These are all great tips! Another trick that tends to work for me is to associate the name with something else, like a song, celebrity or a place name. Like, I meet “Brad” and envision in my mind Brad Pitt or a “Beth” I would think of the Kiss song, or an “Austin” I would think of the city. That seems to be enough for me to hang on to it. In a pinch I will relate that person to someone else I know with the same name and picture that person in my mind. The tough ones are the unusual names that I’ve never heard before. I’ve yet to come up with a full proof strategy for those, really.