Top Persuaders Easily Impact Emotions

Over the years, you, like me have had fun, exciting, joyful, and happy experiences that you can instantly remember when prompted to do so. For example, I distinctly remember my Mom giving me my first bicycle. It was royal blue! The handlebars had motorcycle style racing grips and it had an 8 inch wide ten speed type seat with shock-absorber-like coil springs underneath. As you might imagine, I spent...

Perceptual Persuasion Strategy: NLP Reframing

Hi, Ron Hudson here! Welcome back to the Immediate Influence Blog. It’s been quite a while since my last post. In fact, I’ve gone almost 30 days without posting anything. But, here I am today to reveal a powerful strategy of influence known as Reframing. Reframing enables you to alter, shift, or change an individual’s and/or audience’s perceptions about an experience,...

What Does it Take to Succeed?

After reading the title of this post, you probably repeated the question to yourself, “What does it take to succeed?” Now, here you are– curious to find out if your answer is similar to mine. What’s my answer? I’ll sum it up in the words I heard a tall gentleman with “big Donnie Osmond teeth” say back in the early 90s. “Success happens because every...

A restaurant’s artful use of influence that surprised and delighted me

“Aged and hand–cut especially for Friday’s, half a pound of one of the most flavorful, popular steaks around, expertly seasoned and fire–grilled to your order. Then glazed and served with our Jack Daniel’s glaze and creamy mashed potatoes.” “Honey, I’m ordering the Jack Daniel’s Flat Iron Works entree!  It looks delicious!” After reading the same...

Old School Marketing Tactics that Influence Buying Decisions

Today we have access to all types of incredible technologies.  Each technology offers varying benefits to the end user.  The technologies that are capturing our attention, whether we are in the board room or the class room, involve social media.  One of the main reasons is that social media allows us to easily reach people– locally and globally. However, I encourage you to remember the power...

How to Influence A Buying Decision – A Farmer’s Story

Welcome back! This post is a follow up to my previous post, “10 Powerful Offers that Influence Buyers Decisions in Your Favor.” However, as you can see, I haven’t provided another list of offers, but a story. The reason is that stories oft times convey messages much faster than other forms of communication. By the way, this particular story is a favorite amongst marketing consultants....

10 Powerful Offers that Influence Buyers Decisions in Your Favor

Today I, like you, will see or hear a number of commercials for a plethora of products and services. Naturally, we’ll ignore a significant amount of the commercials and continue focusing on whatever activity is a priority in the moment. That is, until one of the commercials is able to convey a message similar to the one at end of the following video. One of my favorite copywriter’s...