Unconscious Persuasion Techniques

Advertising me?

Who would want to advertise me?

And how is advertising me full of hidden persuasion techniques?

If by "unconscious persuasion" you mean "bypass the critical mind", story works very well. It's a great technique to use to bypass buyer resistance.

Alex

Sorry Rezbi, you've lost me.

To everyone else...

Thanks for taking the time to go back and forth on this conversation. Some interesting thoughts are coming out here.

Splitting hairs aside, whatever we decide to label the process, I do believe in any one moment we can change our own perception of reality.

True enough, thoughts, suggestions, on the other extreme, mind control can be implanted into individuals minds fairly easily.

And some people they are admittedly much more prone than others to accept such signals or frequencies directly into their own brain chemistry.

Naturally, we all are attuned to accept some programming whether or not we realize what is going on. And some of this programming embedded into the mind can affect some people adversely a lot more than others.

Environmental conditioning too of course plays it's part. Local customs, history, culture, perception, can vary massively even across relatively short geographical boundaries.

But understand this, in any one moment if you're switched on and completely aware of yourself, tuned into a higher frequency if you will, you can at any one moment choose to switch off certain signals, block others or only allow limited amounts of information through which you believe in the long run will benefit your survival instinct.

As a few of you know, I was born 3rd generation into an American mind control cult operating here in the UK.

Until the point when I was 28 years old, I actually had no choice whatsoever to pick and choose what I perceived to be my own understanding of life. All thinking was done for me by what we 'apostates' call the Borg (the organization which you're not allowed to question upon pain of death - you can only begin to imagine how this went down with me).

The first 28 years of my life were extremely confusing. In the end driving me very close to the point of suicide. I left the organization because quite frankly I thought their teachings sucked - to put it just a tad very mildly.

In leaving, I lost everything familiar to me, my home, wife, son, business, mother, father, sister, extended family and about 600 'friends' I'd know since birth. Totally excommunicated they're now forbidden even from saying a greeting to me should they meet me in the street.

What I find amazing is people's susceptibility to accept such teachings and to act these out in life even though this goes against their total natural instinct.

People will often go to extraordinary lengths to protect themselves from 'perceived' harm. No matter how daft the implanted thought pattern or behavior model is to the rest of us.

Now 45, pushing 46, us cult mind deprogrammers, an activity I still partake in part time voluntarily (I'm on call 24 hours a day 365 days a year for the worst affected victims who may be very close to suicide throughout the UK) this past time will often push my mind to it's limits. It can be incredibly difficult at times to help an individual whose thinking flies completely in the face of conventional wisdom. Someone whose thinking model is based upon such powerfully embedded commands, received often since the day they were born.

Mind control is a subject which fascinates me (obviously). I've studied it in depth for years. Finding, identifying and undoing the negative effects of mind control so a person can experience total and complete freedom. Releasing the inner child who for so long has been virtually snuffed out of existence. It's a source of great joy to me and gives me a huge amount of satisfaction when a person finally starts seeing the light and is prepared to get out there and start living their life on their own terms.

Unconscious persuasion techniques are all around us constantly. Some of these can influence the mind in very negative ways. Not all though. Some silently embedded psychological commands can help release a person from the chain of bondage to which they've held on to for so long.

In copywriting, salesmanship-in-print we also can use these triggers for good or bad purposes. Which one we choose is up to us. Me? I prefer the former.

My ultimate goal in copywriting is to help other people. Help them to find working solutions to problems which they might be experiencing in life. Helping them to release themselves from a pattern of behavior which to date has been perhaps unknowingly biting them in the ass. Holding them back.

A clever use of words, a language twist, a riddle, or simply a straight out command to action can have remarkable effects on the person reading your sales copy.

In the self development niche, which niche from a copywriting perspective I'm most interested in pursuing, if used responsibly can be used to great effect to nudge an individual in a direction which ultimately will help transport them up to the next level of consciousness.

Conscious thought patterns are those ones we're aware of. We may 'see' words floating past our conscious mind in the the form of a thought pattern, which through choice, we can choose to either latch on to or ignore altogether knowing in advance based on environmental conditioning what the resultant effect will be.

Unconscious thought patterns though often try to play with our mind and we can be completely unaware of their existence. They can be used as a force for good or a force for evil purposes and much in between too. Sometimes almost impossible to label and define even under close examination.

Unconscious programming comes in all shapes and sizes not just written language. Music, symbols, color, mood programming and much more can be classed as unconscious programming. Most are completely unaware of it's existence which is why it can used as such a powerful weapon of communication.

Communication isn't always about building bridges. Sometimes, depending on the person discharging the unconscious programming they can wield their power to influence a susceptible person whether they like it or not.

Anyway, I better stop there because at this rate, I'll be sat here all night writing at top speed upon the subject.

I just hope one or two of you enjoyed these few extra words - it's a subject I'm certainly highly passionate about.

Please do feel welcome to continue with the discussion. I'm really enjoying reading and taking in some of the responses so far.

Warmest regards,


Mark Andrews

I spend a lot of energy in my sales letters and selling in general, with these two ideas in mind;

1) Everyone wants it. There is a huge line of eager buyers wanting this thing.
One of the best ads I've seen just shows a large crowd outside a store waiting to get in. The reader instantly wants whatever in inside that door..because everyone else wants it.

2) It's either rare, nearly impossible to get, or we are very selective of who we select to own this thing.


Those two driving ideas make us drool with lust, greed, and the throbbing passions of avarice.

We want what everyone else wants.
We want what we can't have.

Anyway, there is a lot more, but those two ideas sure make selling easier...and price far more irrelevant.