It’s time for Dirty Rhetoric

A hundred-thousand voices screaming into an electronic echo-chamber. Welcome to modern communications. Your idea must be heard, but how?

We’re not the first to face this test. Our communications ancestors competed in the (literally) screaming markets of the ancient world. They developed a fix for the problem. A simple and elegant and beautiful fix. Whether you are writing or persuading or presenting, it’s time to bring it back.

That fix was a simple system of word-structures designed to take your message and lift it clear it of the noise.

Your message needs to be the one that’s heard. Your message has to stand-out. In the words of the Roman genius Cicero, a message needs to have ‘brilliant lights’. Lights to capture the eyes and imagination of an audience. To win you must wow. The Ancients left us a full tool-kit to do just that.

We’ve developed a simple system to put that toolkit right back into your hands. That toolkit is Dirty Rhetoric.

Dirty Rhetoric is a selection of 53 rhetorical techniques designed to light up your message. As the name implies – we’ve designed it to be quick and dirty – no rhetoric classes required. Just pick-a-card and boost your message.

I hope I’ve piqued your interest. Today we launch Dirty Rhetoric on KickStarter. Go here to find more information on how Dirty Rhetoric can help your message.

We have an exciting schedule of communications activities planned to help us launch Dirty Rhetoric, ranging from webinars through to ‘Peter’s Podcasts’ –  highlighting the uses of rhetoric in topical politics and product launches and maybe even the occasional pop-song.

I’d be delighted if you would join us for the ride. It promises to be fun!

Let’s break-out of that echo-chamber. It’s time to be heard!

Rhetoric Made Easy – Bringing Back the Magic

2000 years ago our Greek and Roman presenter-ancestors left us an awesome inheritance — the formulae for magic. They left us scrolls and manuscripts full of magical word-spells. Spells that help us to bond with an audience. Spells that create indelible soundbites. Spells that let us influence an audience’s perceptions of scale and logic and argument. And those spells have always been there for the taking! We know them in today’s world as “rhetoric”.

The snag? 2000 years of dust, detours and occasionally deliberate destruction had turned rhetoric into a tangled mess of ancient names and obscure descriptions.

Someone needed to re-write the spell-book and that’s just what we set out to do.

Partnering with Gavin McMahon and his sensationally creative team at New York’s leading transformational change and communications agency, fassforward consulting group, we’re now close to liberating the long-lost power of words — for presenters big and small.

And today, we’d like to show you for the very first time what it is that we’ve come up with.

It’s quick, it’s dirty, and our pilot sessions are showing that presenters, from Jersey to Johannesburg, just love it!

Want to know what we’ve got? Just click this link!