Purposeful Networking: Cultivating Relationships to Boost Your Business
Running a business and ensuring its success requires a huge investment. But that investment isn’t just limited to cash, you also need to invest time, energy, and efforts into promoting your business and building a professional support system.
Many businesses have discontinued their networking efforts because they either don’t see any value in the time and money they’re spending at live events, or feel it’s ineffective. Yet it can be when done correctly!
Networking still needs to be a part of the marketing toolbox. It can help businesses cultivate the right relationships and lead to even more opportunities and strategic partnerships, whether it’s done through social media or offline at live events.
Join Tisha Marie Pelletier, President/CEO, Tisha Marie Enterprises, LLC as she shares the following practical tips on how to make the most out of your networking experiences online and offline to reach the right people, create more collaboration opportunities and increase profits.
- The types of individuals you meet at networking events both online and offline, who to maintain relationships with and who you need to avoid.
- Tips on how to prepare before, during and after the networking event is over coupled with personal networking stories, both good and bad, to demonstrate the difference.
- The #1 question you should never lead with when you meet someone for the first time and why.
- How these same principles apply when you’re networking online through social media, how to attract your tribe and continue building the relationship to grow your business.
- The #1 reason businesses fail when it comes to the networking process and how to overcome it.
Speaker: Tisha Marie Pelletier, President / CEO of Tisha Marie Enterprises, LLC
Tisha Marie Pelletier on LinkedIn took the entrepreneurial leap in 2004, has run four different businesses, planned hundreds of events and facilitated over 300 masterminds.
She is the chief experience officer of Tisha Marie Enterprises, empowering entrepreneurs to make their vision happen through mentoring, professional speaking, personal brand building, her online course, the Startup Entrepreneur Academy, and her live event, Social Connect PHX.
Tisha is also the host of The Success Over Struggle Podcast, and a Venture Devil mentor at ASU’s Entrepreneurship and Innovation Department. In addition, Tisha is an author. In her latest book “What Are the Odds?”, which can be found on Amazon and Audible, Tisha shares her good, bad and what the f*ck moments as a mom. Meet Tisha at tishamarie.com to learn more and schedule a virtual latte.