• It’s all about exchanging information, gaining knowledge and insights, evaluating trends, building networks and feeling the energy of industry pioneers.

  • Face-to-face business meetings afford participants opportunities to develop transparency and trust among each other in ways that are not always possible with other forms of communications.

  • Face-to-face business meetings allow members to evaluate and judge the integrity, competencies and skills (for example, the verbal skills) of other participants and leaders in ways that are not easily evaluated in computer-mediated communications.

  • Face-to-face business meetings provide human contact, which is a fundamental primitive need among human beings, as we are social creatures.

  • The dynamic and fast-expanding business events sector plays a vital role in the professional lives of hundreds of millions of people worldwide by providing settings in which they can meet for the purposes of negotiation, deliberation, motivation, the dissemination of knowledge, and the celebration of their greatest career-related achievements. - Business Events, Rob Davidson

  • Networking: Building relationships, sharing knowledge, and creating opportunities.

  • The concept of networking—building and maintaining social and professional relationships-is as old as human societies. Anthropologists and historians document that people have relied on social ties for survival, trade, and opportunities since ancient times.

  • Real world networking isn’t reaching out to strangers on LinkedIn for coffee chats or emailing people at companies you don’t know/vaguely know asking for a referral. That’s considered cringe and doesn’t even work in an oversaturated market where everyone else is also doing that.

  • Many people are looking at networking incorrectly. Networking is not going door to door talking to people to get a job. Networking is making regular connections for years so when you eventually need a new job you have people to reach out to OR (best case scenario) when people have something open up, you are on their mind to call. If you need a job asap, beginning networking from ground 0 is not going to help you. You may as well just apply online.

  • Talking to someone once is not networking. Going on events where you meet people when you don’t need anything from them and connect on a professional level over a repeated period of time might be networking: they have a sense of you and what you would be good at.

  • Building your network is like gardening. It’s a long term activity that requires regular attention. “Seeds” which in this case are your interactions with other people, your contributions to conversations, perhaps answering their questions, etc take time to grow. Nothing just pops up. And you need to keep those seeds watered which really means follow ups, sharing stuff that is relevant, etc. Then as it has been pointed out, “they have a sense of your and what you would be good at” or perhaps, what you offer.

  • Sastanci uživo sudionicima pružaju prilike za razvijanje transparentnosti i međusobnog povjerenja na načine koji nisu uvijek mogući u drugim oblicima komunikacije.

  • Umrežavanje nije samo povezivanje ljudi. Radi se o povezivanju ljudi s ljudima, ljudi s idejama i ljudi s prilikama.

  • You can not e-mail a handshake (swisscircle)

  • Networking is at the heart of many human activities: We are social animals and love to meet new, interesting people. Julia Schaletzky

  • A big part of networking is helping others; it lays the foundation for a reciprocal, mutually beneficial relationship. Julia Schaletzky

  • And it is ideal to develop a strong network in times when you can give to others, so people are ready to help when you need it—for example, in case of a sudden layoff or life change. Julia Schaletzky

  • “forget networking and embrace relationships. Networking is 9 to 5, relationships are forever”. For networking to be effective, don’t try to make it effective, try to make it meaningful. Shelley Zallis

  • My hot take: You should treat networking the same as making friends, just with a little more professionalism. Answer questions normally, talk normally, and have conversations about normal things. No one at heart likes talking a ton about work. And if you don’t like someone’s vibe, then don’t bother. There’s lots of people in the corporate world that you’ll vibe with. I think that’s how you build a genuine relationship with someone, even in a work context, and make things less transactional. I’m not saying you need to be best friends, but they should be someone you could be at a group dinner with and have some conversation with. Now, if the “networking” is actually more so a one on one q&a call and you don’t really care about building a relationship with said person, then just exchange pleasantries and fire away. Both you and the person you’re talking to know why you’re there. link