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Episode 18: Response Rates, Honesty, Opinions Of Others And More – Podcast

Garth Beyer

On this episode of In The Box Podcast, we talked about Facebook’s new response rate tracking, how long we should keep trying before giving up, if it’s best to always tell the truth, how to share unfavorable opinions with others, and how to move on from things that didn’t go our way.

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Episode 18: Response Rates, Honesty, Opinions Of Others And More

Response rates – How fast do you expect to get a response when you tweet or Facebook a complaint?

Attempt Length – How long do you keep trying before you try something else or give up?

Honesty – Is it good to ALWAYS tell the truth?

Opinion of others – Is it worth it to share your opinions of others if it is not a favorable one?

Moving on – How do you move on from things that didn’t go your way?

 

Stay Positive & Try Until You Can’t

How To Talk So As To Always Be Understood

Garth Beyer

There’s a universal voice out there.

Some refer to it as being human, others consider it vulnerability. Personally, I don’t have a name for it, but I do know it involves stripping all thoughts of being something you’re not.

In terms of pitching for clients, I want to be excellent and place a lot of stories. PR pros are told we can accomplish this if we follow a pre-approved pitch email and phone script (given some flexibility, of course, but not much).

The times I’ve had the best pitching experiences is when I’ve stripped down the layers of scripted professionalism. The times I’ve had the most heart-to-heart conversations is when I’ve stripped away the fear of appearing weak. The times I’ve written the most resonating blog posts have been when I’ve written in the universal voice.

When you’re speaking in the truest, most intimate voice about your life, you are speaking with the universal voice, according to Cheryl Srayed who wrote the story Wild.

When you speak in that voice, you will always be understood.

 

Stay Positive & Give It A Try (And Try Hard, You Will)

The Truth About Great Advice

Garth Beyer

You won’t be motivated by it. In fact, you’ll likely want to run the other way.

A mentor of mine recently reminded me that “you can get your story, you can get the sources you need for it if you make enough calls; as long as you put the effort in, you will get what you need.”

Essentially, as long as you try, and keep trying, and never stop trying, you’ll succeed.

Not very motivating is it? But it’s true. It works. It’s sound advice.

 

Stay Positive & Will You Take It?

An Ounce Of Truth

Garth Beyer

Little ideas are the key to success.

This may be just an ounce of truth, but 15 more ounces and you have a pound.

For the heck of it, here’s 28 ounces, 25 more, and 5 more. That’s more than three pounds of truth.

 

Stay Positive & It’s The Little Things, Always Has Been

 

References

Garth Beyer

Sometimes I don’t put contacts that I know practically have a script prepared on a reference list. I’ve come to find that it’s really easy to find a few people who will talk you up. All you have to think is who cares most about you and has a different last name.

Sometimes I put contacts that don’t know me too well because they are forced to share what little they know. After that, they assume, they predict, they judge honestly.

It’s often more remarkable to hear where other people think you are going in life than it is to hear people say where you told them that you think you are going in life.

It’s a risk, definitely. Hasn’t failed me yet.

 

Stay Positive & Truth Will Out

Garth E. Beyer

The Possibilities

Garth Beyer

People live, not in their concept of what is true, but of what is possible. Repeating: of what they think, see, and feel is possible.

This is what makes it damn difficult to encourage people and communicate to them their potential. Not only that, but it interferes with all forms of learning and communication. For example, one reason for the change in what is reported in the newspaper industry is the inability for people to associate so closely with facts.

We now base our knowledge sources by their relatability, their story, and their entertainment. Is this wrong? No, but we need to acknowledge the altercations it presents. We are growing up with a worldview of what is possible, not what is true or proven.  We may now believe what is false, is still possible. A sure sign of this complexity is your current inability to follow it. For that reason, let me simplify it the best I can.

There is a saying that once you have eliminated all possibilities, all you have left is the truth. The thing is, we now have an infinite number of possibilities

It’s a lot to live up to and understand. But in order to build a connection with someone, you have to understand what they believe to be possible, not true.

In longsight, as Mark Twain famously stated, “Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn’t.”

 

Stay Positive & Fiction? Possibilities? Truth? What’s The Difference, Really?

Garth E. Beyer