New Faces

Today was a good day.  A good friend of mine told me about a new networking group early in the week so today Ryan and I decided to check it out.  It has been many years since either of us have participated in a "leads" group but since unlike most this meeting takes place at 11:30 instead of 7am we thought it would be a great way to get out and meet some new people.

If you've ever done a networking group before you are probably familiar with the ins and outs. First the mingling, than introducing yourself and/or business (perfecting your elevator speech), followed by a presentation from one of the members of the group.  Today's speaker was a marketer who spoke about the basics of SEO (search engine optimization) a subject I've become all too familiar with over the years with RocLok's website. Although his talk wasn't new information to me, I could tell that it was informative to most of the other members and I was happy to see so many of them taking the information to heart for the betterment of their businesses. 

Other members included a writing coach, CPA, an independent car salesman, a travel agent, natural path, life insurance salesman, health insurance salesman, a CPR trainer and a water purification specialist.  Unfortunately my friend a Real Estate Broker wasn't able to make it.  As the only 2 people sitting in a pizza parlor with a couple of rocks on the table you can image we made an impression.  It definitely felt awkward walking into a restaurant with rocks in our hands, the employees must have thought we were wackos!  

Since both Ryan and I felt good about the people in the group we decided to sign on for our own "talk" in a couple of weeks.  I'm thinking that we should discuss the reasons why every business owner should be hiding a key outside.  Although I don't hold high hopes of landing any sales from the group, it will be nice to bounce ideas off of them to gage interest levels in various topics we think will help drive awareness and sales.  Hopefully I will have a writers brain tomorrow and can finally piece together the blog I've been working on for weeks about this subject.

Well, it's been hot in Portland for the last couple of days and today was no exception.  I've been diligently working out on the elliptical every night for the last 3 weeks and needless to say the combination has left me exhausted! Because of this tonight's post is going to be shorter than most, hopefully I'll have more energy tomorrow to chat more.  Good night world.