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Hit up 12 Dallas networking events in one month and only got 1 real lead
Honestly I thought grinding face-to-face would blow up my pipeline fast. I went to 12 different meetups and chamber mixers in March, shook like 200 hands, and left with exactly one solid lead from a guy named Mike who runs a print shop. Ngl I learned that quality beats quantity hard, most of those events were just people swapping business cards with no follow-up plan. How do you guys filter out the useless networking events before you even go?
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margaret2348d ago
Mike from the print shop is solid but 11 duds out of 12 sounds about right for most networking events. I've been doing this for years and honestly you can't really filter them out before you go because every group has its own energy that week. The trick is to stop treating them like a numbers game and start looking for the 2 or 3 people who actually listen and ask follow up questions during small talk. If you're just swapping cards and not having real conversations about problems people need solved you're wasting time. Next time try going to 2 or 3 events max but stay the whole time and focus on deep chats with just a handful of people. The best leads come from building a bit of trust first not from a stack of cards you'll never call.
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Yeah it's kinda like how everyone thinks they need to go to every happy hour or block party to meet people but really you just end up with a bunch of random contacts you never talk to again. The whole "more is better" thing falls apart when you realize most people at those events are just as lost as you are, just standing around waiting for something to happen.
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