I just got home from a delightful AND productive meeting over tea with someone I'd never met before. How did I arrange it, you ask? Well here's how.
LinkedIn is a social media site I use a lot (AND I promote its use to my clients.) I use it to join groups, create my own group, post events, answer questions, etc. They even have an "app" that shows your and your contacts' blogs but I've never used it to set up meetings before.
I knew I'd be in London Ontario for a week and wanted to get together with other women business owners there. So I set out to get together with Pat Mussieux there (I don't know how I found her - likely she was a "friend of a friend" but we'd never talked, communicated by email or met in person.
Her website had her email which I used to contact her the week before I'd be there. I told her a bit about me and why we ought to connect. Then there followed several more emails as we chose the place to meet.
Then came the day of our meeting. I was really looking forward to seeing and talking with her.
It was even more than I hoped for. We had lots to talk about - our backgrounds, our businesses, our hopes and dreams - and some of our "today" activities.
Most of all I felt very motivated. She has even become my "tipping point" for putting video on my "new" website. (The stroke has meant I talk "funny" and I hadn't done a video even though I tell my clients to do it because I was afraid people wouldn't understand me.)
Pat Mussieux of Confidence and Courage has become a friend of mine :-)
Thanks for taking the time to meet with me Pat and for taking a risk.
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