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Business Networking is alot like great French bread the formulation for hosting a award winning networking event are not complex yet the way you combine them make the difference between a wonderful treat and saw dust.

First Ingredient: Begin with a bountiful amount of promotions. List your networking event in every listing service possible and don’t forget every place that your ideal attendees are likely to look for networking events. Creating a Who’s Who guest list of attendees requires promotion, especially in Long Island! Show stopping Long Island networking events begin and end with proper leverage. Showcase your networking events wherever and whenever your audience go to plan their week and that usually invloves an online networking calendar like Networking Event Finder’s Long Island Networking Guide.

Second Ingredient: Make sure that your audience knows the precise nature of your networking group. Whether you’re a Chamber of Commerce, Referral Club, Women’s Networking Group, Open Networking Group, Business Association, Special Interest Group or Business Opportunity Meeting make sure that you promote the exact type of networking event you run. Nothing frustrates networking event attendees more that wasting both time and money to attend a networking groups in Long Island only to learn that the group is not what they desired it to be. Angry prospects complain to at least 10 people! The cost of upset clients is your networking groups success.

Third Ingredient: Create an ideal venue for your networking group and networking event. You may be surprised how much business is lost due to bad Long Island networking venues. The right array of price, service, ambiance and location will reward you well. Having a networking venue that is too large, too small, too noisy or has an awkward design distracts attendees and they forget the purpose for the networking event in the first place.

In a Los Angeles where both time and money are in short supply, the need for excellent networking events has never been greater. By properly combining the right networking event marketing, the right networking group description and the right networking venue you will leave a wonderful experience for your networking event attendees and happy networking event attendees only tell one or two people about their experience, but they usually invite them along the next time.

Elevator Fun

I went to  LA’s Bigest Business Networking Mixer the other week at the Shrine Auditorium.  Huge Expos are like Six Flags for me! Not only did I meet several of my friends from online but I met a WHOLE bunch of recent colleague, and learned about some new referal for Networking Event Finders.com. Be that as it may a amusing thing happened on the way to the auto  I parked my car at the very top of the building (got a spectacular photo of the Los Angeles ) and at the end of the expo, when a quite a few of us got on the elevator what do you think happened? Zip, Zilch! We all stood there like zombies staring at each other. I had to do something, so I said..”OKPeople exchange cards! Who wants to give a quick30 second Speech? Now everyone is laughing and digging out their cards I held up a fist full of cards and said, “Who wants the Los Angeles Networking Guide?” Everyone reached for a business card.   Read more…@ Networking Event Finders Website

Wave Sayonara to the Sticky Name Tag

Greetings! At this time we are so excited to tell you about our next newsletter sponsoradvertiser.  And I can’t imagine of a more perfect fit; Nametag.com for Networking Event Finders reader deals).  Everyone who has been reading my stuff knows that Mindy Selinger isa HUGE advocate of name tags for business networking (the amount of my nametag-related attest to that). Thing is, I’d normally suggest going to a local stationary store to order them (yeah like that’s gonna get done anytime in the near future). But now there is an easier way, NameTag.com. In five minutes and a few clicks of the mouse, a new name tag is yours for $12.50 + shipping! How wonderful is that?  Read more…@ Networking Events Finders Website

For The Networking Jobseeker

As The Govenator puts it, the “Good, Bad & the Ugly” of the CA budget issue has been decided and it looks like huge layoffs are counted uponhere. What that means your business networking events are going to see additional jobseekers, pink “slip mixers” and career fairs than ever (the latter assumes there are still companies hiring). In conversations I’ve had with networking event hosts across the country, they tell me that they are all experiencing a up stat in the number of people who attend who list themselves as looking for work.  Most of these people have been out of the networking loop for a while. I thought I would roll out some quick networking Do’s & Don’ts for the networking Jobseeker:   Read more… @ Networking Event Finders Website