087: How to Follow Up After Networking

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If your networking follow-up ends with a stack of business cards on your desk, you didn't network, you just collected humans.

Renee Hribar unpacks why most people measure a networking event by the wrong number: how many people they met, not how many real pathways they created. She tells the story of a web designer, whose referrals had dried up despite showing up to every breakfast, mixer, and chamber event she could find — stacks of business cards, personalized LinkedIn requests, and zero new clients to show for it. The shift came when the web designer stopped trying to work the entire room and started getting genuinely curious about the handful of people she actually connected with, using real conversation instead of an elevator pitch to learn what they needed next.

Renee walks through exactly how to turn a good conversation into a natural follow-up that doesn't feel salesy or forced, then lays out a simple challenge for turning one lingering business card into a real next step. It's a practical reset for anyone who keeps leaving events with a fistful of contacts and no idea what to do with them.

Mentioned in this episode:

Mind Grow Radio Storytellers Series: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/mind-grow-radio-storyteller-series/id1568724555

Zoom Playground on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@zoomplayground