Develop Your Intuition Intelligence to Persuade

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Intuition plays an important role in persuading others. If we sense a receptive audience, our energy levels rise. When our energy levels rise, so do those of our audience members. Positivity is contagious. It’s growing the connectivity pie, not dividing us into zero sum slices. I thought about intuition this past weekend when, despite my…

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Persuade With Kindhearted Humor

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There are many reasons to inject humor into your content, not the least of which is the ability to connect with your target audience. Humor is a tool that, used nicely and appropriately, evokes an emotional response. Humor is a rhetorical device in the category of persuasion known as pathos. The other two categories are…

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Hustle With Humility, Emphasizing Your Role as Problem Solver

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A longstanding friend recently commended me for what she called my hustle or what I describe as energy put in motion to keep growing my business, finance, and investment ghostwriting portfolio. Happy as I am to receive compliments, praise is not my end goal. I relish getting great testimonials for jobs well done but what…

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Explain Your Data Visuals to Build Trust With Your Audience

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Content marketers are increasingly using data storytelling to promote their products and for good reason. As I explain in my infographic, “Hook Your Audience: Tell High-Impact Stories With Your Data”, there are multiple benefits to this approach, including the following: An estimated seventy percent of typical audience members are visual learners. Visuals are processed much…

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