Time to Mingle

 It’s time to start meeting your fellow partygoers and impressing them with your warm and witty repartee. But how do you do that?

Just Look Around and Smile

You’ve arrived on time, by yourself or not, with a gift in hand or simply your presence as your present. You know what you want to accomplish, and you have conversational topics in the back pocket of your carefully selected outfit (which, by the way, makes you look like a million bucks). It's time to shine.

Give Yourself a Job

If you feel intensely awkward about standing in the middle of the room and smiling, or actually approaching someone else. “If you know the host, see if you can help serve drinks.” You could also offer to help take coats, clear used glasses or open the door as people knock. 

Make the Small Talk

You could ask a question: 

• What do you do? 
• Been to any concerts lately?
• Where were you raised?
• Do you like that beer?
• Did you take the train here?

Or give a compliment: 

• I like your hair. 
• That’s a cool shirt. 
• Congrats on that promotion. 

Whatever you do, do say hello, and be genuine. “If you’re the type who walks into a room and you don’t know what to say and you don’t say hello, never think they’re going to give you the benefit of the doubt. They’re going to think you’re avoiding them or a snob,”  “If you don’t remember someone’s name, go over and say: ‘I don’t remember your name. I feel like an idiot, can you remind me?’”