if you ask question after question after
question it becomes too much like an
interview and can get super awkward
super fast you need to make statements
and you can memorise the statements in
advance you should have your answers
down for questions that you know you're
gonna get things like let's talk about
five ways to improve your communication
skills communication is huge for sales
and for life if you can't get your point
across to people in an effective way
you're not gonna be able to do anything
simple as that if you stumble too much
or you talk about irrelevant things
you're gonna fail
no one's gonna listen to you and that's
that I'm sorry but luckily there is a
way to improve your communication skills
and that's what I want to talk about in
this video let's talk about five things
you can do to improve your communication
skills and become better number one is
ask questions when you're meeting with
new people ask them about themselves
almost like a podcast interview and if
you need an example of this I'll talk
about how to do this later and how to
have questions to ask him etc later but
if you listen to any competent podcast
interview you can start mimicking that
for real conversation type of podcast I
actually really like Joe Rogan because
it's a real conversation
I like Nerdist podcast or even you made
it weird these are not business podcasts
these are podcasts where people are
having real conversations with each
other back and forth because that's what
you want to mimic you want to become
like a real person you don't want to be
a business robot and I'll talk about the
subtleties of this in a second so ask
questions almost like it's an interview
and get the person you're talking to to
tell you stuff about them but there's
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that is number two is it's not just
asking questions you want to insert
comments when you ask them a question
and they answer don't just move on to
the next question that's super annoying
if you're like hey where're you from
and then they say Cincinnati and then
you say how many brothers and sisters do
you have
now it becomes like an interview and
it's super annoying instead you want to
say something personal about yourself
either related to what they talked about
or have a similar ranges you want to say
something so you would ask that same
question where you're from and they say
Cincinnati and you would say oh wow
get super cold up there huh some kind of
comment that's all I know I know nothing
about Cincinnati just that maybe it's
cold so I will say whatever comment
comes to mind but it's got to be comment
it can't just be another question you
have to add something to the
conversation bat the ball back that
sounds to sportsy for me hit the ball
back is this tennis we're going back and
forth hit the ball back say something
personal about yourself that they can
refund too because now when I brought
up the cold in Cincinnati now they can
be like yeah it gets cold out there
pretty frigid but now it's warm so now
you're talking about the weather which
is kind of annoying and you can
transition out of that but now you are
at least talking they're communicating
if you ask question after question after
question it becomes too much like an
interview and can get super awkward
super fast you need to make statements
and you can memorise the statements in
advance you should have your answers
down for questions that you know you're
gonna get things like who are you what's
your background what are you trying to
get out of this event you know these
questions are coming so it's up to you
to have good answers for those questions
and you can optimize the answers to make
sure that they're interesting if you're
worried about being boring and you don't
have a solid answer to who are you or
what's your background then you have
something to improve get these answers
down because they're hearing the same
questions over and over again get the
answers down so that you become more
interesting the third thing you can do
to improve your communication is to read
more reading gives you insights it gives
you stuff to talk about
maybe if I read a book that related to
Cincinnati I would have something to
talk about now that I'm thinking about
it doesn't Cincinnati have like
factories or something like I know
nothing but if I had read a book about
Cincinnati maybe I'd have something to
talk about there I like reading
biographies they give you a lot of ways
in to people so for instance I recommend
a bunch of books a couple of these books
behind me like the Arnold Schwarzenegger
biography you read that now you know
something about bodybuilding and acting
and real estate and running for governor
and California and Eastern Europe like
you know all of this stuff now that you
wouldn't get by just reading a random
business book the biography provides so
much context and so much to talk about
that nothing else in terms of book can
really come close not even fix it so
you're reading more the next thing you
want to do is force yourself out there I
used to host a meet up in New York we
ended up with over 3,000 members and it
was the tech community was called geeks
in suits and I learned the most about
communication and how to improve my
skills by hosting a meet-up I would do
these meetups once a month and I would
get out there and force myself to learn
everyone's name and to shake everyone's
hand and make sure they were having a
good time because I was the host but
what's cool is you can do this even if
you're not the host go to a meet-up and
make it your goal to make sure
everyone's having a good time shake
their hands introduce yourself talk to
everyone the host will appreciate the
help
because it's a lot of work and you will
get way more practice by throwing
yourself into the fire and talking to
these people and having to run your
answers over and over again I can't tell
you how many times I've answered the
question what do you do and I have my
answer down I know exactly what I'm
doing
you know now I say I'm a youtuber and I
make business tutorial videos and that
gets people talking but I used to say I
was a business consultant and when I was
selling mobile apps I would say I sell
mobile apps and we do applications from
people like Tyson and Power Rangers and
I would mention I would name drop the
companies that I was working for because
my goal was to get sales so I would
present myself in a way that made me
attractive to potential customers
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speaking of sales the next tip is get a
sales job the other thing that worked
massively well for improving my
communication skills is the cold calling
job that I had when I first moved to New
York City I would pulled cold local
businesses and the best thing for an
awkward person is that cold calling
comes with a script to follow you know
exactly what words are supposed to be
saying and then it's up to you to make
them sound natural so for an awkward
person you now don't need to worry about
your words at all you're just thinking
about your tone it's very simple very
easy and this will help you level up
crazy fast so the five ways to improve
your communication skills are ask
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