Lunch For Success

Staff Should Know When Enough’s Enough at a Business Lunch

Posted on 16. Jan, 2009 by Craig Peters.

Picture the scene. You’ve just started explaining to your prospective client why your product or service is going to help them. You’re almost at that part of the conversation where the prospect might raise a tough objection. You’ve prepared for it, but it’s not an easy sell. Just when you’re about to explain away their [...]

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Even Sir Paul McCartney Has to Scope Out His Power Lunch Table

Posted on 14. Jan, 2009 by Craig Peters.

One of the fundamentals of conducting a successful power lunch is doing your homework. For example, you should physically check out the restaurant days in advance. That way you’ll know which tables are better than others for conducting your lunch.
Doing your prep work allows you to make adjustments on the fly when the day [...]

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Can You Do a Business Lunch at Home?

Posted on 14. Jan, 2009 by Craig Peters.

If you’re a stay-at-home business woman, mom, and blogger who’s meeting with the owner of a blog for moms, why not have your business lunch at home? That’s exactly what we see from Kelly King Anderson’s at-home business lunch interview with Allison Czarnecki. A quick look at Allison’s blog, Petit Elephant, and it’s clear that [...]

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Tipping the Scales of Power (Bending the Power Curve)

Posted on 09. Jan, 2009 by Craig Peters.

One of my readers asked what I meant when I said that bending the “power curve” is what you’re trying to do when you conduct your power lunches. I was borrowing the term from Fox News in that earlier post, and I’d like to elaborate here. We explain it in our video as tipping the [...]

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Obama’s Power Lunch Goals: “Advice, Good Council, and Fellowship…”

Posted on 09. Jan, 2009 by Craig Peters.

An important part of a successful business lunch is knowing why you’re there. What are your goals? Be specific. Even for the over-arching goals - be specific. According to this AP clip, President-elect Obama says he hoped to gain “advice, good council, and fellowship…”.

While you’re not likely to have a ‘photo op’ at your lunch, [...]

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Obama’s Power Lunch with the Presidents

Posted on 07. Jan, 2009 by Craig Peters.

Now this would be a fun lunch to sit in on. Foxnews.com’s article Obama Hails ‘Extrodinary Gathering’ of All the Presidents covers this rare lunch. I wonder what they talked about:
“It’s going to be an interesting lunch,” Bush told an interviewer recently. When asked what the five men would talk about, Bush said: “I don’t [...]

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Don’t Hibernate - Keep Moving Forward with Business Lunches

Posted on 06. Jan, 2009 by Craig Peters.

I just came across a post by Lee Goldberg called The Business Lunch, R.I.P? Lee’s not proposing that he wants business lunches to end; he’s just going to have to react to cutbacks in the publishing industry.

I guess that next time I see my editor, I’m the one who is going to have to [...]

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Successful Business Lunching Means Being a Good Host

Posted on 05. Jan, 2009 by Craig Peters.

Occasionally, we come across people who have a hard time with the idea of learning about and preparing for a business lunch. It feels manipulative or false somehow. Many people can’t really put a finger on it, but I think I understand where it’s coming from.
Meals are personal. Think about how many meals we have [...]

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A Power Lunch Blueprint Is Better Than Tons Of Tips

Posted on 31. Dec, 2008 by Craig Peters.

There are lots of sources of tips and suggestions for how to conduct a successful business lunch. For example, in our training video, The Power Lunch: A Modern Approach to the Business Lunch, the guest interview section contains lots of tips. We’re going to be giving lots of tips here on this blog and on [...]

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“Avoid Anything ‘Grande’ or ‘Supersized’”

Posted on 12. Dec, 2008 by Craig Peters.

I just read a post by Matt Coddington that cracked me up (How to Look Like Less of a Jackass: Lunch Meetings). I agree with Matt that it’s best to eat light, or as Matt puts it, avoid:
Anything “Grande” or “Supersized” (have some shame)
Maybe that’s cracking me up because it’s Friday, I’ve been at [...]

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