Event professionals will often use this year-end wrap-up time to reflect upon successes and failures. You’ll likely be looking for new strategies and improvements that you can implement into your plans for 2023 that bring results in new clients, new industry relationships, and new opportunities. Be sure to add networking to your list of resolutions. Exploring new networking circles and devoting time to cultivating business relationships will lead to business growth and exponential opportunities.
1. Broadening Your Network Helps Challenge Assumptions
One of the biggest advantages of intentional networking is personal and professional growth. When you surround yourself with people who express different views or business beliefs, it allows you to expand your own processes. Expose yourself to big ideas and thought-leadership initiatives when you network in new circles. Growing stagnant will lead to certain failures as an event planner. Getting into the right networking conversations will ensure you continue to grow and challenge yourself to explore new concepts and solutions ongoing.
2. Networking with New People Bring New Opportunities
Committing to a routine schedule of networking, where you attend luncheons, local ribbon-cuttings, and community promotional events, guarantees to bring new introductions. The more new people you meet, the more opportunities you have to land clients, generate leads, help others, and improve your business model. Don’t just attend networking socials; commit to attending networking events regularly and keep that roster of new people and new business relationships growing.
3. Keeping Up with Industry Shifts and Trends Through Networking
Networking is an incredible method for intuitive listening. It’s an opportunity to see what others are saying, predicting, and anticipating. Operating your event planning business in a silo without adequate networking effort means you might miss out on spotting challenges or upcoming event trends. When you’re constantly putting yourself in the right networking circles, however, you’re able to keep your ear to the ground and your finger on the pulse of what’s happening in your community and industry. Expand your networks and expand your industry knowledge in a big way.
Keep these key benefits in mind as you carve out new resolutions for yourself and your event-planning business strategy. Networking and growing your circle of connections will ensure you experience continued success as a New York event planner.
And don’t forget the biggest networking event of all in 2023 is on the calendar. Get on the waitlist before you forget – The Event Planner Expo 2023 is coming in October!
