ConnectForLunch

Cold calling prospects to get a face-to-face meeting? Handing out business cards to create buzz about your business?

That's old school "networking," and it doesn't have to be like that. It can be more productive. It can be more focused. It can be a much easier. And it can even be - dare we say - enjoyable.

The proof? The Little Rock Regional Chamber's new ConnectForLunch benefit. As a businessperson, you know that the whole point of networking is getting face-to-face time with other businesspeople. A face-to-face meeting gives another businessperson time to get to know you and to know your business. It gives them time to build the kind of trust and confidence that gets you referrals and new customers.

ConnectForLunch will arrange such face-to-face lunch meetings for you – as often as once a week. That's face-to-face meetings not with just one businessperson, but with two or three different Chamber members. That's two to three times as productive as just getting a meeting with one person at a time. Over the course of a year, you can create and deepen up to 100 personal business relationships in face-to-face meetings – without having to make a single cold-call or hand out a business card.

Here's how ConnectForLunch works: Let's say that you'd like have a meeting over lunch with two or three different Chamber members next week...

1. ConnectForLunch will put you in a group with two or three Chamber members.
2. Four days before lunch, the people in your group will receive your bio with both your business and your personal information. At that time, you'll get their bios as well.
3. ConnectForLunch will make the restaurant reservation for your group at a local Chamber member restaurant. On the day of your lunch, all you have to do is show up.
4. When lunch is over, everyone pays for his or her own lunch. No more buying someone lunch just to get a face-to-face meeting.
5. You'll have everyone's name, address, phone number and bio in your own private ConnectForLunch account, available 24/7. No more sitting in your car after lunch writing on the backs of business cards.

For the next two months, the Chamber is offering members an introductory six-week subscription. During that time, members will have the opportunity to attend up to three lunches and see for themselves how effective it is.

To learn more, visit www.ConnectForLunch.com/littlerockchamber. After the introductory period, members may continue at the nominal fee of $11.95 for two lunches per month (each guest pays for his/her own meal) - barely more than the cost of a tip.
 
Members' first ConnectForLunch invitation will arrive the first week of January 2012. For more information, contact Mollie Merry Campbell (Manager, Talent Development), 501.377.6014.

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