Seattle Business Networking Blog

Kudos to John Pletsch of Electric Pen and the Leads Committee for another great Leads Day program at yesterday's meeting.

The focus of Leads Day was "Leads Coaching". Each table had a "coach" that acted as a mentor to keep conversations going, encourage group discussion and provided coaching.

The objective of Leads Coaching Day was to share tips, tricks and ideas for giving leads and engaging in mutual business.

We received lots of great feedback from the coaches and participants.

Here are some leads sharing recommendations :

"Visit a Seattle Exec member at their place of business – it is the best way to learn and get educated about them so they would be able to promote their business in the future."

“We need to continue to educate ourselves about what each company does and my table felt that we should have random seating every meeting so that people are forced to sit with different Exec members every week."

“Give your office staff copies of the directory and remind them to use the services within.”

“Follow-up – check in with the person you gave the lead to – touch base.”

“Read the newsletter---“coat tail leads” they can react on---not specifically for them but they can do business with the person.”

“Thank members for the opportunity to submit a bid---don’t avoid then because you didn’t accept the bid.”

John Pletsch also announced that our lead reporting has dramatically increased in 2014. Hopefully after yesterday meeting, we can all stay on track at recording our leads and see another increase.