Now That’s Networking

I have to give one of my BNI Chapter 7 colleagues a shout out.  What she did at today’s meeting, while subtle, showed some real networking tenacity.

Let’s hear it for Adrienne Woods Blankley of Arent Fox LLC.

At today’s BNI meeting, she brought a guest.  The comedian Dread Archie.  Some weeks before, she referred this gentleman to me to discuss publicity.  He misdialed my number and left a message on someone else’s voicemail.  So we did not connect. And since she didn’t have his number to give out to me, she did the next best thing.  Actually, she did the best thing.  She invited him to a meeting.  She invited a creature of the night, a comedian… to a 7am breakfast meeting. In order to meet me. On a degree morning.

And he came.

And Adrienne is relatively new to the chapter (less than six months).  I’ve been in BNI for almost 12 years, and it probably took me 7 years before I took that kind of initiative…and I’m the King of this thing called networKING. Seriously, that kind of networking deserves to be talked about.

Good job Adrienne, and thanks for the referral.

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