{"id":2114,"date":"2010-03-25T08:26:52","date_gmt":"2010-03-25T15:26:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.homewiththekids.com\/blog\/?p=2114"},"modified":"2010-03-24T11:30:23","modified_gmt":"2010-03-24T18:30:23","slug":"how-to-talk-to-people-about-your-home-business-in-person","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homewiththekids.com\/blog\/how-to-talk-to-people-about-your-home-business-in-person\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Talk to People About Your Home Business in Person"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Talking about your home business is an old marketing technique, but a good one if you enjoy it. It&#8217;s decidedly not for everyone. It&#8217;s generally not for me in the sense of going around talking to just anyone about my business and trying to get sales.<\/p>\n<p>But I do sometimes talk to people about what it is that I do.<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;re not likely to build a huge downline in a network marketing program this way. You&#8217;re not likely to make huge numbers of sales doing it. But it can help.<\/p>\n<p>My personal preference is to just talk about my business or things I&#8217;m promoting in casual conversation. No actual sales pitch.<\/p>\n<p>I generally don&#8217;t get an immediate, interested response. But I do get a lot of people who long to work at home, and if it&#8217;s a true wish, and something that I said interests them, eventually they&#8217;ll come to me for more information.<\/p>\n<p>I go about it more as a \u201cwhat I do\u201d kind of thing rather than \u201cwanna buy?\u201d It&#8217;s really amazing the response I can get. People talk about work all the time. That mine is different and has potential for being at home gets a lot of attention.<\/p>\n<p>In some ways it&#8217;s like forum marketing. I&#8217;m being the expert while keeping on topics that people want to talk about. I&#8217;m not a walking, talking, blatant advertisement. I&#8217;m me.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s really important to not be tiresome when you talk about your home business. Overdoing the promotion is a great way to teach friends and family to avoid you.<\/p>\n<h2>The Elevator Pitch<\/h2>\n<p>If you&#8217;re telling someone about your business in a more direct manner, having what is commonly called an elevator pitch is very useful.<\/p>\n<p>The elevator pitch means that you can tell someone about your business in just a few seconds. What&#8217;s the best way to sum up what you do?<\/p>\n<p>Use your elevator pitch if you&#8217;re trying for a customer or client. You&#8217;re trying to build interest directly. Your pitch should explain what your product or service is, the benefits to the person you&#8217;re talking to, who you and\/or your company are and what makes you stand out. It should take less than a minute to deliver your elevator pitch.<\/p>\n<p>This is not a major marketing technique for me. It&#8217;s more of an incidental one. More social people can make more of it than I do. If you go to a lot of conventions or business events you will need to be prepared to talk to people about what you do, and hopefully to impress them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Talking about your home business is an old marketing technique, but a good one if you enjoy it. It&#8217;s decidedly not for everyone. It&#8217;s generally not for me in the sense of going around talking to just anyone about my business and trying to get sales. 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