If you are going to meet a group such as at a party, begin by working deliberate ly. Decide to circulate and make an effort to meet everyone. After you’ve met two or at most three, stop and look back and repeat to yourself the names of those three you just met. Then go on. Keep rechecking every three names visually and you’ll have made. It’s all a question of careful handling. If it’s a cocktail party, nurse that first drink until ou’ve met everyone. Alcohol increases your self-confidence but ruins your memory. I often will give everyone in the room that I plan to meet an identifying description so that I have every single person uniquely catalogued in my mind. I call this…giving people a See- Tag. Based on how I see ‘em is how I tag ‘em. Examples are: Big ears, blue suspenders red vest, silver suit, etc. This is only necessary for the first five minutes or so — after that, you’ll just “know everyone’s names.”

4. HOW TO REMEMBER NUMBERS:
A. PRACTICAL POINTERS FOR REMEMBERING NUMBERS
Now let’s talk about the easy way to remember numbers. A few people have excellent number memories and they won’t need this. But numbers do play an important role in our lives. Time is becoming more and more precious. Time wasted in looking up telephone or other numbers is money out of your pocket.

In addition to this, the person who can remember form numbers, marketing or other business data, regulation numbers and other business figures impresses others favorably with his knowledge. This leads to praises and raises.

The problem with most numbers is that they have no meaning. I’m sure that when we had word prefixes for telephone exchanges more of us remembered them easily than we do the three digit prefixes. Some people still make words out of the letters of the telephone dial to take care of the three figure prefix. Thus 432 spells IDA, 487 ITS, 762 SOB, 344 FIG and 349 FIX. Sometimes you will see a telephone number advertised as a word. For instance, one company advertises dial C -A-R-P-E-T-S for carpets. Another says dial C-A-R-E-E-R-S for job placement. Our Institute’s number is 1-800-REMINDS.

Taken From: Mega Workbook Memory