This is the first of a two part article.

Introduction

Wouldn’t you like to hypnotize people into purchasing your auction items?

Or what about if you could indirectly influence, sway and control people’s decision-making process, without them even realizing it?

That’s what NLP is all about. NLP stands for Neuro-Linguistic Programming, a form of hypnosis based on hidden, subliminally persuasive language patterns either spoken or written.

One famous example is Tony Robbins, a master in motivational success and personal growth training, talks using NLP naturally without him even thinking about it. If you listen to him talk in seminars, on television or cassette tapes, you can become quite inspired and NLP is at the heart of his courses and seminars. He uses NLP to help people change their lives by showing them how to use NLP for personal growth, life management, motivation, combat depression and much more.

There is nothing illegal or unethical about using NLP to sell your products, in fact it’s something many large companies do all the time. By using NLP, all you are doing, is simply presenting your products in the most convincing, compelling, and psychologically-effective, way possible. And, of course, that gives you an incredible advantage over your competitors on ebay.

Applying NLP in your auction titles

Using NLP in your auction titles can be a little difficult since you only have a small amount of space. However, it can still be done.

One way is to have an auction title that deals with a state of mind you want people to have. This technique is called Thought Binding. It simply means having your prospects recall what it’s like to be in the mood you want them to be in.

Thought Binding enables people to be much more receptive to any information about you and your products you want to throw at them because you’ve set up and bound the direction of their thinking and emotional processes. And the beauty of it is they will never catch it because they aren’t used to hearing or looking for it.

Let me give you an example. There are many sellers on ebay selling CD and software items that will supposedly make you X amount of dollars each month by reselling. Instead of having an auction title such as “My CD will make you RICH”, you could have a title like “Make ebay your career with my CD, 4K a month, I did”

Another way is to play on people’s curiosity. A title such as “Click here or my dog will die tonight” is meaningless yet I guarantee you will have a lot of people clicking on your ad which is the purpose of your auction title, to get people to click on your auction title and check out your offer.

Remember, your auction title is the doorway to your offer on ebay. It is the door people will choose to go through or not, based on your auction title. Creativity and ingenuity will help.

One Tip, if you run out of good ideas for your auction title, go flip some magazines and newspapers. Pay special attention to the classified ads, see which ones grab your eyeballs and model your auction title after it. You could do the same thing with television commercials or radio ads etc.

About The Author

Dan Lim is an avid ebay fanatic who has been quietly earning a comfortable living online. For more ebay selling secrets and strategies, visit bestnzb.com.

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So you have practiced your routine well. You know what to do, what to say and what to wear. There is nothing else you need to do or check prior to your on stage performance. Or is there?

Yes there is. Remember that you will be performing before a live audience. An audience needs to, besides see the best part of your act and your costume, hear what you have to say to captivate their attention.

It is a requirement that every performer who go on stage must not forget the essential three things in order to have a good if not a positively unforgettable performance: an appropriate costume, a case for where to put your props in, and - drum roll please - sound.

These three things are the essential must haves, besides the usual add-ons to up any show’s theatrical value. But you are on the safe side as long as these three basic requirements are heeded and paid utmost attention to.

Even if you have a totally amazing, mind blowing performance which you practiced day in and day out to make it perfect, if the audience you are performing to cannot hear a word you are saying and so cannot understand what it is that they are supposed to, it would be very difficult - on their part - to appreciate all the efforts you put in to have a good show.

Every performer who is to go in front of a live audience must have a microphone. Duuuh! Do not forget, it should not be just a microphone, it should be a microphone plus a working, if not excellent, sound equipment.

There are magic act performers who prefer, and find it best, to use a Shure clip on their microphones as well as an amazingly powerful yet extremely simple Fendor Can Amp.

But over all, it really does not matter what type, what brand, what kind of sound equipment you use. What does matter is that your equipment must be able to provide a clear, crisp sound throughout the venue and one that will make the audience hear you as well as laugh at, applaud at, and be in awe at the appropriate moment you would want them to.

However, there are those kinds of performers who cannot wholeheartedly as well as logically appreciate the value of having their own sound equipment. Most of the time, the audience suffer from this kind of technical negligence.

Some performers think that as long they speak loudly - and carry a big magic stick - everyone in the room would be able to hear them.

Or sometimes, they assume - wrongly most of the time - that the people who organized the event or the venue that they will be working or performing in will be the ones to provide the sound equipment they need.

The best way to go is to assume nothing and bring everything. Your very own sound equipment will definitely work best for you. You benefit more from being prepared and the audience will just as enjoy your company, your act, your performance and probably talk to you later on for other gigs. And all this will be possible because of your sheer foresight.

Someone once said that persons with microphones cannot and should not be trusted. This may be a correct and incorrect statement. It all depends on who is holding the mic.

Microphones, more often than not, provide speakers with the power to hold an audience captive. For anyone holding a microphone, and whoever is holding that one and only microphone in a crowded room - that person is definitely the only one whom people will be hearing all throughout.

Absolute ownership of the mic gives anyone absolute power as well as prestige. It also gives the impression that the one holding the mic is worth hearing, seeing, and listening to. Those are benefits that any performer could consider as - definitely - priceless.

The same concept applies to any music that a performer will be using for his or her act. If there is to be music on the show that you will be staging, do not forget to use equipment that looks professional as well as provide a service that is professional, if not brilliant.

About the author:

Preston Houer has been involved with the art of illusion and sleight of hand for over 30 years. Let Preston show you how to Have Fun With Magic. Visit His Site Today! http://www.have-fun-with-magic.com

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Hypnosis is a powerful tool that can be used to release ones full potential, especially when it comes to losing weight. If you have been on diet after diet and lost weight, only to put it on again, then you are well aware that it takes more than will power to successfully maintain weight loss. Even though you know how and what to eat and the importance of exercise, it can be difficult to lose weight. That is because losing and maintaining a healthy weight are much less about will power and much more about metabolism and psyche.

So often when people try to lose weight they verbalize a strong desire. Yet blame for failures is put on a lack of will power. Hypnosis targets an area of the mind that is often pushed to the background. By bringing about an awareness of what lies there, hypnosis can allow you to have the part of your mind that truly wants to lose weight and take center stage over the part of the mind that tells you eating that chocolate cake is what you want right now.

Part of what you have the ability to control with your mind is metabolism. Metabolism refers to how quickly your body uses its fuel sources (food) and how much will be stored. By increasing metabolism you can speed up weight loss and maintain it. Hypnosis has the ability to let you change your metabolism.

Hypnosis can teach you to use that part of the mind to create powerful and lasting changes in your life. Getting control over the physical body through willful and conscious action is what hypnosis is all about. It does it by using the information already there and making it the dominant thought instead of just stored facts.

Self driven methods of hypnosis are extremely effective in making lasting changes. You can train your metabolism through Weight Loss Self Hypnosis created by Clinical Hypnotherapist, Steve G. Jones. Visit http://www.betterlivingwithhypnosis.com/weightloss.html for more information.

About The Author

Steve G. Jones is a board certified Clinical Hypnotherapist. He is a member of the National Guild of Hypnotists, American Board of Hypnotherapy, president of the American Alliance of Hypnotists, on the board of directors of the Los Angeles chapter of the American Lung Association, and director of the California state registered Steve G. Jones School of Hypnotherapy.

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