Young and Employed » networking activities http://youngandemployed.com Perspectives on business from young marketing and public relations professionals Fri, 06 Aug 2010 13:11:35 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Networking for smart dummies http://youngandemployed.com/2009/07/20/networking-for-smart-dummies/ http://youngandemployed.com/2009/07/20/networking-for-smart-dummies/#comments Mon, 20 Jul 2009 19:33:34 +0000 Francisco http://youngandemployed.com/?p=91 Not too long ago, a wise man  I truly respect with business advice, told me: “in business, anything you would say during a normal conversation, will be accepted as networking…“; today I got to prove it.

Someone gave my name as a reference for a service I use as part of my marketing efforts (not to mention that I made some profit out of it) and I managed to turn the call into what seems to be a great opportunity in disguise.

It took me 10 minutes on the phone to learn that everything I’ve heard about the Research Triangle Park in N.C. is true, and at the same time I managed to make a contact in the Marketing world over there, someone nice to talk to and who could open some doors for me.

We have all heard about Networking activities, dinners and such, but could it be that just having your eyes open for the right kind of people would prove more successful than walking around with your resume in one hand and a martini in the other to one of those networking cocktails?

I would like to hear some networking experiences.  How do you network your professional career?

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