Networking Skills Help Us Planning Wedding Music and Party Music — Tips for Learning How to Work a Room Bring Useful Ideas

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Are you in the middle of planning wedding music?  Or party music?  Rely on your networking skills.

Nearly every day, I help people plan wedding music and party music.  We usually find that our networking skills pay off in MANY ways.

Here’s one:  a beautiful day, and the trio entertains at a recent wedding in Healdsburg.  Thanks for the photos, Bob and Becky — great husband & wife team at Tibidabo Photography.

Networking pros recommend dozens of tips like these

• smile and be friendly,
• listen more than you talk,
• be generous and respectful,
• don’t push but offer useful information,
• be available and easy to contact,
• keep your promises and follow up.

Some payoffs are predictable.  Networking skills help you walk confidently into a room of strangers and create business leads and rewarding friendships.

More payoffs are unpredictable.  Networking skills can help us find insights in a variety of personal situations.  One I’m familiar with: planning wedding and party music.

More in a minute.  First, a story. I recently saw a cartoon of a herd of cows. One lifts her head and says, “Hey, you guys, this is grass. We’ve been eating GRASS!”

Well, let me be like that cow right now.  Here’s what I think we’re all doing.  Namely, we’re living in the center of a monumental communication revolution that is changing our lives forever.

Here you are, reading my blog (online, I presume), so I may be “preaching to the choir”. Nevertheless, we’re well past “That’s amazing!”, and these online tools are no longer just for teeny-boppers who ask “What are you doing now?”

Smart, creative people in all lines of work are finding these tools unbeatable for applying networking skills.  We’re exchanging all kinds of messages — the only limit is our imagination.

Social applications like Facebook and Twitter, through their connections to websites and blogs, let us meet more people and spread our ideas faster, farther, and wider.

We ought to stay aware of these developments and use them for our own networking messages — discussing ideas, asking questions, offering help, updating plans, and spreading news, just to suggest a few.

The current explosion in online communication creates options for making our face-to-face encounters more effective, rewarding, and productive. In other words, making our life more worthwhile.

Our access to more new information helps us understand more and accomplish more every day. Of course, we need to balance that against how much the trivial portion of all this new information wastes our precious time and distracts us from more important issues in our lives.

Obviously each of us has many unique needs, and for me one of the strongest is to constantly keep in touch with many friends and colleagues.  Better online communication helps me network better.

For example, recently I met many business friends, at a swinging networking event called “Martini Madness”.  It’s coordinated mainly online, through Facebook and Evite, and what a night it was!  The brainchild of my friend Duncan Reyes, this movable mayhem meets quarterly at some notable facility in the SF Bay Area.  Members socialize, deepen our friendships, and strengthen the basis for working together even more effectively.

What an extraordinary happening!  What a boon to all of us, and to our clients, as well.  We all benefit from Duncan’s imagination and talent for organizing.  He is a fabulous wedding and event coordinator (formerly social events coordinator at the Westin St Francis, where I first met him), and he uses the newest online resources to organize “Martini Madness”.

By the way, what can we learn from all this? No matter what business we’re in, we can all follow Duncan’s inspiration.  Let’s create opportunities for our colleagues to meet and develop deeper personal and professional relationships.  As a result, we’ll all work together better, and our clients will love THAT.

But back to planning wedding music.  If you’re a bride-or-groom-to-be, you’ll find networking skills are helpful.  Planning music includes discussing your vision for your wedding, searching for fresh ideas about wedding music, and evaluating your plan as it develops.  It’s all about effective communication.

So here’s a tip.  Planning wedding music becomes easier when you apply networking skills.  You’ll encourage friendly, thoughtful, useful, and open communication.

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The Magnolia Jazz Band entertains at weddings and parties throughout the San Francisco Bay Area. If you are ever nearby, you’ll love catching us in action, seeing and hearing us create a great mood.

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Thanks for reading this article. I appreciate your interest and hope you get a few good ideas here. Got one or two? I'd love to hear what you liked. Please write me a little COMMENT below. Start a conversation -- I'll reply. Promise.

By the way, does a friend need help selecting wedding or party music? Do them a favor: EMAIL this article, or SHARE it on Facebook, LinkedIn, or Google+.

And if you find my blog useful, please LIKE it, TWEET it, and SUBSCRIBE for more ideas. Use those cute little icons below.

Meanwhile, the Magnolia Jazz Band entertains at weddings and parties throughout the San Francisco Bay Area. If you are ever nearby, you’ll love catching us in action, seeing and hearing us create a great mood.

How can I help you? Call 408-245-9120 or use Robbie@MagnoliaJazz.com. Planning a celebration? Ask about our availability.

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