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Give Your Elevator Speech a Lift!
By Lorraine Howell

We just get one opportunity for making a great initial impression. This is certainly accurate in today’s fast-paced business environment in which business and introductions are exchanged and quickly neglected.

At a networking event if someone asks the introductory “What do you do?” remember that that 15-20 seconds — or the length of time of an elevator trip – is all you will have to begin a conversation which has the potential to fuel your company’s development. It is worth your time to write a persuasive sound bite beforehand which explains just what you do and the reason why the listener really should care.

To get to the essence of a great elevator speech, answer these questions: [Read more at NetworkingEventFinders(dot)com]

WOW Elevator Pitches
By Laurie-Ann Murabito

So how would you like to generate attention and produce the good effect on others to carry on with a conversation? Imagine if your words had the ability to attract more interest? Clients? Recommendations? What about hearing the phrase, ‘tell me more’.

Business networking, sales calls, interviewing and interacting with new people may be tense. Stumbling through your elevator speech will give off the wrong impression of you, your business or career talents. You’ll need a few tricks to look and sound like a pro. You have about 30 seconds to take hold of someone’s attention, and here’s how.

Very simple: Create a statement which is intriguing, virtually mysterious… [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 usually take pleasure in “working the room” to determine the amount of individuals they will connect with; how many business cards they will acquire during the shortest amount of time. This tends to cause the unintentional condition that I love to refer to “star gazing.”

Like an inexperienced astronomer looking at the evening sky for identifiable star patterns, the “Star Gazer” in business networking terminology is that particular person that’s half-heartedly involved in a dialogue whilst looking at the room to find out who else they would like to talk to prior to leaving the event. “Star gazers” do not comprehend just how rude and disrespectful this practice actually is. [Read more at NetworkingEventFinders(dot)com]