Only one thing doesn't go right - if you go to organised networking meetings, then everybody is desparate to get your attention (speak: business card) to surely be able to contact you at a later stage again. Those that do are the ones that sell investment proposals, financial advisors, and may be the real estate agents and similar.
Or the jerks.
It could be amusing if not everybody would embark on the same strategy. This was probably the reason why online networks developed, but then - boom - you get jerks as well. May be not real jerks, because I don't know them.
And that is the problem - I get plenty of invitation to my online network from people that have 500 or 5,000 connections already - how do they handle their network, and develop their personal touch? - May be they don't and just like the business card collector, they collect business contact online.
A nice and different type of networking is outlined at the "Selling to Big Companies" blog.
Jill describes a way to organise a networking event and have fun doing it. The organiser of the event she attended to invited her contacts to a canoe networking trip. Participants were linked up, put into a canoe and start to work together.
Not only are you stuck together for a while and you have to figure out how to move the canoe forward (not always easy!), but it provides a common platform for teamwork - and as such, generating friendship.
Great idea - and it is so much easier to do business with friends. How about a networking event to Taman Negara in Malaysia? Or an adventure trip in Kuala Lumpur - three hours traveling through the jams of KL? Surely a truly bonding activity!
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