How To Powerfully Persuade Others To Your Way Of Thinking
Have you ever tried to convince somebody of something, and didn’t quite figured out how to do it effectively? In this article you’ll learn some basic tips on how to easily and powerfully persuade others to your way of thinking. These methods have been used throughout time to persuade and influence millions. They are very powerful.
The first thing you’ll want to do is generate rapport. This is when you feel really comfortable with somebody, you feel a lot of similarity with this person, and you share many things in common.
Next is to elicit criteria. Criteria are things that they think are important about something. Like if they are buying a TV, it may be important to them that it be a particular dimension.
The more vague and fuzzy their criteria are, the better. If they want to eat pizza, and all you sell is hot dogs, you’ve got a problem. But if they want to eat something with cheese, then you’ve got something to work with. Even better if all they want is something spicy.
Really great criteria are words like happiness, popularity, safety, personal fulfillment. These can be linked to any product or idea. When politicians say what’s important to them, they will always use vague words like these, because they appeal to the most amount of people.
When you have a few vague words that are important to them, you are ready to go to work. Just convince them that by doing what you want them to do, they will fulfill all or part of their criteria.
This is best done indirectly, because if you use the direct approach you will sound too much like a salesperson.
Like say, if they want to feel relaxed, you can tell a story about a happy couple that bought a TV from you, and it fit great in their living room, and they share a lot of relaxation when watching their TV.
The more vague words that you get, the easier it will be to convince them to do whatever you want. The longer you spread out your conversation, the more likely they’ll come to the conclusion on their own.
You might start to elicit his or her criteria conversationally, and then talk about something completely different, then tell a story about how a previous client fulfilled their criteria through your product. Then talk about more things not related, and then slowly fill each criteria on by one.
When you do this the right way, and with patience, by the end of the conversation, they will be begging you to be able to do what you want. This is really powerful.
Of course, make sure you don’t persuade them to do something against their interests, like buy a sports car for a family of eight. When you use this with their best interests in mind, you can create a lot of happiness in people..
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