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Quality Visuals on a Shoestring

Did you know 90% of the information transmitted to the brain is visual and this is processed 60,000 faster than text?

So it can’t have escaped your attention that visual content remains important in the world of social media and the continuing rapid growth of visual platforms such as Instagram, Pinterest, YouTube, TikTok and Snapchat. This phenomenon has been called The Visual Shift and this blog will give you links to some free resources to help you with your own Visual Shift.

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Persuasive Communication using NLP

I’m sure you’ve heard of Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP) but what is it and how can it help you in your business communication?

At a recent WiRE networking meeting we learned some very useful techniques from Claire McKeown, a professional Intervention Specialist, Clinical Hypnotherapist and Certified NLP Practitioner. She explained NLP is a very big subject but she gave us a very useful definition:

NLP is a way of influencing brain behaviour (Neuro) through the use of language (Linguistic) and other types of communication to enable us to recode the way our brain responds to stimuli (Programming) to enable us to create new and better behaviour.

In other words, NLP is way of building up rapport. What you say and how you say it affects other people, you can easily influence and persuade them by communicating with NLP in mind.

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