Last week, while at a networking event, I met a man called Mark. Here is a transcript of our conversation:
Me: “Hello there Mark, I’m Charlie – what do you do?”
Mark: “I’m an accountant.”
Me: “Oh.”
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Last week, while at a networking event, I met a man called Mark. Here is a transcript of our conversation:
Me: “Hello there Mark, I’m Charlie – what do you do?”
Mark: “I’m an accountant.”
Me: “Oh.”
Christmas is coming… and I’ve been invited to another networking event. What joy…! Another bunch of people I don’t know. I know I should engage in small talk. I know I should be looking to generate some new business. I know I should give out lots of business cards, at which point they’ll give me theirs. I know that when I get back to the office in January I’ll do absolutely nothing with the cards I’ve collected.
What’s flying got to do with it?
I travelled to the UK recently for a couple of days BNI training with my team. As I was walking through London’s Heathrow Airport looking for the taxi driver who was due to pick us all up, an airline representative came up to me and asked me “Can I help you? Are you one of our customers?” [click to continue…]