Will Networking For Food - Networking Leads to Business Lunch

Will Network For Food

Posted on 27. Feb, 2009 by Craig Peters in Uncategorized

It would be more accurate to say “Will Network for Business Lunch.” In case you missed Richard’s post on our other blog earlier this week, he lays out an 8-point networking process that you can follow for your next networking event.

What’s the best way to follow up with key people after a networking event? Take them to lunch.

I don’t consider a networking event a success for me unless I get a lunch or two out of it. If I take someone to lunch, it means I want them to be a member of my core network and not just filler. In fact, networking is just a way for me to get to lunch. Why? Because I know that if our various offerings make sense, I can close anybody over lunch. A well-executed lunch is the single best way to generate Social Capital quickly and efficiently. Lunch is where actual business can start and you have to do it right. We’ll get into that next.

Richard is going to get into setting up the lunch more in a future post, which we’ll likey publish here. Stay tuned.