Written By: Denny Andrews, Author, Speaker and Loan Officer, Bellevue, WA – Master Your Internet Presence: An Outstanding How to Guide that will Streamline, Maximize and Increase Your Business.
It was Tuesday afternoon and all of a sudden, my evening freed up so I jumped online to see what was happening. There were approximately 40 different networking and business meetings going on—all within 25 miles of my city. I found these by going to my iGoogle page and clicking around my different links.
I decided to attend the event that was titled the “Recession-Friendly Networking Event”. It was BYOB and it was free to attend. I decided on that one because in reviewing the website, there were over 160 people that had already signed up for it and in quickly look through their profiles, there were lots of people I was interested in meeting.
My cost was the price of the gas to get there and meeting people that were there for the same reason I was.
I attended an event in the “real world” but the real reason for writing this article is to show you how powerful attending an event from a networking site can be.
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