Once Upon A Time – A Good Twitter Lesson

Once upon a time – most good stories with a moral start this way – I learned a good lesson on Twitter. I was trying to get the word out about a blog series I’d written. Beyond just sending tweets about my articles, I got in touch with a few dozen people to see if […]

Influencers from Around the World – Selling to VITO

Several months ago I introduced Sean Patrick to readers in my Influencers from Around the World article. We’re up to readers from more than 125 countries so I’m continuing with the theme of hearing from other trainers around the world about how they use the principles of influence.   Sean’s a feisty Irishman who owns […]

The Vacation Bathing Suit Revisited!

Last year I wrote a piece call Reverse Psychology and the Vacation Bathing Suit and people found it to be pretty funny. In fact, when I tell the story during training classes I always get quite a few laughs. I’ll leave it to you to read the post if you want but here’s the bottom […]

Persuading Personality Types: Survey Questions and Results

From June 21, 2010 through June 30, 2010 I conducted a survey to try to determine the best influence approaches for different people based on personality type. In all, 265 people participated with the following breakdown by personality type: Driver/Pragmatic – 96 (36.2%) Influencer/Expressive – 63 (23.8%) Amiable/Facilitator – 58 (21.9%) Thinker/Analytic – 48 (18.1%) […]

Persuading Personality Types: The Driver/Pragmatic

We’re on the final group in our look at the best ways to persuade people based on personality type. Our final group is the driver/pragmatic and as the name implies, people in this category are “driven.” They thrive on challenges and have a strong intrinsic motivation to succeed. They are practical, focused and results oriented. […]