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Getting Ready for a Media Interview

If you’re in business, especially if you are doing business on the Internet, the day will come when you are invited to do a media interview. Perhaps someone has read your online articles and is impressed, or perhaps your local newspaper or television station is profiling interesting Internet entrepreneurs in their community. Whatever the reason, you are being given an excellent opportunity to promote your business. To get the most mileage from your interview, consider the following tips:

Preparing For Your Media Interview

Media interviews are an important part of an overall public relations campaign. Any size company from entrepreneur to Fortune 500 can benefit from media interviews. Always arrive for a media interview prepared and early. We’ve seen competent CEOs drown in uncharted media waters. Being unprepared guarantees you won’t get asked back. When you are contacted for any kind of media interview ask the following questions:

How to Build Personal Chemistry and Ace the Interview

Interested in turning interviews into job offers? Great, let me share some tips to build rapport with the interviewer and others within the company. First of all, no two interviews are the same, so you can’t plan exactly how the interview will go, but it is important to have a strategy. It is imperative that you face the interview as a selling meeting; meaning building personal chemistry and establishing an open dialogue for free information exchange. Success is not necessarily what you say, but how you say it.

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