This post is Part III in a three-part series in which Marcia Hoeck, a dynamic business coach, presents a fresh, effective way to verbally engage with customers and contacts. In Part I , Marcia shares her opinion of elevator speeches (they don’t sound natural, and don’t help people to talk), and introduces us to the [...]
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Why You Need to Ditch Your Elevator Speech – Part II: Talk to the Five-year-old
This post is Part II in a three-part series in which Marcia Hoeck, a dynamic business coach, presents a fresh, effective way to verbally engage with customers and contacts. In Part I , Marcia shares her opinion of elevator speeches (they don’t sound natural, and don’t help people to talk), and introduces us to the [...]
Why You Need to Ditch Your Elevator Speech – Part I: That’s Interesting, Tell Me More
The Final Draft Communications blog is all about how to put your best word forward in business—in both writing and speaking. Recently, I wrote a post titled How to Elevate Your Elevator Speech. In it, I suggested several ways to improve your elevator speech (an introductory speech brief enough to be delivered during an elevator [...]
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