Lessons Learned
Written on July 19, 2006 by William
 Like I said I walked away with a list of tips for the next event and I thought I would share them with you so you are prepaired for the first seminar you attend, if you haven’t allready done so. You are planning on attending one aren’t you?
 I only experienced a small part of what can be acomplished at one of these events and allready I have hotel reservation and a flight reserved for the next event and the tickets are not even on sale yet.
 Ok onto to the list:
1. Do not expect a vacation – It may sound like a good idea your going to a new town Why not pack up the family and experience it all together? Becuase you are not going to have the time. The real action takes place after the actual event so be prepaired for long days of networking and nothing else.
2. Go by yourself or with someone else that is also interested – Like mentioned above this is an all day event the itinerary may say untill 4 but you are missing out if you dont stick around afterwards. If you you have someone with you that is not interested in the event it is just going to take you away from your chance to realy get to network, and that is why you are there in the first place.
3. Make your arangments well in advance – You want to stay in the event hotel that way you are right there. Nedd to freshen up just go up to your room and be back in minutes not hours. Trust me you want to be readibly available for anything and the further away you are the less available you are. If you wait to long there might not be room available or the price could as much as double for the same room and or travel arangments.
4. Don’t rely on plastic – Espeacially if you are using your paypal debit card. There were several people there that had their accounts frozen due to suspicious activity. This is great if someone did actually steal your credit card and travel accross the country with it but it sucks if you are half wat around the country and can’t use your card. Get some travelers checks or if you want to use your card let the company know you are about to travel so they do not think your card was stolen.
5. Speaking of cards make sure you have plenty of bussiness cards to give away. Dont have one? get one they are easy to make or you can have them done very inexpensively. During the breaks you will find yourself in the middle of a conversation when they are ready to get started again. Its much easier to just give that person your card than try to wisper to each other and exchange contact information while the next presentation is getting under way.
6. Have the right tools – If you have a laptop take it, if you have a camera take it if you don’t get one. Bring a video camera, a pen, paper and anything else you may want to use. Even if you don’t think you have a need for those items bring them. Bring any chargers that you may need extra batteries everything you never know what might insspire you while you are there. It is better to have and not need it allthough if you do have it someone there probably does need it. The people that did bring everything had lots of request to use them so if you have it bring it.
7.Be Prepaired – You know who all the speakers are going to be so be prepaired to talk to them. Think of what it is they do and what questions you might have for them. Chances are you will have a lot of questions answered during their presentation. You will be so ov3er wellmed with all of your new information that you might forget the questions you had to begin with so right them down and look at them while their presenting write the answers down as they are given and if any are still unanswered ask them afterwards.
  I will be back shortly with some more tips so check back soon!
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