Posts from — July 2007

Assuming you’ve never heard of the 30 second elevator pitch before here’s a quick summary…

Imagine you’re in an elevator and you notice someone you want to make a connection with. The challenge is that you only have say, 30 seconds or so to fully describe your idea, skills, abilities, etc. (because that’s typically how long it’ll take before they reach the floor they are going to get off on).

Basically, the idea is that you’ve got to create as much of an impact on the person you’ve just met as possible so that they’ll want to re-connect with you.  Click to read the full post...

Sometimes you have an experience which just totally affirms that what you’re saying is true (in my case the speaking and training I do on teaching effective networking skills).

The other day certainly qualified as one of those times…

A while back I wrote an article entitled, Networking Made Easy. When I wrote it my reason for doing so was to inform others on ways to get the most from the art of networking – that is, creating win, win relationships.

From the time I wrote it the days turned to weeks, then a month or more passed…  Click to read the full post...