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“You Don’t Have any Business Cards?” is a question that you hear a lot at formal networking events, but it happens even more frequently at WordCamps. Do you feel intimidated when it’s time to give your “30 second commercial”? Do you run out of things to talk about once you’ve exchanged names?<\/p>\n

Effective networking is an important part of building your WordPress business. This presentation will help you get past the “grip and grin” stigma that people associate with networking and cover some ways that you can get the most out of mixing it up at networking groups, “business after hours” meetups, and of course the Hallway Track at conferences like WordCamp.<\/p>\n

Learning how to network effectively can lead to your next client or your next trusted business partner. Whether you’re an introvert or an extrovert, you’re sure to pick up a thing or two in this presentation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“You Don’t Have any Business Cards?” is a question that you hear a lot at formal networking events, but it happens even more frequently at WordCamps. Do you feel intimidated when it’s time to give your “30 second commercial”? Do you run out of things to talk about once you’ve exchanged names? Effective networking is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13378964,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_wcpt_session_time":1544215500,"_wcpt_session_duration":3000,"_wcpt_session_type":"session","_wcpt_session_slides":"","_wcpt_session_video":"","_wcpt_speaker_id":[4466],"footnotes":""},"session_track":[1106618],"session_category":[],"class_list":["post-5022","wcb_session","type-wcb_session","status-publish","hentry","wcb_track-guitar"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9rm07-1j0","session_date_time":{"date":"December 7, 2018","time":"2:45 pm"},"session_speakers":[{"id":"4466","slug":"ray-mitchell","name":"Ray Mitchell","link":"https:\/\/us.wordcamp.org\/2018\/speaker\/ray-mitchell\/"}],"session_cats_rendered":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/us.wordcamp.org\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sessions\/5022","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/us.wordcamp.org\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sessions"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/us.wordcamp.org\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/wcb_session"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/us.wordcamp.org\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13378964"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/us.wordcamp.org\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sessions\/5022\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5023,"href":"https:\/\/us.wordcamp.org\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sessions\/5022\/revisions\/5023"}],"speakers":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/us.wordcamp.org\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speakers\/4466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/us.wordcamp.org\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"wcb_track","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/us.wordcamp.org\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/session_track?post=5022"},{"taxonomy":"wcb_session_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/us.wordcamp.org\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/session_category?post=5022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}