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Your Writing Speaks- How to Make a Good First Impression
Have you ever received a resume with a typo or seen an ad with a misspelled word? What sort of impression did those errors make? The first impression prospects and clients have of your business is the most critical. If that impression is a poor one, it could be the end of a potential lucrative business relationship. You don’t have to be a language expert to improve your prose. This article will give you some quick and easy tips to get you started writing with ease.

First Impressions
Picking up from my recent posting We'll meet again... I thought it would be worth looking at how First Impressions can impact our opinions of other people and their opinions of us. In turn first impressions can affect the desire to work together or not. Have you ever regretted a time when you didn’t make a favourable first impression? Did you wish you could have your time over again to make a more positive impression? I am sure you are not alone. We can all think of a time when we messed up. As the old saying goes: ‘You don’t get a second chance to make a good first impression’.
Ten Simple Tips to Make a Good First Impression at a Job Interview
Recently I overheard two business men saying that in the first 2 minutes of an interview they know whether they want to hire the candidate. That doesn't give the job seeker much time. Here are ten tips that will allow you to make a good first impression in the first few minutes of the interview
In front of the customer - selling face-to-face
When we eventually get an appointment with a decision maker we will need to make sure that we maximise our chance of getting the business.

New Client meetings 7 Steps to Success
Meeting potential clients for the first time can be nerve racking. Wondering if they will be a good fit for your Business and services. Wondering if they will like you. Wondering what you should say.Let me give you some straight talking tips on how to make your first client meeting a success.
Maximise your Impact at Trade Shows
Trade Shows can be a highly competitive business. You are exhibiting amongst hundreds of your competitors; and you are all offering similar products or services, all to the same group of people. This article gives you some simple advice on how to maximise your impact at a Trade Show.
How To Make a Great First Impression
Personal grooming and the clothes we wear make an impression when we meet a person for the first time. Hopefully it's a good impression. However I don't want to talk about this aspect of making a good first impression right now. Rather, I'd like to share six tips for making a good first impression...
The First Seven Seconds and Beyond: How to Get Five Qualified Sales Leads at Every Networking Event
We’ve all gone to networking events where we’ve papered the room with our business cards, and collected countless cards from others. Then, we get back to the office the next day and start to follow up. But the people we call often don't even remember us -- much less buy from us. There is a way to virtually guarantee that people will not only remember you, but will trust you, bond with you, and buy from you.
12 Guidelines for creating Good First Impressions
Within the first few seconds of any encounter you are evaluated by the prospect. Your appearance, demeanour and body language all contribute to quickly create a first impression. This judgement happens primarily on a subconscious level and once made is extremely difficult to reverse. The prospect’s subconscious is asking the question “can I trust this person”. Follow these twelve key lessons and learn to influence this judgement in a positive way helping you to make a great first impression.
Turn Job Interviews into Job Offers
We all have only one chance to make a good first impression. Here are some ideas to make the most of your interviews and hopefully turn your interviews into job offers. There are definitely strategies and tactics that make the most of each phase of your interview- The opening phase, the selling phase, outlining benefits, positioning yourself, repositioning your competition, overcoming weaknesses, closing, rapport building, great question asking… to name a few.

First Impressions Are Lasting Impressions
When you meet someone for the very first time either you remember something very good about the person or you remember something very bad about them. It doesn’t matter how delightful the person might be or how brilliant they might be, if they do not register a good impression in the first few seconds, in your mind, they have nothing to offer you.
Fast First Impressions
First impressions are important and it takes less time than ever before to create one. Learn 5 ways to improve your first impression with new sales prospects.

Business Development and Personal Success Tip - Be Yourself
How do you present yourself when meeting new people. Learn why being yourself is a powerful attractor to forming strong business and personal relationships
BUSINESS PLAN BLUNDERS 7 Ways to Avoid Shooting Yourself in the Foot
Okay, you’re finally writing your business plan. But will it help you secure the funding you need? Will it be your road map to success—helping you to build a successful business? Most entrepreneurs write their business plans with one goal in mind: to raise money. Even so, a business plan is a double-edged sword. While it allows you to introduce and sell your business to the reader, it also gives the reader the opportunity to say “No, thanks.” Don’t blow your big chance. Now more than ever, you only get one chance to make a good first impression. Below are 7 mistakes to avoid—7 sure-fire ways to shoot yourself in the foot.

How Strong is your Web Brand?
You’ve built a strong brand. Your office is professional, every piece of collateral you give to prospects is designed with a specific purpose. Your greeting area is strategically designed to match your corporate colours and your magazines for guests are continually replaced. You go crazy when the cleaners miss a spec of dust or things are left out of place. You believe a good first impression means everything. Or do you?

You’ve got 50 milliseconds to wow me
How strong is your website’s immediate appeal? According to a Carleton University study published earlier this year in the academic journal Behaviour & Information Technology, web designers have only 50 milliseconds to make a good first impression.

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HOW TO DEVELOP A VOICE THAT SELLS
Excerpt: When speaking with someone over the phone for the first time, we do not have the luxury of visual cues therefore it becomes even more important to make a good impression suing our voice. Yes, your voice is a sales tool and how it is used over the phone can often make the difference between getting the sale or losing it to a competitor. In their book "Put Your Best Foot Forward, Make a Great Impression By Taking Control of How Others see You" Jo-Ellan Dimitirus, Ph.D. and Mark Mazzarella devote a whole chapter to voice alone.

First Impressions Mean Everything, Especially If You're In Sales
It's been said, "You never get a second chance to make a good first impression." In sales, you can triple the importance of making a positive first impression. How you look and what you say creates a lasting first impression.

Your Writing Speaks- How to Make a Good First Impression
Have you ever received a resume with a typo or seen an ad with a misspelled word? What sort of impression did those errors make? The first impression prospects and clients have of your business is the most critical. If that impression is a poor one, it could be the end of a potential lucrative business relationship. You don’t have to be a language expert to improve your prose. This article will give you some quick and easy tips to get you started writing with ease.

An Elevator Speech Can Open Closed Doors
A good elevator speech makes a good first impression. In the time it takes for a short elevator ride, you should be able to answer the question, "What do you do?"

How To Make a Great First Impression
Personal grooming and the clothes we wear make an impression when we meet a person for the first time. Hopefully it's a good impression. However I don't want to talk about this aspect of making a good first impression right now. Rather, I'd like to share six tips for making a good first impression...
The Importance of Layout to the Success of an Online Business
First impression is the best impression and this is very true in the case of online business too. I have come across many onsite business owners complaining that their website is not delivering the expected results in spite of employing good Search Engine Optimization (SEO) methods.
First Impressions
It is though that a “first impression” is created in three seconds. That is… one… two… three… impression created! In that tiny amount of time your appearance, body language, mannerisms and how you are dressed are all pieced together to form that impression. After that “first impression,” it can take hundreds of hours for the three second first impression to be changed. With odds like these, it’s important that that first impression is a good one.
First Impressions
Picking up from my recent posting We'll meet again... I thought it would be worth looking at how First Impressions can impact our opinions of other people and their opinions of us. In turn first impressions can affect the desire to work together or not. Have you ever regretted a time when you didn’t make a favourable first impression? Did you wish you could have your time over again to make a more positive impression? I am sure you are not alone. We can all think of a time when we messed up. As the old saying goes: ‘You don’t get a second chance to make a good first impression’.
How To Leave A Lasting Impression
When you only have a few seconds to get noticed in this hyper-quickened audio-visual world of ours, a lasting impression typically depends upon whether or not you were noticed at all. Squeezing our focus into that first frame people see will not only determine if we leave an impression, but exactly what that impression will be.
Impact and Influence in Action – Being Nice Doesn’t Mean You’re Not Working
When working with other people I am more self-contained than interactive and my focus in decision making is more about logic than feelings. This means I’m not naturally great at small talk and some of that “getting to know you” stuff. However, I recognise that it is not enough to just start negotiating or presenting. Engagement and getting their attention is all part of creating the right impression, having a positive personal impact and being more influential. That age old “no second chance to make a good first impression” is more or less true. You can do a repair job later but it’s much much better to get it right first time. In the Hale Circle of Influence™ this element is known as Pleasantries.
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