There’s a handful of coffee shops in Nashville where if you were spend every day there for a year, you’d run into every Nashvillian you could ever dream of meeting in person.
Those elusive artists and writers and high up music biz execs. If you want to meet them face to face, you can get face to face. That’s not the hard part.
The hard part is…when you finally get those few precious minutes, whether it’s in a coffee shop or in a boardroom or on a phone call, what are you going to do?
Two things…
What do you need? And what can you offer? You need to be clear about these beforehand. You may not need both of them but you need both to be prepared.
»» And don’t get bogged down in super business-y answers to those questions, especially the second one (although they might be true too). Maybe you can offer humor, a light hearted spirit, a caring look, a thoughtful question, a heart felt compliment.
