Top Tips on Networking
Over 4,000 business people attend our events each year and Chamber events are established as one of the best networking providers in the region.
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Top Tips on Networking
- Use the back of your business card to describe how your product or service can help people in business
- Sharpen up your conversational and listening skills
- Ask open ended questions Who, What, Where, When, Why, How, Which, then listen
- Network with a view to building relationships
- Tell people about yourself in a powerful, positive and persuasive way, saying who you are and how you can help people in business
- Plan your networking and work your plan
- Make business friends, and keep an open mind to helping them
- Word of mouth is a powerful medium and your business contacts are more likely to remember you when an opportunity comes along, if you are clear about your business benefits
- Do your research - who is likely to be there and what do you wish to achieve?
- Be prepared to give away free information, and share your experience
- Introduce people to one another
- Follow up, take business cards and write reinforcing your verbal message
- Don’t be shy; it’s a business event so others will be open to you introducing yourself
Choose quality not quantity; the Chamber holds events at different interesting venues throughout the year, providing the perfect opportunity for our members to meet like minded local firms.
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