Seminar Follow-Up… How We Sort Through It All To Take Action!
In our previous post on Maximizing the Value of the Seminars You Attend, we talked about some of the benefits of attending seminars and how you can maximize their value. We outlined that “the benefits include the information the speakers present, the people you meet, and the relationships you build while you're at the seminar…”.
We just came back from Mike Klingler's “Marketing Funnel Mastery” event in Las Vegas (extremely valuable event), where we gained a whole lot of new information… along with some very cool new contacts.
Taking at look at this part of the seminar follow-up:
How do we make this happen?
We could become overwhelmed with it all… but why do that? Instead, we take all this new business and social media contact information and organize it into our digital memory (aka “The Brain”).
Yes, we could file away the business cards, or organize the names and contact info into Outlook or another similar program… but how many people actually review the business cards they collect? And where in Outlook can you put people's Facebook, Twitter, or other social media addresses (where they're easy to find)?
When you create valuable relationships with like-minded individuals with whom you can establish win-win ventures, or even a mastermind group, you want to be able to get and stay connected with them. Business is all about relationships… take care to nurture them well. That is why we make sure we can find and stay connected with these people through the information we store in our digital memory.
So you can better understand what we're talking about, we created a dynamic knowledge information mind map showing the connections we made at the Marketing Funnel Mastery event. This is one small portion of our entire digital memory. After all, this is how we keep track of all our connections, information and knowledge.
Go ahead and discover (it's interactive) this map below:
Cindy Schulson
2011-03-20 @ 6:13 pm
Wow – that is pretty cool technology and great follow up. You are a very impressive couple and I look forward to staying in touch.
warm wishes,
Cindy
Pat & Lorna
2011-03-21 @ 10:02 pm
Cindy,
We agree that it is cool technology… mostly because of how it helps us to keep organized and stay in touch with so many very cool people (like you!).
Thanks for visiting our blog!
~ Pat and Lorna
peter chapman
2011-03-21 @ 9:03 am
Hi there Pat and Lorna,
Fantastic advice on how to get the most out of events and seminars.
I recently attended an event in London on facebook strategies – all of the attendees are now connected via a facebook group…long term relationships have been formed and now we are networking together in a way that wouldn’t have happened if we realised the potential of such a group of pro-active people
best wishes
Peter
Pat & Lorna
2011-03-21 @ 9:28 pm
Peter,
Thanks! It’s amazing what we can accomplish and the relationships we can develop when we take action and get connected.
~ Pat and Lorna
Teach Jim
2011-03-26 @ 10:43 pm
Really great to read the advise after seeing it in practice. Your shirts were the best. I has suspected the nice suit jacket and tie for him and dress for her each day cause that is how I’ve seen you each online. The shirts carried the personality and the connections to the next level.
Thank you for all the fun and the fabulous lessons in keeping it real.
Melodie Kantner
2011-03-29 @ 7:30 pm
That program looks really useful. I often have lots of people and information I need to organize after events. It can be a challenge to remember where all the business cards came from and at what events I met them.
Pat & Lorna
2011-03-29 @ 8:40 pm
Melodie,
It is a very cool and useful tool. In fact, we were just searching for something and said how lost we would be without our “Brain”.
Thanks,
~ Pat and Lorna