Is This Any Way To Win Friends And Influence People?
about telling YOUR story and asking for people like you? And get rid of the idea that you have to impress and convert every person to whom you speak, to your way of thinking about it?
How about this?
“What do you do?” Or “What do you market//sell?”
“Oh…I market a product for someone who has achy knees going up the stairs, like I used to. And they don’t want to use drugs. Do you know anyone who might like to know about a product like that?”
Say it out loud. Compare your reaction (or someone else’s) after hearing these two responses out loud.
Ladies: Doesn’t the second example mirror the “rules of engagement” that women use anyway? We tell one another a problem, and maybe something we did that helped? The script ends by asking if the other woman might know someone who’d like to know about