Networking Hints and Tips
Give Your Elevator Speech a Lift!
By Lorraine Howell
You only get a single opportunity for making a fantastic 1st impression. This really is certainly accurate in today’s swift-paced business world in which cards and introductions are exchanged and soon forgotten.
At a networking event when a person asks the introductory “What do you do?” bear in mind that 15-20 seconds — or the length of time of an elevator trip – is all you have to start a dialogue which has the possibility to fuel your company’s development. It’s well worth the energy to create a persuasive sound bite in advance which explains exactly what you do and exactly why the listener should care.
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WOW Elevator Pitches
By Laurie-Ann Murabito
So how would you like to get attention and make the good effect on other people to carry on a discussion? Imagine your own words were able to earn more attention? Clientele? Referrals? How about hearing the phrase, ‘tell me more’.
Business networking events, sales calls, interviewing and interacting with new folks might be stressful. Stumbling through your elevator speech can give off the wrong impression of you, your business or career talents. You need just a few tips to appear and seem professional. You’ve got about 30 seconds to take hold of someone’s curiosity, and here’s how.
Easy: Develop a statement that’s intriguing, almost mystical… [Read more at NetworkingEventFinders(dot)com]
Star Gazers of Networking; Who They Are and How to Handle Them
by Emmy M. Vickers
A lot of entrepreneurs and professionals who show up at networking events tend to take pleasure in “working the room” to see the number of people they are able to connect with; how many business cards they can collect in the shortest quantity of time. This could bring about the unintentional problem that I like to refer to “star gazing.”
Like an amateur astronomer scanning the evening heavens for identifiable star patterns, the “Star Gazer” in business networking terms is always that individual that’s half-heartedly engaged in the discussion whilst looking at the room to see who else they would like to talk to before departing the event. “Star gazers” do not comprehend how rude and disrespectful this habit is. [Read more at NetworkingEventFinders(dot)com]
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