How to Talk to Anyone: 92 Little Tricks for Big Success in Relationships
- 4h 19m
- Leil Lowndes
- McGraw-Hill
- 2003
What is that magic quality makes some people instantly loved and respected? Everyone wants to be their friend (or, if single, their lover!) In business, they rise swiftly to the top of the corporate ladder. What is their "Midas touch?"
What it boils down to is a more skillful way of dealing with people.
The author has spent her career teaching people how to communicate for success. In her book How to Talk to Anyone (Contemporary Books, October 2003) Lowndes offers 92 easy and effective sure-fire success techniques-- she takes the reader from first meeting all the way up to sophisticated techniques used by the big winners in life. In this information-packed book you’ll find:
- 9 ways to make a dynamite first impression
- 14 ways to master small talk, "big talk," and body language
- 14 ways to walk and talk like a VIP or celebrity
- 6 ways to sound like an insider in any crowd
- 7 ways to establish deep subliminal rapport with anyone
- 9 ways to feed someone's ego (and know when NOT to!)
- 11 ways to make your phone a powerful communications tool
- 15 ways to work a party like a politician works a room
- 7 ways to talk with tigers and not get eaten alive
In her trademark entertaining and straight-shooting style, Leil gives the techniques catchy names so you'll remember them when you really need them, including: "Rubberneck the Room," "Be a Copyclass," "Come Hither Hands," “Bare Their Hot Button,” “The Great Scorecard in the Sky," and "Play the Tombstone Game,” for big success in your social life, romance, and business.
About the Author
Leil Lowndes' How to Talk to Anyone offers 101 time-tested hints, tips, and techniques for confidently communicating with others. A bestselling author and renowned communications consultant, Lowndes focuses on ice-breaking skills and communication techniques that are proven successful when making a positive first impression, establishing instant rapport and credibility, and more.
In this Book
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How to Talk to Anyone—92 Little Tricks for Big Success in Relationships
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Introduction—How to Get Anything You Want from Anybody (Well, at Least Have the Best Crack at It!)
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How to Make Your Smile Magically Different
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How to Strike Everyone as Intelligent and Insightful by Using Your Eyes
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How to Use Your Eyes to Make Someone Fall in Love with You
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How to Look Like a Big Winner Wherever You Go
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How to Win Their Heart by Responding to Their "Inner Infant"
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How to Make Someone Feel Like an Old Friend at Once
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How to Come Across as 100 Percent Credible to Everyone
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How to Read People Like You Have ESP
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How to Make Sure You Don't Miss a Single Beat
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How to Start Great Small Talk
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How to Sound Like You've Got a Super Personality (No Matter What You're Saying!)
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How to Make People Want to Start a Conversation with You
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How to Meet the People You Want to Meet
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How to Break into a Tight Crowd
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How to Make "Where Are You From?" Sound Exciting
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How to Come Out a Winner Every Time They Ask, "And What Do You Do?"
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How to Introduce People Like the Host(ess) with the Most(est)
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How to Resuscitate a Dying Conversation
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How to Enthrall 'Em with Your Choice of Topic—Them!
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How to Never Need to Wonder, "What Do I Say Next?"
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How to Get 'Em Happily Chatting (So You Can Slip Away if You Want To!)
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How to Come Across as a Positive Person
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How to Always Have Something Interesting to Say
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How to Find Out What They Do (Without Even Asking!)
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How to Know What to Say When They Ask, "What Do You Do?"
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How to Sound Even Smarter Than You Are
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How to Not Sound Anxious (Let Them Discover Your Similarity)
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How to Be a "You-Firstie" to Gain Their Respect and Affection
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How to Make Them Feel You "Don't Smile at Just Anybody"
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How to Avoid Sounding Like a Jerk
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How to Use Motivational Speakers' Techniques to Enhance Your Conversation
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How to Banter Like the Big Shots Do (Big Winners Tell It Like It Is)
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How to Avoid the World's Worst Conversational Habit
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How to Give Them the Bad News (and Have Them Like You All the More)
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How to Respond When You Don't Want to Answer (and Wish They'd Shut the Heck Up)
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How to Talk to a Celebrity
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How to Make Them Want to Thank You
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How to Be a Modern-Day Renaissance Man or Woman
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How to Sound Like You Know All About Their Job or Hobby
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How to Bare Their Hot Button (Elementary Doc-Talk)
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How to Secretly Learn About Their Lives
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How to Talk When You're in Other Countries
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How to Talk Them into Getting the "Insider's Price" (on Practically Anything You Buy)
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How to Make Them Feel You're of the Same "Class"
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How to Make Them Feel That You're Like "Family"
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How to Really Make It Clear to Them
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How to Make Them Feel You Empathize (Without Just Saying "Yep, Uh Huh, Yeah")
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How to Make Them Think You See/Hear/Feel It Just the Way They Do
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How to Make 'Em Think We (Instead of You vs. Me)
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How to Create a Friendly "Private Joke" with Them
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How to Compliment Someone (Without Sounding Like You're Brownnosing)
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How to Be a "Carrier Pigeon" of Good Feelings
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How to Make 'Em Feel Your Admiration "Just Slipped Out"
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How to Win Their Hearts by Being an "Undercover Complimenter"
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How to Make 'Em Never Forget You with a "Killer Compliment"
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How to Make 'Em Smile with "Itty-Bitty Boosters"
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How to Praise with Perfect Timing
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How to Make 'Em Want to Compliment You
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How to Make a Loved One Feel You Are THE Partner for Life
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How to Sound More Exciting on the Phone
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How to Sound Close (Even if You're Hundreds of Miles Away)
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How to Make 'Em Happy They Called You
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How to Sneak Past the Gatekeeper
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How to Get What You Want on the Phone from Big Shots
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How to Get What You Want—by Timing!
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How to Impress Everyone with Your Outgoing Voicemail Message
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How to Get Them to Call You Back
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How to Make the Gatekeeper Think You're Buddy-Buddy with the VIP
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How to Make Them Say You Have Super Sensitivity
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How to "Listen Between the Lines" on the Phone
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How to Avoid the Most Common Party Blooper
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How to Make an Unforgettable Entrance
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How to Meet the People YOU Want to Meet
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How to Subliminally Lure People to You at a Gathering
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How to Make 'Em Feel Like a Movie Star
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How to Amaze Them with What You Remember About Them
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How to Make the Sale with Your Eyeballs
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How to Win Their Affection by Overlooking Their Bloopers
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How to Win Their Heart When Their Tongue Is Faltering
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How to Let 'Em Know "What's In It" for Them
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How to Make Them Want to Do Favors for You
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How to Ask for Favors (and Get Them!)
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How to Know What Not to Say at Parties
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How to Know What Not to Say at Dinner
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How to Know What Not to Say in a Chance Meeting
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How to Prepare Them to Listen to You
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How to Turn Their Anger Around (in Three Sentences or Less)
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How to Make 'Em Like You (Even When You've Messed Up)
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How to Trap a Rat with Class
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How to Get Whatever You Want from Service Personnel
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How to Be a Leader in a Crowd, Not a Follower
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How to Make All the Right Moves
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Notes
