Hey Gang,
I know that this has been an area where I have been pretty bad about in my own personal networking. I know of people who attend a networking event and they buzz around the room meeting all kinds of new people. One person in particular is Marcus White. He’ll be at a networking event and it seems like he meets everyone that is in attendance, even if it is a few hundred people.
It is an incredible skill to establish a personal bond with all of those people because sometimes that means that he is only speaking to them for a minute at best.
For me, I tend to only build a connection with a handful of people. I’ll be doing good if I leave a networking event with five business cards with notes on the back of them. It has forced me to be pretty specific about who I talk to and why I speak with them. I know I should be doing better, but I enjoy deeper conversation so I’m always tempted to talk for longer than I should AT the event (I’ve been taught that the deeper conversation SHOULD come later when you meet the contact a second time.)
How many people do you think you should talk to at a networking event? Do you buzz around the room like Marcus or do you only meet a handful of people like myself?
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