Achieving What You Want in 2010

Happy New Year! Here we are beginning a new year and a new decade. As a result, you – like so many other people – probably decided on resolutions to reach higher heights in some area of life that matters. For instance, you might have chosen to improve your health, increase your wealth,...

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...

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 [...]

Influence Happens in a Moment

On any given day of our lives, we will find ourselves facing a myriad of circumstances that range from mostly routine to extraordinary. No matter what the circumstance, we will quickly distinguish where it falls within that range and respond accordingly. However, our immediate response will be the...

Seven Top Immediate Influence Posts

Eventually any blog will have posts that are very popular for a number of reasons.  This blog isn’t an exception.  Over the weekend, I reviewed Google Analytics and the list you see below quickly emerged.  Enjoy! 7.  Strategic Influence Objecting Number Two Example: It is almost 2009! You’ve...

What Stops People From Achieving What They Want

Happy New Year!!! 2008 is behind us now and a new year has begun! By now, you’re off to a great start on achieving the goals you’ve set for 2009. However, you have probably run into some opposition. Typically, opposition shows itself in two ways – but I’m only going to write...

Perceptual Persuasion

What is Perceptual Persuasion?  Hold your horses!  First, let me tell you a brief story. One summer’s day, back when I was a tall and skinny teenager, sleeping late into the day after staying up all night, I was awakened by a noise outside my bedroom window. Initially, I lay there slightly...