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	<title>Discover How to Talk ANYONE into ANYTHING, Anytime... Naturally using Persuasion</title>
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		<title>Bad Persuasion Exposed</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Dear Persuader,
In an email a few days ago, I said, "It would almost be funny, if it didn't have such a catastrophic impact. Never before has the skill of persuasion been more necessary. In a world that has quickly gone from consumerism to thrift - if you don't persuade, you don't sell. Yet at the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.maxpersuasion.com/bad-persuasion-exposed/</link>
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		<title>Strippers vs. Church</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Dear Persuader,
In today's blog post I have a fascinating case study to share with you about the persuasive power of enemies.
The Columbus Dispatch in Warsaw Ohio reported on a story so funny that I could barely contain myself as I read it.
I'll present the gist of it here for you along with my analysis. There [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.maxpersuasion.com/strippers-vs-church/</link>
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		<title>Dancing with Fear</title>
		<description><![CDATA["The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear."  ~NELSON MANDELA
Dear Persuader,
I noticed a sticker on the back of a truck recently. “No Fear” it said.  I thought it a bit arrogant and silly.  Our core drives of fight and flight are predicated upon the fact that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.maxpersuasion.com/dancing-with-fear/</link>
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		<title>Attack of the Friendlies</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I like the way Abraham Lincoln said it best, “Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?”
Now, I don’t know how many of you have actual enemies, arch nemeses, rivals, foes or adversaries. These descriptions seem pretty extreme, but sometimes in business, rivalries happen.  They key is not to let them [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.maxpersuasion.com/attack-of-the-friendlies/</link>
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		<title>The Journey Is the Goal</title>
		<description><![CDATA[“That which does not kill us, makes us stronger.”  Friedrich Nietzsche
Dear Persuader,
I had a dream about shoes last night.  Shoes have always been sort of an issue for me because I have large feet and it hasn’t always been easy to find ones that fit me (especially before the internet existed and before I had [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.maxpersuasion.com/the-journey-is-the-goal/</link>
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		<title>Trusting Your Gut</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Dear Persuader,
“Intuition is the supra-logic that cuts out all the routine processes of thought and leaps straight from the problem to the answer.” ~Robert Graves
Logic versus instinct.  Reason versus intuition. Fortunately for us, we don’t have to choose one way of thinking over the other because both are absolutely necessary in order to be good [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.maxpersuasion.com/trusting-your-gut/</link>
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		<title>Spark of Fire</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Dear Persuader,
I want you to think about the process of persuasion a little differently today.  I want you to think of it as a spark, a spark that creates fire, okay?
If you’ve ever used a magnifying glass and started a fire with a little piece of paper or wood, you know that you have to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.maxpersuasion.com/spark-of-fire/</link>
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		<title>The Rapport of Fantasy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Dear Persuader,
By now, if you’ve been reading my blog for a while or if you’ve taken a seminar, been involved in my coaching club or gone through one of my self study courses, you know that the basis for persuasion is the ability to build rapport and the basis for rapport building requires questioning your [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.maxpersuasion.com/the-rapport-of-fantasy/</link>
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		<title>Choosing Your Own Way</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Dear Persuader,
“Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms - to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances - to choose one's own way.”   - Victor Frankl
Every time I hear someone talk about “thinking outside the box” I chuckle.  Like any cliché or catchphrase, thinking [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.maxpersuasion.com/choosing-your-own-way/</link>
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		<title>To Be (Sneaky) or Not to Be (Sneaky)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Dear Persuader,
A student of mine once posted a comment about my use of the relationship between teacher and student in an example of presupposition. They suggested, with a wink and a smiley face, that maybe I was being a little sneaky in using the example in a persuasive way.
It’s kind of interesting in life how [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.maxpersuasion.com/be-sneaky-or-not-be-sneaky/</link>
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