Tuesday, March 27, 2007

Rapid Networking

Networking... meeting of the minds or just knocking heads together?



I attended the first of many speed networking events this afternoon. It was in college Park, Orlando and was packed (50+) attendees. Mostly small business owners, many real-estate related companies including mortgage brokers, title companies, etc. Some larger companies (Verizon, etc) but more often than not everyone there was a SBO/SB Marketer.



After the lunch (which was full of onions) and then fighting through the unbearable din of all the concurrent conversations, it was a productive afternoon. We picked up a number of promising leads as well as a few potential partners, wherein our existing partnership model will provide added benefits to them at a bearable expense.



On a very important side note: never, EVER server onions or heavily spiced foods at networking events. By the end of the afternoon, many attendees weren't even bothering to hide their burps--nothing like making a good impression on potentials.









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