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How a matchmaking event that works gets built.
186 articles on running, hosting and selling B2B matchmaking events.
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Corporate matchmaking: how to raise internal networking in your company
The structure of a business matchmaking event works inside the company too. How to use the format to bring departments closer, cut noise between teams and improve...
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Business matchmaking: how to find sponsors
Running a good business matchmaking event costs money: the venue, the tables, the catering, the badges. Here is how to find sponsors, approach them and give them...
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Business meetings: how to organise your own matchmaking event
Anyone who has attended a few business matchmaking events eventually wonders about running their own. Here is the route, from the first decision to the first...
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Business meetings: how to use social media in your favour
After the event, almost everyone looks the company up online. What to do on social media before, during and after a business meeting.
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Business meetings: 5 tips for doing well
The time at a business meeting is short and the same for everyone. What you do with it decides whether you leave with forty cards or five live conversations.
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Business meetings: how to pitch your idea well
At a business matchmaking event, plenty of founders get the chance to win partnerships and new business. What decides it is how well they present the idea.
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Business meetings: the importance of networking
Networking is essential for an entrepreneur, above all one working with business meetings, because the relationship can bring benefits in the short and long term.
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How to promote a business matchmaking event
Five practical steps for promoting a business matchmaking event, from catching attention through to selling the ticket and understanding what participants thought...
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Business meeting: how to attract entrepreneurs and make the agenda count
How to organise a business meeting that brings entrepreneurs in, delivers useful content and ends in contacts worth having. Structure, promotion and what to measure.
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How to expand a business
Expanding a business is almost never a decision of courage. It is a decision of sequence: you solve one thing at a time, in the right order.
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How to present a product or service
You get two to five minutes per table at a business matchmaking event. This is the four-part script that works in that format, and the mistakes that waste the slot.
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Business matchmaking in Caruaru
An association running a matchmaking event stands out in the Brazilian textile sector. What 26 editions teach anyone who organises these events.
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The playbook for running a matchmaking event
How to size the room, how many rounds fit your schedule, what to ask on the registration form, and what to put in front of the sponsor afterward. It is what we would tell you on a call if you asked where to start.
- The tables, seats and rounds math, worked through with real numbers
- The checklist for the day before and the day itself
- The mistakes that cost the most, and how to dodge them