Covert persuasion is a skill that not everyone is blessed to have. There are many advantages to learning this skill and nurturing the covert persuader in you will bring in many benefits in many aspects of your life. Have you ever felt difficulty when negotiating with other people or when closing a deal? If you have then covert persuasion might just be what you need to get what you want.
There are many people who are naturally stubborn and hard to deal with. They simply do not wish to be persuaded and will never give in to any wish or desires other than their own. If you find yourself dealing with someone with this sort of stubbornness, you may have to use covert persuasion and get what you want or finally close the deal.
The techniques that are used in covert persuasion work on a totally subconscious level. With persuading people in a non-obvious and indirect way, you are getting what you want without looking like you did. It works on a subconscious level that allows you to win over people who are hard to deal with to your side.
No matter what kind of situation you are in – may it be business in nature, just plain conversational argument or even romantic dilemmas, you can easily influence the decision of other through covert persuasion techniques.
One of the most non-obvious yet very effective techniques of getting someone’s attention is by story-telling. Everyone loves to hear a story and it is one of the most effective ways of letting someone listen to what you have to say when usually, they wouldn’t.
When you tell a story, you make people lower their resistance subconsciously. You are also able to explain yourself more and make complicated concepts easier to understand. When people listen to your stories, they tend to view another part of life or of the world that they don’t have any idea of. When people are caught in your stories, they open their minds to accept new ideas and concepts.
There are many websites and marketing ads that employ stories in order to catch the attention of possible clients and customers. Instead of directly selling the products and going for an in-your-face marketing act, they let you sit down and read all the stories where they started out broke, depressed and homeless. Everybody loves a rags-to-riches tales and it will surely get their attention when the stories tell them ways of how to get them out of a rut.
Making the readers feel like you are letting them in on a special secret is also a good way technique of covert persuasion. You do not make them feel like they are being aggressively offered to buy a product or avail of a certain service. You simply make them feel like they are special and that you want to share success secrets exclusively with them. This one of the covert ways of convincing and persuading people which works great in getting what you want and closing the deal.
