Become genuinely interested in other people.
I love connecting with the audience, and there's more ways than one to do that.
Learning some of the names and countries of my subscribers and what life is like for them is really cool.
If you aren't talking to readers and letting them know you're just like them, they can lose interest.
You have to respect your audience. Without them, you're essentially standing alone, singing to yourself.
I feel a strong wakeup call and need to build social connections.
When I meet a fan, I always try to learn something about that fan.
How does my music connect to an audience? That is just a complete mystery to me.
I figured if I played in the no-man's land of intimacy, I would learn to be a performer.
We either carry our audience with us, or irritate them.
Live-tweeting your bikini wax is not vulnerability. Nor is posting a blow-by-blow of your divorce. That's an attempt to hot-wire connection. But you can't cheat real connection. It's built up slowly. It's about trust and time.
You can't have people listen to you unless you come to their world and then bring them to yours.
At Microsoft I had many years of experience and history and seeing connections. With my direct reports, the job at Microsoft was to delegate and then be able to properly review, but not to micromanage. To have a way of connecting and integrating without getting in the way.
I think if a personal connection seems far off, I have to work and find a way to bring it closer to me, or I don't feel grounded.
I hang out and sign records for an hour or two hours every night, and I like to hear as many people's stories as I can, because if somebody wants to share their story with me, I want to honor that.
I'm all for any place, any way, any media that can help people connect with somebody and not be lonely.
If a fan approaches me and I feel like they have some kind of agenda, I'm probably gonna get real closed-off and not talk to them. But if I feel a connection with someone, or if I feel a certain trust with somebody, I feel like, 'You know what, I can open up to this person and tell them about an experience.'
When it comes to creating emotional wellbeing, we are only going to achieve this, I believe, if we help each other in that effort. Part of that is reaching out and building social connections in people who may not always have the social connections or the support that they need.
Own your failure openly, publicly, with genuine regret but absolutely no shame, and you’ll reap a harvest of forgiveness, trust, respect, and connection-the things you thought you’d get by succeeding. Ironic, isn’t it?
I just want to be able to communicate with my fan base.
We're not really in the real-estate space so much as we are the community-building space.
Communication is to relationships what breath is to life.
Being a host is about being able to communicate and build up a rapport with the audience.
Look at an interview as an organic part of building a relationship.
I don't know if I ever really considered making a connection with the audience.
