What's the worst bit of networking advice you've been given?
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Posted: 8th Aug 2012 - 06:25 Quote |
What's the worst bit of networking advice you've been given? |
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Posted: 8th Aug 2012 - 06:40 Quote |
Work the room. Not in a good way, but in the "grab peoples' hands & shove a business card in them" way. Luckily, I only tried it once before deciding I couldn't bring myself to do it again. Now I just try to make new friends & help people. |
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Posted: 8th Aug 2012 - 07:23 Quote |
If you give me £100 I can introduce you to the man you need to speak to ti get business. You will also have to pay him something personally also! I was shocked and then walked out of the meeting. |
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Posted: 8th Aug 2012 - 09:21 Quote |
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If you give me £100 I can introduce you to the man you need to speak to ti get business. You will also have to pay him something personally also! I was shocked and then walked out of the meeting. "LOL" - what a tossa
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Posted: 8th Aug 2012 - 09:39 Quote |
Was a very old school closed network, attended because it was full of some real big boys from the construction industry, but was all about backhanders and not relastionship building. |
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Robert Terry Nationwide Ventilation LTD Tel: 01634 811116 Fax: 01634 811131 Mobile: 07968 533734 Email: robert@kitchenextractsystems.com Twitter: @Rob_Terry_1 30 Second Avenuve, Chatham, Kent. ME4 5AU
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Posted: 8th Aug 2012 - 11:25 Quote |
"Can all the visitors please follow me into this side room" |
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Posted: 8th Aug 2012 - 11:28 Quote |
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"Can all the visitors please follow me into this side room" Yes, I've been to the networking organisation.
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Posted: 8th Aug 2012 - 11:36 Quote |
"Make sure you dominate the 1-2-1s. To have a chance of making a sale, you need to get them to listen to you more than the other way round." (not an exact quote, but pretty much what one 4Ner told me in my early days). |
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Posted: 8th Aug 2012 - 11:45 Quote |
I think the vast majority of advice is bad advice, if you are not being yourself and selling through the room then you are basically doing it wrong I recently read a book on networking techniques that covered everything from looking at the way people stood in groups to making sure you said x, y and z and asked for a follow up meetings. I had the put the book down and walk away from it because if I tried to remember it all I would either be a robot or I would be tripping over my own toungue trying to remember everything I had to do. |
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Posted: 8th Aug 2012 - 11:50 Quote |
An old rule of training is: Don't speak too much or explain too much about what people should NOT do. I am therefore not sure if we should indulge too much into this. Tempting as it is. |
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Posted: 8th Aug 2012 - 11:55 Quote |
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"Make sure you dominate the 1-2-1s. To have a chance of making a sale, you need to get them to listen to you more than the other way round." (not an exact quote, but pretty much what one 4Ner told me in my early days). And the other side of this particular coin: "don't talk about yourself at all. Ask continuous questions about the other person and their business to ensure you establish your interest". Having been on the receiving end of people who seem to be doing an impression of Magnus Magnersson conducting a CIA interoggation, it's just frankly unsettling / creepy. It's a conversation ffs, it doesn't require 'tactics'.
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Posted: 8th Aug 2012 - 12:03 Quote |
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"Make sure you dominate the 1-2-1s. To have a chance of making a sale, you need to get them to listen to you more than the other way round." (not an exact quote, but pretty much what one 4Ner told me in my early days). And the other side of this particular coin: "don't talk about yourself at all. Ask continuous questions about the other person and their business to ensure you establish your interest". Having been on the receiving end of people who seem to be doing an impression of Magnus Magnersson conducting a CIA interoggation, it's just frankly unsettling / creepy. It's a conversation ffs, it doesn't require 'tactics'.
Had a few of those!
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Posted: 8th Aug 2012 - 12:06 Quote |
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Was a very old school closed network, attended because it was full of some real big boys from the construction industry, but was all about backhanders and not relastionship building. As they say in the Construction Indudustry '' It's not what you know, but who you know''
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Posted: 8th Aug 2012 - 13:53 Quote |
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