Live Life Team
It’s happened to almost everyone who has attended a networking or social event: you find someone that you really connect with, but before you are able to exchange business cards and other contact information, one of you is whisked away. Before you know it, you’ve lost them in the crowd and can’t find them to make the important exchange of information.
In such cases you don’t want to pass up the opportunity to forge an important personal or business connection. Instead, you realize that you need to get in touch. When you need to find someone’s phone number, or other contact information, one of the biggest advantages you have will be your recollection of everything that you talked to the person about, including their professional or personal affiliations, their connection to the networking event itself, and anything other relevant that they might have mentioned in passing to you.
Make sure to create a mental list of all the information that you can remember about the person. Your next step, if you should still be at the networking or social event, is to try and find someone that you remember your target contact speaking to. It can be helpful to rely on the informational network and ask these people if they know who you were speaking to and how to get in touch with that person. One of the best ways to handle this conversation is to be upfront about the fact that you’re trying to make a connection with the person, and that you are looking to find someone’s phone number or email address.
If the event ends and you haven’t had a chance to find the person’s phone number, your next step should be to consult your mental list of relevant information about the person, and start searching the internet for more information.
