Lesser Known Ways to Persuade People
<i>Get people to agree with you first</i><p>A slight twist to this: get people to say yes.<p>My "success rate" (with approaching women) went up drastically when I changed the first words out of my mouth to "<i>Can you hear me?</i>". I now ask this even when I know a woman doesn't have earphones on.<p>Why does it work? I have a couple of guesses. It is a question that you can't help reply to. And inadvertently when you answer this question, you begin paying more attention to the party that asked.<p>In ad-speak, this pretty much takes care of the A(attention) in AIDA.