Anyone who knows me knows I love a bit of networking. Today I met with a potential new venue for a major event in 2027. More of that later. How did I get to be there today, working collaboratively to come up with an amazing deal for us, the venue and everyone who is going to visit it? Well, 16 years ago, I met @Colin McKeand. He and I have chatted ad-nauseum and worked together on tons of things. 2 years ago, he introduced me to Ciaran from a Cinema Chain. I spoke to Ciaran many times, at length, and we hit it off. We then did a partnership to bring networking events around the UK into cinemas. At one of those events, a venue manager came along, and we got chatting. That resulted in us agreeing to chat more and talk about collaborations. Today, after 4 trains and 4 hours, we met and worked out a fabulous arrangement. This all traces its origins back to a phone call in 2010. The moral of the story. Have a chat. About anything. Get to know one another. Amazing things will happen. Find someone on here you don't know. Start a conversation. Let me know where it takes you.

Good evening to over 200 new networkers!! Welcome to you all. A few things for your to do list: 1. Post who you are and where you're from and how you can help others. Not what you can sell, how you can help. 2. Go to the events tab and pop tomorrow's free PR Masterclass in your diary, Estelle is brilliant and the session is free, online at 10am. 3. Head to directory.hashtagevents.co.uk and claim a free listing. I'll upgrade everyone who claims one this week, then they are paid for! 4. Finally, head over to our offers and sign up for your free email marketing account, get noticed! Have a great time. Andrew

Thanks for the invitation