How to Talk to Anyone: 92 Little Tricks for Big Success in Relationships, Edition 2

Leil Lowndes

Sept 2003 · McGraw Hill Professional

About this eBook

"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!

Ratings and reviews

Recently I separated for good, but the desision was based on so many things. I did not know this book would teach me that this is how I knew to beat him at his own game. Naturally just the way I was raised, experiences good/bad, and I tried something that I had to accept most of these techniques. In turn I put it all to empower my life. Overall, not everything is good and I still cannot believe he worked it as long as I allowed but many many times he would get very aggravated and react. Great book to help timid or just learning self-respect or each persons individual worth... it is certainly not late to walk each day with that great feeling and attitude and chance of meeting great people.

this book will NOT help you be more of conversationalist. it should be titled "92 workplace tricks to make something possibly happen as far as a conversation, but no guarantee" its all advice how to get something started if your not willing to improve your communication. and all related to a job or workplace (like where to sit in a meeting) 95% of these will not work without a workplace

I was very disappointed in this book. I thought it would offer helpful communication tips, instead it offers ways to copy people to make them think you're an "insider", whatever that is supposed to mean. The author seems only concerned about raising her status not helping people make thoughtful conversation. If you follow her tips, people may listen, but it won't take them long to see you have no idea what you're talking about and are only using buzz words to look like you fit in. The book focuses on how to be other people and frankly how to be a fraud by changing your lingo. The examples in the book made me cringe, if she actually said all the things she claimed, I can't believe people take her or her friends seriously. After asking a group of firefighters for directions she tells them "see you at the big one" Who talks like that if they aren't a firefighter? It's ridiculous! She thinks others are only concerned about being "big shots" or only being around "big winners" (A phrase used way to much in the book). Everyone she references is some big insider, or some very rich person (most aren't given names). Stick with How to Win Friends and Influence People or other books for business success.

About the author

Leil Lowndes is among today's most sought-after communication consultants and the author of the international bestsellers How to Make Anyone Fall in Love with You and How to Be a People Magnet.