How to Properly Conduct Yourself in Business Meetings

Conducting yourself properly during a business meeting is critical for any business owner trying to sign up new clients. How the business owner acts when meeting a potential client can determine whether or not they can receive new customers or not. Here are some tips on how to properly conduct yourself in business meetings with a prospective client, that will enhance your chances of success.

• Introduce yourself with a firm handshake, make sure you smile and always have excellent hygiene.
• Be able to describe products or services you provide accurately to the potential customer and be ready to answer their essential questions.
• If you attend business networking events, make sure you have plenty of business cards to give to the attendees you meet.
• Upon the initial meeting with a potential customer, make sure you are well dressed, clean, have a positive attitude and make sure you’ve brought everything you need be able to present your product or service well. First impressions are imperative when trying to acquire the business.
• Sit directly facing the client and summarize what you can offer them, but make sure you listen to their needs. Allow the potential customer to talk for most of the meeting. Get to know the person and then find out what they want or need.
• If you believe that you can, in fact, help them out with one of your products or services, then explain to them how you can add value to them explicitly.
• Bring any presentation material contracts you need in case they agree to sign up for your services during the meeting.
• If you find that research and development are necessary before you can begin helping the customer, then let them know that you will follow up with them within 48 hours. Have the contracts and documents ready by that time and schedule a follow-up meeting with the client to finalize the sign-up process.
• Sometimes, as the service provider, you will find that not everyone qualifies to receive your services.

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