Networking: How to Stand Out | Paul Bagen
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For more than 20 years, Paul has assisted businesses and individuals in the reaching of their professional and personal goals. He has extensive experience as a public speaker, instructor and coach. His passion is training, motivating and coaching others to achieve their goals and realize their dreams in life.
“Through the years I’ve had the great fortune to have been coached and mentored by some of the best in business, leadership, sales, management and personal growth. Equally, I have had the privilege of being a mentor and coach to some of the finest business owners, managers, professional salespeople and individual’s I’ve ever meet.” –Paul
Transcript of: Networking: How to Stand Out | Paul Bagen
Paul Bagen
How do you stand out when you’re networking be more memorable? The biggest technique that I use and I’ve shared over the years is not bringing a business card. People look at me Oh, not bring a business card? Well, everybody gives a business card. What makes that so unique? What I do is I introduce myself to the person, I start talking to them. And at some point, I say, Oh, by the way, Alan, do you have a business card? What’s the first thing you think they do? me their business card. I now take the business card and I am in complete, complete control. Through the business card, I can determine what questions I want to ask. I ask the questions. If it’s a good enough conversation, things are going well we set an appointment for a future time to talk. Or I may say, you know, do you mind if maybe we continue this conversation in time I’ll give you a call. They say fine, then I call up and if you haven’t get a voice or even voicemail. You can say to the person who’s calling, oh, just tell him that was the person that was at a mixer that didn’t even have a business card. And immediately you get right through it.
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For more than 20 years, Paul has assisted businesses and individuals in the reaching of their professional and personal goals. He has extensive experience as a public speaker, instructor and coach. His passion is training, motivating and coaching others to achieve their goals and realize their dreams in life.
“Through the years I’ve had the great fortune to have been coached and mentored by some of the best in business, leadership, sales, management and personal growth. Equally, I have had the privilege of being a mentor and coach to some of the finest business owners, managers, professional salespeople and individual’s I’ve ever meet.” –Paul
Alan is managing partner at Greenstein, Rogoff, Olsen & Co., LLP, (GROCO) and is a respected leader in his field. He is also the radio show host to American Dreams. Alan’s CPA firm resides in the San Francisco Bay Area and serves some of the most influential Venture Capitalist in the world. GROCO’s affluent CPA core competency is advising High Net Worth individual clients in tax and financial strategies. Alan is a current member of the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (S.I.E.P.R.) SIEPR’s goal is to improve long-term economic policy. Alan has more than 25 years of experience in public accounting and develops innovative financial strategies for business enterprises. Alan also serves on President Kim Clark’s BYU-Idaho Advancement council. (President Clark lead the Harvard Business School programs for 30 years prior to joining BYU-idaho. As a specialist in income tax, Alan frequently lectures and writes articles about tax issues for professional organizations and community groups. He also teaches accounting as a member of the adjunct faculty at Ohlone College.