Graham English
Songwriter, Recording Artist, and Blogging Musician
Songwriter, Recording Artist, and Blogging Musician
What if there was a way to distort a prospective customer’s sense of time and make it seem like they’ve already bought your product and have, in fact, enjoyed using it for a long time already. Would you look back at reading this paragraph, say a week from now, and realize that your entire life was a series of events that brought you to this very moment of understanding?
You may be thinking that we’ve covered some serious covert persuasion strategies so far. But this next Hypnotic Influence technique is truly a mind controlling strategy.
Just think for a moment, what was it that got you reading the words on this page? What was it that drew you to this information? More wealth, more power, [...]
The word “trance” conjurs up all sorts of images. Snake charmers, zombies, spaced out dreamers. But trance is really a naturally occuring state. We go in and out of trance many times throughout the day.
But trance is not our “normal” state of mind. Trance is an altered state of consciousness. The method by which we [...]
What if you could install a button in your prospect that whenever you pressed it, it would trigger any behavior or emotion you want?
Then you’ll want to master the art of anchoring!
Let’s say you have a meeting with a prospect. During this meeting you build states of excitement and motivation in the prospect. Then the [...]
The time has come for Ultimate-Guitar.Com to get an MPA letter. Surely, that was not something good, but the request to remove all tabs in 10 days. What does it mean? Nothing. We are legal. We are not going to shut down the website.
Let’s give our support to Ultimate Guitar! It’s not ethical to exercise [...]
There are ways of giving commands to people without their conscious awareness of ever having received a command. The trick is to embed the command within a sentence that’s specifically designed to bypass the conscious mind. Let’s take a look at the following sentence:
So now we’ve got the thought police in the music industry. Now, more than ever, is it crucial that you maintain control over your musical destiny. Long Tail marketing give you the power and freedom to create your own path. read more.
BPI, the UK version of the RIAA, has banned a twelve year-old singer songwriter [...]
We resist people we don’t trust. Gaining an unconscious connection with people will powerfully influence the speed towards your intended interpersonal outcomes.
You can create hypnotic rapport through imitating someone’s current behavior. This is commonly referred to as mirroring or pacing — and it happens quite naturally. You can mirror someone’s behavior on many different [...]
A. The most crucial part of effective communication is:
Proper grammar
Asking questions
Having charisma
Establishing an outcome
B. Hypnosis is:
New Age mumbo-jumbo
Bypassing the critical mind
The Beta state
A Pill
C. Hypnotic Influence:
Relates to your listener’s subjective experience
Alters the listener’s state of mind
Reaches the listener’s unconscious mind
All of the above
D. Submodalities are:
Going deeper into the mind
States of mind
The building blocks of sensory [...]
First it was services that provided music, then it was sites that offered lyrics. Now the music industry has trained its legal guns upon guitar tablature, and several of them have already been shuttered.
I forsee all of this ending in a pretty ugly revolt. The fat cats are getting fatter which means they’re getting too [...]
You need to read this BoingBoing article because it’s important as a musician to understand the values of the RIAA. I’ll leave it up to you to decide if you share these values… or not.
So you might have an idea of what Hypnotic Influence could look like. You might realize that effective influence is a very attainable skill. But are you willing to do what it takes?
Begin by asking yourself the most motivation question of all: “What’s in it for me?”
Stop for a moment and imagine how good your [...]
Recently, a friend asked me if I ever go into that state between being in a dream and being awake. He mentioned how in that state you begin to visualize amazing things, and how you can really feel the intense excitement of your dreams. He said that the interesting thing about being able to enter [...]
Milton Erickson’s power of influence was legendary. He was considered the greatest innovator of hypnosis and became famous for his unique hypnotic methods. He could put people into a hypnotic trance just by shaking hands.
What Erickson understood was that while speaking to a client at a conscious level, they were also listening at an unconscious [...]
People travel through many states of mind throughout any given day. We may feel tired when we wake up, refreshed after a shower, energized after our morning coffee, and bored during a company meeting.
Most people go through life letting the situations they find themselves in unknowingly manipulate their state of mind. “The boss did this [...]
A lot of what I’ll be revealing to you is about the psychology that motivates people to do things. If you’re in business, one of your primary objectives is to motivate people to see the value in your services and…
…give you their money.
To accomplish this goal, you have to think of your prospect’s wants and [...]
Have you ever learned or come across something so valuable that you wanted to share it with everyone? And have you ever received less than an enthusiastic response when you tried to share it with someone? Maybe you were puzzled that they just didn’t see things the same way you saw them — they just didn’t get it. Perhaps they even went so far as to disagree with you and cause you even further frustration. If you can relate to the above paragraph, you’re like most people. The communication just wasn’t happening. Actually, communication was happening, but the most crucial part was missing…
“We are not going to be selling music,” said Chris Sacca, head of business development for Google. read more.
Rockers Work a Web-Savvy Crowd, by Robert La Franco from Wired magazine.
Japanese alt-metal group Dir en grey’s first U.S. tour finds the band playing packed halls and moving mountains of merch, all thanks to the promo power of anime conventions, video games and MySpace.
If you aren’t promoting your music on MySpace yet, you need to [...]
From Amie Street: Awesome New Music Model:
A lot has happened in the music space recently that suggests a steady progression towards the sale of DRM-free music by the big labels. In my opinion this progression/evolution is inevitable, and will be followed by a reduction in pricing towards zero – services will be able to sell [...]
about grahamI'm a songwriter and recording artist who sings, plays keyboards, and explores the vast world of sound hoping to find some magical moments along the way. I'm also a Mac geek.
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