Give Your Elevator Speech a Lift!
By Lorraine Howell

You only get a single chance for making a quality initial impression. This really is certainly a fact in today’s swift-paced business environment where business and introductions are exchanged and quickly forgotten.

At a networking event if someone asks the initial “What do you do?” remember that 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 ability to increase your company’s success. It truly is well worth the time to create a persuasive sound bite ahead of time which addresses just what you do and exactly why the listener really should care.

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WOW Elevator Pitches
By Laurie-Ann Murabito

How would you like to create curiosity and generate the good impression on other people to carry on with a discussion? What if your words were able to get more curiosity? Customers? Referrals? How about hearing the words, ‘tell me more’.

Business networking events, sales calls, interviewing and interacting with new people can be tense. Stumbling through your elevator pitch can give off the wrong impression of you, your business or professional talents. You will need just a few tips to look and sound like a pro. You will have about 30 seconds to grab someone’s attention, and here’s how.

Simple: Create a statement that is certainly intriguing, practically mysterious… [Read more at NetworkingEventFinders(dot)com]

Star Gazers of Networking; Who They Are and How to Handle Them
by Emmy M. Vickers

Many entrepreneurs and specialists who go to business networking events tend to take pleasure in “working the room” to determine how many people they will connect with; the quantity of business cards they’ll accumulate in the shortest quantity of time. This could lead to the unintentional situation that I love to label “star gazing.”

Like an beginner astronomer looking at the night time sky for familiar star patterns, the “Star Gazer” in business networking terms is that person who’s half-heartedly engaged in a dialogue while looking at the event to see who else they would like to talk to before leaving the event. “Star gazers” do not recognize how rude and disrespectful this practice is. [Read more at NetworkingEventFinders(dot)com]