How to be the Most Memorable Person at Networking Events
Most of the people I hear from hate networking. They go only because they know they “should,” but it’s like pulling teeth for them.
If you’ve experienced the usual clammy grip of fear when it’s your time to introduce yourself, the following may help you feel more at home, make deeper, more lasting impressions, and attract voluntary referrals from many of the other attendees.
First, if you want to take some of the pressure off, it can help to consider your first half-dozen events to be nothing but practice.
It helps even more if you go specifically to listen and get to know who’s there, rather than to “sell” your own story. So take along your business cards, but dump your nice four-color 12-page brochures. There’s a better way to make powerful impressions.
Here’s an example that happened to me on Monday.
My wife does a lot of work for an NGO here in Japan that helps North Korean refugees, but I have little direct participation, other than running their English language website ( http://www.northkoreanrefugees.com )....