What can you do to prepare for a networking event? How can you gain that competitive advantage? There are several parts to this – we need to be prepared, educated and informed. This will always give you the upper hand and improve the effectiveness and efficiency of your networking at the events and most importantly your results afterwards. Preparation is key for anything we do in life. Look at athletes – they spend countless hours practicing over and over again for their performance in the game. Why should it be any different in networking? So what is basic preparation in…
How can networking be different? Isn’t it all about meeting people and looking for ways to help each other in business? Well, yes but….how you do that can be significantly altered. How do you connect? The Swap The Biz philosophy on networking is all about connecting socially first, for the purpose of business. It is actually quite simple and I am sure after reading this you will agree that it makes sense. Typically, the first question we ask at a networking event is what? “So, what do you do for a living?”. Now, in theory it makes perfect sense –…
When you are at an event, do you find yourself searching for conversation? You never know what to ask. Are there dead spots in the conversations? Well, look no further….