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How to Persuade From Inside A Pink Bubble 
By: Kenrick Cleveland
"It is the pervading law of all things organic and inorganic, Of all things physical and metaphysical, Of all things human and all things super-human, Of all true manifestations of the head, Of the heart, of the soul, That the life is recognizable in its expression, That form ever follows function. This is the law." ~Louis Sullivan
Louis Sullivan, the designer and architect of the modern skyscraper, understood that form follows function. He was responsible for creating the modern cityscape and accomplished things that hadn't ever been attempted before.
What function are YOU trying to accomplish? Your goal is to persuade the affluent, to influence them such that they buy from you.
If we think back to Sullivan's credo, it's easy to comprehend that we can design a form to go along with our function.
With persuasion, you will find that you get very, very good results with building models that you're going to use to affect other people.
In rapport, we build the model of the person we're persuading. We build them and step into their shoes so that we can become them.
Here are some more far out models which will make persuasion even more effective with your affluent prospects.
This process is like 'walking a mile in somebody else's shoes'. It's asking your other than conscious mind to do something powerful on your behalf.
By assuming and presupposing that you can do this, your other than conscious believes that you CAN. It understands, and it takes its orders and engages the necessary behavior to fulfill the wish. Now all we have to do is set up 'the bubble'. This concept comes from metaphysical literature and is an effective tool in relation to rapport, whether you buy into metaphysics or not.
And here is all you do: imagine a pink bubble around you and your prospect (or prospects). That's it.
I don't know why, but the bubble's color does matter. So imagine that it is either pink or gold.
Now that we've got our big pink (or gold) bubble, I am going to imagine up a lasso and throw it around my prospect and as I do this, I'm going to pull us both into the bubble.
I understand that you're reading this thinking, 'This is crazy. What the hell is this guy talking about?'
I understand. Really, I do. There's a real point to this, and that is to link us with our prospects energetically.
So maybe you think this is all goofy and yet you still give it a try and find that there's a very powerful energy surrounding you and your prospect. Well. . . who's it hurting to have this mental construct in your mind?
In designing this form, the function that we want to accomplish is rapport that leads to persuasion, influence.
Let's say that I want to encircle many, like the whole room. I can drop the bubble over all of us, and then I can step out of it.
What will be the impact of doing that?
The effect is that this pink bubble ends up creating a whole lot of rapport between everyone inside of it.
Try this exercise and see that you will gain a whole new perspective on your persuasive abilities with your affluent prospects.
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Kenrick Cleveland teaches strategies to earn the business of affluent clients using persuasion. He runs public and private seminars and offers home study courses and coaching programs in persuasion strategies.
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