Anti-Sell now has its own dedicated website & blog! Check it out at Anti-Sell.com.
Hello! So… I was meant to give a networking workshop to a bunch of Cardiff Metropolitan University students around mid-to-late March, but then this whole Coronavirus/COVID-19 happened (you might’ve heard of it!), soo inevitably we had to cancel. But the lovely folks at Cardiff Met’s Centre for Entrepreneurship asked if I wanted to do a webinar instead – with (understandably) a focus on online networking tactics rather than offline/face-to-face ones. If you saw my Anti-Sell talks at either Freelance Heroes Day 2019, or Swansea Digital Marketing towards the end of last year, it’s an adapted version specific to the things we can do during our current situation – a ‘lockdown edition,’ if you will.
During the hour-ish-long webinar, I give tips on:
- What types of online networking opportunities exist – some obvious, some less-so,
- Why you should target ‘semi-related’ groups/communities instead of just directly-related groups/communities, and what I mean by that,
- How to remove (or at least reduce) the nerves that can come with participating in something online for the first time, e.g. a webinar or Facebook group,
- How running or creating your own thing (rather than just ‘attending’ things) puts you in so much more of a visible position – and takes things further,
- How you should ask for testimonials (i.e. where and how you should try to acquire them),
- Why you should always try to remain calm, professional and respectful towards others,
- Aaand a bunch of other stuff.
The folks at the Centre for Entrepreneurship recorded it, passed the recording onto me, and gave me their blessing to publish it publicly on YouTube – big thanks to Hannah, Steve and Lyndsey!
Here are the slides on SlideShare as well:
As an aside, I’m eagerly looking to do more webinars, podcast interviews, written/blog interviews, etc. at the moment – so if you know anyone looking for a guest/speaker/whatever (delete as appropriate), please let them know about me. As thanks I’ll send a free copy of the book to whoever helps me to land something (a free PDF copy for now, and then a free paperback copy as well once the lockdown has been lifted). Check out my speaking page for info, testimonials, past speaking gigs and more.
The talk is in line with Anti-Sell, the ‘sales guide for people who hate sales’ which I self-published last year. Learn more about it here.
Anti-Sell now has its own dedicated website & blog! Check it out at Anti-Sell.com.