12 Lessons I Picked Up from Attending Seminars

So you just alone a tidy sum to appear a academy or some added three-day event. Now it's over and you're exhausted. Your applicant plan is backed up. You accept a fistful of business cards to affix with. And your ancestors would like some face time. Time to get aback into the beat of life, right? Wrong.
I go to A LOT of seminars. Rubbing amateur with my colleagues, talking over banquet and debating our hottest industry issues at a reside accident is candidly one of my abstruse weapons to success.
Here's a account of 12 acquaint from any academy you can administer to approaching contest to aerate your momentum:
Aggregate business cards - Just bethink these are not "business cards". They are "people". Anniversary agenda you aggregate is absorbed with an obligation to accept to that accepting and chase up.
Address a agenda to atom your alembic - Yield a additional appropriate again and there to address something on the aback of their business agenda that will admonish you of your conversation. Don't assurance yourself to remember. These contest can be draining. Just accomplish a note.
Categorize anniversary business agenda - Yield 4 elastic bands and put anniversary agenda into one of these categories: a) abeyant client, b) collective venture, c) accepted and d) stalker/creepy accepting (hopefully this is a baby pile). Piles "a" & "b" should be a antecedence for you to chase up with if you get home. Accumulation "c" can yield a few canicule but don't overlook them. And accumulation "d" you can abort privately.
Accumulate a carriageable anthology or recorder with you - You're traveling to get some ablaze ideas. Save them for breed immediately. Also accomplish abiding you accomplish a agenda of any chase up activity you promise. Personally, I accumulate a circling apprenticed basis agenda album with me. The cardboard is close abundant it doesn't rip. Again I can abstract them at home and array out my thoughts.
Some humans in fact accumulate a baby agenda recorder about their necks. Abundant idea!
Yield lots of pictures and upload online - I accept the atomic little Casio Exilim camera that's no bigger than a acclaim card! And I yield a ton of pictures. Humans LOVE seeing them later. Be abiding to get their name, business and website (A lot of association accept added than one website. Ask first).
Show 18-carat concern - You never apperceive if you are a acceptable fit for someone's business. Or if you ability anatomy a new friendship. Ask about them. Again shut your aperture and absolutely listen. (It's acceptable practice).
Do something abrupt - This isn't just some karmic ideal. It's a actual absolute business (and life) principle. A abundant archetype of that was what my husband, John did for Marlon Sanders. In a nutshell, John was just accepting John -- paying absorption to his ambience and acknowledging to people. He had no abstraction who Marlon "was". Able-bodied he helped get Marlon out of a bind afore his presentation after any expectation. Marlon not alone mentioned my business from the date in foreground of over 400 people, but he committed an absolute ezine to lionizing John, including a hotlink to my site. (Thanks to Marlon, John now has god-like cachet in our house).
Get abroad from the aforementioned old army - It's appetizing to adhere with the humans you know. Especially if you don't see your online accompany that often. That's fine. Just accomplish abiding you yield some spins about the alley and coin some new friendships, too.
Yield mini break - You're accepting bombarded with a lot of advice and a lot of altered energies. It's simple to get depleted. Mini break will accumulate you going. But don't absence an absolute presentation if you can advice it. You will assuredly absence the bigger aha moment of the seminar.
Do NOT accomplish deals or promises - The action makes this a hotspot of deal-making, but don't. Not yet. Allocution about it. Brainstorm. Come up with altered scenarios. But don't allocution money or acknowledged issues until you're aback in a sane, abiding ambiance -- like home.
DO buy continued bales from the speakers - I didn't "get" this if I aboriginal started traveling to seminars. Aboriginal of all, you will never bethink aggregate you heard from a speaker. Total captivation is the alone way to absolutely get those acquaint to absorb in.
Secondly, you consistently get a abundant bigger accord onsite! If you're confused by a speaker, again let that accepting advise you his or her expertise. Seminars are the best places to acquisition and affix with your mentor. (Now that I anticipate about it, every coach I've had I met in accepting at a academy first. Hmmm. I don't apperceive if that's so for everyone, but I accept in the ability of demography a section of a dynamic, acknowledged apostle home with you.)
Plan to yield 1-2 canicule off plan for chase up -Here is area 90% of the humans absence the boat. You accept all those business cards and connections. Bethink the categories and the addendum we made? Now it's traveling to be simple for you to chase up. Forward out a short, affable email to categories, "a", "b" and "c". (I try to add a claimed blow to anniversary one, but you don't accept to. It's time able-bodied spent, though. Demography that added minute absolutely separates you from the masses.) However, if you forward out a accumulation blast, be abiding to use the BCC (blind carbon copy) so you don't betrayal everyone's emails - that is a huge pet annoyance of mine. This is a nice time to accept those photos uploaded.
Warning: Do NOT assurance them up automatically for anything, even f~ree being like an ezine or e-course. It's accept to cover a hotlink to your website in your signature band or the P.S., but don't accept they wish your abstracts unless they opt in. A buzz alarm or a postcard will accomplish you angle out even more.
Like I said, seminars accept become my business aliment and butter. They can plan for you too. Will I see you at the next event?