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Write It Down!
Why would you want to write information on paper when you have a business card in hand? Putting it on paper can mean a number of things. It can simply mean putting notes on the back of someone's business card, or it can mean to take extensive notes in a notebook. Which ever method you choose, be certain that the notes can identify who it was that you were conversing with. Nothing is more embarrassing than talking to a person sometime in the future and finding out you are talking about something they know nothing about. If you remember some of the Leslie Nielsen movies, he starts talking with a business executive about a project he is starting. He mistakenly identifies this person as the one that hired him. As you can imagine, by the end of the skit, Leslie Nielsen is trying to hide and disappear until he can find the correct individual. Name recognition in this case was the difficulty. Here is another example: a buyer from a company walks in and says he wants to order the usual and then walks out. If you do not know who he is or cannot remember his name, that order may never be filled - total embarrassment for the sale person. The same can happen to you if you do not take the time to write it down on paper. Meticulous notes are not necessary, but if you want to remember, you must put in some key factors that will jog your memory in the future. Practice going back to the person at the same event and repeat their name and go back to one of the points they made. Also, a lot can be told from the prospects' business cards: are they original, colorful, on good stock, informative, tasteful? Now that you have all the information you want from the other person, you should make sure that they know about you. You have given your pitch, asked your questions, collected their card, made notes and are ready to take the next step. You need to have something that will catch their attention and make them remember you. Most often that something is your business card. Bette Daoust, Ph.D. has been networking with others since leaving high school years ago. Realizing that no one really cared about what she did in life unless she had someone to tell and excite. She decided to find the best ways to get people's attention, be creative in how she presented herself and products, getting people to know who she was, and being visible all the time. Her friends and colleagues have often dubbed her the "Networking Queen". Blueprint for Networking Success: 150 ways to promote yourself is the first in this series. Blueprint for Branding Yourself: Another 150 ways to promote yourself is planned for release in 2005. For more information visit http://BlueprintBooks.com/
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The Motley Fool SSi Canada Partners with SES Networks to Deliver New Satellite Capacity into Northern Canada Business Wire Why Ceragon Networks Stock Rocketed 54% Friday Motley Fool Networking giant Ubiquiti alerts customers of potential data breach BleepingComputer AirHop Communications Joins the Open Networking Foundation to Collaborate on 5G Near-Real-Time RAN Intelligent Controller Business Wire F5 Networks will buy Volterra cloud computing startup for $500M in latest major acquisition GeekWire 5G networks and the public cloud Light Reading Massive Growth of Edge Computing Market by Top Key Players – Nokia Networks (Finland), Huawei (China), Juniper Networks (US), Dell (US), Cisco Systems (US) KSU | The Sentinel Newspaper Software-Defined Perimeter (SDP) Market 2021 Demand, Trends and Forecast | Intel Corporation, Juniper Networks Inc., Palo Alto Networks Inc., CERTES NETWORKS INC., RSA Security LLC KSU | The Sentinel Newspaper Global Data Center Fabric Market 2021 | By Top Leading Vendors like Juniper, Extreme Networks, Cisco, Huawei, Arista Networks, Ibm, Avaya, Hp, Brocade, Dell, and More… KSU | The Sentinel Newspaper Juniper Networks and Türk Telekom Create Joint Innovation Path for Accelerated Open RAN Development and Deployment Business Wire Application Delivery Networks Adn Market Features of Investment Opportunities 2021-2026 , Top Keyplayers – , Array Networks, Hewlett-Packard (HP), Dell, Inc., Citrix Systems, Inc., etc. KSU | The Sentinel Newspaper Optical Transport Network Market has Huge Growth in Industry | Tejas Networks, Juniper Networks, Ciena, Fastech Telecommunications, etc KSU | The Sentinel Newspaper Promos start to reveal networks' 2021 inauguration branding NewscastStudio Juniper Networks and Türk Telekom establish Open RAN 5G partnership DataCentreNews Europe Maine's medical networks plan large-scale vaccination clinics Kennebec Journal & Morning Sentinel Brazil to allow Huawei into 5G networks Developing Telecoms A New Holographic Photostimulation Solution Technology Networks How to prioritize networks on Android TechRepublic The new social networks - Meltwater Bizcommunity.com How We Rise: How social networks impact economic mobility in Racine, WI, San Francisco, CA, and Washington, DC Brookings Institution 'Pivotal role' Open Networks Project plays in energy transition to continue through fifth year Current News Scripps Moving Multicast Networks onto Ion TV Stations TV Technology We Think Aviat Networks's (NASDAQ:AVNW) Statutory Profit Might Understate Its Earnings Potential Simply Wall St The World Social Forum and the advances of global citizens networks PRESSENZA – International News Agency Stakeholders Are Competing for Control of Radio Networks Walter Bradley Center for Natural and Artificial Intelligence LatticeX Summarises Guidance On Stablecoin & Cypto-Payment Networks The Taiwan Times Megacom continues expansion of LTE, 3G, GSM networks Telecompaper After Trump Ban, Serbian Politicians Migrate To Alternative Networks 'Until Something Better Happens' Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty 'An absolutely disgraceful moment': News anchors express shock at revolting turn at U.S. Capitol USA TODAY Expression Networks Enjoy Open: Gaultier Takes Crown - Professional Squash Association PSA World Tour Stocks To Watch: Bajaj Finance, Den Networks, HCL Tech, L&T Finance Holdings, PVR, SAIL BloombergQuint How to Network When There Are No Networking Events Harvard Business Review Hulu Live Is Adding These 14 Networks to Its Channel Lineup Clark.com - Clark Howard Remote Networking as a Person of Color Harvard Business Review China's Secret War for US Data Blew American Spies' Cover Foreign Policy As Understanding of Russian Hacking Grows, So Does Alarm The New York Times Five steps for networking during a pandemic Nature.com |
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