6 Ways to Ask People Their Birthday.
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Sending birthday ecards to colleagues to express your friendship and care, is one of the easiest ways to show your warmth and feelings for them. Most of us operate with colleagues. Few people work from home, but even they have some business contacts. Otherwise one can expect a team of ten or more working together in a modern office. The goal of the team is to achieve common goals. To do that it is important that the atmosphere is friendly and cheerful. One most important element is care. If I feel that my colleagues care for me, I appreciate that much more than any thing else.
Birthday’s are great for building relationships. Why? Because almost no one remembers birthdays. When you remember someone’s birthday, you’ll usually get put into a special category of people. If you do this consistently, you form a special bond over a few years.
However, in order to remember someones birthday, you have to know their birthday. So how do you find out the birthdays of people you know?
Here are 6 ways I have used in the past to find out someones birthday:
Most of are always busy with our work and that makes us forget important things in life. Remember urgent always takes precedence over important. That is the reason most colleagues forget birthday of their co-workers. Here is the easy way out. Make a sheet with names of all the co-workers and circulate that in the beginning of the year. Ask everyone to fill in their name and birthday. Now prepare photocopies of that sheet and pass one to everyone.
1. Use Plaxo - What is Plaxo? Plaxo is a way to keep the information in your address book always up to date & accurate. Here’s how it works: Once you import your contacts into Plaxo, you can send people a request to update their contact info. Your contacts will get an email with asking for updated information. They’ll click on the link in the email and update their information. How does this help with finding out birthdays? There is a field to enter their birthday (with or without the specific year) and a lot of people fill this out. Best of all, Plaxo is free of charge for it’s basic service and their premium service is awesome.
This will ensure that no one will forget the birthday of a co-worker. On his/her birthday, as soon as they start their computer and check mail, they will be delighted to find the inbox full of greeting cards. Select ecards with warm colors and the text should appreciate their qualities. Rather than selecting a card saying only happy birthday, select the ones that also have nice words to say about them. For example a ecard that says - we all appreciate your work and friendly spirit. Here is wishing you a Happy Birthday- will make the recipient feel much better.
2. Ask Someone Who Knows - Do you know the office manager/wife/husband/sister/brother of your contact? Use email, SMS & phone calls to ask people the birthdays of other people. The officer manager may even have the birthday’s of a few different people you know.
3. Just Ask Them - Just ask straight out: “Hey when is your birthday?”. You can do it through email, SMS, on a phone call or in person. I like email. On the phone & in person, I like to ask them towards the end of a conversation. Don’t make it a big deal. It’s a simple question, looking for a simple answer.
Every business thrives if the people working are happy. Create the much needed happiness and atmosphere of friendliness with birthday ecards. Imagine two offices - one full of highly efficient people but no spirit of friendship and another with people of medium talent but great friendship and care for each other. Which place will produce better results? Make your choice. Keeping co-workers happy with birthday ecards is the easiest way to say - I care for you and I am your friend… [read more]
You will get people who will ask you “Why are you asking?” I just tell them that I like to call people on their birthday.
4. Make it part of a form - If you have an agreement or form that most of your clients have to complete in order to do business with you, add Date of Birth as a field into that form. People will fill it out without thinking twice about it. This is the reason Plaxo works so well.
5. Pay Attention - If you pay attention to people, you’ll sooner or later discover their birthday.
All of us are becoming immune to the joy of birthdays. Unless it is our birthday, we show no interest in others to a great extent. Most of us have a list of friends and family members and on their birthday, we search the Internet, pick up an ecard and send it. Our duty is over. If by mistake, we miss the birthday, we will send a belated birthday wishes card. How do we expect to develop and maintain close relations with this kind of approach? Birthday cards can cement any relationship beyond imagination. Please use this occasion to do that. Every birthday comes only once a year. Don’t be sloppy on that day. Be alert and you will get great friends for life. Let us find out more about the magic of birthday cards… [read more]
Just today I discovered someone’s birthday because I went onto their blog. I often ask people what they did over the weekend and many times I find out it was their birthday or their spouses birthday.
6. Create a FaceBook account & invite people - The cool thing about FaceBook.com is that you can share so many intimate things like photos, videos and more. The feature I love the most is that it asks people their date of birth right in the beginning and publishes the day & month by default. Again, it works like Plaxo. People fill it out because its part of a form. So invite people to Facebook. You get to share things with them… and you get their birthday
What are the ways you’ve found to be most effective in discovering birthdays? Leave a comment below.
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