"Who Else Is Ready For the Persuasion Keys That Will Enable You to Unlock the Doors to Your Own Amazing Hidden Abilities and Multiply Your Wealth, Dating, Influence & Friendships for the Rest of Your Life?"

Give me just 12 hours of your attention in the Tao of Persuasion Home Study Course, and I will give you the secrets of persuasion that will make opportunity stick to you like flypaper and bring you more empowerment and choice in your business and social life than anything you ever learned at school. Guaranteed.

Friday, Nov 21 , 2008 , 1:16 AM

Dear Friend,

It's a great day here in Los Angeles. I'm not sure where you are right now, but you're probably reading this on a computer monitor somewhere. Perhaps you're reading this at home. Or maybe you're at work.

As you are sitting down and reading these characters on a screen, I invite you to take a mental break from what you were doing for the next five minutes or so. In front of the computer with your feet on the ground, feel free to take a nice deep breath and just allow yourself to relax and really pay attention, because I have something very important to tell you.

Something that may very well change your life.

First, I'd like to share a personal story with you.

Just last week, I was thinking about what my life was like before I knew anything about persuasion.

I was a medical student then -- about 25 years old. Life was alright. I was healthy and reasonably happy. Had some friends. Got lots of exercise. Lived in a beautiful part of the world with a mellow climate. The first few tiers of the Maslow pyramid of human needs -- food, shelter, clothing -- were just hunky-dory.

However, I'd never been the kind of person who was satisfied with just 'alright.' And there were at least two parts of my life that left something to be desired.

The first was social. 'Mediocre' is the first word that comes to mind when I think of my dating life at that time. 'Painful' is a close second.

Actually, to tell you the truth, my dating life hardly even existed before I found out about the art and science of persuasion.

It's not like there weren't eligible women around. Far from it. I was a student on the campus of a major university, and I was constantly surrounded by intelligent, beautiful, single women. Every day.

Unfortunately, even though I was around them, I did not know the first thing to do to bring them into my life in a romantic way. And even when I did make a little bit of progress, more often than not, I would screw things up sooner rather than later.

Have you ever had a similar experience? Do you know what I'm talking about? Having something so tantalizingly close, yet so far out of reach at the same time.

Let me give you an example. It was the first month of classes. I remember Debbie, the tall, athletic, brilliant, sweet and absolutely stunning classmate of mine who gladly accepted my invitation to go see a play.

After the play we were sitting in her car for a long time, just talking and enjoying each others' company. And, after a while of nothing else happening, things got awkward and we both went back home to our respective apartments.

That was my first and last date with Debbie. And then there were 3.9 more years of hanging around her knowing that I had blown my chance. Can you feel my pain? The women out there reading this can probably understand me, too. You don't have to be a guy to know what that kind of failure feels like.

Then there were Stephanie, Anna, and Danielle. All of them were seriously cute and very smart -- undergrads at my campus. Danielle in particular was a stunner -- blonde, curvy, 10,000 watt smile.

At some point, each one of them ended up at my place watching a movie with me. Curled up on the couch together after a nice dinner, glass of wine in hand, no one else around.

And you know what happened with them? NOTHING. And I mean absolutely nothing. Not even a simple make-out session.

Dating was the first area of pain. The second was my work.

As a med student -- the lowest organism in the medical hierarchy, somewhere above an amoeba but below a mollusk -- I was getting pushed around. My superiors were making ridiculous demands, and their treatment of me was piss-poor in spite of my working hard around the clock.

What was going on? Why did I spend all this time putting up with being frustrated?

In retrospect, the problem was clear. For starters, I didn't know how to ask for what I wanted. I felt disempowered and didn't stand up for myself.

The fact is that I had spent all of my life not really knowing how to ask for what I wanted. Most of us were raised to be polite, and to be overly considerate of the feelings of others. We weren't supposed to be pushy, or demanding. And nobody had really taught us anything about persuasion -- what my colleague Dave Lakhani calls "the art of getting what you want."

But then -- breakthrough.

Towards the end of my third year, a friend re-introduced me to the science of persuasion. And I thought, 'Hmm, now this is actually interesting.' This second time around, I actually paid attention.

I started to read all the hypnosis and NLP books I could get my hands on. I practiced with my buddy. I listened to tapes. I took classes. I got certified as an NLP Master Practitioner. And a Clinical Hypnotherapist.

It was about the same time that I started studying Eastern philosophy, particularly Taoism. I finally bought the book The Tao of Pooh. And then, The Te of Piglet. And the mother lode, the Tao Te Ching.

There were some interesting parallels between these two completely disparate fields of knowledge. Neurolinguistic programming (NLP) and persuasion on the one hand, and ancient Eastern wisdom on the other. But it shouldn't surprise you that effective systems often converge upon the same truths.

And that's when things started to really turn around

I bailed from a medical career because I had new tools to figure out what I wanted and how to get it -- versus just getting stuck in the inertia of default settings.

With the kind of backup you get from empowering tools like that, you can afford to take a gamble. I did, and I haven't looked back.

Oh yeah, and my dating life got better, too. A lot better. Suddenly, I had options. You know what the difference is between hoping for lightning to strike, versus knowing that you can go out there and make things happen for you?

And what can give you the ability to do this? In a word -- persuasion.

Perhaps some of these things have happened to you before, too...

What we're offering here is a solution -- to problems you know you've had, and to ones you didn't even know you could solve because you thought, hey, that's just the way things are. We're here to tell you that there is a better way. Maybe some of these scenarios will sound familiar to you. They do to me, because all of them have happened to me, sometimes on dozens of occasions:

• You see someone you'd like to meet at a gathering, but never get around to meeting that person. You wonder for months "What if..."

• You meet someone really interesting but don't get contact information and kick yourself for weeks afterwards for losing the opportunity

• You have a very enthusiastic first social or business meeting with someone, but when you follow up, the person is lukewarm to your approach and the whole thing fizzles, and you never figure out why

• You've got a great business proposal for someone and you just know it would be a perfect fit for both of you, but the proposal falls deaf on their ears.

• You are fully qualified for a job, and the company says they're very excited about your candidacy. But somehow the interview is flat, and they give the job to someone else, and you're not quite sure why.

• You are fully deserving of a raise, but don't have a clue about how to ask for it. You languish for months at the same old salary, hoping for lightning to strike and have the boss offer the raise to you first. Never happens.

• You are offered a raise, but don't think it's actually commensurate with your contributions. You don't ask for anything more, say "Thank you" and seethe inside for the rest of the year.

• Your relationship partner makes some demands on you that you don't find entirely palatable. You go along with them anyway and then feel trapped, eventually leading to your breaking up.

• You want something from your relationship partner -- could be financial, sexual, a request for more time, anything -- but are too afraid of being turned down to even bring it up. When you do bring it up, your request gets flatly rejected. You simmer in dissatisfaction.

• You've got a crazy, brilliant idea that needs backing, but nobody seems to listen. After a litany of rejections, you shelve it and go back to your humdrum existence, frustrated and disillusioned.

What all of these scenarios have in common is frustration -- of potential, of opportunity, of connection, of togetherness, of wealth and abundance. And frankly, I got tired of being frustrated. Perhaps you are, too.

Sure, sometimes opportunities still slip through the cracks -- that's just life. But a lot of great things that have happened in my life in the last ten years would have never happened without these skills.

I could have never turned a chance encounter on the street into a fulfilling long-term relationship without the right tools. Nor could I have landed a job with the world's #1 management consulting firm after going through 11 interviews. Or gotten one of the 12 spots at a super-selective Master's program at Cambridge.

Your success in this world occurs at the human interface. Whether in business or social life, you're constantly selling yourself or your ideas. Which is why I want to bring you a set of solutions to make you damn good at it. I call it The Tao of Persuasion.

The Tao of Persuasion -- What it is and what it isn't

The Tao of Persuasion is a course on how to get what you want out of life, socially or career-wise.

There are three big things about the Tao of Persuasion that distinguish it from other persuasion-related courses. The first is that it's empirically-based. That means it's about observing how the world works, and then using those principles towards achieving your goal. In a word, practical.

This is not about theory or fancy ideas that you will never use. This is about how things work on the ground. Every idea is tested and proven, over and over again.

You will never have to worry about whether a technique is effective or not, because we've already done that homework for you. It's as if Consumer Reports designed the course curriculum for you.

Which brings us to the second feature of the Tao of Persuasion course: usefulness, which is a close cousin of practicality.

Something is practical if it's proven to work. It's useful if it actually gets used.

For example, a gigantic, 60-pound toolbox may have a lot of cool wrenches and sockets in it, but how often are you going to lug that thing around, just in case something comes up?

On the other hand, my handy-dandy Victorinox Swiss Army Knife fits on my keychain and has gotten me out of hundreds of jams. I've even repaired my car with it. Incredibly useful, because it gets used.

A weeklong course in neurolinguistic programming will set you back a good 2500 bucks and 7 days of your life, and give you hundreds of snippets of technique -- some of which you may never use.

Why? Because there are too many of them. And they are out of context.

That's the 60-pound toolbox. I'm offering the Swiss Army Knife of persuasion, geared towards eminently practical application. It costs less, is more portable, and will have a bigger overall impact on your quality of life. Especially when it comes to dating and business.

The third distinguishing feature of the Tao of Persuasion is that it's integrity-centered.

Some people are wary of words like persuasion and think that it's just about being sneaky and underhanded. And to learn about it deliberately -- or worse, using its techniques -- is just a form of trickery.

Relax, everybody. Persuasion is merely a tool. In itself, it's neutral. Like a hammer, you can use it to build a beautiful cabinet -- or to smash in people's windows.

Here at the Tao of Persuasion, we prefer that you use persuasion towards ends that are win-win in the long term. Not just because it's the nice thing to do (frankly, the Tao Te Ching is not very big on niceness -- it's a lot more about getting stuff done), but because by natural and spiritual law, it's just more effective.

And we want you to be really, really effective. Because that's what empowerment is all about.

Time to Unlearn

Look -- if you're like me, then you spent most of your youth being taught how to be polite. Don't be pushy. Don't be demanding. Don't bother people.

Now we're all for basic etiquette. But please -- it's about time to banish all that wimpy, indecisive nonsense that passes for politeness and start to ask for what you truly deserve in life.

I don't know if you will always receive when you ask. But I'm pretty sure that if you don't ask for what you want in this life, you're pretty much guaranteed not to get it.

How much time you have spent on this Earth I do not know. But chances are that, whoever you are, you have not fulfilled your true potential yet.

Part of that can be blamed on not having grasped opportunities when they came your way. And maybe that opportunity passed you by because you didn't know how to get what you wanted.

That's because you either didn't ask for what you wanted, or asked for it in the wrong way. So you weren't able to get that plum work project. To get that raise. To get on that team. To get into that school. To get the date with that girl or guy. To get the best deal for that car. To close the sale.

Our mission: No more half-assed living

Frankly, I'm tired of seeing smart, talented, capable people like yourself living like this. I used to live like that, and it was no fun.

And my mission here at Elite Commmunications is to bring you the absolute best practical educational material anywhere in the world to empower you and help you live an even more fulfilling life. And to do it in the context of integrity so you can use it full-blast with all the force of your being.

What you have to realize is that, first and foremost, I am a teacher.

And these tools have been so amazingly transformative and empowering for me that I almost feel guilty hoarding them for so long. I really believe everybody should have a hold of them.

How the course works and what you'll get out of it

So I've designed The Tao of Persuasion teleseminar series to teach you persuasion in the way you would want it taught: a set of proven, practical tools that you can and will use -- and use with integrity.

The course is designed to be a general one on persuasion. However, we will draw upon a lot of examples from the social realm and business. In the meantime, you're welcome to use the tools for any outcome you choose.

These are the tools you can use to get the date. Have fun on the date. Have a second and third date, and have even more fun on those.

Ace the interview. Get the job. Get the raise on the job. Or raise money for your company. Close the sale. Multiply your closing rate severalfold.

Because what makes you feel like a million bucks is getting stuff done. That feeling of empowerment that comes when you get results.

So what I've done is that I've taken a lot of information that's out there, from psychology, neuroscience, Eastern wisdom, neurolinguistic programming, marketing, sales, copywriting, negotiation, linguistics, hypnosis, and my own experience.

I chewed on it for a decade or so, picked the best stuff, and put it in a practical format to deliver to you. The result is the Tao of Persuasion Home Study Course, which is a complete recording of the teleseminar series by the same name.

Course Structure

There are seven main modules in which we cover the basics of persuasion. Included are:

• Rapport. How to make a rapid connection with another person that will serve as a foundation of trust in your interactions.

• Presuppositions. How to discern and use the hidden part of language that persuades at the level of the unconscious.

• Vocal control. The quality of your voice is a big determinant of your persuasion power. Learn how to use it with maximal effectiveness.

• Values and Criteria. Learn about your own and others' unconscious motivators and how they fit in an overall paradigm of persuasion.

• Written persuasion. How to be convincing even when you're not there.

• Decision Strategies. These define the large-scale structure of persuasion which encompasses the other components.

• Synthesis. Develop your own persuasion toolkit using the above elements.

Each module is about 2 hours long. Each contains a 30-minute vocal training session by the renowned voice coach Bob Corff.

We conclude some of the modules with a 10-15 minute hypnotic integration session in which the day's lesson will be summarized and locked in. As a side benefit, you'll go on your merry way and feel relaxed, energized and just plain fantastic.

For each module, there will be required and recommended reading. You will also have some written exercises to do and occasional audios and videos to go over before a class session.

Each module is transcribed with a full transcript included along with the audio CDs. That way, you don't miss a thing we say, and you can review the material at your own pace, makes notes and highlight the parts you find most useful.

Most of the material will is taught by myself. If there was someone who could do a better job on a module, I brought him in. And if I brought him, you'd better believe he's awesome at what he does.

Here are some of the things you're going to get out of the course:

• The Be-Do-Have approach to persuasion. True success comes not from doing something, but from being someone. You'll know how to be the persuader and not just a reciter of techniques.

• You're most effective when you operate with your own values, not against them. Learn how to figure out what those values are and then leverage them for even greater success.

• My teacher used to say that within rapport, everything is possible; outside of it, nothing is possible. Get a thorough grounding in the art and science of rapport so you know you can establish it within seconds, every time. This part alone may be worth the entire tuition.

• The best way to sell someone on something is to be sold on it yourself first. Get hypnosis-based techniques for putting yourself in that frame of absolute, unstoppable certainty that can move mountains.

• Whether you want a phone number or a raise, there are good ways of asking for things -- and then there are better ways. Learn the ways to ask for what you want that give you the best chance of getting what you want .

• Most people don't know that they have a handful of unconscious mental programs that are running your life. This is one little-known technique that can absolutely supercharge both your persuasion power and your ability to get stuff done. I was amazed when I first learned this one, and you will be, too.

• You tend to get what you want a lot more frequently when you actually know what you want. Learn the proper techniques for establishing powerful outcomes that move you towards them relentlessly.

• Most people without persuasion training focus on the content of an exchange. You'll learn how to discern, think, talk and write in terms of process. This is the one distinction that separates the good persuaders from the truly great.

• The Tao is all about getting out your own way. How to make your persuasion maximally effective by working with your own values and integrity.

• The cornerstone of all persuasion is pacing and leading. This one technique alone will multiply your persuasion power severalfold, and you'll practice this so many times that it will become second nature to you like you're a natural-born hypnotist.

• The best way to handle objections is the Taoist way -- before they come up. How to do your homework such that the path to persuasion is clear and level.

• To succeed in persuasion, you must have an outcome. To reach the outcome, you must be detached from it. The tao of resolving this seeming paradox and supercharging your success -- in every area of life.

• The covert power of embedded commands and the science behind how they work. A potent but overlooked technique that you are going to master to astonishing effect.

• Written persuasion is both similar to and different from real-time, in-person persuasion. Learn the key points that work particularly well in a written context. This stuff is absolutely essential for job applications and is exactly what sends your online dating success through the roof.

• We all have overall strategies for making decisions. Learn the super-advanced, borderline sneaky method for deciphering a person's strategy and then feeding it back for maximum impact. Master this technique, and you'll be in the top 1% of all persuaders.

• No one technique works alone. Learn how to combine different techniques in the most effective manner so they pack a wallop that gets results.

• To get phenomenal results, you don't have to use every technique in the book. How to synthesize all of this knowledge and turn it into two or three protocols that become your own mini-Swiss Army knife of persuasion -- and get results that will almost seem like magic.

In addition to the 14 CDs, you'll get these bonuses:

• MP3 audio downloads of every module. That way, you can access the course from wherever you have internet access, without needing to carry around the CDs. You can also download the MP3s directly onto your MP3 player, without going through the hassle of converting the files. In fact, the course should be called the Tao of Persuasion Mobile Study Course. A $200 value.

• PDF transcripts of every module. I find transcripts very useful, since they allow you to review the material at your own pace, or to really dig in to one particular portion that you'd like to master. Transcription services are expensive, and it takes a lot of time, but it's well worth the effort. You'll get a binder with the full course transcript. A $300 value.

• A bonus of special interest for the men who are reading. If you don't have it already, your own copy of the ebook that started it all: The Tao of Dating: The Thinking Man's Guide to Dating Success. Also includes the bonus booklets The Tao of Social Networking and The Tao of Sexual Mastery. Priceless in my not-entirely-unbiased opinion and at least a $70 value.

• A series of autoresponder messages including tips, reminders and exercises to move you along in the course. A $70 value.

• Your own copy of Claude C. Hopkins' classic text, Scientific Advertising, in pdf format. This easy-to-read, slim volume contains timeless advice on the fundamentals of persuasion and is still used to this day. A $19.95 value.

• Downloads of two Tao of Dating Mindtracks: the Belief Supercharger, and the Courage Amplifier. These short hypnotic scripts can serve as the foundation of your self-persuasion and willingness to ask for what you want. A $39.90 value.

• A full download of the mp3 audio and transcript of the How to Work A Room Teleseminar of June 2007. A $97 value.

These bonuses alone add up to over $800 of solid value

"Yes, I'm ready to sign up now, Dr Alex!"

You'll also get these world-class instructors

I'll be conducting most of the seminar myself. However, I have been fortunate enough to meet some extraordinary people who are so much more knowledgeable than myself in areas complementary to what I teach that it only makes sense to bring them to teach you directly. They are:

Bob Corff (www.corffvoice.com)

Bob is one of the leading voice coaches in Hollywood today with over 20 years of teaching experience. As a teacher, he has trained business executives, doctors, lawyers, public speakers and many renowned actors, such as Sally Field, Halle Berry, Vanessa Redgrave, Faye Dunaway, Jennifer Aniston, Ted Danson, Antonio Banderas, Elijah Wood and many others. As a performer, Bob has sung and acted professionally on Broadway, television and film. Bob will lead half an hour of every module on discovering and strengthening your voice's true power so you can have the most attractive, effective, persuasive speaking voice you could possibly have.

Dave Lakhani

Dave Lakhani is the best selling author of Persuasion: The Art of Getting What You Want. He is widely considered one of the top experts in the nation on persuasion, influence, mind control and creating a cult following. His appearances in major media around the nation include magazines such as Inc., Fortune, Worth, Entrepreneur, Cosmopolitan, and Maxim as well as NBC's Today Show. Dave's unique background of being raised in a cult for more than 10 years was the impetus for him to begin studying persuasion, human influence, and mind control. His techniques are used by individuals and corporations alike. He is a regular guest on some of the largest stages in the world including Harv Eker's Master of Influence seminar, the World's Greatest Marketing Seminar, Jay Conrad Levinson & Chet Holmes' Guerrilla Meets Karate Master, Armand Morin's Big Seminar and many more.

Grant Adams

Grant is the author of the Net2Bed/Net2Wed manual of online dating, as well as many screenplays. He is a master of the art of written persuasion who achieves phenomenal results without ever having trained in NLP or hypnosis. In fact, an ABC reality series picked his profile out of millions of online profiles to be on their show. His approach is an excellent complement to the rest of the course. He will teach written persuasion through proven, real-life examples from his own writing. Grant has a Master's degree in English from Stanford University. He's very funny to boot, and it's my pleasure to have him as one of our guest instructors.

This is the education you wish you had gotten

Some of of the results you'll get from this course will feel like magic. Just knowing that in a situation in which you formerly may have felt frustration, fear or helplessness you can now enter with power and choice -- that to me is the magic.

Most important is that these are life skills that you are going to use for a long time to come. It's a real shame that this kind of information -- the kind of knowledge that makes you a more effective human being -- is effectively never taught in school.

But you don't have to go without this absolutely crucial information any longer. I don't care if you're 18 or 80 -- the first day of real school is coming up.

The other thing you can look forward to is that this is going to be a lot of fun. Look -- no one's forcing you to take this class. You're going to do it of your own volition, because you want to! And because the information is directly applicable to your life, right here, right now.

On top of that, this is some of the coolest stuff you can learn. Who wouldn't want to find out how peole tick? And I'm going to make sure the learning process is fun, because that's how I like to teach. That may be why I was the most frequently requested teaching assistant in the chemistry course I was teaching at Harvard.

Try Out The Tao of Persuasion Risk-Free

Now, you may wonder how much a course like this would cost. Well, last year I attended a business-oriented 8-module course that I invested about $1800 in. And it was worth every penny.

My own NLP training cost me over $2500, and I've heard of weekend courses that run about $1000.

If you recall, the Transformation Weekend was around $1500, not including travel and accommodations. My hourly consultation rate is $250, and you'll be getting at least 12 hours of my time.

Bob Corff's hourly rate is $150, and you're getting him for three hours plus, so that alone is worth $450.

Now a live event can be awesome and life-changing. At the same time, you have to travel, book accommodations, and set aside a weekend. The outlay of time and resources is significant.

But what if you could get equally life-changing information in a format that allows you to listen from wherever you are, without the need to travel anywhere or get a hotel room -- and to really internalize the material at your own pace?

That's what a home study course, attended from the comfort of your own home -- or your car, or anywhere else, for that matter -- and spread out over several weeks, can accomplish. And to make sure you actually use the material, we'll send you regular electronic reminders to listen to the material, do the drills and test out the techniques.

And I'm so convinced that you will absolutely love the material in this course that I'm offering a 365-day full money-back guarantee.

"Sign me up for the single payment plan, Dr Alex!"

or

"Sign me up for the 5-payment plan, Dr Alex!"

That means that you can keep the material for a year, and if you decide that it's not right for you, send us back the material for a full refund. And you can keep all the MP3s, transcripts, ebooks and Mindtracks that you downloaded. (It's not like we're going to come over and yank it out of your computer, you know?)

And who can put a price on what you'll get out of it?

Let me ask you this: What's the value of one date that goes a heck of a lot better than it used to? And of continuing to have those for the rest of your life?

It would almost be like putting a ratchet in your dating life such that it could never slide back to where it was before.

What if that one date turned out to be the love of your life? How much would you be willing to pay today to know you wouldn't lose her when she waltzed into your life?

I would have paid thousands for that kind of information. Actually, I did. But you don't have to.

What's the value of one business deal that goes exceptionally well because of your mastery of these skills? Of one round of funding for your company that you may have otherwise missed? Of one interview that gets you your dream job? Of one salary raise you negotiate successfully? The numbers are in the tens if not hundreds of thousands for that.

The true motivation behind this seminar

Guys and girls, I want to tell you something. I'm going to tell you why I'm creating this teleseminar.

I want you to KICK ASS. In every area of life.

And kicking ass sometimes means being able to capture that fleeting opportunity right as it's flying by you. And I want you to be like opportunity flypaper -- so you know you have the skills to capture that opportunity every time.

And because I want as many of you as possible to be able to access this course, I'm not going to price it at $1800.

It's not even going to be $1000, like one of the NLP weekend seminars.

It won't be $800, which is the likely tuition for the next teleseminar series.

It won't even be $600, like many one-day seminars.

Your investment for this course -- and I do mean investment, since when you use this material it will pay you gigantic, practically guaranteed dividends for the rest of your life -- is a mere $397.

"I'd like to register for my course now, Dr Alex": 1-pay plan

or

"I'd like to register for my course now, Dr Alex": 5-pay plan

About the same you would pay for a night class at your local university -- but a heck of a lot more useful.

Isn't it about time you did something for yourself for a change?

Just last week, I signed up for a night school course myself. It took me forever to decide, and in the end it was on the first night of classes, right before the first lesson, that I decided to just do it.

And you know what? I'm so glad I did. Finally I made time for myself, and took a class that I had always wanted to take, but somehow managed to postpone. But I had to pay an extra late fee because I took too long to decide! I could have bought 5 cases of beer with that instead. Good beer, too. Or ten pizzas.

People, I'm serious here. This is what I want you to do right now: I want you to close your eyes and think back to a time when you made a decent-sized purchase that you were really, really happy with afterwards. Maybe it was an iPod, or your current car. Whatever it was, it doesn't matter. Let's call it the 'great decision' feeling.

You've got that feeling? Great. Now, perhaps you can imagine that it's about 8 weeks from now, and you've just completed the Tao of Persuasion Home Study Course. That's the feeling I want you to have at the end of this course -- that iPod feeling of, 'Oh my god, that was SUCH a good investment.'

And six months down the road, after you've actually applied the material and gotten phenomenal results out of it, I want you to have even more of that 'great decision' feeling. And be able to look back on today as having been the beginning of it, and feel great about that decision all over again.

I certainly still carry that feeling from all of my persuasion trainings. And it's what's allowing me to have the pleasure of teaching you guys, which can make that 'great decision' feeling even stronger, now.

The feeling I don't want you to have is that of being left out. That gnawing sensation in the back of your head saying, "Well, damn, what could have happened if I had taken the time to take action and sign up?"

Remember, twenty years down the road, we're not going to regret the things we've done. We are going to regret the things we haven't done.

Look. If this course isn't what you're looking for right now, I totally understand. But if you've read this far, chances are you're interested, and some part of this course has tuned in to what you need. And because you really do want the ever- increasing empowerment and joy to be yours, you will find your own reasons to sign up.

Now I don't know exactly what those reasons are, but sometimes they just pop up in your head out of nowhere, having nothing to do with logic or rationality. Sometimes they show up in dreams. Sometimes a friend just happens to call you, or you hear something on the radio, and it just happens to resonate exactly with what you just read.

Or maybe, in a day or two, a situation arises that's about to go wrong in the same old way all over again, and you think, "That's it. I'm through. I am going to DO something about this." And you decide to sign up to get some new tools to deal with the situation.

Here's the link to sign up now:

Yes! I want to Enroll for The Tao of Persuasion Home Study Course for $397

or

For 1 payment of $47 + four payments of $89.97

Even if you're not 100% sure, that's okay. Because you have 30 days from the day you sign up to test drive the course -- up to 4 class sessions! And by then, if you don't feel like you've gotten your money's worth or more, you can always request a refund.

My 100% guarantee to you

I want the Tao of Persuasion to be as risk-free for you as possible -- 100% upside. And I believe in this product so much that I'm willing to make this guarantee to you:

For the record, I want you to know that the satisfaction rate for the Tao of Dating ebook is around 97% (well above the industry average), and that 100% of attendees expressed their satisfaction with the last two Transformation Weekend live seminars we held, the Transformation Weekends. And the satisfaction rate for those who signed up for the Tao of Persuasion Teleseminar Series live, which is the course you are considering right now, was 97.7%. That's why we can offer such a generous guarantee.

What the students themselves have to say

These are comments from students who completed the Tao of Persuasion Teleseminar Series:

"After reading your ebook and attending your seminar on the Art of Persuasion, I can honestly say that your material should be a required class in college. In fact, I learned more about life, people, and how to improve myself than I did at four years of college. You should give out honorary degrees to those of us who have "attended" your seminars.  It's amazing that I have gone through life without knowing about the wisdom you teach. Better late than never..."

-- Casey M., San Diego

"Hey Alex-

If I had to pick ONE THING to tell a friend about your course that was most valuable, I wouldn't mention any particular strategy or skill.  What impressed me most was the fact that so much of the information we covered was LEVERAGEABLE to other areas of my life...and in a BIG way. 

For example...I've consciously eliminated the BUT's, IF's, and TRY's from my vocabulary.  It's not easy to do...I'm working on it every day, and already I've seen improvement in my confidence and decisiveness. 

The whole "Standard American Melody" thing was another unexpected idea that I've applied to make positive changes. 

One other thing I've been doing thanks to your course (and it worked last week when I had an argument with my brother) is pacing people's objections instead of fighting them.  Pacing underlying beliefs is less adversarial and allows you to "buy time", so to speak, to continue to elicit and gain more information you can use to your advantage.  It's also very "Tao" and consistent with your whole philosophy.  So this is one simple idea from the course that has allowed me to increase my effectiveness and persuasive abilities.

Of course, backtracking and using people's representational systems works wonderfully.  It's much easier to connect and it's quite amazing to see their eyes light up when you backtrack, especially as compared to "traditional" rapport-building techniques (like looking for commonalities, asking questions, etc.)

The course has also made me realize just how many persuasive situations we're in all day, every day.  This is HUGE.  Being aware of the fact that there are so many opportunities out there each day to persuade and get what you want out of life has been empowering.

I've also gotten a ton of ideas from the Cialdini book which I'm also applying, like giving a reason why you'd want someone to do something by using the word BECAUSE.  It really works!

Hmmm...making the course even better would be difficult... 

Looking back it seems like it really flew by because there was alot of information that was covered in a short time.  Extending the course over 12 weeks would have given us all more time to integrate all of the strategies into our daily lives (and of course cover all the recommended readings!!)

Always grateful,"

-- Corey C., San Francisco

"Dear Dr Alex,

There are so many ways that the Tao of Persuasion Teleseminar has and continues to benefit me that it is difficult to encapsulate all of it without going into a lengthy life story. 

Although I am doing this course at my own pace and am really still doing the exercises and homework, this only makes it all the more amazing that I have experienced such a significant palpable change in my life merely by being in the process of applying the principles of the course, without having even yet completed the material. 

Just by making a decision to register for the course and listen to the classes at my own convenience, and by being in the mindset of the Tao of Persuasion in my personal, business, and social life I have succeeded beyond my expectations.  I know that things will only continue to improve exponentially with experience and with completing the wealth of material.

By the way, not only is there a wealth of material to delve into, but it is the kind of stuff that one can go over repeatedly and just get more out of each time.  I am thrilled about this invaluable investment and excited and looking forward to exploring all of the applications of the material.  It is so dynamic.  It is really impossible to put a price on this. The Tao of Persuasion touches on so much of the essence of being an effective human being in every sphere of human endeavor, that I honestly would recommend this course to anyone seeking greater fulfillment in life no matter what his/her purpose...

In the business arena, my appropriate application of the lesson about creating rapport and using the techniques we learned in the course helped me turn a producer's decision around 180 degrees and seriously consider taking me for a big performance for women in March... Before taking the Tao of Persuasion course, I would never have even called her once I heard that she decided not to take me for the event.  I would have just left it at that.  And now not only is she seriously considering me, but she also knows much more about me and what I am working on, etc. so that she can consider me for other events.  This was so positively empowering....thanks Dr. Alex."

-- Karen A., Tel Aviv, Israel

"This is my second ride with you, which I think is a compliment in and of itself.

I've really enjoyed the persuasion class and do look forward to putting the material into use. I'm very glad that the replays are available, lots of material covered, and my attention was usually a bit off by the end of the sessions (its was late here in the east). I found your approach to the material clear and organized, I've listened in on too many seminars and classes by others where there didn't seem to be much in the way of organization or planning.

I've heard most of the top level items you discussed previously, and found this class filled in both the hows and whys of the techniques.

Bob's material was great, I have his CD in the car player again. I look forward to your next venture."
-- Jordan L., New York

"Hi Dr. Alex,

I am very pleased with my investment in this course.  My sticking point has always been how to keep a conversation going with a woman I feel attracted to.

While I still have a lot of practicing to do, I'm finding that using the back-tracking technique to build rapport and then asking specific questions to elicit values gets rids of the basis for my anxiety, which is knowing what to say next in order to impress.  In the first place, back-tracking makes knowing what to say next fairly elementary, since it's just feeding back verbatim what she's already said.  In the second place, by focusing on eliciting her values and what she's all about at her core, I'm naturally putting myself in the position of the picky buyer, as you say in ToD, while also showing a genuine interest in her which she should find flattering...

I'm very glad I discovered you and ToD/ToP.  Many people talk about the need to have self-confidence when using techniques, but you explain exactly how
to achieve it.

Thanks, Dr. Alex!"

-- Michael M., Los Angeles

"Hi Dr. Alex,

Becuase of the Tao of Persuausion Course I have been able to use all of the methods I learned (for one example, verbatim backtracking in PARTICULAR) which I constantly placed in my own return emails (when responding to my potential clients) and have a 100% closing rate! I have used all of what I've learned in this class to close EVERYTHING IN SIGHT--including a very beautiful girl from New England who seems to be totally enchanted with everything I say, do and joke about....she's emailing me 5-6 times a day and we're going to hang out real soon. Since I met her only a week ago, for right now, I'm just being scarce and RARE. She's eating out of my hand, Dr. Alex...

My only criticisms of this course is that at times the "lecture mode" was going
by a bit too fast (hence I had to go back up and re-listen to some things but that's no biggie). The other comment is about the course being very sales like (and being a salesman all my life some of the course material presented was somewhat known about in some way or another in the "sales realm"). However, that said, I still learned a whole bunch of very informative and useful very different concepts (such as meta-programs, internal vs. external, towards and away, NLP, etc., etc., etc.) which shall remain with me for a lifetime! This can only get better with dedicated practice. Thank you SO much, Dr. Alex. I certainly hope that this has shed some light upon my enlightenment received from the "Tao of Persuasion" course.

All the best to you and yours!"

-- Dean F., Florida

"Thank you so much for your time and effort on the persuasion material!

In the last six weeks I have rediscovered how to interact with people in a way that was both easy and enjoyable, and I am now clearly on the road to achieving my true potential in the area of rapport.

I think one of the major gifts you have given me in this course is an understanding of how to create and retain great people skills. And as I am practicing I am definitely aware that I will grow and get better at the strategies you have installed and jump started.

More specifically speaking, I am very grateful for your tips on mirroring & matching, and simply asking the question "what is important to you about...?" Now I know that when in doubt I can jump to one of those two thoughts and instantly take any conversation to another level.

Thanks again for teaching one of the best classes I have ever taken, and do let me know when your next class is! I look forward to it and will consciously work on my skillset until next time. All the best!"

-- Kin C., San Francisco

Final thoughts

I've said this before, but it's worth repeating: I've attended a lot of seminars, and it's pretty safe to say I haven't left any of them 2 feet taller, or had women instantly swarm to me like bees to nectar as soon as I stepped outside, or had people throwing $100 bills at me. But if I learned just one thing that I implemented later, met one person who became a friend or helped me along the way, had one mental shift to see things from a new perspective, or heard just one word that set me on a path of greater enrichment, each one was worth it.

One more thing: this course isn't for everybody. Yes, I've done a lot of the hard work of picking the best information and presenting it to you in a package that you can digest and use. But you still have to do the work.

There will be homework. Some classes will go longer than 2 hours. It will be fun, and it will be intense, too. You will be challenged. And you're promising to invest yourself in the growth process for years to come.

Hey, I've got a reputation to maintain here, and I want good students. Are you one of them? If so, here's how you can register:

Click here for a single payment of $397

or

For 1 payment of $47 + four payments of $89.97

As I've said before, one of the most powerful concepts of the Tao is the power of now, and the only time anything happens is right now. Tomorrow never comes. In fact, if you're reading this now and thinking that certain aspects of your life could be better, it just may be because some day, way in the past, you wanted to do something and said, "Oh, I'll do that next time. Oh, that pretty girl will walk by again -- I'll say hi to her then. I'll take the next seminar that comes along. Yeah, I'll get around to taking care of this part of my life LATER."

And LATER never came.

When you postpone your own fulfillment, the only thing that happens for sure is that you get older. So if this is the course that's right for you, if this is the kick-start you need to get on with living an unprecendented life, then why don't you join us. I would be thrilled to have you, and we're going to have a lot of fun.

The power is within you, my friend,

Dr Alex Benzer

PS: I have spent over ten years researching and testing everything that is contained in this seminar. I have spent time with exceptionally good persuaders and modeled them. In addition to my NLP Master Practitioner training, I have read dozens of books and hundreds of articles on psychiatry, neuroscience, psychology, evolution, and Eastern wisdom. I attended thousands of dollars worth of seminars in hypnosis, NLP, marketing, and Eastern wisdom. I have brought together the BEST PRACTICES from all of these sources, applied rigorous testing to them -- and now present them to you with world class speakers to complement my material, in the form of The Tao of Persuasion Home Study Course. It's everything that I wish someone had taught me, and I've done all the effort bringing it together and done all the quality control so you don't have to worry about a thing. So come join us -- it's going to be a blast. Click here for a single payment of $397 or 1 payment of $47 + four payments of $89.97.

P.P.S.: The course comes with a 365-day money back guarantee. So if for some reason, partway through the course you think it's not right for you, just send us back the material and we'll be happy to offer you a refund.

P.P.P.S: Below are some of the course materials, including a full audio recording and download from the first module, "Self Persuasion and Rapport". They are some of the most powerful material from the entire course, and they are my gift to you for taking the time and attention to read this far. Many thanks, and enjoy!

AUDIO DOWNLOADS

To download any individual segment, right-click on the link and select 'Save target as...' (or 'Save link as...') in Firefox:

VOCAL VARIATION EXAMPLE: REV DR MICHAEL BECKWITH

Excerpt from speech, 23 July 2006 (36min; 12.5 Mb)

REPLAY OF OCT 11 PREVIEW CALL

mp3 download of Oct 11 Preview Teleseminar (85min; 11.4 Mb)

1. Introduction: What is persuasion, and course structure. Here we tackle the controversy around persuasion and tell you what to expect in the course (14min).

2. Rapport: What is it, what's it good for, how to get it, and two dynamite techniques for doing that (8min).

3. Presuppositions: The least known, most covert, and quite possibly most powerful part of persuasion. The technique to get that raise from your boss (6min).

4. Values and criteria: how to discover your audience's unconscious motivators and leverage them for persuasion (6min).

5. Decision strategies: how to sell to people exactly the way they buy. This is incredibly potent stuff. When I first learned this, it was the technique that seemed "almost like magic" (2min).

6. Synthesis: developing your own toolkit. I give you one of my super-effective personal strategies here, the "towards-and-away metaprogram with pseudo-orientation in time" (much easier than it sounds), 3min.

7. Voice control with Bob Corff: Bob talks about the importance and power of an effective voice and leads two exercises for you (16min)

8. Written persuasion: In his inimitable way, Grant Adams talks about contextualizing your story, using sensual language and speaking your audience's language (11min).

CALL 1 DOWNLOAD+ REPLAY, OCT 16: SELF-PERSUASION & RAPPORT

Track 1: Self-Persuasion

Track 2: Bob Corff voice lesson

Track 3: Rapport and Q&A session

 Module 1 Transcript