You have smiled, made great eye contact, and mirrored the attitude of the person you are meeting. So far, you are successfully making a great first impression. Now, in order to achieve your goals from the encounter (be it a business meeting or a social introduction), it is important that you use the right psychology to seal the deal of first impressions.
Saying “yes” to a good impression
Feedback is an important part of the congruence process, which helps the other person’s subconscious believe that you are similarly likable. Have you ever had a conversation with someone who did not verbally or physically acknowledge your statements? It feels like a one-sided conversation, with the other person not truly understanding what you are saying. Responding and providing feedback in a conversation means that you are paying attention, which all people love. And when you make people feel special, they will like you and thus remember you.
People like your attitude – not necessarily you
In order to make a deep impression, you must know what you want out of that meeting. How do you want someone to remember you? How can you persuade someone to like you? The most outstanding characteristic that people remember is attitude. In business, the three most useful attitudes are enthusiasm, curiosity, and humility. If you express a good attitude, it is contagious, and people will like you.
It is human nature to instantly form an impression of someone the moment we meet them. Subconsciously, the mind makes an assessment in five seconds, and then within 90 seconds, it forms the lasting impression that usually cannot be reverted.
Self-inspection check points
For this reason, it is very important to conduct the 30-second detail check from head to toe before you enter a room or meeting. Check for food in your teeth, and ensure that your hair looks neat and combined. For a woman, evaluate your makeup and position your jewelry. Secure your scarf or straighten your tie. Check for stains, loose buttons, and open flies.
Winning that first impression with a smile
Now, as soon as you meet someone, the impression clock starts ticking, and you only have 90 seconds to connect with that person. What is the single, most important thing you can do? According to F.X. Muldoon, EYE CONTACT and a SMILE is what will make or break your first impression. Show your genuineness with eye contact, and use your smile to win over any person.
Your blog can be a very powerful marketing tool when you take the necessary, yet easy, steps to ensure that it is search engine optimized. Search engines place a high importance on blogs because of its frequently updated active content. Hypothetically, the search engine is essentially fueled by the need to find new, relevant content, and therefore, blogs fundamentally provide that fresh content. You can turn your blog into a powerful force when you implement several SEO steps.
Frequent Entries
In order to receive favorable rankings from the search engines, it is important to maintain frequent blog entries and specialize on your topic. Ideally, you should post daily, or at least five times per week. The more relevant, high-quality entries you post, the more the search engines will like you. Case in point: Google has a specific “Freshbot” to crawl for new content.
Ah, the good ole’ days when a word was just a word. You need not wonder if you paid enough attention to it, brought it flowers on rare occasions, or remembered its birthday. Oh, how times have changed.
When searching Google, you may have recently noticed a considerable change in overall search results and relevancy scores. This has largely been contributed to what I refer to as Googles new virtual relationship counselor, but this is better known as Latent Semantic Indexing (LSI). What is LSI and how does it work, you ask? Well, the good news is that you need not make an appointment, pay $200 per hour, nor sit on a reclining couch and answer questions about your childhood to benefit from its services.
It’s not a new thing: you get into an argument with your spouse, and you lose your cool, and before you know it, you are seeing red. You might say some things that you didn’t mean, or perhaps even some things with the intention of hurting the other person’s feelings.
Read moreIf you are in, or thinking about being in, a long distance relationship you’ve probably already asked yourself, “How can we make this work?” The key, of course, is communication.
The first thing you need to decide before going any further is if this relationship is worth it to you, because it is not going to be easy. Surviving a long distance relationship takes a lot of will-power, effort and discipline on both sides. If you have already made the decision that this is something you both want then you need a plan of action. This relationship isn’t going to sustain itself.
Read moreThis article should be a shorter one as I’m going to get straight to the point: eye contact. What is it, what does it mean, and how can you make it more effective?
Read moreWhen is an argument worth fighting for?
Part of being human is causing and experiencing conflict. It’s an unavoidable fact of life that we, as people, have to live with every day. It doesn’t matter what your intentions are or whether those intentions were good or bad. At the end of the day you’re going to argue with, get mad at, or just plain dislike someone. And, as much as we hate to admit it, it’s a fundamental process that’s literally hard-wired into our brains.
Read moreThe English language is not necessarily the easiest to understand linguistically. There are more rules, clauses, modifiers, and exceptions than any other popular language. So, it’s no surprise that many people have a problem with duplicate words (words that sound the same but don’t mean the same thing).
There, their, and they’re are prime examples. All three of these words, when spoken aloud, sound the same. To someone who hasn’t taken many years of formal English education, they may also appear to be spelled the same. However, as you know, that is not the case.
There refers to a place. For example, “I went over there”.
Their refers to possession or ownership. For example, “that is their car”.
They’re is a different way to say “they are”. For example, “they’re going to mall after lunch”.
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This article is going to give some pointers on increasing your conversion through what’s known as a “passive sale”, “soft close”, or “passive close” in the sales industry. Though internet marketing is nothing like offline sales, there are certain elements of the traditional sales process that you can replicate online with great success.
Step One: Identifying Yourself as NOT a Salesman
No one likes to be “sold”. When someone feels as if they were just “sold” on a product or service they are much more likely to experience buyers remorse, and if the product/service offers a refund policy they may even take advantage of it. Obviously, this is not good for your profit margins.Now, you want to create a persona for yourself that is both true, yet untrue at the same time. For example, if you were selling lawn care products, you may want to label yourself as a “Route Coordinator” as opposed to a salesman. This does a few things for you: