Give Your Elevator Speech a Lift!
By Lorraine Howell
You just have a single chance to make a great first impression. Which is particularly accurate in today’s swift-paced business environment where cards and introductions are exchanged and rapidly forgotten.
At a networking event if a person asks the opening “What do you do?” consider that 15-20 seconds — or the length of time of an elevator ride – is all you have to start a dialogue that has the ability to fuel your company’s success. It can be worth your time to create a compelling sound bite in advance which explains what you do and why the listener should care.
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WOW Elevator Pitches
By Laurie-Ann Murabito
How would you like to produce interest and make the good impression on others to carry on a dialogue? What if your own words had the ability to get more curiosity? Clientele? Referrals? How about hearing the words, ‘tell me more’.
Business networking events, sales calls, interviewing and getting together with new folks could be nerve-racking. Stumbling over your elevator speech can give off the incorrect impression of you, your business or professional talents. You need just a few tricks to appear and seem like a pro. You will have about 30 seconds to get someone’s attention, and here’s how.
Effortless: Develop a statement that’s intriguing, virtually 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 have a tendency to take pleasure in “working the room” to discover how many individuals they will meet; the number of business cards they are able to collect in the shortest amount of time. This can cause the unintentional condition that I like to refer to “star gazing.”
Like an amateur astronomer looking at the evening heavens for identifiable star patterns, the “Star Gazer” in business networking terms is that particular person who is half-heartedly involved in a conversation while scanning the place to determine who else they would like to talk to prior to leaving the event. “Star gazers” usually do not recognize how rude and disrespectful this conduct actually is. [Read more at NetworkingEventFinders(dot)com]
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