4. Networking =
the developing of contacts or exchanging of
information with others in an informal network, as
to further a career
5. “Rolodex power. Your power is almost
directly proportional to the thickness of your
Rolodex, and the time you spend
maintaining it. Put bluntly the most potent
people I've known have been the best
networkers -- they ‘know everybody from
everywhere’ and have just been out to lunch
with most of them.”
-Tom Peters (1942 -), The Pursuit of Wow
10. •Professional Industry/Trade Associations
(whatever the profession, there’s a national
association for it)
•Professional General Interest/City groups
(no matter the city, there are people promoting
business in it)
11. •Civic & NonProfit Organizations (wherever
you live, there are do-gooders)
•Personal groups, a.k.a. Happy Hours,
Coffee Clutches, Standing-on-the-sidelines
of kickball games (your friends want to go to
Happy Hour and you meet people!)
12. •AIGA – the professional Assn for Design
•Independent Floral Designers Assn
•(Beer) Brewer’s Assn of MD
•National Association for the
Advancement of Science & Art in
Sexuality (NAASAS).
•The Greater Baltimore Committee (GBC)
13. •ISES – Intl Special Event Society
•NACE – Natl Assn of Catering Executives
•PCMA – Professional Convention
Management Assn
•Visit Baltimore (our local CVB)
•HSMAI – Hospitality Sales & Mktg Assn
•Professional Wedding Guild (MD)
16. Go with another person – and
preferably someone who doesn’t
work for the same company.
(it’s more fun to have a partner and
you won’t look so pathetic standing
alone)
40. “Network Selectively. Nothing
says ‘business newbie’ like
shotgun networking. ‘You
never know when someone
might say yes’ is marketing for
dummies.”
-Steve Pavlina, 10 Business Lessons From a
Snarky Entrepreneur
