How to Remember Names: Tricks and Techniques
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Knowing how to remember names keeps me in business. I’m always searching for another new technique for how to remember names, and I find searching online is rich territory for getting useful advice.
You can Google “remember names” and find thousands of helpful websites. Visit a few, and you’ll find many hints, including concentrating (tuning up your attitude, as well as your eyes and ears), associating the name (with sounds, images, or feelings), and reinforcing (repeating the name, using it, writing it, etc.).
With each new technique you use, you’ll remember names better. Now, reverse your perspective. Have you thought about this? Use the techniques you find to help people you meet for the first time. Make it easier for them — the better you help them remember YOUR name, the better they’ll remember you and the more often they’ll think of you.
Looking for a new technique or two? My advice: Search widely. I often find wonderful hints for how to remember names can be buried in unlikely places.
For example, I recently found Jaci Russo’s wonderful blog about her business, The Russo Group, which helps companies with their “branding”. I’m not a client, but her blog’s title caught my eye right away: “Top 10 Brand Tagline Mistakes”.
I expected she’d mention a few ideas about making important words easy to remember, and I was right! Read it — her savvy advice is a goldmine of help for how to remember names, companies, and taglines. Read her blog with an eye for learning how to help people remember YOUR name, company, or tagline.
You can learn many tips here. These are just a few of the examples I gathered from her blog:
- Tell a quick story about your name, associating it with a sound, image, or feeling.
- Make your company name and tagline catchy, not bland.
- Make your company name and tagline distinctive, not generic
- Make your company name and tagline clear and vivid images.
- Make sure your name, company, and tagline are everywhere—in thank you’s, conversations, letters, cards, websites, email signatures, ads, and more.
People knowing how to remember our name keep my band busy at weddings and parties. Here’s a picture of the trio entertaining at a casual luncheon back in 2009. Thanks to one of my favorite colleagues, Liz Guthrie, amazing event planner and founder of Wish Upon A Wedding, for this wonderful photo.
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