The next time you are at an event, try this exercise: how many names can you remember of the people you’ve met?
This serves two purposes:
- When you get home to log in your new-found contacts, you’ll be more apt to put in correct information.
- It also allows you to start the qualifying process of “who was most memorable” among your new contacts.
There are some devices that help you remember:
- Clothing colors or something they wore: that yellow tie, the pretty dress, the guy in the shades.
- Some physical attribute: eye color, hair color, no hair, they were tall.
- Something they said: they went to a college you know, they know someone you know.
- You asked them to follow up with you.
As time goes on we lose a bit more of our ability to remember things. I joke I’m having “age issues,” but it is the truth. I’m not the memory machine I was when I was younger.
Why remember people: well, this is the whole point of networking. We want to eventually recontact these people, work with them ,maybe hire them. Their first impression is important.
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