Are your skills of ethical influence, persuasion, and communication relevant in our constantly changing world? As it turns out, the ability to manage change may make the single biggest difference in the quality of your life, and your communications and persuasion skills might make the biggest difference in your ability to manage change. Pareto’s principle tells us that we should ... Read More »
Category Archives: Business
Eben Pagan on Relaxation and Having Fun
I was recently speaking at a Dan Kennedy and Bill Glazer event. Eben Pagan was also there as a speaker and I think that Eben is a brilliant synthesizer and teacher. I overheard him discussing the need for relaxation to be productive, but I didn’t have my Flip video on me. However, just tonight I found a YouTube video where ... Read More »
The Business of Trust and What I Just Learned From Richard Branson, The Dalai Lama, and Stephen Covey
Doing business and running a profitable company, firm, practice, or corporation has never been more complex. However, after spending an enlightening week with a number of political leaders, NGOs, and world business leaders I have a number of pointers, observations, strategies, and business tactics, thought provokers, and practical “to do” items that might just help you to feel better and ... Read More »
Negotiation and Persuasion – A New Strategy and Practice
Many people write to me, call me, or otherwise find ways of communicating to me (and to themselves) that they really aren’t good negotiators, persuaders, marketers, or communicators – yet. But, to be successful in anything that you undertake, you must be able to convince yourself and others to do things and to get things done. Why? You must become ... Read More »
Marketing on the Fringe: Why Sliced Bread Never Sold Until the Marketing Worked
Being remarkable with your marketing and your products and services is safe and being safe is now dangerous in marketing. Being on the fringe may be exactly where you want to be – once you know who is the niche market that you start with. The slogan for this blog is “Ideas and Information To Improve Your Business and Your ... Read More »
Achieving The Beginer's Mind – Learning How To Learn and Do More
The experience of thinking that we know how to do something, or that we know more than we really do about a topic is almost universal. How often have you started to read something, or to listen to a teacher, or speaker, and said to yourself “I already know that”? However, the sense that we already know can have the ... Read More »
Be Rigid and Inflexible About Your Flexibility
“I am a man of fixed and unbending principles, the first of which is to be flexible at all times.” – Everett Dirksen In my program Persuasion2Profit and in my bookThe Language of Parenting I have referred to the skills and strategies of great persuaders and communicators. And, in both works, I emphasize the need for flexibility. Flexibility is a ... Read More »
Progress Not Perfection – The Mindset of Making Progress and Getting Things Done
Want to get more done, and make your actions both more effective and when appropriate more profitable? Then these two meta strategies should be considered. Increasing your speed of implementation almost always results in greater success, and in order to improve the speed of implementation you must adopt the strategy of progress not perfection. Increasing data supports the idea that ... Read More »
Profit Through Value – How Do You Tanslate Your Value To The Client or Customer?
The key to getting, keeping, and continually satisfying customers and to giving them real value, is understanding what they really want, what they really need, what they really fear, and how they express these things in their own terms and with their own language. DO not assume that you know and do not assume that you know the language that ... Read More »
Conversational Persuasion Skills and The Power of Questions
In this brief video, Dave Frees walks you through a question that will change the way that you think and then shows you not just what to do, but how to use presuppositions and questions to become more persuasive and influential. The next few minutes will change the way that you get friends, loved ones, clients and/or customers and everyone ... Read More »