How to meet the business partner of your dreams, according to Anthony Patterson |02 Jul 2012 < Return to news summary
BECOME A BETTER NETWORKER…
How to meet the business partner of your dreams according to Anthony Patterson
Be Prepared
- Develop and practice a shot way of summing it all up.
Learn to tune in to your opposite number
- Aim to interest people who you are and what you can do
Pay attention to names
- Use memory tricks to help make names stick
Beat the bashfulness, control the conversation!
- Keep it current, what was big in the news today?
Bailing out, but gracefully
- Learn how to slip out of the conversation, but be polite
Feal the fear but do it anyway
- Takes practice, the more you do the easier it will become
Competition versus co-operation
- Keep you eye on who’s in the room, potenial partners or competitors.
And what about the differences?
- Be brave, truthful, smart, funny and entertaining, avoid staying in a crowd of familiar faces. Leave with a way to connect again.. social media is the easiest!!
- http://www.facebook.com/SignARamaBurleighHeads
- http://www.linkedin.com/in/margiegardner
- https://twitter.com/margiegardner
Get out there: your three minutes start now!