BRX Pro Tip: 4 Places to Look for Your Next Networking Event
Stone Payton: [00:00:00] Welcome back to Business RadioX Pro Tips. Stone Payton and Lee Kantor here with you. Lee, where do you look for upcoming networking events that you feel like are going to be productive for you?
Lee Kantor: [00:00:14] I subscribe to a lot of newsletters. I go online a lot to see what’s out there. But I think that if I was brand new into a community or I just maybe was working in a corporate job and I was like, “Okay. I want to plug into the business community here,” some of the places I’d look, first, I would go to the Chamber of Commerce. I think that’s an obvious one. If you go to the Chamber of Commerce, they do events all the time.
Lee Kantor: [00:00:36] I would also check out some of the general business associations in the niche, whatever I am working in, to see what kind of events that they’re putting together. Another place to look are kind of co-working spaces and startup incubators. Those are always doing events and they’re a great place to plug into a community. A third place to look would be any industry specific associations and groups that are out there. There’s a lot of those and you’ll find events happening there throughout the year.
Lee Kantor: [00:01:07] And lastly, and probably younger people are better at this than I am, but there are so many online directories and groups out there that you can plug in online, and then a lot of them do in-person events as well, like meetup.com or Reddit or LinkedIn groups or Facebook groups. Find a group that kind of matches your interests there, and then see if they’re putting together in real life events. And if they’re not, maybe you should be the one that’s organizing that event for them because that’s a great way to put yourself at the center of these groups.
Lee Kantor: [00:01:36] So, that’s something that I would think about if I was new to networking in a community. I would want to plug in in-person and meet some folks that might help me grow my business.
