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Intimacy in Business? What's That? Ditch Your Elevator Pitch for a Competitive Advantage

If you already get so many referrals you have to turn business away, skip this meeting.

If people already trust both your character and competency within a few minutes of meeting you, skip this meeting.

But if you want to move past your elevator speech and beyond the salesy surface level of business networking as most people understand it, join us for the February BACN meeting.

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Before the morning has ended, you will

  • Understand the increased value of face-to-face meetings in the era of Facebook ‘friendship’
  • Launch new and meaningful professional friendships that you will want to continue
  • Learn how to make closer connections when you meet new people at other networking events.

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