86: Business Conference Networking Tips - How to Get More Referrals as an Attendee or Speaker

Today's episode is a solo episode and we're going to be talking about conferences or your larger networking meetings that maybe several chapters from a same organization have combined and are going to meet together.

So we're talking about some real serious networking opportunities and this episode is going to be all about how to make the most of those conferences that you're attending or a longer, larger networking meeting.

I've got some tips for you as an attendee and as a speaker.

So I'm gonna cover all sides of your conferences or your larger networking meetings, how to make the most of these networking opportunities that live inside of these kinds of rooms.

Now, first, before I give you the tips, Let's think about who you're meeting in these specific kind of rooms, conferences or larger networking meetings that are longer than normal.

You're going to be meeting those people who are generally more serious about their businesses and they are there to learn.

They're there to meet new people.

So at your normal networking meeting, you may have people who visit who aren't really sure about what they want to do.

They're very new to their business.

They're not sure if networking is even something they want to do.

Maybe somebody has invited them.

They're not sure what they think about it.

Hopefully they're having a great experience so that they do come back.

At your conferences, these are people who are invested in their businesses.

We have conferences around all kinds of things, very specific niche conferences about specific topics in all areas of business.

I was surprised to learn when I was researching for Window Cleaning Plus that there's window cleaning conferences.

That kind of surprised me.

But then the more I think about it, the more it makes sense.

So we want to make the most of these networking rooms.

They really are networking rooms.

They are conference rooms or rooms to learn.

They're also rooms to meet new people, to build more relationships with people who are very serious about their businesses.

So I want to give you some quick tips.

And along the way, I'm going to give you some episodes to listen to some prior episodes of business networking and referrals.

If you haven't listened to them yet, I'm going to be referencing about five prior episodes in this episode.