Personal Branding Tip 074 · Relationships
Plan Your First Two Minutes
Before your next meeting with a stranger, plan the first two minutes: how you greet them, what you ask and what you remember about them.
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Why It Works
Rapport begins growing or being destroyed the moment a stranger comes in contact with you.
Where It Comes From
- Source
- Personal Branding: A Manifesto on Fame and Influence, subchapter 1.8, Hierarchy of Personal Branding
- Category
- Relationships: The people who know you, and the people they know.
- In the Series
- Tip 74 of 365. One tip leads each day, in order, and the cycle begins again after the last.
Relationships
More on Relationships
Tip 078 · RelationshipsThank Your Ten Closest FollowersFind the ten people who engage with you most. Contact each one personally this month and thank them for something specific.
Tip 083 · RelationshipsRestart What Built Your NetworkIf your prospects have gone quiet, write down exactly what you did the last time your network grew. Restart those steps this week.
Tip 088 · RelationshipsCall Three Old ContactsTonight, scroll your contacts and call three people you have not spoken with in months. Have nothing to ask. Just catch up.
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