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What Do I Do? "I Color Your World!". That's a better introduction, isn't it?

paint brushes People are often times put off when I introduce myself as an Interior Designer/artist/feng shui student/home staging instructor (not necessarily in that order). They actually take a step back especially here in the small town of Selma CA.

"I Color YOUR World" really says it all for me. Pleople want to know HOW?

Finding a simple and understandable one liner to identify ones profession is a thrill and what a lucky find and solution to a common problem when I came across the following article. Please pass it on...it could make introductions more enjoyable and colorful for all of us.

Please share us know what you come up with for yourself or any profession for that matter!

Double Your Income With an Unlimited Number of Highly-Qualified Prospects For Free

By: Raymond Aaron

The way to get an unlimited number of highly-qualified prospects for free anytime you wish as often as you wish for the rest of your working life ... is easy and it really is free and anyone can do it. You don't buy anything from me or anyone. You just change the wording of how you introduce yourself! Let me explain ...

The boring way to introduce yourself (which everyone now uses) goes like this: "I am an electrician". What is wrong with this? Firstly, it does not increase your business so why bother saying it. And, it has two errors in it:

1.The first error is that it uses the word "a" or "an" which means that you are just one of many -- indistinguishable and uninteresting.

2.The second error is that you state what you do so that there is no mystery, no excitement.

Here's how you create excitement and have people WANTING more details.

Introduce yourself using the following guidelines:

1. introduce yourself by saying WHAT THEY GET not WHAT YOU DO

2. introduce yourself by creating QUESTIONS not ANSWERS

3. introduce yourself by saying "you" in the sentence 4.introduce yourself by being BRIEF.

Here are some examples:

BAD ........... I am an electrician GREAT ...... I check your shorts!

BAD ........... I am a professional speaker GREAT ...... I double your income!

BAD ........... I am an interviewer GREAT ...... I mail millionaires to your door!

BAD ........... I am a Feng Shui consultant GREAT ...... I color your world!

BAD ........... I am a photographer GREAT ...... I shoot you!

BAD ........... I am a therapist GREAT ...... I get into your head!

BAD ........... I am a dietician GREAT ...... I feed you healthy junk food!

Get the picture? Now, create one for yourself and send it to me by typing it in a comment to this article.

Do you have the courage to use this fascinating way to introduce yourself? Most people don't. I encourage you to develop a fascinating way to introduce yourself and then practice on family members until you are strong enough to do it in the world. Best of success. It works.

Author Resource:-> Raymond Aaron,New York Times Top Ten Bestselling Author, "Double Your Income Doing What You Love" published by John Wiley and Sons, New York City.

Join Raymond Aaron on Twitter @RaymondAaron.

Join "Raymond Aaron Double Your Income" Facebook Fan Page at http://www.FacebookRaymond.com .

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Thank you Raymond!

Posted by Sheron Cardin - how2homestage.com on 07/26/2009 02:00 PM

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10 Comments on What Do I Do? "I Color Your World!". That's a better introduction, isn't it?

JUL

Bad- I'm a mortgage broker Good- find your money machine

Bad- I'm a real estate broker Good- the ticket to your new home

Hi Michelangelo,

Thank you for commenting. I would LOVE to hear someone tell me they are the ticket to my new home :) My imagination is just running wild!

Sheron, I love this! I'll have to come up with something and try it out on my Friday morning coffee networking group. We all have 90 seconds and I get so tired of saying the same thing every week!

JUL

Sheron ~ I'm going to work on this and hopefully think of something compelling and clever -- thanks for the inspiration!

I enjoyed reading the post. I can give you the keys to your dream home.

Sheron -- This was very thought provoking but something that I really needed to do. Thanks for making me put on my thinking cap.

Here is what I came up with: "I make your house irresistible to buyers!"

Now let us hear your "good" version.

Hi all, I know it has been awhile since I have posted on AR so am glad to have found a really useful article to get me started again.

How about: "I know who is looking for your house!" (target market)

Hi Sher, good to see you back and I love this blog post. Will have to give it some thought. I like your intro. line, that ought to get attention. Hmmmm.

JUL

Now you have me thinking, great concept and it makes sense. I can't think of anything clever off the cuff though. Will have to revisit.

JUL

Coming 'back' to active rain is like coming home. How good it is to see you guys. Almost forgot I posted so am checking in. When we, us stagers, started posting way back when AR was young (20,000 or so members and all there was for graphic words were strange fruit names), it seems like everything we had to say was new...and it was. Now that time has passed and our uncharted territories have grown familiar, it really is a good time to take stock and revisit the now status quo.

Let's see, how about "I found the way".

Your next :)

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