As the Advertising Education Foundation points out, it's difficult to persuade people. With Americans being bombarded with 3,000 ads per day, up to 90 percent of new product ad launches fail. At the ...

Many of the letters you write in business are designed to influence the ideas or behaviors of others. Persuasive letters to sell something should have a unique formula, immediately grabbing a reader's ...

When you persuade someone in your writing, your aim is to get them to agree with your point of view. Watch this video where teacher Mr Smith explores persuasive writing and gives you some examples of ...

It has been suggested that approximately five exabytes (i.e. about 5,000,000,000 pickup truck beds full of information typed on paper) of data are created each day. What is tougher to decipher is how ...

Persuasion is one of the first skills that I didn’t realize I was honing as I entered the workforce after college. I can trace it back to one of my first jobs in the sales department of Neiman Marcus.

When you need to sell an idea at work or in a presentation, how do you do it? Five rhetorical devices can help — Aristotle identified them 2,000 years ago, and masters of persuasion still use them ...

How To Write Knockout Proposals: What You Need to Know (and Say) to Win Funding Every Time, by Joseph Barbato, is a collection of more than 50 tips for writers seeking to win money for charitable ...