The Power of Comparison To Create Enormous Influence You can dramatically increase your powers of persuasion with the simple application of some incredibly effective but not widely well known laws of persuasion and influence. These are not esoteric theories thought up by ivory tower professors, these are hard and fast rules proven time and time again by [...]
Read This Before Somebody Else Does! There are few things that work more to create a unconscious desire to buy or acquire something that scarcity. Even though scarcity is the oldest trick in the book when it comes to sales, it still works. Any time something is in limited supply, or the time is scarce, [...]
No Strings Attached? There is a proven law in the world of persuasion that is so effective, it allowed a cultish religious group to go from barely scraping by to raking in millions of dollars a year in donations. So much so that this particular organization was later busted for tax evasion. This simple law [...]
The Pull Of The Crowd Imagine that you’re walking down the street on a lazy, Sunday afternoon. Maybe you’re going to the mall, or to meet up with a friend for lunch. You’re in no hurry. You’ve walked down this street many times before; you know all the shops inside out. As you’re strolling down [...]
We Are Less Rational Than We Think We humans fancy ourselves as highly evolved animals that have rational minds, advanced language, arts, society, culture and a host of other advanced technologies. We don’t like to think of ourselves as irrational creatures that are at the mercy of ancient evolutionary hot buttons. The truth about us, [...]
You Too Can Harness The Power Of Presuppositions This article is in a series of articles on linguistic presuppositions. These are simple yet powerful language patterns that when used effectively, can be very useful to covertly and conversationally persuade and influence others. The pattern for today is “Repetitive Cue Words.” These are words like “too,” [...]
What Method Is Better Than Presuppositions? This is another article on linguistic presuppositions, the powerful language patterns that you can use to covertly persuade others to happily give you exactly what you want. Today’s pattern is the comparative structure. This is a powerful pattern that you can use in many different ways. I will cover [...]
The AMAZING power of presuppositions This is another article in a series on linguistic presuppositions, those powerful language patterns that can easily give you the persuasive power of a Jedi Knight. Today’s pattern is stressed sentences, or stressed words within a sentence. Although they can be used in written form, with boldface type, they are [...]
It is your desire to improve that makes you so successful This is an article in a series on linguistic presuppositions. These powerful patterns can dramatically increase your capacity for covert, conversational persuasion, as they are structured to deliver ideas to your listener or reader that will bypass their conscious “critic” and go straight into [...]
After You Read This, You’ll Understand This is an article in the series on linguistic presuppositions. Linguistic presuppositions are powerful language patterns that can dramatically increase your ability to persuade others. Today’s lesson is on the subordinate clause of time pattern. A subordinate clause is when one idea in a sentence is linked to, or [...]