Talk to Strangers: How Everyday, Random Encounters Can Expand Your Business, Career, Income, and Life - Hardcover

Topus, David

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 111820347X ISBN 13: 9781118203477

Publisher: Wiley, 2012

Synopsis

Connect to the world around you and realize the enormous potential in talking to strangers

Everyday, random encounters really can change lives, when you make them happen the right way and leverage the connection at the other end. Talk to Strangers explains how to stand out and tap the potential of others by taking notice of who is standing alongside you on the bank line, the latte pickup point, or the ticket counter at the airport. David Topus' life-changing message is that we should "always connect," which means going beyond online relationships and engaging in the random, real-life interactions that have unlimited potential to supercharge businesses, accelerate careers, and enrich your life.

• Why there is opportunity through the people you meet wherever you go
• The four key beliefs of successful random connectors
• Techniques for creating comfort and trust quickly with complete strangers
• How to optimize and monetize your newly-established contacts

When you connect to those in your everyday world, you'll discover the life-expanding potential of random encounters and unlimited opportunities.

About this title

About the Author

David Topus is a mega-connector, opportunity builder, and internationally recognized business communications innovator, trainer, and thought leader. He has conceived, developed, and marketed millions of dollars worth of intellectual content for some of the most influential Fortune 500 corporations in the world. As President of TOPUS, with the trademarked tagline "Turning Reputations into Revenue," David has helped dozens of companies, thousands of salespeople, and hundreds of senior executives to define and articulate their value propositions more effectively. Today, his expertise is sought by companies, associations, and individuals across the country and around the world.

From the Back Cover

Connect with Others in Your Everyday World and Discover the Enormous Potential That Awaits You!

Through his groundbreaking networking technique, entrepreneur and communication expert David Topus shows how everyday random encounters can expand your life in ways you could never have predicted―if you know how to make them happen and leverage the connection. David, who has built his million-dollar consulting practice through the people he has met in unplanned encounters, shares his insights and secrets for turning complete strangers into profitable business and personal relationships.

David's message is that we should go beyond online contacts and establish relationship-rich, in-person connections through random, everyday interactions that hold unlimited potential to supercharge your business, accelerate your career, and enrich your life.

In Talk to Strangers, you will discover:

• How and why there is opportunity in the people you meet wherever you go

• The four key beliefs of successful random connectors

• Techniques for penetrating the veil of isolation many people have

• Methods for turning new associations into relationship-rich connections

• Ways to create comfort and trust quickly with complete strangers

• Tips for optimizing and monetizing your newly established contacts

The world around you represents a huge opportunity. In Talk to Strangers, you'll find the serendipitous, life-expanding potential of turning random encounters into mutually profitable relationships.

From the Inside Flap

Far-reaching and unpredictable opportunities await you in the people you encounter throughout your day. The people you don't even know yet offer the chance to uncover a prospect, gain access to influential people, enlist a new supplier, or any number of other potential outcomes, including just making a friend. Everyday, random encounters really can change lives, when you make them happen the right way and leverage the connection at the other end.

Talk to Strangers explains how to stand out and tap the potential of people you don't know by taking notice of who is near you on the bank line, in the coffee shop, or the ticket counter at the airport. Author David Topus, who has built his million-dollar consulting practice through the people he has met and the contacts he has made in unplanned meetings, shares his insights and secrets for turning encounters with complete strangers into profitable business and personal relationships. His life-changing message is that we should "always connect," which means going beyond online relationships and engaging in the serendipitous, real-life interactions that have unlimited potential to supercharge your business, accelerate your career, and enrich your life. Talk to Strangers offers Topus's proven and tested advice on:

• Why there is opportunity through the people you meet wherever you go

• The four key beliefs of successful random connectors

• Techniques for creating comfort and trust quickly with complete strangers

• How to present yourself and your capabilities so others want to be associated with you

• Ways to optimize and monetize your newly established connections

• How to make sure you create a good impression online when your new contacts inevitably Google you

When you connect to those in your everyday world, you'll discover the unlimited opportunities and life-expanding potential of chance encounters.

Edition details

• Publisher: Wiley
• Publication date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 111820347X
• ISBN 13: 9781118203477
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 208