Sneaky Persuasion: 4 Unconventional (and Slightly Badass) Ways to use Anchoring
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1. Anchoring States to Physical Objects:
People get attached emotionally to physical objects all the time. We do this often with objects that hold sentimental value. Imagine what it would be like if you could trigger these intense emotions in others and naturally, easily, and all the time.
Now imagine what it would be like if you could make your prospect attach strong emotions of pleasure and desire to your product?
With persuasion and covert hypnosis that’s what happens with anchoring physical objects.
It happens when you elicit a feeling and anchor it to a physical object, so that every time your subject becomes aware of the object they feel the emotion you elicited.
Here is a video where you will see Kim McFarland anchor strong emotions to sugar packets.
2. Like Me Hate Them
This one is easy and completely covert and very simple. Elicit a bad emotion anchor your competition in it. Elicit a good emotion place yourself or your product in it. Here’s a video of Tom Vizinni demonstrating this one:
3. Anchoring Amnesia
I believe this anchoring strategy is from Kenrick Cleveland’s off the market Dark Side of Persuasion course. The Dark Side was a controversial course where Kenrick teaches persuasion strategies that could cause serious harm to people. Kenrick also made purchasers sign an agreement that they would only use the Dark Strategies as self-defense only.
Anchoring amnesia is probably less practical of a skill unless you just want to just f*ck with people. Some find it humorous others find it cruel. This is the only one of the bad ass anchoring strategies I would advise against using. Read my Warning and Disclaimer before watching this video of Kendrick Cleveland displaying anchoring amnesia.
4. The Swish Pattern
The NLP swish pattern is a strategy of anchoring similar to the “Like me, Hate Them” strategy above. With the swish pattern you elicit a feeling of uncertainty in your subject and then elicit a feeling of absolute certainty. Next, you fire the anchor when you speak of something you want them to be certain of or uncertain of.
For example is sales, you could make your client uncertain about your competition or make them absolutely certain that your product is the best for them.
In the following video world famous mentalist, and my hero, Derren Brown uses this type of anchoring it to make a woman forget the color of her car.
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7 Responses to “Sneaky Persuasion: 4 Unconventional (and Slightly Badass) Ways to use Anchoring”
By KM on Feb 27, 2008 | Reply
thanks for sharing these videos with us.
now that i have learned something new today, i am gonna apply some of these tactics into my sales from now on…
By Bill on Feb 27, 2008 | Reply
Thanks Kay,
Out of curiosity, what type of sales are you in?
-Bill
By KM on Feb 29, 2008 | Reply
Kay is my son’s name, i am KM.
I sell systems to schools and government sectors, also targeting private companies.
one of the thing that i applied in my sales after reading your post would be to copy his or her action (mentioned in one of your post many weeks ago)!
looking forward to more of your entry..
By Matt on Mar 5, 2008 | Reply
Who is the trainer in video 2?
By Bill on Mar 5, 2008 | Reply
Hi Matt
that’s Tom Vizzini
By Jeff on Jun 1, 2008 | Reply
Hey Bill,
Thanks for the site. Really enjoy it. I purchased Kenrick Cleveland’s Persuasion Factor and have just started to digest the material. Wow…to get good at this, there is a steep learning curve…tons of stuff. Do you know where I can get anything else from him? I’m really interested in the Dark Side DVDs. I want to use quick change to help people stop smoking. I also believe people at the credit card company I work at are utilizing something in the call center, though I’m not sure b/c I don’t know what the strategies are.
Thanks,
Jeff
By Bill on Jun 2, 2008 | Reply
Hi Jeff,
Thanks for your comment. I am excited for you, once you learn these skills it is like seeing the matrix, and you can never go back.
As far as getting other products from Kenrick, I would contact is assistant and see if she was any ideas. As far as I know all his products, ESPECIALLY the Dark Side material is off the market for good. Word out on the street is that if you join his elite coaching program, which run upwards of $1,000 monthly you might have access to his top secret persuasion vault.
Take care good luck.
-Bill