The Art of Conversation: Magic Key to Personal and Social Popularity

Do you want to make new friends more easily, enrich relationships with your family and present friends, enjoy an exciting social life, advance more quickly in your career? If so, this book's for you because it will teach you the one, indispensable skill that is necessary to have all these things--the ability to hold engaging, productive conversation with anyone, under any circumstances.

Here are the "unwritten laws" of effective conversation--techniques that will work quickly to help you establish better relationships with everyone you come in contact with--compel them to enthusiastically seek your company and friendship, gain their respect, make them want to listen to YOUR ideas!

Shyness, saying the wrong, being at a loss for words, feeling strained or awkward when talking to some people--these and other problems will disappear almost magically as you follow the easy, 3-plateau program this book presents.

In the first plateau, you'll discover:
* how to "break the ice" and get a good conversation going, even with a total stranger.
* how to put infectious enthusiasm into your conversation
* ways to get people to "open up" with you
* reactions that will cause people to like you instantly
* how to get over common hangups such as shyness or nervousness.

In the second plateau you'll:
* develop your ability to handle the "give-and-take" so necessary for successful conversation.
* discover ways to automatically express your thoughts and ideas clearly.
* master the 5 steps for making sincere and creative listening pay off.

In the 3rd plateau you'll:
* develop all-important timing instincts.
* see how to awaken your senses to add sparkle to your conversation.
* discover how to build a reservoir of knowledge so that your conversation will never run dry.
* see how to interpret "feedback" to be sure that the conversation is moving smoothly and productively.
* and more

Discover how following the simple suggestions and rules found in this book can make you a truly outstanding conversationalist--and bring you popularity and success with people that you never thought possible!