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The Power to Influence in 30 Seconds or Less


One day, I was strolling through the mall when suddenly I begun to have hunger pangs. It was time to eat! As I wandered into the food court to quickly find something good to eat, the aromas from all of the fast food restaurants filled the air.

Right away, I noticed Subway and started walking towards their location for a Spicy Italian foot long. But my pace was slowed by a middle aged lady offering me a piece of meat on a toothpick. I was famished! So, I swiftly grabbed the toothpick as the lady said, “This is our Bourbon Chicken.” Seconds later, I was paying for a full plate of Bourbon Chicken and I was happy with my decision. I’m curious. Did you notice how easily and quickly I made that decision? It happened within 10 to 15 seconds!
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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 probably been thinking about what goals you want to achieve in the new year, have you not? In the days and weeks ahead, you will have many decisions to make about what actions to take to bring about the realization of your goals.

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6.  Ten Honest Things About Me You Don’t Want to Know:

On Monday, January 12th, I was tagged by MultiMedia Producer, Angel McClinton to reveal ten honest things about myself.  Unlike the incredibly talented Angel McClinton, I haven’t included a video presentation with my ten things.  Before I get started, you might want to click on Angel’s name to see her video and forget all about reading my ten things.  Just kidding.  Kinda!

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5.  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 about one in this post. Ready?

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4.  One Big Web 2.0 Influence Mistake That Will Ruin Your Reputation:

On Friday, January 9th I tweeted a statistic Tony Robbins revealed while being interviewed by one of Success Magazine’s writers.  The statistic is related to the number of people who won’t follow through on the resolutions aka goals they set on New Year’s Day.  Tony said, “98% of the people who set resolutions will give up within six weeks.”

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3.  How to Deeply Influence Yourself and Others:

James Van Fleet once said, “Always think in terms of what the other person wants.”

During my nearly 10 years of marriage, I’ve discovered that one of the keys to a successful relationship is thinking in terms of what my wife wants.  For instance, there are times when my wife wants to watch a romantic movie when I’d prefer to watch an action movie.  You might be saying,”Great!  Let her watch her romantic movie and you go watch an action movie on another television.”  Good idea, my rational thinking friend.  However, if I were to act on that type of thinking my wife wouldn’t get what she really wanted it from the experience.  Connectedness. Guess what?  I want to feel that too.

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2.  50 Most Powerful and Influential Men in Social Media:

Last week, as you probably know, I published a list of the 50 Most Powerful & Influential Women in Social Media. It caused quite a stir on the internet. In fact, this blog was visited by over 2,000 unique visitors the day the list was published. I truly appreciate each of you who visited that day and the following days.

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1.  50 Most Powerful and Influential Women in Social Media:

In every industry there are a few people who are inarguably outstanding at what they do. In addition to that, they are typically charismatic, energetic, and creative. In an effort to find some of these people I asked my twitter friends to nominate people who they thought were some of the most powerful and influential women in Social Media. It was no surprise that they quickly and enthusiastically responded with the list of ladies below.

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With your success in mind,

Ron Hudson

One Big Web 2.0 Influence Mistake That Will Ruin Your Reputation


On Friday, January 9th I tweeted a statistic Tony Robbins revealed while being interviewed by one of Success Magazine’s writers.  The statistic is related to the number of people who won’t follow through on the resolutions aka goals they set on New Year’s Day.  Tony said, “98% of the people who set resolutions will give up within six weeks.”

As you may imagine, I tweeted Tony’s comment because it seemed like useful information to share.  What happened afterward was absolutely mind blowing!  A guy retweeted my tweet but added a link to it without my approval.  I was displeased with this twitter user’s blatant disregard of etiquette, and I immediately tweeted a message politely requesting that he refrain from such behavior.

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“Mr. Influence” Makes a Persuasion Mistake?


A few of weeks ago, while visiting my silvery-gray-haired, frail, and feisty, 99-year-old Grandmother in the hospital, I made a persuasion mistake. Yes, I did! More about that in moment.

Anyway, my Grandmother was quite ill from dangerously high potassium levels, dehydration, and an inadequate level of nutrition due to eating irregularly. In addition to all that, she was delusional from the drugs that were administered to restore her health. Some of the behaviors were difficult for me to witness.
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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 startled but as the noise continued, it became apparent that someone was attempting to open my window. As you might imagine, my heart began pounding as I rose from my bed and headed toward the window.

Slowly, I peeked out the blinds to see what the burglar looked like, so that I could describe him to the police later. While peeking through a small space in the blinds, I definitely saw the burglar, and I was completely shocked! You see, the person attempting to break into my home was someone who I called “friend!”
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A Person of Influence Seeks First to Understand


In today’s society, we have the ability to quickly and easily communicate with people, in real time around the world. As a result, we can tap into the thinking of diverse perspectives on any topic. Sometimes the topic leads to casual conversation, constructive criticism, humorous retorts, or passionate debate. No matter what form the conversation takes, if you desire to impact the thoughts, emotions, and actions of other people, you will benefit from this post that explains a basic NLP principle.

Although the NLP principle you are about to learn is basic, understanding it will profoundly impact your ability to influence and persuade people. What is this basic concept? It is understanding someone’s map of the world. Simply put, a person’s map of the world makes up their reality. Why? Our maps of the world are formed during the experiences of life and we make decisions (literally formulate beliefs) about what those experiences meant. It is the meaning we attach to any experience which drives our behavior.
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One Web 2.0 Influence Mistake People Make that Hurts Their Credibility


As you might imagine, I’m continually monitoring how companies, organizations, and people are using subconscious tools of influence in Web 2.0. As a result of that focus, I’ve noticed effective and ineffective uses of subconscious influence by each of these groups. However, I’m only going to reveal how the third group, individual people, are wrongly implementing subconscious influence tactics. In this post, you will read about one mistake they make when attempting to use subconscious influence in their Web 2.0 marketing strategy.

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