Hi Andy welcome to the forum, For sure I would leverage your background in sales - many people dont have it as a strength and so if you are persuasive, then use it to your advantage in deal generation and negotiation.

If you want me to make a more extensive persuasive argument for investing in San Diego PM me.  

Typically, a recent arms length sale of properties that were advertised for sale publicly is deemed to be persuasive evidence of the property's actual market value.

Good comps are nearly irrefutable so if you have good comps and a decent lender to negotiate value using appraisers formulas for determining value you can almost always get the appraiser to come up or meet you near where "value," should be.This is where the science of appraisal meets the arts of persuasion. 

In my experience, option 3 is the least persuasive and in some cases can be disregarded.Contact me if you'd like to discuss in more detail.

My ad content is persuasive, as I'm generating plenty of leads.

They were very persuasive but in the end my gut feelings won out and luckily we did not purchase the $30k mentoring program!

I guess he thinks that his very persuasive podcasts don't constitute 'talking' to me. 

@Alicia MarksMake a PPT, take a persuasion class or read a book on communication/persuasion, and execute!

Finds some friends who may be more eloquent or persuasive and ask them for assistance when you make contact.