Sentences with phrase «schmoozing over»

Valentine's Day is the day of the year everyone expects you to be dating or schmoozing over someone, for better or for worse!

When people think of PR, they often think of communication pros schmoozing over cocktails.

I can visit editors at their offices and schmooze over lunch,» says top literary agent Nat Sobel.

Go out to lunch for Chinese food, dragging my trading notebook, and a sheaf of research with me, and schmooze over the data while there was no Bloomberg terminal in front of me.

But Skype, he contends, can often do the same work as face - to - face business meetings, if you can sacrifice the post-meeting schmooze over cocktails.

Not exact matches

Luckey's decision to prioritize actual work on his product over schmoozing with the head of the largest social networking site in the world may have conveyed the founder's unabashed confidence in the headset his startup had created.

Warkentin, a self - described introvert, has been in marketing for over a decade, but this new position is a step up on the schmoozing scale.

So if you're a young entrepreneur more comfortable updating your social networks or pouring over your business plan than schmoozing at parties, what's to be done?

He had spent the last year or so making pre-candidate moves, including speeches from Queens to Chautauqua County, schmoozing with Republican leaders in Albany and producing an ad that attacked Cuomo, a Democrat who says he will seek a third term in office this year, over his stewardship of New York City's subways.

And just last week a Guardian article about «the most schmoozed councillor in politics» detailed the deputy leader of Westminster Council who has had over 500 pieces of extravagant corporate entertainment over the past three years.

Many associate networking with schmoozing, gossiping, empty flattery, shameless self - promotion, and other uncomfortable things done with strangers over cheese cubes and wine in plastic cups.

Forget schmoozing, gossiping, and shameless self - promotion over cheese cubes and plastic cups of wine.

I'm also a little shocked to see «Philomena» make the final list (that one reeks of the Harvey Weinstein School of Schmoozing), especially over the likes of Palm d'Or winner «Blue is the Warmest Color,» which was ineligible for Best Foreign Language Film due to a silly technicality.

Over the past two years whilst BlackBerry has been rebooting, the company has put a staggering amount of effort into schmoozing developers into developing apps for the platform.

So the reasons why American Funds continue their lock on the BDs is because they, their clients, and their Reps just don't know any better; they don't know how to properly compare investment performance, are lazy, it's still is the best way to maximize income and do the least work, habit, it's the path of least resistance that's been working great for over three decades, armies of wholesalers are out schmoozing via free expensive meals and passing out cool stuff daily, then there's the conferences prizes and rewards, and last but never least, regulators haven't gotten around to doing anything about these types of gray - area abuses yet.

The town of Aspen is beautiful, safe, wealthy, and removed from most of the grittier issues tackled over the week - long marathon of panels, tutorials, and well - fed schmoozing.

And let's face it, solicitors ought to have an advantage over barristers in attracting clients direct as solicitors are, supposedly, more «experienced» at schmoozing prospective and existing clients.

If you've ever felt like you were passed over by the schmooze fairy, these networking tips for the introverted professional will help you draw others to your newly charismatic self:

Staffers constantly ply the phones, write prospecting letters, throw networking events and schmooze brokers, all in search of an advantage over the competition.