Comments on: How to network without feeling like a dirty scumbag

By: Anna

Anna — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 09:56:12 +0000

Hey this is a really good post. Made me laugh! But I wanted to tell you, your Tweetmeme button doesn’t seem to be co-operating. At least not with me. I tried it from full post view or from excerpt view. I can’t Tweet with the button, it ignores me.

By: @Stephen

@Stephen — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 20:11:05 +0000

I put this on top of my header: “I teach people how to use their websites to attract new customers, educate the customers that they have, and drive more business. ”

Then people ask, “How do you do that?” and this gives me an opportunity to ask them, “What kind of business do you have? Let’s see what kind of opportunities there may be for you to take advantage of…”

Works.

By: Charlie

Charlie — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 20:39:07 +0000

Rich -

Hey you. I’ve got a couple consultant friends, and I can tell you exactly why “I’m a consultant” is not the greatest elevator-pitch.

One of them does regular ordinary business consulting stuff: sales, marketing, that sort of thing. The other guy, I’ll call him Matt because that’s his name, is also a consultant. But get this:

Matt places insanely freakishly smart skilled people at jobs in nuclear engineering facilities. There are at any one time, he told me, maybe a dozen people on the entire planet who are skilled enough/available to be placed in these positions.

So, yeah, “consultant” doesn’t really mean anything. Actually, wait. It does mean something, but unfortunately it means whatever the person you’re talking to thinks it means.

Think yourself up an elevator-pitch an come back later and tell us what you came up with!

By: Rich

Rich — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 20:32:15 +0000

You know, I go to these business networking meetings every single Thursday night. Every week. And nothing has ever ever come out of it good for me. I was about to drop going to them altogether, but I think I see what I’ve been doing wrong.

I’m a consultant. And I say to everyone, “I’m a consultant.” And they look at me. And then they stop looking at me and leave. I need to rework my whole strategy.

Not to sound mean, but thanks for helping me realize I just wasted dozens of otherwise perfect evenings.