PERSUASION POINTERS
Neutralize a hostile audience by establishing your credibility with solid evidence and expert testimony.
Convert a neutral audience by selling the benefits of your proposal.
Motivate and energize an uninterested audience with stories, compelling facts, and highly relevant information.
Educate the uninformed audience with a credible, logical, easy-to-follow presentation supported by one or two memorable anecdotes.
Refire a supportive audience with an inspirational address that will galvanize them to action.
With a mixed audience, focus your pitch on the subgroup who has the most power.
Don't promise all things to people you will lose credibility.
Set realistic, achievable goals. Full-scale conversions are rare; if you neutralize someone ...
Become an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month,
and much more.
Read now
Unlock full access