How to make people listen to you?

I don't have an answer for this but it is a great question and I'm curious to answers you may get. I run into this all the time. My daughter is famous for it. She interupts occassionally but mostly she is an expert at pretending she is listening but really her mind is a million miles away. I know because later she will insist that I never told her certain things. I have a friend that you can see it in his eyes that he is just waiting to jump in and talk. When he does, it almost always has absolutely nothing to do with the conversation.

I know, as a quiet person (in person) I hate being interrupted. It makes me feel less motivated to actually speak again or complete thoughts. Sometimes an interruption can make it so that I don't really remember what I was saying at all in the first place, and those are the worst. I don't think there's really a way to make other people better listeners. I think it's a personal thing, something that you have to want to do in order to be able to actually do it. As for being heard, some random tips I picked up from a book I read for a speech class suggested making sure that you're speaking loudly (in a tone that others can for sure hear, not one that is overbearing) and also make sure that the person is paying attention, at least some attention, before you start rambling away. It's impossible to get someone's attention by starting a tangent-filled story. You have to get their attention first, and then drag them through it.