Give Your Elevator Speech a Lift!
By Lorraine Howell
We just have a single chance to make an excellent first impression. This really is particularly a fact in the current fast-paced business community when cards and introductions are exchanged and shortly neglected.
At a business networking event when somebody asks the opening “What do you do?” consider that 15-20 seconds — or the length of an elevator trip – is all you have to begin a dialogue which has the ability to fuel your company’s success. It can be worth your effort to craft a persuasive sound bite beforehand which explains exactly what you do and the reason why the listener should care.
To get to essence of a fantastic elevator pitch, answer these questions: [Read more at NetworkingEventFinders(dot)com]
WOW Elevator Pitches
By Laurie-Ann Murabito
So how would you like to get attention and make the positive impact on others to carry on a conversation? Imagine if the words were able to attract more attention? Clients? Referrals? How about hearing the phrase, ‘tell me more’.
Business networking, sales calls, interviewing and meeting new people may be stressful. Stumbling through your elevator speech will give off the wrong impression of you, your business or career talents. You’ll need just a few hints to look and seem professional. You have about 30 seconds to get someone’s curiosity, and here’s how.
Very simple: Come up with a statement which is intriguing, very nearly mysterious… [Read more at NetworkingEventFinders(dot)com]
Star Gazers of Networking; Who They Are and How to Handle Them
by Emmy M. Vickers
Quite a few entrepreneurs and professionals who attend business networking are inclined to take pleasure in “working the room” to discover the number of individuals they will meet; how many business cards they will accumulate during the shortest amount of time. This may result in the unintentional problem that I love to refer to “star gazing.”
Like an amateur astronomer scanning the evening sky for familiar star patterns, the “Star Gazer” in business networking terms is always that individual who is half-heartedly engaged in a discussion whilst looking at the place to find out who else they would like to talk to before departing the event. “Star gazers” don’t realize how rude and disrespectful this habit is. [Read more at NetworkingEventFinders(dot)com]
