No matter what your social status is or how popular you are, everyone wants to be better liked. While popularity is often about having a factor that everyone envies, being liked is a mutual avenue that you can open to more and more people by honing a few skills. Besides, who doesn’t want to be the person everyone loves?

Building a knack for getting people to love you can start right here with that first impression that’s oh-so-crucial. Make a positive impression with your speech, friendliness, and appearance.

If there is one kind of person who knows how to be extremely likeable (or dislikeable), it’s a celebrity. We can take some cues from the ones we love the most - Julia Roberts, Jennifer Aniston, or Brad Pitt. For celebrities, getting people, whether it’s agents, reporters, or fans, to like them is their bread and butter.

What separates stars from the rest is that they create a network of people that are also likeable by getting out to parties and award ceremonies. By constantly attending public gatherings to meet people, they can use the power of the face-to-face meeting to introduce themselves and charm important people. And celebrities do it naturally; putting their charm into motion is not something that’s calculated.

Mingling

Getting people to like you is about getting people to know you! A party is a great place to improve your likeability. The more people you can approach, the greater your odds of making a positive impression. Schmoozing is part of the business of celebrity so stars always keep moving to the next person who can promote their image or land them a role.

Working the room is learning the art of excusing one's self from a conversation politely and introducing one's self to more people. But before you leave, you’ll leave the promise of following up another time (thus the famous phrase, "Let’s do lunch!"). Setting a date lets the other person know that you’ve had a great time talking to them and you’d like to do it again. That’s totally flattering, and who doesn’t like a person who’s just paid them a compliment?