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Lee Carter Explains How To Persuade & Convince When Facts Don’t Matter

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Wes Schaeffer
November 19, 2019

It’s Not What You Say, It’s What They Hear

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Persuasion Tips you’ll learn today on The Sales Podcast…

  • You can be too authentic

  • If they can’t hear you, it’s not their fault

  • We’re emotional creatures and want to connect

  • What’s your objective?

  • Be honest with yourself. Are you looking just to get your friends to agree with you? That’s not persuasion.

  • We are all empathetic other than sociopaths, narcissists, etc.

  • “Active empathy” is putting yourself in their shoes

  • It’s not about you

  • Understand why they believe/feel/do

  • “Empathy is not an endorsement”

  • Culture today has us tribal and entrenched

  • This is not new

  • We’re predisposed to ignore things that we disagree with

  • Get clear on your target audience to inject yourself into the conversation

  • Once you understand this, then create your “Master Narrative” and frame it around them

  • Then maybe have three supporting points

  • Create a visual to make your message stick

  • Trump said he would “build a wall.” That’s visual language.

  • Most decisions happen after you leave

  • What’s your higher-order narrative that’s above the facts? Support it with your three points

  • Find what’s true to you and repeat it over and over like Trump’s “Make America Great Again”

  • Live it. Breathe it. Own it.

  • Become known for it.

  • You need to become nauseous from your message before you change it

  • Talk to your ideal people to perfect your message

  • It’s not what you say, it’s what they hear

  • Make them pause. More than facts.

  • Tell stories

  • It’s hard to argue with a story but have the facts to back it up

  • When to create a new category and when to thrive in an existing category

  • The message is still the message

  • The medium is not the message

  • You only have a few words to get your point across

  • You must be consistent

  • Show up big, or don’t show up at all

  • Focus. Repeat. Do the right things.

  • Have a plan and execute.

  • People need to hear your message at least seven times

Links Mentioned In The Sales Podcast