The manner in which we present ourselves has a great impact on how other people perceive and treat us. While you don’t want to be thought of as boastful or egotistical, you certainly can’t afford to shrink back into the shadows. It takes a great deal of courage and confidence to sell others on your dreams and talents. But a smart moves manager knows that in order to move forward in his career, he must begin by projecting an image that communicates confidence, competence and credibility. Here are 15 tips to help you.

1. Think highly of yourself and what you have to offer. Believing in your self is the first step in projecting a powerful professional image. It is essential to your success that your confidence comes through. Even if a situation doesn’t work out the way you planned, look for the lesson and use it to move to the next level.

2. Keep negative comments to yourself. Never badmouth a coworker, your boss or a former boss in public. You never know who’s listening. Further, it makes you look like untrustworthy.

3. Do an honest self-assessment. What areas of your personality, habits and work practices do you need to improve?

4. Be reliable and be on time. When all else fails all you have is your word. Let your word be your bond.

5. Project a positive attitude. How do you come across to others? What message are you sending through your behavior and body language? How do your bosses, employees and colleagues perceive you? Think positive, speak positive and be positive.

6. Be cordial to everyone you meet from the CEO to the secretary. Even if you’re having a bad day you must remember to be pleasant.

7. Be easy-going. People prefer to work with people who are flexible to work with and who don’t make a big deal out of every little annoyance. By being easy-going, you’ll come across to others as a team player and people will be naturally drawn to you.

8. Handle proprietary information with care. Be the type of person who others can come to when they need guidance or a silent sounding board.

9. Learn the technical skills and information required to carry out your job function successfully. Know how to do your job inside and out.

10. Be an interesting person. People like and respect people who are interesting. Broaden your horizons and make learning a lifelong commitment. Cultivate your talents. Take up a hobby.

11. Be an attentive listener. When people speak to you, try to focus your complete attention on what they are saying.

12. Know how to read people. Reading people is about understanding that people have two faces: The one they present publicly and the private one. Reading people is about seeing beyond the public face in order to discern their true message and intent.

13. Dress for success. Be sure to observe your organization’s dress code. Don’t just dress for your position, dress for the position you want. Make sure that your clothes convey the image that you’re trying to project.

14. Adopt a role model. One of my role models is Oprah Winfrey. Although I’ve never met her, I admire and respect her a great deal. And the constant message that I get from watching her is, “use your life responsibly.” I take this message to heart and use it as a catalyst to remind me that I am responsible for my life. Think about someone who you respect and admire and study his/her life. Adopt some of the principles that they live by and apply them to your life.

15. Be the consummate professional. In all that you do, put your best foot forward. Be professional in your attitude, attire, behavior and your verbal and written communication. Before sending out a memo or letter, check it and re-check it. Start and end all meetings on time. When attending company parties and events, watch your liquor consumption and behavior. Remember everything you say and do speaks volumes about your level of professionalism.

Copyright 2005 by Cassandra Mack

It’s very important as part of your plan for having successful aquarium to take note of the type of inhabitants, which one of them is fish. Never buy fish before finding out about its requirement first.

You really need to take your time to ask questions and be very observant when you are in aquarium store. There are lots of aquarium stores with unknowledgeable owners so you don’t base your decision on their advice alone make sure you take a look at the fish yourself. If the store has staffs you can make a friend with them they will possibly tell you more about the lifestyle of the fish you are intending to pick.
Though, we will be giving you some basic guidelines to consider when buying new fish.

The following points all need to be considered:

Is your tank at the right temperature?
Are your water conditions correct?
How big does it get? - It may be small now, but will your other fish be at risk when it grows?
Is it a territorial - or will it be happier in a group?
Can you supply the right food for it?

Remember that the key to successful fishkeeping is happy, stress-free fish, so don’t be tempted into buying an incompatible species jut because you think it’s attractive - you’ll regret it.

Sometimes it can be difficult to be patient, particularly if the dealer has a species of fish that you really want. But it’s important not to rush things. Don’t try to add too many fish to your tank at once - and always check that the fish are healthy.

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Is your business lagging behind?

Are you frustrated?

Cheer up.

Here are 10 electrifying website promotion tactics
to boost your profits:

1. Sell a few back end products that are not related
to your main product but are needed by all humans.
Every customer that buys from you is human.

2. Take on as many of your business’ chores as you
can handle; outsource what you can’t. Only you can
determine how your business is operated.

3. Try out new business opportunities. You could
combine them with your current business. It could
add an extra profit stream to your web site.

4. Create an alliance with 3 or 4 web sites. Include
each of your ads or banners on the other web sites.
You will all share targeted traffic from each other.

5. Create a free e-zine directory. You’ll attract a lot
of traffic from ezine publishers and people that want
to subscribe to the e-zines.

6. When you offer a freebie from your site, submit
it to free stuff sites. They provide target categories
which means targeted traffic.

7. Make your visitors curious about your product
by telling them they need to sign-up to get into a
password protected site to read the rest of the ad.

8. Remember the little things about your web pages
really count. Include the title of your site at the top
right corner, a description about of your site, etc.

9. When you ask someone to sign-up to receive a
freebie, don’t ask for really personal information.
This is a fast way to lose a potential prospect.

10. Remember newsgroups are still pretty popular.
You could post your ad in ones that allow it or you
can leave messages with your sig file include.

May these website promotion secrets help you to
make a lot of money and succeed.

Warmly,

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Pick a sales training buzzword and it may have touched you.
Maybe managers said you should go to a course to get your
inner feelings in tune with your Palm schedule in tune with
work-life balance, and everything in tune with your life
strategy. Life was great. For about a week.

Then, products changed or were recalled. Lawsuits
mounted. Customer expectations in today’s financial and
ethical marketplace demanded more of you and your
company. In too short a time, your corporate financials were
being restated while your 401K melted and your stock
portfolio slunk away, embarrassed by its original
exuberance. Half your department or division or the whole
company disappeared. Life was great once.

If you’re in sales or marketing, you know what you did every
day. That was the daily drill. You can’t do it any more. And,
you certainly can’t do it at a trade show.

Here are four ways to understand your own - and your
company’s - sales style at a trade show. Maybe you’re still
hot. Probably not.

THE GOOD OL’ BOY NETWORK …
This is the way it used to be and in some industries, it still
is. Women may have broken some of the glass in the
ceiling, minorities may be a tad more than token, and you
may believe age doesn’t matter. Wrong. It’s attitude,
networking and politics. It’s still who knows who.

If you’re in certain industries - usually the ones at the
beginning of the industrial food chain or international money
making - you may think your job is safe because of trust and
GOB networking. Yet, because of international tensions,
economic disasters, lousy mergers, and technology which
produces a 24-hour business day, those handshakes you
felt so comfortable with before, now may get you handcuffs
or a brush off.

TRADE SHOW - Don’t rest on laurels or assume the GOB
will protect you or guarantee your deals. Self preservation
may be more important, pricing may be more critical, and
the pecking order may have changed without making the
papers. What to do? Gather critical information before you
go to the show, don’t be naïve, and learn to open up your
networking channels.

THE RAINMAKER …
It was expected that the right connections (often from GOB),
basic product knowledge, a handle on financials and a
pleasing personality could get you business. Maybe you
were no more than the hunting dog who was well dressed
and played tennis or golf, so you could flush out business
and bring it back for someone else to close and control, but
you brought cache to the firm.

If you’re in the professional services firms - such as
accounting, banking and insurance, law, architecture, etc. -
this has been an accepted method for years. The
designated “Golden Boy” has been critical to these types of
businesses because advertising was not allowed or was
considered crass. The belief was that - work should speak
for itself, and the firm and client should like each other.

TRADE SHOW - This is still a critical aspect of marketing but
don’t expect to do more than nudge the timeline along. It is
time to meet with prospects for a second or third time,
understanding that your competitors will do the same. Time
to bring out your “big guns”, the partners and experts who
will handle the account if you score.

BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT …
Now get serious about business. Clients disappear.
Products lose dominance. Suppliers change. The smart
firms have individuals and departments, or outsource
experts, who work only for development of new business.

It’s a whole new ball game and you may be in a different
league without knowing it unless you’re smart about who
your markets really are, where they are, and your
understanding of trends – are you current or obsolete? This
is sophisticated analysis, not just friendly hand shaking.
Real-life market research. Serious looks at partners,
strategic alliances and allegiances. Cutting losses. Adding
specialists. Consider corporate intelligence to be the cutting
edge of staying in business this year, next year and more.

TRADE SHOW - The short intense time at a show is
absolutely the best way to find out what’s happening in your
industry. When you hear a new word three times, that’s a
trend. Learn all you can about it, its originators and its
potential for your firm. On the flip side, watch the intelligence
your firm gives in trying to entice prospects. Remember that
the more you give away at a trade show, the less you have to
discuss at deal time.

SALES PROFESSIONAL …
The full-time, on-time, my-time-is-money guy who has been
through all the courses yet has the innate sense of making
the sale and, best of all, securing the best deal to make the
client happy. Of course, the company is happy with the deal,
the margins and the prospect of continuing business.

Competitive, smart, dogged, technology intense and
friendly, this is the best person to ask for competitive
information. Yes, he knows his clients but his antennae’s up
and can tell you what’s going happen to clients in the next
year, the trends in the market niche and ways to save
business - better terms, time to buy or drop.

TRADE SHOW - There’s a tendency to send sales folks to
trade shows. Nice idea. Not necessarily right. Check your
answers to these points -

1) Is this a sales or a marketing show? Are you closing
deals or showing off products and services?

2) The sales oriented show is generally in the retail related
sectors. Examples - the shows are about toys, school
supplies, hardware, stationery, holiday decorations, etc.
Short term sales opportunities. Send your best deal closers
to these types of shows.

3) The marketing shows are generally in technology, harder
industries, those requiring a long-term sales process with
waltzing, tap-dancing, RFPs and more bureaucracy than the
retail segments. Depending on the size of the show, one
sales person to three or four marketing personnel is usually
adequate, but you must know the capabilities of your staff,
the expectations of the attendees, and your firm’s realistic
ROI on this particular show. Jeez, are you planning to
follow-up? What are the requirements of on-floor staff in that
process?

4) Remember that every show is different. And, the
difference between you and your competitor is the
sales-oriented preparation you make before the event.
Know your people, know your corporate style. Be prepared
each time.

Julia O’Connor - Speaker, Author, Consultant - writes
about practical aspects of trade shows. As president of
Trade Show Training, inc,, now celebrating its 11th
year, she works with companies in a variety of
industries to improve their bottom line and marketing
opportunities at trade shows.

Julia is an expert in the psychology of the trade show
environment and uses this expertise in sales training
and management seminars. Contact her at
804-355-7800 or check the site
http://www.TradeShowTraining.com

First and foremost before I begin my ranting it is worth mentioning that there are many very helpful and considerate people out there in the cyber wilderness who devote much of their time to providing open source and free scripts of all variations from PHP, CGI and Java to name but a few. They provide dedicated support, do not insist on payment, and spend much of their free time helping you avoid having to part with your hard earned cash to get free programs and scripts up and running on your websites.

Now, that having been said I have just spent an enlightening couple of days installing several PHP and CGI scripts, mainly because whilst I have some experience of installations, the only true way to become fast and efficient with all this geeky stuff is to install, de install and test a variety of applications and programs yourself.

After two days and over a hundred scripts I am left drained. Half of the scripts I just dumped immediately due to poor or non-existent documentation and bad layout of files. It amazes me that some quite intricate scripts are left high and dry without any installation documents at all. In other words, the author spent days programming and putting together complicated scripts, to fail miserably on poor or non existent documentation. Aside from this, some sites you visit in order to download this material insist on blitzing you with numerous pop ups – the end result of which is neither good for the person visiting the website or the website owner. Both part very quickly. Perhaps I am intolerant but any sign of boxes leaping up in the air and blind adverts and I am gone. I know I am not alone.

Add to this the frustration of taking the time to read through endless documents and CGI scripts on websites only to find that when you click on a link for more information or a download you find it is dead, the site under maintenance or what was advertised as free is not actually free. Either that or you go to the extreme of getting a script working only to find the writers advertisement popping up all over the place to the extent it warrants dumping the script. Yes I know you can remove it for a fee but why didn’t you tell me that before I installed it?

Even quite clear documentation often omits what is to the writer an obvious requirement but not something that he or she chooses to share with their hapless user – classic example might be forgetting to mention that an SQL database is needed. Hardly a minor omission.

At the height of one frustrating and particularly badly written install attempt I imagined myself as John Cleese with a garden gnome under my arm hunting for the writer. Anonymity on the internet does has its advantages in this case.

Now, I know you will be cynical and say that most of this is down to the fact that many script writers are hoping you will pay them to install their scripts for you, indeed many do offer installation services. This really is a bad way of advertising your services. There are plenty of people who will have trouble with the easiest installs and if you wrote clear and concise documentation which any user can see is genuinely comprehensive, you are more likely to secure customers as a result of failed installs.

During this laborious exercise we went through scripts of all kinds some of which include; online photo albums, content management systems, member login and authentication scripts, virtual postcards, email programs, hosting scripts, live helper, communication, e commerce, shopping carts, quiz and chat programs to name but a few. We also purchased 3 scripts. Only one of those free scripts was simple to install and marginally better than the free versions available. Paying money does not necessarily mean better service. In fact one photo album provider charging around $30 dollars per script provided bad install information and less than helpful advice, immediately deleting anything that mentioned install problems from his forum.

It has been an experience. If none of this has meant anything to you and you have no idea about scripting or installing scripts then consider yourself fortunate and leave it to the geeks if you are able.

For those of you that regularly dive into scripting for your websites – here is a useful tip that saved us no end of time and frustration. The minute you come up against bad scripting, bad documentation or difficult to install scripts – trash them, ditch them and move on. There are plenty of others. Leave the tricky badly written stuff to the real hardcore freaks.

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This article contains the excellent information about the Voice Over IP Protocol.

Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) technology is the wave of the future in terms of telephone communication via the Internet. VoIP has several advantages over circuit-switched technology used by local phone companies. Circuit-switched technology uses a ‘permanent’ connection between the caller and callee, which requires a huge amount of bandwidth for each call.

This type of technology can only carry certain types of calls, such as telephone to telephone. Also, the hardware circuit-switched networks need to run effectively are extremely expensive, mostly because voice and data services must be supported on different wires. Therefore, each service needs separate hardware to accommodate the voice and data types of traffic. Needless to say, your local phone company then passes the costs of building and maintaining a circuit-switched network to the you, the consumer. Unforturnately, this equals higher rates for your telephone services.

VoIP - How Does it Work?

VoIP technology is when phone calls travel networks using Internet Protocol (IP). What this means is that the calls are passed through the Internet or privately managed data networks that are using IP to send the calls from one location to the other. So whether the call is passed through the Internet or data networks, the voice stream is broken down into packets, compressed, and sent toward their final destination by several different routes.

This is where circuit-switch technology and IP technology differ, in that circuit-switched technology uses a ‘permanent’ connection for the entire phone call. Once the call reaches the callee, the voice stream packets are reassembled, decompressed, and switched back into a voice stream by several hardware and software elements, depending on the call’s final destination. The type of software and hardware needed to start and end a phone call is determined by where the call originated, such as a PC, phone, or an Integrated Access Device (IAD) and whether the call is going to be completed on a PC, telephone, or IAD.

ADVANTAGES OF VoIP

The following is a list of the numerous advantages for using VoIP:

· Voice and data can be sent over the same lines.

· 8 time the number of phone calls can be placed on those lines than in the circuit-switched environment.

· Quality of sound is excellent.

· Lower operating costs due to reduced hardware requirements and a more efficient network infrastructure.

· Lower cost structures enable lower rates than the traditional telephone companies.

· Use of different devices to talk to one another.

This article is submitted by Kashif Raza http://www.networkingtutorials.net

Let me ask you a question. What is the most important thing in running a business? Well, obviously selling. Right? Wrong! This is like stating that the most important thing in life, its purpose, is breathing.

Yes, you need to breath to survive, to live, but breathing is not the most important thing it is a prerequisite. Unless you have found a purpose in life you won’t reach your goals because you have none.

The most important thing in business is goals, a strategy and then comes selling.

Having said this, let us have a look at selling. What is selling anyway? Selling is the exchange of wealth. Selling is giving someone something she desires and receiving something you desire. Your customer, or client for this matter, must be willing to give you more in wealth back than you put in to produce your product or service.

Hey, why do you always talk about wealth instead of money? Because most of us do not realize anymore that money is a derivate for wealth. Money is just green pieces of paper with famous people printed on it. What makes money precious is that we, the society agreed to accept it to exchange wealth. It is a way to measure wealth. Nothing less and nothing more.

Listen, you put some sort of energy in developing or producing a service or product. That takes time and resources. The time you use for preparation you can not use to find food for example. If we had no money or hadn’t invented the exchange of goods, you might end up starving. What you actually do is you put some of your wealth away from the needs of the day and put it into something else, your product. Because we have money, and hopefully you have some as well, we can do that easily. If we are hungry, we just take some of the stored wealth we have - some bucks that is - and exchange it for our favorite burger or tacos. it is that simple. Money is stored wealth. And business is about gaining wealth not loosing it.

Selling is simply the exchange of wealth. I said it before but like to repeat it here just to emphasis it a little more.

Now, if business is about gaining wealth, how do we gain wealth by selling? We do so buy asking for more wealth to exchange the good than we had to put into producing it. The price - the amount of wealth we ask for - must be higher than the cost - the amount of wealth we put into building the good. The difference between price and cost is called the margin and is the measure for how much your wealth increases once you exchanged it for the asking price.

Only having a good of any kind doesn’t increase your wealth. If you have the worlds best ice maker and can not sell it at a price and frequency high enough to increase your wealth, all the effort(wealth) you put into producing it is literally “on ice”. Means the wealth you put in is virtually existent but you can not use it unless someone else is willing to buy.

I know this all sounds obvious and very common. But let me ensure you that common sense is not very common at all. Most people do not look at business as a wealth creating machine and at money as a wealth replacement. Money is not magic. Wealth is.

So you have your great product or service developed. How to find costumers? What are potential customers?

Potential customers are people with a perceived need for your product and service that is desirable enough for them to pay the price you ask for.

So forget the “millions of potential customers are waiting out on the net for you becoming affiliate 234,678 for “how to get rich scheme” number 1,233,412.

Get me right, i am not telling you these schemes are all scam. Some, maybe most, provide valuable information. What I say is that it is not sufficient to become source number 299,123 where potential clients can buy it.

Why? Because you do not add value. Even if you could increase the traffic to your web site tremendously - which rarely happens anyway -, you miss the most important factor in your calculation, focused visitors.

You might even get some of your visitors to buy. Do you want to base your business success on picking morsels? I doubt this to be a strategy for long term success.

Opt-in lists are even worse than traffic increase. Think about it, Increasing traffic means basically you get a higher visibility on search engines, which in turn means your chances for picking some more morsels rise. But, opt-in list advertisement doesn’t give you this visibility at all. You advertise basically to people that don’t even read your ads.

Why? Because most opt-in lists pay their subscribers - yes that’s right - to receive those mails. Most opt-in list subscribers have not interest in all in any of the products advertised. There desire is to get 4 cents for every email they click at. End of story.

It is like some newspaper would pay you to subscribe to it. If that would ever happen, I would subscribe to every newspaper i could get a grip on. And every issue would end up unread in my bin.

Bottom line is, unless you have something to offer that is desired by someone else and you can find a way to get in front of her with your offer constantly, you are not going to make a lasting business out of it.

You simply can not buy prospects. Though you can buy visibility. But visibility without a target in mind and a strategy to keep them coming over and over again, is still useless at best. At worse it costs you a lot of money you could use much better to sit down and develop a real working strategy on how to find the people that desire your product or service and how to keep them comming.

But let me finish with the good news. There is an abundance of people that have desire for almost any product you can think of. You only have to find a way to get in front of them. The Internet is a great place to achieve this, but it does not work as an instant money machine.

This article may published freely only in its whole including all appendices.

c 2005 by Norbert Haag

Online Business Coach

http://www.onlinebusinesscoach.com

Norbert Haag is a business consultant, entrepeneur and sought after speaker for more than 20 years. His company - Online Business Coach http://www.onlinebusinesscoach.com - provides information and services for online businesses, small business owners and freelancers.

You can reach Norbert at nhaag@onlinebusinesscoach.com.

The Leadership Challenge: The Most Trusted Source on Becoming a Better Leader by James M. Kouzes & Barry Z. Posner

How’s this for a long-range success formula? In 1987, two of the country’s premier leadership experts, James M. Kouzes and Barry Z. Posner, joined forces to produce what would become perhaps the most comprehensive field guide ever written for leaders. Later, in the 90s, the authors came together once again to update their original masterpiece by addressing issues they uncovered in research on ordinary people achieving “individual leadership standards of excellence.” Now, in the spirit of continuous improvement, they offer the third edition of their inspirational and practical handbook.

In this third edition of The Leadership Challenge, more than 50% of the content is new material added to a resoundingly inspiring message. This new edition has been substantially updated to reflect the challenges of shrinking work forces, rising cynicism and expanded telecommunications. It’s being heralded as a “personal coach in a book.” Drawing on interviews and a questionnaire survey of more than 3000 leaders, in addition to an expanded research base of 60,000 leaders, the authors capture the continuing interest in leadership as a critical aspect of human organizations.

In the third time around, Kouzes and Posner emphasize that the fundamentals of leadership have changed very little, if any, since the 1980s. In fact, the basics haven’t changed for centuries. The old axiom about “nothing’s new” is indeed very true. Leadership is not a fad. While the content of leadership has not changed, the context has—and in some cases, changed dramatically. Obviously, current leaders must adapt if they hope to succeed.

The authors identify five fundamental practices of exemplary leadership necessary for success in our rapidly changing business environment:

• challenge the status quo;
• inspire a shared vision;
• enable others to act;
• model the way forward by setting an example;

tap individuals’ inner drives by linking rewards and performance.

“What we have discovered, and rediscovered, is that leadership is not the private reserve of a few charismatic men and women,” write Kouzes, chairman emeritus of the Tom Peters Company, and Posner, dean of the Leavey School of Business at Santa Clara University. “People make extraordinary things happen by liberating the leader within everyone.” After explaining their concept and methodology, the authors detail the five essentials noted above in a pair of chapters apiece that bring clarity to their theories with case studies and recommended actions.

Think of The Leadership Challenge as a field guide to take along on your leadership journey. James M. Kouzes and Barry Z. Posner write, “We’ve designed it to describe what leaders do, explain the fundamental principles that support these leadership practices, provide actual case examples of real people who demonstrate each practice, and offer specific recommendations on what you can do to make these practices your own and to continue your development as a leader.” An appendix includes the authors’ Leadership Practices Inventory, a tool for assessing leadership behavior.

The Leadership Challenge is ultimately a quest of self-discovery that helps its readers better know themselves and improve their leadership skills in action.

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The Windows XP Security Center is not a well-known feature of the operating system. The security center was introduced as part of the Service Pack 2 release. Some people like it and some people don’t like it at all. If you don’t have the service pack 2 already installed, you need to do that now by updating your Windows XP. You can do this using the update feature of XP or simply go to the Microsoft website and search for SP2.

To access the Security Center, you go to the Start button, All Programs, Accessories, then System Tools. Click on the Security Center and it will bring up a window with the current system status. To view the Virus Protection recommendations, click the Recommendations button under this option. You will see the recommendations based on your current system.

You can get information on how antivirus programs work as well as information on different types of viruses by clicking on How Does Antivirus Software Protect My System help topic link in the Windows Security Center.

How to Disable Security Center Alerts

If you’re running Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2) Windows Security Center will tell you the status of your antivirus software, firewall, and automatic updates. The Security Center will alert you if your antivirus is out of date or turned off, firewall is turned off, or if Automatic Update is not turned on.

If you have received multiple alerts and would like to turn notifications off, you can disable the antivirus, firewall, or automatic update alerts.

Turning off these alerts could be dangerous because you won’t know if your system is vulnerable. But if you are an experienced user, then you most likely have a strategy and tactic for checking your system.

To turn off Security Center alerts

1. Click Start and then click Control Panel.

2. Double-click Security Center.

3. In the Security Center, under Resources, click Change the way Security Center alerts me.

4. In the Alert Settings dialog box, clear the Firewall, Automatic Updates, or Virus Protection check boxes, and then click OK.

The Windows XP Security Center can be a real advantage to some users and keep your system protected, but for others in gets in the way. You make the call.

Here is a link to the Microsoft site if you need more information– http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/sp2/default.mspx

This article is about verbal way of quick and efficient change of visual submodalities. Master it and you will get a powerful linguistic tool of influence.

The idea came from curiosity, motivation and dissatisfaction connected with predicates I was learning about - this was never enough, just to know the words which belonged to visual, audio or kinesthetic systems; themselves they gave no possibility to influence someone and were maybe useful for getting some rapport.

So once a group of us - which included apart from me Adam Debowski and one anynomous friend - gathered and spent quite some time to discover verbal phrases which profoundly influenced submodalities. It also lead us to discover a bit more of what Richard has been doing for years during his seminars (like for example: Hold that thought!).

It was all about finding common, popular, every-day language “street” phrases, which could then be used on clients without their conscious awereness. Hence, their mental process would be influenced and their behaviors changed - all these by unnoticable change of submodalities.
Add sensory acuity and SMEAC`s to it and I believe you`ll be able to achieve a lot with this.

I prepared a list of Visual submodalities and gave each of them a set of phrases you can use. Audio and kinesthetics will be presented some time later.

Bear in mind English is my second language - I`m sure there`s much more to dicover.

Dissociation - you know, I understand you, I went through this myself once. But later I looked at myself from the side and stopped. Do you see what you are doing? Just look at yourself. And what, does Bill (his name is Bill) like it? Just look at us - we`re sitting here and chatting, just think what it would be like if you yourself were in this situation.

Using your client`s name while talking to them is probably the most common conversational technique I use to dissociate them. Does Reader of this text see it?Smile

Association - wait, see this from your perspective - isn`t that different? Look through your eyes, now enter this picture and what it`s like, when you are in this situation? what do you think about it? Enjoy the moment and identify even more with it, when you see it with your own eyes.

Film - wow, when you are talking about this I feel it`s like a movie! All thoughts move, man, slow down! Or maybe accelerate! You need more movement in this, you see..

Come back! Reverse to the very beginning! And now move till the end. Step back a bit, it`s ok. And move on fast!

The above piece, starting with come is to me a masterpiece of therapeutic intervention - fast phobia cure. You can start with how you were in the cinema, you insert the above conversationally and without any conscious awereness phobia will be gone. We really enjoyed using this o phobics, since people are absolutely shocked that they don`t feel old fears anymore and don`t know how come!

Slide - when you think about this, you know what, wait for a second. I sometimes say to myself: stop, hold still, and pause for a while. As if you freeze it - steady vision.

When we did slide submodality, we were shocked to discover how Richards`s “hold that thought” works; he used it so many times and consciously poeple don`t know what it does to pictures and kinestethics.

Big - since when I came here, all the time my curiosity is growing. I want you to enlarge yours as well, see the great size of opportunities. Widden your vision and make it big, so that you see all. Widespread all of it. You know what it`s like when you have panoramic views and enlarge on them?

Small - Eeeeee, what kind of problems, they seem tiny to me. Make sure you don`t dwindle / drop away / decrease / wane / grow less / diminish / lessen / reduce / abate / lighten / relieve / extenuate / decrease / halve them. Don`t narrow them! Then everything gets smaller and shrinks. Yeah, big as sand grain.

Far - those ideas, yeah, away with them! Behind the horizon, far away from here. Move them further.. I know they seem to run away by themselves. It`s good to have them behind yourself. Then we`ll see what`s next.

Close - it`s all because these ideas are coming to you. Hear (ambuity with here) them? New options arise, you have them in front of you! Get them closer, these are good things. This is a great one, really. First focus well, then just the best one. Now!

Obviously, what has been already discovered, there`s a huge difference between this/these and that/those - important to be remembered and used effectively.

Shape - listen pal, why don`t you make a nice, panoramic movie. No, not this way, think about it a bit longer, widden your vision! Yeah, that`s a nice picture. Get round to it!

Basically we found panoramic and square pictures to be the most useful, so didn`t focus on other shapes.

Borders - all right put into a different frame - sure, bigger, why smaller? I know, I know, there are some limitations and borders which shouldn`t be crossed, but make sure you do it differently.

Important notice - panoramic pictures by nature are not bordered, so people can`t get “framed” or “limited” in any way - that`s why it`s crucial to suggest this to them.

Position - put it aside, why to have it in front of your eyes? Isn`t it better to have it behind? Move across this problem and see how you pretend you can notice it..

Last sentence is a good one - makes problem small enough they can cross over it, dissociates them when they see how they are pretending
they can notice it; when they try again to associate with it, it will be an attempt in vain.

3D - see the depth of the situation, yeah, look deeper. It`s profound, right? What do you see in it?

2D - see this picture, what`s there?

Now, in Polish you can say both “on” and “in” the picture - I guess “on the picture” is a mistake in English, but saying “on” automatically makes images flat and “in” gives them 3D.

Colors - no way, this is like black and white to me! No, it`s not colourful, but grey! How am I suppose to see it in warm colors? It`s so pale, all this.

Contrast - Tell me once more, I want to see it clearly. All seems so blurred. Almost invisible, shapeless. Just blank.

Bright- wait, brighten it to me, I want to see it in better light. Enlighten me! Make it serene / fair / lucid / plain / obvious / definite / bare / light.

Dark - it seems so dim / gloomy / sombre / somber / murky / deep / black / dull / shady / wan / muddy / burnt / brown / unenlightened / ignorant / unlettered / letterless / obscure / opaque / doubtful / abstruse / screwy / dubious / blur / problematic / dusky

Number of images - put these two aside, these are two different things. Let`s set the priorities which one goes first. Start with … then… and finally… Let`s deal with them seperately. You can`t combine them!

An now my version of torpedo therapy, not for the faint - hearted. Make sure you consciously follow submodalities change.

Pal, just f… it, how long can you go through the roof because of that? I don`t give a shit, come down, don`t live with your head in the clouds! This all spins and turns upside down and my pictures are inside out..

I used it once with a client with a “serious” problem and after a few sentences they just couldn`t come back to the old way of seeing things.

Enjoy and develop.

Mateusz Grzesiak, NLP Poland
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