If you've ever been in conversation with somebody, and you wanted them to do something, or feel something, or think something, then this article is for you. Here I'll show you some easy steps that you can take to easily and quickly influence others to your way of thinking. These ways are very powerful, and have been used by some of top salespeople, politicians and persuaders throughout human history.

Right off the bat, you need to develop rapport. Rapport is that feeling you get when you feel a deep connection with somebody. Like when you first meet this person, and you feel like you share a lot of things in common. Just be relaxed, be yourself, and look for similarities between you and the person you are trying to persuade.

Next, you want to start looking for criteria. These are things that are important to them. For example, when looking for an investment broker, it might be important to find one that has a quick response time for questions.

The more vague their criteria are, the easier it will be to leverage them. For example, if you are a car salesman, and all you have are blue cars, and they want a red one, this can be difficult.

Really great criteria are words like happiness, popularity, safety, personal fulfillment. These can be linked to any product or idea. When politicians say what's important to them, they will always use vague words like these, because they appeal to the most amount of people.

When you have a few vague words that are important to them, you are ready to go to work. Just convince them that by doing what you want them to do, they will fulfill all or part of their criteria.

This is best done indirectly, because if you use the direct approach you will sound too much like a salesperson.

Like say, if they want to feel relaxed, you can tell a story about a happy couple that bought a TV from you, and it fit great in their living room, and they share a lot of relaxation when watching their TV.

The more criteria words you get, the better. And the longer you spread out the conversation, the better. Just take your time, there's no rush.

You might start to elicit his or her criteria conversationally, and then talk about something completely different, then tell a story about how a previous client fulfilled their criteria through your product. Then talk about more things not related, and then slowly fill each criteria on by one.

This is pretty easy once you get the hang of it, and the more you practice, the better you'll get. By the time you finish talking to them, they'll be virtually on their knees begging to do what you want them to.

The only caveat is to be careful and make sure they won't do or buy anything that they will later regret. This will destroy your credibility, and bring some bad karma your way. When you do this with a win/win mindset, you will make a lot of people really happy.