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How to Start a Conversation and Make Friends | 
 enlarge | Manufacturer: Fireside Books
Category: EBooks
List Price: $11.99
Buy New: $9.59
You Save: $2.40 (20%)
Avg. Customer Rating:  36 reviews
Sales Rank: 7638
Format: Kindle Book
Media: Kindle Edition
Edition: Revised and Updated
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 208
Dewey Decimal Number: 153.6
ASIN: B000FC0PXK
Publication Date: January 7, 2004
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Product Description
For nearly twenty years, small-talk expert Don Gabor has helped thousands of people communicate with wit, confidence, and enthusiasm with his bestseller How to Start a Conversation and Make Friends. This new edition brings the art of having a conversation up to date. By following the simple and dynamic guidelines in this easy-to-read book, you'll be ready to strike up a great conversation with anyone anywhere! And you'll learn how to keep the conversation going by asking the right questions, using body language effectively, and avoiding conversation pitfalls. Packed with charts, hundreds of opening lines, real-life examples, FAQs, helpful hints, and solid professional advice, How to Start a Conversation and Make Friends shows you how to: Identify your personal conversational style Talk to people from other countries and cultures Avoid mistakes while on a mobile phone or on-line in chatrooms Boost your personal and professional speaking skills to the next level
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 Good ways to get conversing and get connected October 8, 2008
The easiest way to get to know people is through conversation. Don Gabor outlines the basics of engaging in conversation, and provides tips and techniques to help you overcome initial shyness, ease your way into good conversations and, thereby enhance your business and social life. He applies plenty of practical troubleshooting advice to many typical conversational scenarios, and points out some potential roadblocks that can impede good conversation. Before you even open your mouth, you need to become aware of your body language and that of others. Gabor suggests ways to build up your sensitivity to nonverbal communication so you can apply various conversational techniques, such as "active listening" and scoping for "hot button" topics to start, build up and maintain a dialogue. getAbstract recommends this primer as a quick boost to help you reach out and connect with people in all settings.
insightful August 26, 2008
I found this book to one of the more insightful of the few others on the same/similar subject I had purchased.
This is the best book of its type - and I've read them all! August 20, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I am surprised by some of the reviews suggesting that this book is not very good. I have read at least ten books of this type and this one is by far the best. Don't be deceived by its simplicity and easy to read form: it contains a lot of information including many important subtleties that other books lack, including many books twice as long. The book does exactly what it says in the title: it takes the reader through the process of how to start conversations and make friends. It doesn't make blanket statements like other books do, that in the real world could be disastrous. He explains, in simple but true and useful terms, how conversations start, why some ways of starting a conversation are more risky than others, how to continue a conversation, and so on. The one useful tip that I got from another book rather than this one was the idea of preparing a pithy, witty introductory statement about yourself. (That was from How to Work a Room, Revised Edition: Your Essential Guide to Savvy Socializing) How To Start A Conversation And Make Friends is thoughtful, gentle, and actually teaches you step-by-step how to do what it says in the title. Highly recommended.
 Helpful Book June 9, 2008
This book is a great book. The tips and techniques are very sensible and they work. I've been reaching out to more people this year and amazed at how easy it makes it to initiate and form connections with others simply by offering greetings and small talk. This book gives anyone the tips needed to start developing a richer social life and interpersonal skills to stimulate and enhance connections with all sorts of people.
 Where's The Beef April 10, 2008
0 out of 3 found this review helpful
I knew I was purchasing an abridged CD, but what I didn't know was this CD is only 40 minutes long? It looks like it is a #1 of others. Not happy paying for a CD that is abridged at only 40 minutes. How long is the unabridged. Is there an unabridged out there. How long is it, and how much is it.
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