PREDICTION: Business Networking's Momentous Changes Coming in 2024
It's time to prepare for a major disruption in the business networking space for the upcoming year. The future of networking is strategic.
Many professionals do not network effectively and often waste time, money, and resources on their networking efforts. Traditional business networking organizations are very antiquated, expensive, and ineffective.
More than ever, business people have limited budgets, scarce resources, and little time to effectively network and develop valuable business relationships.
The old way of networking needs to go. The new way is right around the corner.
The Old Way
Traditional business networking
Closed groups - restrict “outside” networking
One-size-fits-all structure
Cookie-cutter meeting formats
Strict rules and regulations
The New Way
Strategic networking
Open groups - encourage “outside” networking
Custom structures
Creative meeting formats
Flexible policies and helpful guidelines
I imagine there will be a day when the strategic networking model will be taught at every school, implemented at every organization, and used by professionals throughout the world.
Update on week 2 of the “100 Days of Social Networking” Experiment
The 100 Days of Social Networking Experiment is plugging along! Not a whole lot of traction yet but I am still optimistic and learning a ton about social media.
Here are some of the Networking Tips I posted this past week on social media:
On LinkedIn …
On X (formerly known as Twitter) …
On Facebook …
On Instagram …
It’s certainly been an interesting week 2 of activity from my postings! I look forward to sharing my social networking tips and insights in the upcoming weeks as my experiment continues on …
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