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 209 - Power and Automatic Behaviors – Interview With Ben Voyer

Join us on this great interview with Dr. Ben Voyer.  We are going to talk about: How persuasion has changed Biggest persuasion blunder Loss avoidance Power and relationships Influential nature of stories Professor...
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Episode 208 - True Objection or Knee Jerk Response

Objection Obstacles All excuses and objections can be boiled down one or more of these seven potential objections: Once you understand that all objections stem from one or more of these seven key areas, you will have...
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Episode 207 - Blueprint to Business Success

Blueprint to Business is the ultimate guide to becoming a successful entrepreneur. Bestselling author and CEO Mike Alden puts aside the rainbows and sunshine, gets real about what it takes to 'make it,' and gives you...
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Episode 206 - Do Closing Skills Still Work?

Inside the World of Objections and Concerns  When you become a great persuader, you will view objections differently than most people do. You will even welcome objections and enjoy handling them. Why? You will realize...
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Episode 205 - What If The Competition Has The Same Price?

Charisma is influence.  In other words, getting others to do what you want them to do and like doing it.  People get uneasy when you talk about influence, but just like power, it is neutral.  Some feel it can't be...
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Episode 204 - Negotiation Blunder: Position vs Problem

Negotiation: Face-to-Face, by Phone or via E-mail In our age of ever-expanding communication possibilities, researchers have been drawn to answer the question of which communication mode is most likely to lend itself...
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Episode 203 - Price Psychology: 14 Techniques That Make Price A Non-Issue – Part 3

Reduce to the Ridiculousness (JND): This technique involves paring down your request to something that seems manageable, easier to comprehend or easier to monetize. Let's say you are trying to convince someone to...
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Episode 202 - Price Psychology: 14 Techniques That Make Price A Non-Issue – Part 2

"Door-in-the-face" is one of the most common techniques for implementing the Law of Contrast. Basically, an initially large and almost unreasonable request is made, likely to be declined—hence the "door...
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Episode 201 - Price Psychology: 14 Techniques That Make Price A Non-Issue – Part 1

Never fight on price.  Price in not the issue – you are the issue.  Only 6% of things are bought on price. Anybody can fight on price.  Let's learn 14 techniques to make price a non-issue.  "Price is what you pay....
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Episode 200 - Words That Kill Persuasion And Words That Influence

Verbal Packaging & The Leverage of Language The more skillful a person is in the use of language, the more persuasive they will be. People are persuaded by us based on the words we use. Words affect our...
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Episode 199 - How to Create Trust in Strangers – Robin Dreeke FBI Interview

Robin Dreeke FBI Interview Did you ever leave an interaction saying to yourself, "That could have gone better?" Do you want to improve your leadership, interviewing, sales, and trust building skills for every aspect...
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Episode 198 - Raise Your Price, Work Less & Make More Money – Interview with Dave Negri

Dave Negri's Secret Price Weapon  Using "pricing" as a marketing strategy is often overlooked by entrepreneurs.  It may be a little scary, butsometimes all you need is a higher price point to become more attractive to...
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