughts, feelings, and actions in their audiences.