Promoting Your Brand Through Authentic Business Meetings
Posted 07-24-2012 at 12:39 PM by RavenDelana
How I did it by mistake, and it worked!
I had a meeting last week with a potential client. I met her at Chickfila, my favorite fast food joint, for breakfast. I wore jeans, a t-shirt and my favorite NIKE Comfort flip-flops with the memory foam inside. During our conversation, about six of my unflattering personality traits came up. (I don’t wake up til 10am, I forget a lot, My brain sometimes shuts down mid-thought, etc.) I answered many of her questions with broad, loose statements like “Whatever works” or “This just feels better” (accentuated with a nice shoulder shrug). The conversation got off track about fifty times, going from the average of one hour to about two and a half. At the end of this wildly inappropriate meeting, she hired me.
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I had a meeting last week with a potential client. I met her at Chickfila, my favorite fast food joint, for breakfast. I wore jeans, a t-shirt and my favorite NIKE Comfort flip-flops with the memory foam inside. During our conversation, about six of my unflattering personality traits came up. (I don’t wake up til 10am, I forget a lot, My brain sometimes shuts down mid-thought, etc.) I answered many of her questions with broad, loose statements like “Whatever works” or “This just feels better” (accentuated with a nice shoulder shrug). The conversation got off track about fifty times, going from the average of one hour to about two and a half. At the end of this wildly inappropriate meeting, she hired me.
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