“Taken” is a movie that tells the story of a young girl who goes to Europe with a friend and is kidnapped. She’s sold into the sex slave trade but fortunately for her, and unfortunately for the bad guys, her father, played by Liam Neeson, is a badass ex-CIA type who is used to solving […]
This week you’ll read a funny story about how not to sell. It comes to us all the way from Italy and is based on the real life experience of Marco Germani. Marco has written guest posts for me for about three years now. I think you’ll see humor in his situation and the […]
Last week I quoted Aristotle in the post about Lance Armstrong. The great Greek philosopher, is credited with telling the world, “Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion.” I had a chance to see that up close and personal not too long ago. Many of you reading this may be familiar […]
So last week, Lance Armstrong confessed to Oprah Winfrey that he did in fact use banned substances during his career. While this might be a surprise and disappointment to the general public, it wasn’t a shock to anyone inside the sport of cycling nor was it to most athletes. Whenever we see superhuman performances like […]
I spent a good bit of time before New Year’s flipping between CNN, MSNBC and Fox News to find out about the progress being made on the “fiscal cliff” talks. The more I thought about that fiasco the more I decided to share my view of the problems in American politics. The average American seems […]
It’s a new year and that means a fresh start. The profit and sales measures have all been reset to zero and the sky is the limit. If I could share with you a proven persuasion technique that could potentially double your results at half the cost would you be interested? Most businesses use […]
To start the New Year our Influencers from Around the World guest post comes to us by way of Ireland from my good friend Sean Patrick. Sean owns a sales training company, Sales Training Evaluation. He came to the States in October 2010 to spend a week with me and attended the Principles of Persuasion workshop I […]
As we get ready to start another new year I want to take a moment to thank all of you who subscribe to Influence PEOPLE and those who click in occasionally to read the latest blog posts. I’d like to let you know what you can expect in 2013. Of course, I’ll continue with weekly […]
If you’re like many people then you’ll be making New Year’s resolutions shortly. And if you’re like most people you’ll be breaking those resolutions within days. In one study, 52% of people making resolutions were confident of achieving them, yet only 12% actually did so. It’s a shame because most of the goals people set […]
Here in the U.S. and across much of the world, it’s the holiday season and for most people the biggest holiday of them all is Christmas. Some celebrate Christmas as the season of joy and peace. For others it is the season of love and for many more it’s the celebration of the birth […]
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