Charisma is the salesman's gift.except it's worse than that - you can train it.
from www.fastseduction.com:
echoing
mirroring
fluff talk
body language
yeah, it's all phrased in terms of 'getting laid' but as i've discovered through experimentation it works in any and all social situations, and with both sexes.
which is scary. i'm hosting a discussion forum about it at the next anarchist hui we're having here, because there's no small naivete within the anarchist movement when it comes to stuff like this.