Today’s question is pretty simple, what are your thoughts on how many networking events someone should attend?  

I know for me, I have set the number at somewhere around 2-3 a week. But I know of some people that do as many as one every business day. I think that this is pretty heavily tied into yesterday’s question of how many people should you plan to meet at a networking event? Because it all comes down to the numbers. If you know that you need to meet X number of people in order to make enough money then you will need to attend Y number of events where you speak with Z number of people.  

Simple algebra. Course, I never was a math guy.

Thoughts? Hit us up in the comments below. How many events do you attend?

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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?

Hit us up in the comments below!

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