speed-dating is best known for helping
find that special someone but
professional in business speed
networking events can help strike an
important professional relationship
welcome to watchmojo.com
I’m your host Leila today I’m talking to
the director of meat market adventures
Derek Paulson can you tell us a little
bit about what the professional and
business speed networking event is well
first of all it was based on the idea of
speed-dating which has been very popular
and this is the same idea that people
come to connect with others in a
business sense they are looking for
referrals looking for work looking for
contacts and instead of going to some
boring networking functions with people
they already know they are looking for
branching out and tapping into a pool of
people that they’ve never met before
what kind of professionals should
consider attending this kind of event
everyone who wants to have contact so it
could be blue collar white collar
accountants lawyers as well as people
that do the reaper’s because it’s like
brainstorming but also saying okay if
you’re a lawyer and you need someone to
repair your doors here I am and if I’m
in trouble a legal trouble and I need a
lawyer here is a lawyer would you
recommend it for people with short term
goals or mid term or long term goals
probably short term but you see
relationships it’s not just so much of
who you know but it’s also how well you
know them and what kind of relationship
you have with them so relationships take
time to develop and this is like a
beginning of a short turn in moving into
long-term relationship why do you keep
the group to a small number based on my
personal experience I participated in
twenty five dates once it was just a
speed dating company and everyone had
had chance to me 25 days 5 minutes each
and when I got to the end I did not care
anymore it was a mother Teresa or
Schwarzenegger it did not make sense to
me anyway I think that 16 is the optimal
number so you get to have a chance to
meet 15 people and with everyone five to
seven minutes what tips do you have for
people before they attend a speed
networking event very important is to
prepare so I have lists of questions to
ask and also when you come don’t expect
that you’ll be just taking taking taking
it’s a give-and-take relationship
business relationships are not so much
about competition as cooperation
actually if you look at nature some
people argue to be in the competition
and others argue it was a cooperation
that was stronger and I think in
business relationships its cooperation
between people which makes things to
work more efficiently thank you very
much Derek and we have to watch mojo
find that special someone but
professional in business speed
networking events can help strike an
important professional relationship
welcome to watchmojo.com
I’m your host Leila today I’m talking to
the director of meat market adventures
Derek Paulson can you tell us a little
bit about what the professional and
business speed networking event is well
first of all it was based on the idea of
speed-dating which has been very popular
and this is the same idea that people
come to connect with others in a
business sense they are looking for
referrals looking for work looking for
contacts and instead of going to some
boring networking functions with people
they already know they are looking for
branching out and tapping into a pool of
people that they’ve never met before
what kind of professionals should
consider attending this kind of event
everyone who wants to have contact so it
could be blue collar white collar
accountants lawyers as well as people
that do the reaper’s because it’s like
brainstorming but also saying okay if
you’re a lawyer and you need someone to
repair your doors here I am and if I’m
in trouble a legal trouble and I need a
lawyer here is a lawyer would you
recommend it for people with short term
goals or mid term or long term goals
probably short term but you see
relationships it’s not just so much of
who you know but it’s also how well you
know them and what kind of relationship
you have with them so relationships take
time to develop and this is like a
beginning of a short turn in moving into
long-term relationship why do you keep
the group to a small number based on my
personal experience I participated in
twenty five dates once it was just a
speed dating company and everyone had
had chance to me 25 days 5 minutes each
and when I got to the end I did not care
anymore it was a mother Teresa or
Schwarzenegger it did not make sense to
me anyway I think that 16 is the optimal
number so you get to have a chance to
meet 15 people and with everyone five to
seven minutes what tips do you have for
people before they attend a speed
networking event very important is to
prepare so I have lists of questions to
ask and also when you come don’t expect
that you’ll be just taking taking taking
it’s a give-and-take relationship
business relationships are not so much
about competition as cooperation
actually if you look at nature some
people argue to be in the competition
and others argue it was a cooperation
that was stronger and I think in
business relationships its cooperation
between people which makes things to
work more efficiently thank you very
much Derek and we have to watch mojo
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