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NETWORKING
Part 2 - Events, meetings and seminars.
by Duncan McAdams

In previous articles we have mentioned the need for any businessperson to get out and meet new people and businesses to encourage personal and professional growth. Get out of the cave and check out what others are doing. Get practiced at talking to strangers and build your self-confidence. This helps you from becoming bored and stale and generally uninteresting which you're not of course.

At Marketstorm we average a seminar, new business meeting or some kind of training or event every week to see what other businesses are all about. This presents an opportunity to introduce our business and get contact details of a huge range of different people. Keeping active in business is so important if you wish to grow - and our growth plan has a strong set of goals that we WILL achieve, I hope you are the same!

Here is a couple of examples from the month of May ….

• Xtra awards
• guest speaker at a client's seminar
• looked at three network marketing opportunities and learnt about the power of magnetic fields
• attended a great Lvardas charity fashion event
• Chamber of Commerce entrepreneurs seminar

At the Xtra awards I learnt that vodka and apple with a few unusual floatie bits works well. At some point in the evening a work colleague and I were joined by a last minute arrival who thought as there were three males we should schmooze with three females in front of us - so we did! A good time was had and business cards were exchanged. The Xtra presentation was brilliantly done and congrats to the winners.

Speaking publicly can frighten some or present a relished challenge for others. Any chance for me to speak up and say my bit is another way for me to meet and share ideas with others in business. The company that booked me as a guest speaker was grateful for an outsider to come and motivate their nation wide agents and I had a great time expounding the virtues of smart marketing and motivating them to get on and improve themselves.

The fashion event was fantastic and I took a number of staff members to mix and mingle. We met up with an old client who promptly called us the next day to work on his new business venture.

And so it goes… if you are not out there regularly it's a missed opportunity. Networking does not mean you have to go to boring events or frighten yourself into a corner thinking "I'm too nervy".

Make business and getting new business a pleasure - be committed and you will reap the rewards as we are doing. For June we have three seminars, nine breakfasts, one personal growth lecture and that's just the beginning! Feel free to call me or email if you wish to know more or join us.

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