A real Smile is one of the most effective means to capture the trust,attention,and rapport of an audience.It is an essential part selling when meeting people.It has added benefits as a stress reducer.This is true if speaking to an audience of one or one thousand.
You can reap these benefits if you know what a real smile is and learn how to create one.
In basic training,a salesman is taught to master smiling and have it end just as eye contact is made with the clientele.The reason is that it makes you look like a decent person.Additionally it puts the person being greeted at ease.
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Actually there are a total of 47 different individual facial expressions.The most commonly seen are smiling and winking.There is such a thing as a real smile.
Among the expressions,a less known but often observed are such expressions as the eyebrow wink.
As to smiling,it is even felt that babies have the ability to make this facial expression.This is based on 3-D scans of babies in the womb.It is interesting that most babies don?t have this ability after delivery until they are about 6 weeks old.Maybe it says something about how much pressure life puts on the new entrants into the human race.