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Surrounding Ourselves With Pink Bubbles: More Ways To Gain Rapport With The Affluent

“It is the pervading law of all things organic and inorganic,
Of all things physical and metaphysical,
Of all things human and all things super-human,
Of all true manifestations of the head,
Of the heart, of the soul,
That the life is recognizable in its expression,
That form ever follows function. This is the law.”

~Louis Sullivan     

Hi Persuader,

Architect Louis Sullivan understood that form follows function. The designer of the modern skyscraper was creating the modern cityscape, trying to accomplish something that had never been tried before.

What function are YOU trying to accomplish? Your goal is to persuade the affluent, to influence them such that they buy from you.

We can fall back to Sullivan’s credo and understand that we can design a form that will go along with whatever function we require.

With persuasion, you will find that you get very, very good results with building models that you’re going to use to affect other people.

We’ve talked about builiding models of rapport before. What’s the form of the model we build? The person, right? We’re building THEM, we step into THEM.

What is our objective? To BECOME them, so our model IS them.

Let’s get into some more wild models that will make your persuasion efforts work even more effectively with the affluent…

Like trying on someone else’s skin, these all can be explained quite simply as ways of asking your unconcsious mind to do something very powerful on your behalf.

It assumes and presupposes your ability to do it, and in fact your unconscious CAN do it. Your unconscious mind simply understands what you’re asking it to do, and then engages behavior for you to accomplish these things.

The next step is the model of stepping into someone, a.k.a. “the bubble”. It’s an interesting concept right out of metaphysical literature, and it’s very effective as it relates to rapport.

What you want to do is “encircle” someone (or a group of people) with a “bubble”.

The color of the bubble matters – I’m not quite sure why, but it does. So we’ll just take what works and use either a pink or gold bubble.

Step One: I step into you.

As I step, I throw a lasso around you, and now you’re encased in a bubble. Right when I step, I do this. As I step, I also enter the bubble.

In my mind, I throw this bubble that lands over the top of both of us. I’m in it, you’re in it – we’re both in the little bubble.

You might be thinking, “Well, Kenrick, this all sounds a little kooky.”

Believe me, there IS a point to all of this… The point is to link us energetically, to link what the two of us are doing.

There are all kinds of tests and tons of research showing that what you think about another person affects them. You can test this with kinesiology and you can prove that…

what you think about another person affects them drastically.

So if you’re inside them and you’ve surrounded yourself with this energetic linking, imagine what kind of effect it will have. It’s extremely powerful.

Believe it or not, there are some ways to add even MORE power to this model…

First of all, for designing this form, the function that we want to accomplish is rapport that leads to persuasion, influence.

We want to think warm colors, like pink and orange. Even green would work, if you wanted to use it, but really pink and orange are the best colors.

What we want to do is persuade them. We want them to go along with us. We simply imagine this bubble as being one of persuasive influence, a persuasion-flavored bubble if you will.

Imagine you and I are sitting in a room with maybe a dozen or so other people.

I surround us with persuasion, influence, the ability for you to want to follow me, because after all that’s how you feel. I programmed this into my head. This is what I decide is going to happen when I put this bubble around us.

Once the bubble is around us, what can I do with it? I can step out of it. I can just move outside the bubble, and leave the bubble around you.

Let’s say that I want to encircle many, like the whole room. I can drop the bubble over all of us, and then I can step out of it.

What will be the impact of doing that?

First of all, the bubble’s around you, all of you, thus I’m energetically linking all of you. When I step in, my influence takes over. My influence permeates because it’s MY bubble.

If I want, I step back out and leave you all in the bubble.

What’s the effect? I’m not really trying to influence you very much, except wanting to have a lot of rapport amongst all of us.

I step into the bubble… what happens? My influence takes over. It’s my bubble. I own it. It works for me.

Experiment with the bubble and please post to the forum your experiences. This will be an incredibly interesting exercise for you. You’ll gain an entirely new perspective on your persuasive ability toward the affluent.

Until next time,

Kenrick E. Cleveland

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Mark A - August 24, 2007

Mr. Rogers receives $20 million in just under 7 minutes

Here is the backgrounds as described by Perry Marshall:
“Background: 1969, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) was in danger of getting their funding cut in half by Nixon because of war costs.

So the CPB calls in Mr. Rogers to testify before the Senate.

Amazingly, as he starts talking you feel the same way I do: What alien from the NeverNeverLand Nursery just landed here?

As you listen you realize, this guy is for real. Disarmingly real.

He delivers an emotional 6-minute pitch. Watch the effect he has on John O. Pastore, notoriously gruff and impatient.

You never see marketing messages quite like this one, but boy, did it work.”

This is a true lesson in rapport!! Can someone dissect what Mr. R did in his presentation? I picked up a few things. And mind you, this was before Bandler et al. This is just pure persuasion talent.

Watch the video at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a41lJIhW7fA

I look forward to your comments!

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Gail - August 27, 2007

IMHO, the only way someone else’s negative thoughts about you can affect you is if you already have them yourself, about yourself, and/or about the other person.
if you love yourself, you are immune from their negative projections. they “bounce off” of you as it were, and “hit” them instead.
You are only “cursed” by others with the nasty things you mutter about yourself. Ever notice how people tend to say things to you that you are already saying to yourself? Perhaps you want to start something, like a new business or relationship. You are of “two minds” about it. You argue with yourself back and forth.
Then you approach a friend for support, telling them what you want to do.
Immediately, the friend begins to “shoot down” your idea, telling you everything that could go wrong and why it’s “no good”.
Just like you were doing within yourself.
When you are finally at peace about your idea, the naysayers will either change their tunes or just avoid you!
In Energy Medicine, Donna Eden, the author, offers a way to protect oneself from negative energies coming from others, by “zipping closed” the meridian that starts above the pubic bone and ends under the lower lip. And it works…but it doesn’t change your level of self-esteem and self-love. You have to work on that.
One of my spiritual teachers, Neville Goddard, wrote that-“…not even a sunburn can be given from without. the burning rays are contained within man’s consciousness. If they were not, then not all the concentrated rays of the universe could burn him, for man only receives that which is in his consciousness.”

Love ya, Kenrick!!!

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Kenrick E. Cleveland; Affluent Activator - August 31, 2007

[quote comment="109"]IMHO, the only way someone else’s negative thoughts about you can affect you is if you already have them yourself, about yourself, and/or about the other person.
if you love yourself, you are immune from their negative projections. they “bounce off” of you as it were, and “hit” them instead.
You are only “cursed” by others with the nasty things you mutter about yourself. Ever notice how people tend to say things to you that you are already saying to yourself? Perhaps you want to start something, like a new business or relationship. You are of “two minds” about it. You argue with yourself back and forth.
Then you approach a friend for support, telling them what you want to do.
Immediately, the friend begins to “shoot down” your idea, telling you everything that could go wrong and why it’s “no good”.
Just like you were doing within yourself.
When you are finally at peace about your idea, the naysayers will either change their tunes or just avoid you!
In Energy Medicine, Donna Eden, the author, offers a way to protect oneself from negative energies coming from others, by “zipping closed” the meridian that starts above the pubic bone and ends under the lower lip. And it works…but it doesn’t change your level of self-esteem and self-love. You have to work on that.
One of my spiritual teachers, Neville Goddard, wrote that-“…not even a sunburn can be given from without. the burning rays are contained within man’s consciousness. If they were not, then not all the concentrated rays of the universe could burn him, for man only receives that which is in his consciousness.”

Love ya, Kenrick!!![/quote]

Beautifully said, Gail. There is much wisdom in your comment.

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Jeff - September 12, 2007

I would like to address the Mr. Rogers You Tube video – I am a bit less technical as far as the usage of persuasion vocabulary. Although I am highly, highly analytical I try to keep things in common every day language because it allows me not to lose my audience or my own train of thought… I believe that Mr. Rogers demonstrates that very well –

First and foremost I want to thank Mark A for this wonderful suggestion to watch this You Tube video. If you have not watched it, do it right away, it is simple, powerful & brilliant.

This is my take on Fred Rogers –

Passion and knowing his desired outcome is what won his request.

Fred’s passion to help children in this video was so pure and clean that it was impossible to have any realistic objections. Although, I believe, he was quite prepared (resolved may be a better choice of words) to continue to struggle with the minimal budget. I think that, that mindset kept his request void any anger or potential disappointment about how the government chooses to dole out grants. He was all about his love for the betterment of children.

Fred also knew, based upon personal experience & evidence, that clearly, what he was doing was ALL positive & highly beneficial for children. It was so well internalized that when he was discussing his position with the Senator, it was not necessary to present a well orchestrated presentation – he was just there with his pure passion to make kids feel better about themselves. It was there like a beacon for all to experience.

In my own life when I have a passion that is well embedded within me, I have similar results.

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