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Brian talks about tips he uses when on local Chamber Greeters calls on Zoom.

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Secret zoom hack.

Hi I’m Brian Pombo, welcome back to Brian J. Pombo Live.

Let’s talk about zoom, shall we?

I have a lot of meetings that I have on zoom, sorry about the shaky camera work, I’ll get it stable here. There we go.

I’ve got a lot of meetings I do on zoom. Most of them are one on one meetings with individuals but I have a number of meetings that I do with large groups of people, a lot of them that I don’t even know. And here’s a fun thing to do.

This comes in real handy if you’re would normally go to something like a public meeting but this is now because of a certain situation, you may be stuck on zoom.

So a lot of mixers and things like that right now a lot of them are contained to zoom meetings. And so I go to a what they call a chamber of commerce meeting that’s called greeters.

Sometimes they’re called mixers, or that there are other terms for him. But it’s the basic ideas that everyone has a chance to speak real quick about their business. And it’s just a way to get to know everyone. And a lot of the stuff happens.

While before and after the meeting, it’s getting to talk to everyone before and afterward, that’s really where the magic happens, you don’t have that on zoom.

So what you’re left with is a little bit of chatter going on in the chatbox and you just kind of have to get bits and pieces here and there.

So here’s a little hack that I’ve been able to come up with and it’s extremely simple, and you may already be doing it. But if you’re in a situation like this, here’s what I recommend you do.

While it is going on, you either sit there with your phone, or another device connected to the internet and you’re looking for the things that people are bringing up, or you’re writing down their information, you’re writing down their names, and the names of their businesses, so that you can then connect with them in other sources.

So I check LinkedIn, I check Facebook, I check Instagram, any other places that you think you could connect up with these people. And if in a situation like Chamber of Commerce, you’re kind of expected to be able to meet and be able to connect and all these different places.

So it’s not that big a deal, I throw out a connection on LinkedIn pretty easily out to these people, because they’ve already heard from me, so they know me from there, I know them from there, whether we’ve had a one on one conversation or not, I do try and connect with people.

If you’re in a situation where you’re not quite sure if they know who you are, and everything else, you could just say, Hey, I saw you in the meeting this morning. just figured I’d see if you’d be willing to connect here.

Or if you want to be friends or whatever, if you’re talking to Instagram, and but places like Instagram places like Twitter, you can follow them without them having to follow you.

You’re just tossing it out there you’re putting, you’re putting everything out there. But at least from that point forward, you can start to pay attention to them.

If I don’t get somebody connecting with me on LinkedIn, I’ll follow them, it’s a very common way to be able to still connect with someone without them having to connect back with you.

Then you can learn more about them over time and start a conversation sometime later. It’s not that big of a deal. But it’s a start, it’s a start to, if you’re looking to reach out more and meet more people, it’s a great way of doing it. Now here’s the reverse side of that hack.

The reverse side is you’ve got to make sure that you yourself are able to be contacted easily. So you got to make sure that you put your name out there. In my particular greeter’s meeting that I’m thinking of we’re allowed to post our stuff in the chat.

So I’ll post my name and I’ll post my company and I’ll post out specific link one, I give one place to go to every time one specific place to go to time so I’ll post a live link in the chat. If you’re using zoom or any other type of video chat, oftentimes they’ll have that option.

So put it out there make it easy for people to find you and invite them say hey, if you’re on LinkedIn, connect up with me because I can’t find everybody out there and be able to connect with them.

If I haven’t connected with you connect with me on LinkedIn, toss it out there. Find ways to get to know more people, it’s only going to help your business.

Business is about people. It’s about relationships.

Hopefully, that makes sense. I have a book, 9 Ways to Amazon-Proof Your Business stuff short one, easy read, go get your own free copy at AmazonProofBook.com.

It’s all I got for today. You have a great one.

In the meantime, get out there and let the magic happen.