The Networking Nightmare / bummer: you walk into a networking event and everybody’s talking to everybody. Darn! Now what? Go home? Use this as an excuse to leave? Hang on, I’ve got you covered! Several tips: one today, more later. Tip number one: get there early. That’s right; “Fashionably late” does not apply to networking […]
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Year: 2012
Are You Networking or Socializing?
There are several articles that denounce socializing as trivial, boring; a waste of time. As if it’s the Amateur-Hour version of actual, business networking. I see it differently. Very differently. Socializing can lead to Networking: it’s honest, disarming, refreshing. It sneaks up on people. It somehow seems easier than the potentially intimidating “networking.” People fall […]