I’ve tried the repeating trick and it helps, but you have to remember to do it. Plus, you have to admit that it makes you sound a little weird (doesn’t that paragraph sound like something out of The Shining? Just change the name from Jim to Johnny…)

At conferences where I speak, I’m totally overwhelmed — everybody knows who I am, but I’m just one person to them, and they’re very plenty in number! Two conferences ago I came up with the idea of asking people to pose for a photo with their business card. Then I can look through my iPhoto library when I have a business card to match to a face OR when I need to match a face to a name.