My Mega-Church Sunday Visit

9:02am
Saint Paul

“Can you drive?”

It’s a Sunday morning and I’m just arriving at my cousin’s house.

“Yeah,” I say. “Hop in!”

See, my cousin had come over the previous Friday to watch the Olympics opening ceremony.

And she invited me to join her at a church service where she and her daughters had been attending.

All I could think is: Religions know how to persuade. Market Research!

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Three hypnotic phrases I’m trying out tonight

3:23pm
Saint Paul

Tonight’s the school carnival.

You’ll find me working at the Can Crush booth along Game Row.

My goal for tonight?

I chose three cards from my Hypnotic Language card deck. Tonight I’ll be using these phrases as often as I can, if only to see how I can squeeze them into the conversation with elementary school kids:

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How to Run a Hypnotic Webinar

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Saint Paul, MN

Tonight I watched a bit of Mark Joyner’s webinar for building wealth in 2020. Joyner is a pioneer in online marketing and wrote the book MindControlMarketing.com (you can read the PRL review here).

I like to attend these to learn what they offer… and to gain a few gems of wisdom.

Photo “goodbye” by frankieleon, Flickr, CC-By-2.0
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Rules of Three

The first two set the expectation…

Think fast!

A lawyer, a priest, and a dentist walk into a bar…

Maybe you’ve heard this one before?

The brain has this thing with events that come in 3’s.

 

Photo “Three” by Julien Belli, Flickr, CC-By-2.0

For example, we think bad luck comes in threes.

We’re relieved when that third thing finally happens… and it wasn’t all so bad after all.

This is one Rule of Three.

There are more tho…

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Is it useful to bore your audience?

730am

Saint Paul

 

Hey there!

Yesterday we discussed the importance of your tone of voice, specifically how being monotone works against your ability to hold someone’s attention.

If your voice has no texture, basically, there’s nothing to hook your listeners’ ears.

"Brain" by wyinoue, Flickr, CC-By-2.0
Can we tap directly into someone’s brain? “Brain” by wyinoue, Flickr, CC-By-2.0

But… I mentioned that maybe you want to be boring and monotone, on occasion.

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