PAVE the Way for New Year’s Resolutions
The following is a chapter from Influence PEOPLE: Powerful Everyday Opportunities to Persuade that are Lasting and Ethical. This chapter is particularly appropriate just before New Year’s Eve. I hope it helps you get 2025 off to a great start. PAVE the Way for New Year’s Resolutions If you’re like many people, then you make New […]
Santa Claus — The Greatest Salesman Who Ever Lived
Each year around Christmas I share a variation of this post. Enjoy and Merry Christmas! Santa Claus — The Greatest Salesman Who Ever Lived Why do I believe Santa is the ultimate salesman? To start, he has a couple of success stories most of us can’t compete with. First, he’s successfully run the same family […]
You Haven’t Given Me A Gift, You’ve Given Me An Obligation
Across much of the world, it’s the holiday season and for many people the biggest holiday of them all is Christmas. Some celebrate Christmas as the season of joy and peace. For others, it’s the season of love. For most it’s the celebration of the birth of Jesus. A huge part of the modern celebration […]
The Vacation Bathing Suit Revisited!
The Original Story: Reverse Psychology and the Bathing Suit Early on in my blog, I wrote a piece called “Reverse Psychology and the Vacation Bathing Suit” and people found it to be quite funny. In fact, when I tell the story during training classes I always get lots of laughs. Many years ago, I tricked […]
The Most Influential Holiday Gifts You Can Give 😊
I hope you and your loved ones have a wonderful Thanksgiving. If you’re a go-getter, you may already be getting ready to celebrate another holiday – Christmas, Hannukah, Kwanza, or Festivus 😊 – so it’s a good bet you’ll be exchanging gifts with friends and family. I’m sure you want those important people in your […]
