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Yes!

50 Scientifically Proven Ways to Be Persuasive

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Yes!

By: Noah J. Goldstein Ph.D. Ph.D., Steve J. Martin, Robert Cialdini Ph.D. Ph.D.
Narrated by: Blair Hardman
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Learn how small changes can make a big difference in your powers of persuasion with this New York Times bestselling introduction to fifty scientifically proven techniques for increasing your persuasive powers in business and life.

Every day we face the challenge of persuading others to do what we want. But what makes people say yes to our requests? Persuasion is not only an art, it is also a science, and researchers who study it have uncovered a series of hidden rules for moving people in your direction. Based on more than sixty years of research into the psychology of persuasion, Yes! reveals fifty simple but remarkably effective strategies that will make you much more persuasive at work and in your personal life, too.

Cowritten by the world’s most quoted expert on influence, Professor Robert Cialdini, Yes! presents dozens of surprising discoveries from the science of persuasion in short, enjoyable, and insightful chapters that you can apply immediately to become a more effective persuader.

Often counterintuitive, the findings presented in Yes! will steer you away from common pitfalls while empowering you with little known but proven wisdom.

Whether you are in advertising, marketing, management, on sales, or just curious about how to be more influential in everyday life, Yes! shows how making small, scientifically proven changes to your approach can have a dramatic effect on your persuasive powers.©2008 Noah J. Goldstein, Steve J. Martin, and Robert B. Cialdini; (P)2009 Simon & Schuster Advertising Career Success Communication & Social Skills Employment Marketing Marketing & Sales Personal Development Psychology Psychology & Mental Health Social Psychology & Interactions Career Business Inspiring

Critic reviews

"This easy-to-read summary of the social-psychological research on persuasion really does tell people how to get to 'yes.' Since we are all selling something, including ourselves, all the time, everyone can, and will be, reading this amazing book." -- Jeffrey Pfeffer, professor, Stanford Graduate School of Business, and author of What Were They Thinking? Unconventional Wisdom About Management
"Yes! is the single best introduction to and distillation of research and wisdom on how to change people's minds, including your own." -- Warren Bennis, Distinguished Professor of Business, University of Southern California, author of On Becoming a Leader and coauthor of Judgment: How Winning Leaders Make Great Calls
"Yes! is the Freakonomics of social psychology. This book changed my way of looking at the world. This thinking is the real deal. Don't miss out!" -- Daniel Finkelstein, Comment Editor, The Times (London)
"If you had a team of bright guys looking for research that you can actually use to improve your effectiveness, and they wrote it up for you with wit and style, putting it in nifty little reports of three to five pages, would that be useful? YES! This book is the trifecta: first-rate research, lively writing, and practical advice. Read it, enjoy it, use it." -- Dale Dauten, nationally syndicated King Features columnist and author of The Gifted Boss
"Meld[s] social psychology, pop culture and field research to demonstrate how the subtle addition, subtraction or substitution of a word, phrase, symbol or gesture can significantly influence consumer behavior....illustrate[s] the simple and surprising approaches that can hone a company's marketing strategies." -- Publishers Weekly
Practical Information • Scientific Backing • Clear Reading • Useful Techniques • Immediate Application • Concise Content

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The book is very well written and laid out. I actually bought it in hopes of picking up some useful sales tips as I start out on a new career path, nervously. The book obviously focuses its topic on Persuasion and not necessarily sales but again, it contains lots of good tips for dealing with many different types of situations.

Very useful tips

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Yes! is a very practical compilation of many persuasive ideas. Some I already knew, some not. The reason I like it is because each point was made succinctly & persuasively, for immediate & practical use, then they move on to the next point. All the information may not be new, but it's good to have it concisely in one place. The reading is clear; it's difficult to make such purely information content exciting, but they do a good enough job & the text includes lots of interesting examples. One suggestion: I'd prefer that the chapter titles were more concrete, less catchy. That way I could write down the point immediately for desktop reference.

Excellent, to-the-point persuasion techniques

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The title says it all. There are 50 good examples on how to be persuasive. Because it is broken into 50 ways, it is very easy to pick-up and read for short amounts of time. Finally, I like how their motives are not manipulative in nature (which a lot of sales/persuasion books are).

The title says it all

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Interesting psychological anecdotes, many of which have been featured in other books.
Fun, but don't take it as a persuasion manual. Authors repeatedly take a single experiment and extrapolate it to unrelated business advice without any evidence it would be effective in that situation.

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Being in sales, I found this book to be very helpful and provided real life examples of how to use these persuasive techniques, and I must say that most of them work quite well. I have read quite a few persuasive books, and this was up there with the best of them. You will be able to use these techniques almost immediately!!! I have already listened twice and taken notes so I can make these techniques habitual. Good Listen!!!

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