A lot has been written and said about writing  copy that sells. Today's podcast goes beyond the basics and provides a framework that allows you to be predictably persuasive, whether you're writing sales copy, giving a speech, or writing a blog post.

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Matthew 25:20–21 Feature Story: How To Be Predictably Persuasive
Persuasion is important to master if you think you might ever need to:

• Get a date
• Get a job
• Make a sale
• Win an argument
• Change someone's mind
• Land a new client
• Raise a child
• Raise money for a cause
• Buy something
• Sell something
• Or influence anyone in any way

The key to being persuasive is really not in some magic phrases or tricky manipulation – but in principles that never fail to work. There are basic foundational ideas that will serve to make you more persuasive – with predictable results.

1. Calibrate your expectations and clarify your outcome
2. Know the person you're attempting to persuade.
3. Demonstrate non-manipulative empathy.
4. Know where they score on the Persuasion Awareness Scale Test (P.A.S.T.): Know, Care, Considering, Pain
5. Appeal to the four learning styles: Why, What, How, What If
6. Answer any and all questions that stand in the way of transformation.
7. Create an environment that invites decision.

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