Big Bang Networking

The past week I went to the 5th entrepreneur summit of the Guadalajara AMCHAM. A great place to do Networking.

This meeting has the main theme the moment in which the business men realized a moment or opportunity gap that make the ignition for an expansion or potencialization of their business, that's why Big Bang.

In this event entrepreneurs came to share their experiences. Most of the speakers were founding partner or second or third generation directors from a family industry. Their shared experiences allow you to think about the decisions taken at some point and allow you to introduce them on your personal context.

Furthermore to the conferences, the organizers created a workshop where you had the opportunity to talk one on one with entrepreneurs from different industries. The environment created make it easy to have a direct conversation and learn from their personal experience. You can seize the opportunity to reach out and ask specific things about their practice.

When a youngster reach some of this workshops and ask questions about fund raising, legal matters or consulting services, you thank organizations like AMCHAM to provide this community service, that is really necessary to support the new talent development.

So, my recommendation when you participate in this type of events:

1.- Have an interaction attitude, you will be meeting a lot of new faces, just understand that this people are looking for the same objective. Networking.

2.- Take your presentation cards, remember that a lot of people will be willing to make some new contacts and you want that the people remember you, or at least your data.

3.- Bring a small notebook and a pen. Yes we are in the middle of the technology age, but sometimes is easier to make some notes and place a small indicator just to remember the issue you will have to do some follow up.

Last but not least, remember when was your last time that you participate in a networking event. Don't you think is time for you to do another one?