Power of the Network - Virtual or Face to Face?
By jmoorhead on April 9th, 2009
I am currently in Ogden, UT meeting with over 3 days with 2 companies and 1 of my clients. Why do I mention this? The company we met with yesterday is behind the 1-800 Dentist brand, and they flew out here for a day trip. The point of the trip was to sit face-to-face and brainstorm. To get to know each other… We’ve been doing Emails and Phone Calls but now it was time to have the “rubber meet the road” and see face-to-face.
Over the next 3 days, we’ll have people come from Texas, Oregon, California, Washington and Hawaii to meet with us.
I’m quickly amazed at the number of people that make this commitment, and do it on a regular basis. Travel to strengthen or build a relationship with no real clear cut agenda. I do it when I know that I can get there by car, but to spend money, time, and put up with air travel to do this is amazing to me.
It clearly make sense to build your network out from beyond your geographical limitations, but I’m still amazed. I don’t know if it comes from the power that I place in technology, but no network is stronger than the one that you build face to face.
So a network is a network, but I better start to realize the different levels of networks. Those built over time, those built face to face, and those only built virtually.
