{"id":914,"date":"2006-06-29T08:27:23","date_gmt":"2006-06-29T07:27:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elementally.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/?p=5"},"modified":"2006-06-29T08:27:23","modified_gmt":"2006-06-29T07:27:23","slug":"stallholders-are-you-listening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/stallholders-are-you-listening\/","title":{"rendered":"Stallholders &#8211; are you listening?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following on from a presentation I&#8217;ve just given at <a title=\"IT Works 2006\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.iloveitworks.com\/\">ITWORKS2006<\/a> I took a stroll around the stands. I walked around for nearly 30 minutes and only one person spoke to me (and she was a very nice young lady); other standholders ignored me. Nearly half of them were either<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>on a mobile phone<\/li>\n<li>doing their administration\/accounts<\/li>\n<li>filling in a crossword<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>C&#8217;mon guys, have some common sense!  I don&#8217;t care that you&#8217;re &#8220;only doing it until a visitor arrives&#8221;: no visitors <strong>will<\/strong> arrive if that&#8217;s what you&#8217;re doing!  You have to present yourself as available and friendly!<\/p>\n<p>Good grief!<\/p>\n<p>Another tip for presenters on stands &#8211; or rather for their managers &#8211; don&#8217;t send extraverts. Extraverts thrive on bouncing off other people. That&#8217;s great if there are lots and lots of visitors to the stand all the time but if there aren&#8217;t (as there wasn&#8217;t at 10:15 this morning) they tend to collaps in on themselves, struggling to look enthusiastic. People who get their &#8220;emotional energy&#8221; from inside their own heads (introverts in the jargon) are arguably more suitable&#8230;..<\/p>\n<p>The <a title=\"Service Netowrk\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.service-network.co.uk\/\">Service Network<\/a>, the group I was speaking on behalf of, are going to put my overheads up on their website: I&#8217;ll link to it when they do.<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, enjoy the sunshine!<\/p>\n<p>~ Simon<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following on from a presentation I&#8217;ve just given at ITWORKS2006 I took a stroll around the stands. I walked around for nearly 30 minutes and only one person spoke to me (and she was a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/914","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=914"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/914\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}