Weekend networking events – the results

Last week, I wrote a post asking whether or not you would attend a Saturday mixer/networking event. I also posted the question up to Linkedin. It has been closed, but I wanted to talk a little about the results. First, I was blown away by the number of responders, so THANK YOU to all who responded. Second, the results were fairly mixed. I got everything from:

I most definitely would not attend. I think most people view their weekends as sacred…

to:

I attend events on weekends on a regular basis as it tends to free up my weekday evening for other meetings.

After looking through all the answers (49! ) the results were pretty much what I expected. Overall, the consensus was that weekends were too precious to give up for networking unless it was the beginning or the end of a conference, or it was something really, really cool. Now, I’d love to think that any networking event I planned would qualify as ‘really, really cool’, but I know that it probably doesn’t. So, we have decided to host the event on a different night. As a final thought, if you are located in the Southern California area and are interested in attending the networking event, click here for more information

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