Networking events do not have to be painful. If you put yourself in the role of sleuth, you will enjoy yourself and still make quality connections !
Have you ever attended a networking event to find connections for other people? Mostlikey not, because it is not what we think to do. We tend to approach networking as missions that sometimes ends up coming across as too aggressive in our approach! If we can muster up every courage at all, we walk up to a likely looking stranger and start grilling them.
If that is what it feels like to you, just think of how much pressure it would take off your shoulders when you go to a mixer or other networking events on someone else’s behalf! Think of all the good karma you’ll generate when search for possible connections for other people. And this is one of the most important principles when working with entrepreneurs ; uplift and support other entrepreneurs. Help them to be successful. Because by doing so, then your connections and relationships can also strengthened and you will win too in the long run.
So for your next events, interview three potential candidates – say for your strategic partner or maybe one of your customers, armed with the information you have collected before (which is their target audience -? Gender? industry? revenue, etc.). Pre-screen the referrals,get the contact information and if you’re really good, go ahead and set up a date and time to make introduction (as we always “going to keep in touch” and then life, work and time intervenes and another chance lost) Best wishes introduction is a personal idea, so why not set up a 3-way breakfast or lunch, or even over a cup of Java, if you are short on time and bring everyone to the table all at the same time ?
Finally, after you have completed this task, you are free to relax and be yourself. And who knows how that will turn out – your’re more approachable, if you are notvisibly stressed out – your next customer perhaps just walk up and find you! Reverse networking is easy and fun.
For entrepreneurs, they could see that the business they own has a large turnover. The problem that an owner can run into is no knowing about the ways that they can carry out some of the necessary staff retention that they need to have. After the owner knows about how they can do this, they will notice that it is not that difficult to keep their staffs happy, but instead it is going to be easy enough to retain the employees that they have.