Niall Cassidy's Blog

Stone Soup: How to Turn NO Into YES

In the Portuguese city of Almeirim, many restaurants serve a very special dish known as the stone soup. It's a soup that you can find stones inside. So why do the Portuguese have such a strange soup on their menu? There is actually a story behind it.

Contributor: Niall Cassidy
Published: Jun 03, 2014

A Robot that Everyone Likes Talking To

Just follow it! Just follow it! A simple formula that can transform you into someone that everyone likes to talk to.

Contributor: Niall Cassidy
Published: Apr 30, 2014

How to Become Someone that Everyone Likes Talking To

Just follow it! Just follow it! A simple formula that can transform you into someone that everyone likes to talk to.

Contributor: Niall Cassidy
Published: Apr 30, 2014

Motivating People with a Magic Symbol

Once upon a time, there was a factory where the workers just wouldn’t produce. Even though the company had already tried everything on the workers, they just remained lazy. But a business maestro found a surprise solution to fix it.

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Published: Apr 29, 2014

How to Rob a Bank with Simple Phone Calls

In the Guinness World Records book, there is a certain record known as the “biggest computer fraud.” Most peculiarly, even though the record holder did steal a substantial sum of money, it actually didn't involve any computer hacking at all.

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Published: Apr 09, 2014

Predict Market Turns with Contrarian Wisdom

People are almost always wrong when sentiment reaches extreme levels. Just before the tech bubble burst in the late nineties, a survey reported that an unprecedented level investments held in the stock market. How can you make use of this?

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Published: Mar 19, 2014

Magic Touch: Get People to like You Upon Contact

According to neuroscience studies, whenever we are in physcial contact with another person, our bodies release a female hormone called oxytocin, which is responsible for giving us a feeling of intimacy. How can you apply this idea in your everyday life?

Contributor: Niall Cassidy
Published: Mar 07, 2014

Write a Query Letter in Three Simple Steps

If you like writing and have been writing in your free time, then you’ll eventually come to the point that you want to submit your compositions to magazines or newspapers. Here are three steps that can help you to write query letters to editors easily.

Contributor: Niall Cassidy
Published: Feb 17, 2014

Three Steps to Write a Great Self-Help Article

Self-help articles are easy to write, practical to read, and able to relate your skills to the need of your prospects. However, since there are already so many junk articles flooding on the Internet, how can you make sure that yours would stand out?

Contributor: Niall Cassidy
Published: Feb 17, 2014

Mesmerize Your Audience Within One Minute

The most difficult thing in communication is to get people listening to you in the first place. Customers avoid street promoters like ghosts. Marketing emails get deleted before getting read. What can you do about that?

Contributor: Niall Cassidy
Published: Feb 12, 2014