Pundits would have you believe that you have to be an extremely sophisticated Practitioner to use NLP techniques in sales.
For one, just leveraging the Number One NLP Skill You Must Master will take you about 90% of the way — in fact, Richard Bandler has said so himself.
Other than that, the 80/20 rules mostly applies. 20% of your skills will produce 80% of the result.
Check out this post on applying NLP in sales. I think the author did a good job of pointing out some easy and highly effective skills you can leverage during the sales process.
Easy. Think easy and fast. There’s a lot of NLP showmanship going around. Doesn’t mean it’s the most effective.
There are also lots of “martial arts” movie that display spectacular and elegant moves. Those moves will lose in a street fight every time.
Think underground. Think simple. Think effective.
You can learn and master NLP fast.
it seems the link called “this post” just takes one to the Free NLP Guide. Not sure if that was your intent…
Mike
Hey Mike, thanks for the pointer. I’ve updated the link so it’ll send you to the post I intended to show you.