2 Quick Ways To Get The Best Out Of Your Consumer Goods
We go through our lives on automatic pilot most of the time until an event comes up that requires our attention. A change of residence, a car that needs fixing, a large unexpected bill, a new job etc. As soon as one of these things comes into our life we begin to really use what our brain was designed for, calculation and problem solving, we burst into action trying to find the best and quickest way to get the task done before we slump back into our automated ‘rut’ unconsciously waiting for the next event. I wonder how your life would be if you were able to – in the not busy times – better what you already have? How many of you actually ask to get a part of your life improved instead of just ‘letting things happen’?
Credit Cards. I hate these things and don’t own one, I can see how much debt some of my friends get into and that’s enough of a reason. For those of you that do, you can always get a better deal with your interest rate just by making a phone call, especially by making a phone call. Phone operators serve people, that’s their job, when a call comes across where they can actively solve a problem they feel better about themselves. Well that is inherent in all people really. You can take advantage of the operator’s ‘needs to help’.
Call your card company up and speak to customer service or even better, sales. Explain to them that you are trying to get out of debt and need to reduce your interest rate. If you are able to tell a story it will produce a mind picture and they will naturally be ‘on your wavelength’. Go to extremes, ask for something like 3% for 12 months, if the operator cannot simply do that they (especially sales) will show you a counter offer that they can do, maybe 6 or 8%, even that would be better that what you have now right?
“Hi, I’ve fallen into debt over the last few months and now am trying to work my way out of it. I was hoping that you would be able to help me. I wanted to reduce my credit card interest to 0% for 12 months so I can get everything repaid”
Purchasing. This is easy, especially with a sales person over the phone. Explain your story, give them a mind picture of the situation, once they have it they will be compelled to get you the item you want for the best price. It’s almost like hypnotism. Just don’t make it sound pathetic like “my TV broke and I don’t have enough money to pay retail for a new one”, what that does is give you the lower ground, the sales person will then have more control over the conversation and therefore think that they can get a good sale out of you! That’s definitely what we don’t want. Show that you are a responsible person who deserves what you will be asking for, think it, visualise it!
“Hi I’m after a new laptop for a graphic design course I’ll be enrolling in next year. It has to be high end, but as I’ll be a student I’ll be living on beans on toast [humour lifts the positivity]. What can you do for me?”
The sales person will most probably offer a repayment plan with interest. Like with credit cards interest is easy to get a good deal on, without nagging, keep giving the sales person a mind picture. Their problem solving abilities will work hard to get what is best for you.
Story telling is the key here, if you can get someone to use their imagination in your favour you will have complete control. Do you know a good story teller? Have you noticed how closely everyone listens when they speak? Even if it’s something that doesn’t concern you. When they speak it stimulates your imagination and paints an amazing picture in your head. That’s the power of the human mind.