October 19, 2008

You are getting very sleepy...

Fellow speaker,

Certain phrases get directly in touch with the imaginative, emotional mind of your audience.  Use these phrases effectively to get across your speech's point:
  1. Make a list of your audience's needs and the benefits they will get from what you are talking about in your speech
  2. Put the list into chronological order that follow along with the audience's experiences (i.e., first comes the desire, then a frustration of that desire, and then a solution that overcomes the frustration)
  3. Restate this chronological list using hypnotic phrases such as, "Have you ever...?", "Think of a time when...", "Imagine what it would be like if...", "I bet that feels", etc.
Persuasively,

Tim