Connecting With New People in a Business Meet

LIBERTYVILLE, Ill. - July 27, 2015 - PRLog -- Business seminars, conferences and meets are the best places to extend your business network and know new people. But, feeling restrained is natural when you are in an unfamiliar crowd. Business meets are more about taking an initiative than just waiting for the people to come and socialize with you. Also, in meets or seminars, knowing the people who are of your interest requires a strategy to make your conversation a thriving one. Out of a horde, interacting with the selective people is more important than mingling with everyone in a meet or a conference.

Initiate Through a Common Friend

In the conference if you have any common business friend of yours, then, seek their help in getting acquainted. Ask them to introduce you to significant beings in the meet. Your friend will serve as a bridge for the mutual benefits of your and new people. Instead of running into an ineffective conversation with everyone out there in the business meets, use your contacts to meet the apt people and save your time.

Don’t Run Behind More

Once your conversation is initiated in the business community meet, don’t divert your focus by getting involved into inept chats. It is more important to focus on those 3-4 contacts that can be in the list of your potential clients, partners or followers in the future.

If you are initiating a conversation yourself, then initiate it on a morning coffee get-together or a buffet saying something like “Hi I am… What do you think about today’s breakfast? I feel it is delicious.” And from there you can take the conversation further.

Why Are You Attending This Conference?

Always remember the reason why you are investing time in this conference. You are in the conference to meet new people and expand your professional network and gather valuable business information. Spend most of your time meeting knowing strangers rather than interacting with the people to whom you already know. Don’t end up wasting this opportunity by seeing the familiar faces. Open up to sit together and have a chit-chat with an unfamiliar. Make sure at the end of the meet you get to know 3-4 individuals in your business stream.

Search the Positive Zone

Look for those people who are most likely to interact positively. If you see a group of people interacting with new people around, don’t delay to approach such a group. Also, find those who are from your business stream or who are waiting for people to come and interact with them.

Raise a Common Topic
People get involved in conversations when any topic seems to them of their interest or if there is anything on which they can contribute their opinions. You can interact about the scheduled events in conference or arrangements of the conference. It is not necessary to begin and end at business talks. Conversation is complete when it is done on a light note as well. You can revolve around general interests like politics, sports or famous restaurants and pubs in the city.

Don’t Forget To Follow-Up

Once the conference is over, for many people new connections become just a biz card or a name in their phonebook. Taking follow up with people you met in the conference is mandatory to take further your professional relationship. Your business contacts are valuable. Not immediately, but, sometime in the future they may be helpful in your professional augmentation. You can send them professional greetings on occasions like birthday or New Year to stay connected in a nice way.

Remember the motto of business conferences and meets is to provide a launch pad from where you can take your business to the new heights. Make the most out of your time keeping focused approach rather than just collecting brochures & business cards and ending up at Zilch.