I just attended my favorite event I think in memory. So I want to thank SMPS Twin Cities for putting on what I think was an absolutely elegant and very simple event. It was called the vendor showcase. So the design of this event was super simple. It was an opportunity for AEC vendors to have a table and to meet marketing professionals from the AEC world, the local AEC community. About maybe a hundred people attended, about maybe 15 vendors had tables. My company, Sage Presence, was one of those vendors. And it was just super simple and straightforward. There was some breakfast. There was a little bit of coffee. And everybody who came came to network with each other and came to network with the vendors to meet who was out there who was available to provide value to them and their organization. And everybody was just super friendly and super straightforward and had really good, beneficial, productive conversations. It was 3 hours long. I want to suggest that every professional organization out there consider something this simple and straightforward. It’s an opportunity for your professionals to meet the vendors that can benefit them. There doesn’t need to be any hiding. There doesn’t need to be any games played. Everybody can just show up looking to meet who is out there and to chat with them and to build relationships with them and to collect their cards and their information. I suspect I started half a dozen really valuable conversations today and of course time will tell. We’ll see how they play out. But in the moment it felt absolutely the kind of conversation that I want to have and all of them seemed mutually beneficial. If you are a board member of a professional service organization like this, I want to encourage you to consider this. Super straightforward, super simple, absolutely valuable to everyone who attends. Consider it a possibility.
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