I really wasn't expecting this particular co-working space to say yes at all. When I had visited one of their branches I found the receptionist asleep at the desk, one of the members had to wake them up to attend to me.
I know, that was odd. 😳
They did however give me the email of the person who would make a decision on my doing a talk.
At this point I just went through the motions of sending an email because I just didn't think they would be interested.
I was surprised to get an email back just a couple days later asking me to give an outline of the talk. I didn't even respond until yesterday, Sunday evening, almost a week after receiving their email.
To my surprise, the person reached out to me just now, this morning and gave me some dates in April.
I won't pretend it was easy or that I liked walking the streets of London asking and what felt like begging to do talks but I just made a commitment and stuck to it.
I hope this will yield some clients.
I'm hoping to get surprises like this as I continue cold calling this week