Maximize Your Influence

Maximize Your Influence

Hosted by: Kurt Mortensen

Maximize Your Influence: Your source for the top persuasion, influence, and negotiation techniques that will help you maximize your success in life and in business!

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Episodes

Episode 339 - How Metaphors & Similes Create Influence

No one can follow through on an act or message without first thinking or seeing in his or her mind that it is possible to accomplish it.  You can mentally achieve participation by helping your audience visualize and...
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Episode 338 - The Persuasion Easy Button

As a persuader, you need to help your audience be one step closer to taking action. As a Power Persuader, your goal is to decrease the distance someone has to go to reach your objective. Your task is to make it as...
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Episode 337 - Sales Hacks - Triggers to Persuasion

What makes someone successful?  Why do some people achieve wealth, while others don't? How can we predict who will make it big, who will barely make ends meet, and who will fail?  How do we quantify the...
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Episode 336 - How to have Captivating, Engaging And Influential Online Meetings or Webinars

The Law of Involvement suggests that the more you engage someone's five senses, involve them mentally and physically, and create the right atmosphere for persuasion, the more effective and persuasive you'll be.  Your...
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Episode 335 - Science of Being Happy (And Creating Happiness)

The great persuaders I have found and interviewed are happy people.  They love and enjoy life. They are very successful.  They attract people to them.  How does society define success?  By fame, fortune, achievement,...
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Episode 334 - Why You Are Causing The Resistance And Rejection

Has this ever happened to you? You enter a retail store and you're approached by a sharply dressed persuader. You are interested in buying, but the salesperson is a little aggressive. You get an alarming feeling in...
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Episode 333 - Imposter Syndrome, Ego, and Influence

Why do you get so much resistance, especially when it is a no brainer for them to say yes?  It usually comes back to a bruised ego or low self-esteem.  It can be easily fixed with a little praise and understanding of...
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Episode 332 - Risk Reversal And Your Prospects Safety Net

What skills do you need to influence in these crazy times when everyone is full of fear, doubt, and despair?  You need to have personal courage and radiate confidence in your prospects. The Latin root of the word...
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Episode 331 - How Mood Helps Or Hinders Influence

The question of the day is about mood. Does your prospect's mood affect your ability to influence them? Does your personal mood affect our ability to persuade others?  Let's find out! Mood plays a major role in how...
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Episode 330 - How To Inspire And Energize Anyone (Even Yourself)

Want Success?  Want Wealth?  Wondering what is taking so long?  The formula is simple.  Start thinking, acting, and doing what successful people are doing.  Success is an open book test.  Time to get the answers.  The...
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Episode 329 - How to Handle The Heckler, Clueless People and Pointless Disruptions

Great persuaders are great communicators. Well-known motivational speaker and best-selling author Jim Rohn said it best: "When I learned how to effectively persuade and communicate, my income went from six digits to...
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Episode 328 - Jeremy Miner Interview - New World of Selling

Closing skills were the big thing twenty years ago. We were taught that closing skills were all you needed. If you did not persuade enough people, you had to learn more closing skills. Nowadays, sure, it's nice to...
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