Your influence is determined by how abundantly you place other people's interests first.
I started out as a television news anchor but I wasn't very good at it. I think I was too positive. I wanted to begin every newscast by saying, 'Good evening, in the news tonight...everything's great! Go to sleep. We'll let you know if anything important comes up.'
Your true value is determined by how much more you give in value than you take in payment.
Sometimes the most influential thing we can do is listen.
When it comes to influence, TRUST is often the missing piece.
Exposure plus 95 cents might buy you a decent cup of coffee. The key is to 'position' yourself in your market as the expert, the resource, the only person your prospect would ever even THINK of doing business with, or referring to others.