How To Easily Persuade And Influence Others To Do Exactly As You Wish

If you’ve ever been in conversation with somebody, and you wanted them to do something, or feel something, or think something, then this article is for you. Here I’ll show you some easy steps that you can take to easily and quickly influence others to your way of thinking. These ways are very powerful, and have been used by some of top salespeople, politicians and persuaders throughout human history.

The first and most important aspect is to develop rapport. Rapport is an often misunderstood concept. Basically it means you develop a strong sense of familiarity with whoever you are speaking with. They start to feel like they really know you, that you share a lot in common with them. Once you establish rapport, you are ready to move on to the next step.

Once you have rapport, you are ready to begin to elicit their criteria. Criteria are anything that is important to them about something in particular. For example, if you are buying a car, one of you criteria may be that the car be red. Another criteria may be that the car have a certain level of gas mileage.

The more non-specific their criteria are, the easier it will be for you to leverage it. If they want to by a Sony, and all you have are Zenith’s then you’ll have a hard time selling them.

But if one of their criteria is something vague like safety, security, popularity, then you’ve gone something to work with. These can be fairly easy to leverage.

All you do once you find out what their criteria are, is to conversationally convince them that by doing what you want, they will achieve all or part of their criteria.

This is best done covertly, or in a roundabout way. The best way is to let them come to the conclusion themselves.

For example, if they want to feel popular, and you are selling them a car, you can tell a story about somebody just like them who bought the same car, and he became really popular after he bought the car. Let your potential client connect the dots. The longer and more roundabout you tell the story, the better.

The more criteria you elicit, the better off you are. And the longer you can spread out the elicitation and leveraging of the criteria, the better.

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.

This is pretty easy once you get the hang of it, and the more you practice, the better you’ll get. By the time you finish talking to them, they’ll be virtually on their knees begging to do what you want them to.

The only caveat is to be careful and make sure they won’t do or buy anything that they will later regret. This will destroy your credibility, and bring some bad karma your way. When you do this with a win/win mindset, you will make a lot of people really happy.

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