Do You Have An “Elevator Speech”?

Yes. It starts with a question

Who farted?


And ends with an answer

Me

I started humming/singing “Love in An Elevator” while on an elevator once. I think it creeped out the other person on there.

Oh well.

yes

its leaps and bounds better than oweos stair speech

This guy isn’t selling a product. He’s just selling himself. You’d legit think he and whoever he is talking to have known each other forever when in reality it’s their first meeting.

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better than oweos stair speech

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But his "this ramp is almost but not quite wide enough" speech is killer

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Guy at work can seemingly hit it off with anyone he comes across. Truly impressive. I asked him today how he did it and he stated that he has about 5 different “elevator speeches”

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Subtle “I’m a bellhop” brag.

He’s got his outlines but he also has charisma. If you’ve gotta think about it this hard then it’s gonna come off incredibly awkward when you try to run through your outline.

I never worked in a business that had an elevator. i know what the speech is about but had to use different tactics. Like befriend a boss and be a superior contributor.

You are talking about two different things. In sales you learn about the first early on. It's called a Elevator Pitch. It's basically less then a minute summary of who are, what solutions you provide, why you are intruding on their time, and ask a probing open ended question that gets them talking. The goal of the first minute of a pitch is to get them interested and earn the second minute of their time.

The second thing you are talking about is building rapport and quickly building a relationship. This one becomes easy when you get the hang of it.

The subject most people like to talk about the most is themselves and their hobbies and the thing most people like to talk about the least is you.
When you meet someone new ask open ended questions about the person you are meeting and listen to what they say.

Listening is the hard part people fail at. If you ask someone a question trying to get to know them and don't listen to the answer what is the point. When the person seems very interested in a subject file it away and circle back to it in the conversation or at a later point in time.

Try to avoid questions that lead to a Yes or No answer. Example- "Do you have family?" Instead change it around to "Tell me about your family?". Or, "Do you like to golf?" vs "What's your favorite course to play and what do you like it about it?" That gets them talking. The more they talk and the less you do the more they will like you.

That's a rule lots of sales people struggle with. The fastest way to get a someone not to like you is by spending your time with the person telling them all about yourself.

The person doesn't care and will have a negative opinion of you. However if you spend your time being genuinely interested in the person, their business, their family, their problems they will have a high opinion of you.

All this also translates out of the sales world into the personal relationship world. On a date? Or talking to the boss? Ask questions of the other person and limit talking about yourself. 75% of the conversation about them and 25% of the conversation about yourself is a good rule of thumb.

Anyway, that's all my personal opinion based on over 25 years of successful sales and relationship building.

Rapport.