Joe Apfelbaum invited six CEO LinkedIn connections to a 5:30 PM standup comedy show. Two of them became clients afterward, proving that authentic connection beats transactional networking.
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Boom boom. So LinkedIn is the world's largest professional social network. And you know what I did today? I took six connections that are just social media connections of mine, and I said, "Do you guys want to do stand-up comedy? Do you want to just write a routine for stand-up comedy?" And we all got together, six CEOs, and we did a stand-up comedy routine at five thirty. That's hilarious. And two of them reached out to me and said, "Joe, I'd like to." buy one of your products and services. Like, I want to do business with you. Just like that. You don't need to network and just do like, oh, what can I do for you? What can you do for me? Who can you introduce? You can literally just spend time with people and then people find out what you do for a living and then they automatically want to do business with you. That's how networking works.