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Networking Hints and Tips

Posted on Friday, February 5, 2010 in Brandnew

Give Your Elevator Speech a Lift!
By Lorraine Howell

We just get a single opportunity to make an exceptional 1st impression. This is particularly accurate in the current quick-paced business society when business and introductions are exchanged and rapidly overlooked.

At a networking event whenever a person asks the preliminary “What do you do?” bear in mind that 15-20 seconds — or the length of time of an elevator ride – is all you might have to start a conversation that has the possibility to increase your company’s success. It can be worth the energy to craft a compelling sound bite ahead of time which explains precisely what you do and the reason why the listener ought to care.

To get to the essence of an fantastic elevator pitch, respond to these questions: [Read more at NetworkingEventFinders(dot)com]

WOW Elevator Pitches
By Laurie-Ann Murabito

How would you like to produce curiosity and make the favourable impression on other people to continue a conversation? Imagine your own words were able to attract more interest? Clients? Referrals? How about hearing the phrase, ‘tell me more’.

Business networking, sales calls, interviewing and meeting new individuals can be tense. Stumbling through your elevator speech gives off the wrong impression of you, your business or professional talents. Most people need just a few hints to look and seem like a pro. You have about 30 seconds to get someone’s interest, and here’s how.

Effortless: Come up with a statement that is certainly intriguing, practically 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 attend business networking tend to take pride in “working the room” to see how many people they will connect with; how many business cards they can gather in the shortest amount of time. This tends to cause the unintentional condition that I love to label “star gazing.”

Like an amateur astronomer looking at the evening heavens for identifiable star patterns, the “Star Gazer” in business networking terminology is that particular person who’s half-heartedly engaged in a discussion whilst looking at the room to see who else they would like to talk to before departing the event. “Star gazers” don’t comprehend just how rude and disrespectful this practice actually is. [Read more at NetworkingEventFinders(dot)com]

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