<ul><li>Never the naked city: Never give a one-word answer about your city.</li><li>Be a good word detective: listen more than talking.</li><li>Parroting: Repeat the last few words.</li><li>Encore: Request them to the repeat performance.(sing,dance,joke..)</li><li>Accentuate the positive: And eliminate the negative.</li><li>The latest news: Know what’s trending.</li><li>What do you do,NOT!: Instead ask, “how do you spend most of your time?”.</li></ul>

<ul><li>The Flooding Smile: Pause a second and smile.</li><li>Sticky Eyes: Notice eye color.</li><li>Epoxy Eyes: Keep looking at the person, even when someone else is talking.</li><li>Hang by your teeth: Pretend you are hanging by your teeth. Head up.</li><li>The big baby pivot: Show how much you like them. Undivided attention.</li><li>Hello old friend: See a new person as an old friend.</li><li>Limit the fidget: Keep your hands away from your face.</li></ul>

<ul><li>Hans horse sense: Keep a keen eye on how your listener is reacting.</li><li>Watch the scene before you make the scene: VISUALIZE yourself a Super Somebody.</li><li>Make a mood match: Copy their mood and postures.</li><li>Prosaic with passion: Tone is more important than words.</li><li>Always wear a “What’s It”: Wear or Carry something unusual (for attention).</li><li>Who is that?: Make your friend to introduce you to others.</li></ul>

<ul><li>Call a Spade a Spade: Don't hide behind euphemisms. </li><li>Trash the teasing: Never make a joke at anyone else's expense.</li><li>It’s the receivers ball: Deliver with the appropriate emotional emphasis.</li><li>The broken record: When someone questions on an unwelcome topic , repeat your original response.</li><li>Never the naked thank you: Say “thank you for…” (reason)</li><li>Scramble therapy: Participate in activities you’d never think of indulging in.</li><li>Baring Their Hot Button: Ask the hottest issues going on in their field.</li></ul>

<ul><li>The nutshell resume: Pack a nutshell about your own life.</li><li>Your personal thesaurus: Try out a few new words.</li><li>Kill the quick “me too”: Delay revealing your similarity, or let them discover it.</li><li>Comm-YOU-nication: Start every sentence with “you”.</li><li>The exclusive smile: Reserve an big, flooding smile for your important ones.</li><li>Use Jawsmith’s Jive: Make ’em rhyme, make ’em clever, make ’em funny, make ’em relevant.</li></ul>

"You'll not only break the ice, you'll melt it away with your new skills." -- Larry King "The lost art of verbal communication may be revitalized by Leil Lowndes." -- Harvey McKay, author of “How to Swim with the Sharks Without Being Eaten Alive” What is that magic quality makes some people instantly loved and respected? Everyone wants to be their friend (or, if single, their lover!) In business, they rise swiftly to the top of the corporate ladder. What is their "Midas touch?" What it boils down to is a more skillful way of dealing with people. The author has spent her career teaching people how to communicate for success. In her book How to Talk to Anyone (Contemporary Books, October 2003) Lowndes offers 92 easy and effective sure-fire success techniques-- she takes the reader from first meeting all the way up to sophisticated techniques used by the big winners in life. In this information-packed book you’ll find: 9 ways to make a dynamite first impression 14 ways to master small talk, "big talk," and body language 14 ways to walk and talk like a VIP or celebrity 6 ways to sound like an insider in any crowd 7 ways to establish deep subliminal rapport with anyone 9 ways to feed someone's ego (and know when NOT to!) 11 ways to make your phone a powerful communications tool 15 ways to work a party like a politician works a room 7 ways to talk with tigers and not get eaten alive In her trademark entertaining and straight-shooting style, Leil gives the techniques catchy names so you'll remember them when you really need them, including: "Rubberneck the Room," "Be a Copyclass," "Come Hither Hands," “Bare Their Hot Button,” “The Great Scorecard in the Sky," and "Play the Tombstone Game,” for big success in your social life, romance, and business. How to Talk to Anyone, which is an update of her popular book, Talking the Winner's Way (see the 5-star reviews of the latter) is based on solid research about techniques that work! By the way, don't confuse How to Talk to Anyone with one of Leil's previous books, How to Talk to Anybody About Anything. This one is completely different!

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"You'll not only break the ice, you'll melt it away with your new skills." -- Larry King "The lost art of verbal communication may be revitalized by Leil Lowndes." -- Harvey McKay, author of “How to Swim with the Sharks Without Being Eaten Alive” What is that magic quality makes some people instantly loved and respected? Everyone wants to be their friend (or, if single, their lover!) In business, they rise swiftly to the top of the corporate ladder. What is their "Midas touch?" What it boils down to is a more skillful way of dealing with people. The author has spent her career teaching people how to communicate for success. In her book How to Talk to Anyone (Contemporary Books, October 2003) Lowndes offers 92 easy and effective sure-fire success techniques-- she takes the reader from first meeting all the way up to sophisticated techniques used by the big winners in life. In this information-packed book you’ll find: <ul><li>9 ways to make a dynamite first impression</li> <li>14 ways to master small talk, "big talk," and body language</li> <li>14 ways to walk and talk like a VIP or celebrity</li> <li>6 ways to sound like an insider in any crowd</li> <li>7 ways to establish deep subliminal rapport with anyone</li> <li>9 ways to feed someone's ego (and know when NOT to!)</li> <li>11 ways to make your phone a powerful communications tool</li> <li>15 ways to work a party like a politician works a room</li> <li>7 ways to talk with tigers and not get eaten alive </li></ul> In her trademark entertaining and straight-shooting style, Leil gives the techniques catchy names so you'll remember them when you really need them, including: "Rubberneck the Room," "Be a Copyclass," "Come Hither Hands," “Bare Their Hot Button,” “The Great Scorecard in the Sky," and "Play the Tombstone Game,” for big success in your social life, romance, and business. How to Talk to Anyone, which is an update of her popular book, Talking the Winner's Way (see the 5-star reviews of the latter) is based on solid research about techniques that work! By the way, don't confuse How to Talk to Anyone with one of Leil's previous books, How to Talk to Anybody About Anything. This one is completely different!

Leil Lowndes is an author and internationally recognized communications expert who specializes in subconscious interactions. She has conducted hundreds of seminars in the US and around the world for major corporations, associations, and the general public, and frequently appears as a guest expert on national television shows and major news networks. She has authored ten bestselling books on communications — most recently, How to Talk to Anyone at Work: 72 Little Tricks for Big Success Communicating on the Job — and is published in over 26 foreign languages. She lives in New York City.