Post by Kevin on Aug 22, 2008 8:19:08 GMT -5
Just a observation from the last meeting.
1-Get to the meeting early, you get first crack at the food (yum), and the option for more personal business conversations. (If your the first person in the room, you know when someone new arrives and you can greet each person)
2-Don`t go to the meeting planning on making a sale, go to the meeting to meet new people. Plan on enjoying yourself first, while promoting your business second.
3-There are alot of other businesses in here. Do not have the attitude that the person you meet should be solely doing business with you, and not the other business. Think of ways you can compliment the existing program.
4- Don`t be quick to rush out when the meeting is over, as in any corporate structure. Real business happens after the meeting.
5- Follow up with the people you met, and avoid the hard sale technique. See if you can schedule time with such person to tell them more about your services or products. The business dance is a courting procedure. In some cases the courting procedure may take months till the other person is comfortable enough to do business with you. Go to meetings with the attitude (once again) of enjoying yourself and meeting new people.
6-If you ain`t seen, you ain`t heard. Go to lots of meetings, to continue to meet new people. There will always be someone at the meeting you have not met. Communicate with the people you met last time that you want to do business with, see if they will be there, make plans for food or drink before or after the meeting.
All else fails, start over at step #1
1-Get to the meeting early, you get first crack at the food (yum), and the option for more personal business conversations. (If your the first person in the room, you know when someone new arrives and you can greet each person)
2-Don`t go to the meeting planning on making a sale, go to the meeting to meet new people. Plan on enjoying yourself first, while promoting your business second.
3-There are alot of other businesses in here. Do not have the attitude that the person you meet should be solely doing business with you, and not the other business. Think of ways you can compliment the existing program.
4- Don`t be quick to rush out when the meeting is over, as in any corporate structure. Real business happens after the meeting.
5- Follow up with the people you met, and avoid the hard sale technique. See if you can schedule time with such person to tell them more about your services or products. The business dance is a courting procedure. In some cases the courting procedure may take months till the other person is comfortable enough to do business with you. Go to meetings with the attitude (once again) of enjoying yourself and meeting new people.
6-If you ain`t seen, you ain`t heard. Go to lots of meetings, to continue to meet new people. There will always be someone at the meeting you have not met. Communicate with the people you met last time that you want to do business with, see if they will be there, make plans for food or drink before or after the meeting.
All else fails, start over at step #1
