I just posted a new video which you can watch at the right side of this page – see it over there —->
I want to thank Michael Lee from 20 Day Persuasion.com for alerting me to it and to the crew at Blue Fish TV.com for putting it together.
Enjoy,
Mark Edward Brown
I returned home last night from an adventurous and celebratory weekend with my wife. We spent the weekend at The Wilderness Club at Big Cedar, it’s an outdoorsmans paradise and we were celebrating our 15th wedding anniversary.
Well what the heck does all of that have to do with being an influential Militant Marketer? (I can imagine you thinking that right now)
It just so happens that I finished reading Dr. Robert Cialdini’s book “Influence – The Psychology of Persuasion”, what a terrificly insightful
book. I have two things to share with you in reference to this critically important topic:
The first one is a quote from Dr. Cialdini:
“Very often in making a decision about someone or something, we don’t use all the rlevant available information; we use, instead, only a single, highly representative piece of the total. And inisolated pieces of information, even thought it normally counsels us correctly, can lead us to clearly stupid mistakes – mistakes that, when exploited by clever others, leave us looking silly or worse.” – Robert Cialdini
Militant Marketers are ever vigilant not to allow courses of action or decisions that are not thoroughly evaluated to be acted upon and as the quote above alludes to if you make irrational or on the spot decisions based on a truth, you may think you are doing the right thing yet in fact you are not and it will cause you to loose face, reputation or worse yet valuable resources.
The second item that I want to share with you is an interview that legendary marketer Rich Schefren did with Dr. Cialdini about social media, blogging, and his upcoming book on proven ways to be persuasive, you can get it below:
I would also be remiss if I did not mention my favorite author and marketer extrodinaire, Joe Schroeder who recently wrote Super Mind, you can’t get it in stores so if you like the subject matter of this blog post and want definitive information that you can use in your life and business right now – leave me a comment or e-mail me Mark@MarkEdwardBrown-dot-com
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Blair Warren is a deep thinker when it comes to the psychology of influence and persuasion, I follow his blog and like many of his quotes, he recently shared this quote:
“…we are all at the mercy of influences of which we are unaware and over which we have virtually no conscious control. What is even more frightening is that we ourselves, no matter how careful and discreet we believe ourselves to be, are constantly influencing others in ways of which we may be only dimly or not at all aware. Indeed, we may unconsciously be responsible for influences of which we consciously know nothing and which, if we knew them, we might find totally unacceptable.”
- Dr. Paul Watzlawick, How Real is Real? Confusion, Disinformation, Communication
You can see his blog and read the original post here:
http://blairwarren.com/blog/item/there_are_no_angels_when_it_comes_to_influence/
So there you have it, even the most well meaning folks may not be the best intentioned even if they know it or not.
Benefiting Billions
– Motivating Millions
— Training Thousands
—- Helping Hundreds
and showing Seekers of Success “How-To Transform” their lives and businesses one person at a time!
Mark Edward Brown
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