Montreal Networking Basics
Men battle and compete, women collaborate and join forces.

Montreal networking basics is about meeting new people, getting to know them and establishing new relationships and partnerships. Quality, friendliness and confidentiality are still the key aspects of a sound relationship. 

Networking in business brings mutual benefits. Done properly and in our right mind, networking creates business opportunities, brings new business home and increases our sales. Of course, we all take advantage of technology and of its efficiency when doing business but, if we wish to improve our business and to generate more sales we still need to create face-to-face meetings with the people we already know and with those we haven't met yet. 

Montreal Networking in Business

A strong relationship and a business lunch are closely related. They both are pleasant changes from our daily routine, they are essential parts of our business development and, they can create anxiety. 

Taking a customers or a potential customer out for lunch is one way of bonding and building a substantial and profitable business relationship. 

Men battle and compete, women collaborate and join forces and both can be great business people. So simple, yet so important and, fortunately, networking in business allows us to meet and to share our ideas and our strengths.

Montreal Basic Networking

A business lunch, an early morning breakfast, a mid-afternoon coffee offer great opportunities. Inviting a customer or a potential customer to a business lunch gives us an opportunity to learn about what kind of person he or she is and to discover what s/he likes or dislikes. A business lunch is one way of spending some time in pleasant company and of showing how much we care for our customers, our relationship and our business.

The first and easiest way to meet new prospects is to have someone introduce us to people and to potential customers. If we don't have that someone there are other ways. We can always take full advantage of business networking groups by simply participating and by using the various opportunities offered by the business networks.

Being part of a large or even a small referral network gives us an occasion to promote our business and ourself during organized events and to profit from some of the advantages of networking in business. Networking organized events do give us an opportunity to improve our personal and professional skills, to expand our business networks and to create visibility through participation and through communication.

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Then again, having valuable information to provide to your prospect is one way of having a reason to stop by, to be of service, to get through him or her and to book a lunch date. 

And, for those of us who are audacious enough, showing up at an office with a mid-morning snack is another way of getting to meet a prospect. If he or she is out or at a meeting, you can always speak with the office staff, learn a few things and leave with at least a business card.

As an opening line for your conversation when you contact your prospect again, you could mention how well his or her office staff greeted you and looked after you and how pleased you were by the reception.

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