341: Freestyle Friday | How to Talk to High Level People

In this episode of Freestyle Friday, your host Travis Chappell shares tips for making the most of a first impression and how to carry that through to build a real relationship.

 

Episode Highlights:

  • Once you meet a high-level person, you need to make use of that connection and capitalize on the good impression you made.
  • Travis shares how he learned from leaving a bad first impression with a high performer millionaire in his industry.
  • Talk across to people, not up to them.
  • Respect people’s time.
  • Don’t ask the first questions that occur to you.
  • Look for ways to add value for the other person.

3 Key Points:

  1. Talk across to people, because talking up to them will subconsciously position you as being at a lower level.
  2. You won’t create a relationship with someone after one meeting.
  3. All of these tips are ways to make sure you are respecting people’s time, which will make you more memorable.

Tweetable Quotes:

  • “If it’s the first through fifth question that came up into your head, it’s probably something that somebody has asked them in the last 24 hours. So maybe just do a little bit of digging, a little bit of research.” –Travis Chappell

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