5 Tips to Maximize Your Convention Experience

Conventions can be either: great opportunities to expand your network and build your business, or they can be a total waste of your valuable time. To ensure that your next convention is a positive experience this week’s blog post outlines 5 simple tips to get the most out of it.

1.            Build your base

Expanding you network and opportunities are a great aspect of what you can achieve at a convention but it’s important not to ignore the clients you already have; this will cost you something. So make sure you spend some time and effort working on existing relationships.

2.            Make use of technology to get introduced

It should be easy to discover who will be attending a convention. Once you’ve identified the people that you should be talking to, there is a whole host of ways of reaching out to them. You can use social networks as a start point to connect to the people you’ve already identified as offering an advantage and then at the convention concentrate on converting. But…

3.            Don’t aggressively market

You need to make sure that you don’t rub people the wrong way with overly aggressive marketing. Try and do at least as much listening as you do talking and ensure that you’re subtle in your approach to marketing.

4.            Do everything

You need to make sure that you do attend all the events that it’s possible to; every workshop, seminar, cocktail party and so on is an opportunity that you cannot possibly seize if you’re not there.

5.            Plan before you arrive

There is normally so much to do at conferences that you going to have to do at least a bit of planning or you’ll miss some really valuable events. While accepting you should do as much as possible, try and plan to visit those that offer you the most chance of reaching the audience you’re looking for.

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