Social Networking the Old Fashioned Way
Had a busy day today, started at 7 am with a networking breakfast, and that was followed by another quick meeting and then a consulting session with some clients (a team of three).
I’m a bit tuckered out, but today really drove home the point for me that although you can never reach as many people in person as you can with online tools, person-to-person contact (especially in business, obv.) is still number one. After a long day of shaking hands, meeting new people and making presentations, I feel like it was all time well spent. (I hope my colleagues feel the same way about the time they spent with me!)
I’ve met some exciting new clients these past few weeks, and I’ll be rolling out the result of some of our recent work soon, so watch for that.
In the meantime, I’ll leave you with a thought: The reason why I felt today was so productive and fun was that I made so many connections with the people I want to do business with. The same principles apply to online networking and marketing tactics, except that the technology makes it possible to make more of those connections.
And speaking of online networking tools: I’ve just done a re-jig to my MySpace page, (thanks to some code from Rob) and it’s looking more and more like my main site all the time. Had to change my headline on there too, because as Mack points out, MySpace now has over 100 million users.
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August 11th, 2006 at 6:57 pm
Offline networking….I’d heard rumors about that, but didn’t know it existed 😉
August 12th, 2006 at 12:02 am
I know, right? I realized how funny it sounded after I wrote it, but the truth is I have grown accustomed to networking digitally.
Let’s make it a goal to one day shake hands for real, Mack.
August 12th, 2006 at 9:15 am
“Let’s make it a goal to one day shake hands for real, Mack.”
You got it! Come to think of it, if you, Ryan and Erin are all in Vancouver, it must be a pretty cool place to live….hmmmm….ah well I’ll think about that after I make my first million or so from blogging!(LMAO!)
August 12th, 2006 at 10:24 am
Pressing the flesh has its advantages.
woot!
August 12th, 2006 at 6:59 pm
I read your last post on that subject Mack…If you ended up in Vancouver, that would be great! I can imagine it would be a bit of a culture shock compared with Alabama!
It is quite a cool place to live, I highly reccomend it. My one year in Toronto helped me appreciate Vancouver’s beauty and the friendliness of the people that much more.
Plus we’re the home of Nettwerk, flickr, bryght, etc. etc. We’re pretty hip for a bunch of West Coast Canucks!
August 13th, 2006 at 12:03 am
I didn’t know Flickr was there as well, pretty cool.
August 17th, 2006 at 2:58 pm
I’m married to the self-proclaimed “King of Buisness NetWorking”. He spends more time schmoozing in diners than your average person, but he loves it. Somehow his project of creating a network or networkers got my attention, could be because he talks about it night and day, and I joined his merry band of relentless comrades.
Two weeks ago, I started a Group Blog for our team of writers and editors from The National NetWorker (ezine with great content). We want to hear from the country. Tell us about your best networking experiences. Post a comment for any of our writers. Ask and…you just might be surprised!