The questions to ask people when you're at a networking event

A good tip from Thomas Power of Ecademy about the three key questions to ask people when you're networking:

1. What is your expertise?
2. What's the biggest project or issue you're working on right now?
3. Who can I put you in contact with who can help you with that?

Question three is the secret weapon in the elite networker's toolkit. If you go into a networking situation with the mindset of how you can put other people in touch with useful contacts (instead of the reverse), then over time you will build up your own network and people will refer contacts to you.

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[Jim Callender]

Nicely put! Will experiment with these at my next event.. Probably the Geek Cider Event I am running..

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