How to Organize Speed Networking Events Online

Nowadays, everyone has a smartphone. And it seems hard to find a person who doesn’t know about networking and how important it is in their life. Connect.Club combines these and helps people to meet their networking needs from anywhere via smartphones.

Who can benefit from online speed networking?

• Organizations (HR). Networking is an essential part of every organization, and having effective networking skills is a critical part of your success. Also, if you have a lot of new team members, it’s a great way for them to get to know each other.
• Professionals. Networking will help you meet people who might be useful to know, especially in your specific career niche. Invite people you find interesting to meet and expand their network and yours. Building and maintaining your professional network is like planting the seeds of personal and career success!
• Organizers. People are ready and willing to pay for speed networking events. They are great events that help people, and you earn a fee at the same time.

Why online networking?

Online networking is not so different from face-to-face networking, and it has a lot of advantages over the latter, especially when the needed platform is at your fingertips and convenient to your attendees.

Use case: Nick Mikulich has grown a community of startup founders from Europe. He earns money by matching interesting people. Due to today’s global situation, he tried to find a solution to build an audience online. His goal was:

• Make everything online.
• Bring the offline experience of speed networking online.
• Give people the feeling that their conversation is taking place with many others around them who are doing the same.
• Have the possibility to moderate the process.
• Give people the ability to join easily from their devices that they always have with them.

Nick shared his experiences with online platforms: “I tried a lot of solutions. Features from Zoom were helpful, where I could, in one click, split the crown by pairs of users, but feedback was really weak. People didn’t get several of the must-have needs from my list. It was completely different from offline, and retention was very low. So then I tried Connect.Club app.

I get a small fee from my customers to join speed networking so that it’s not free. After that, I give them the link to my room I created especially for my events. I meet people at the door. They can hear conversations only within a small range, only the people who are close to them. When I spoke from the stage, everybody could hear me, which helped me to moderate everything.

Everything was quite simple and intuitive, and more importantly — highly efficient! People were amazed! Afterward, we had free networking.

You can see what my room looks like here: link”.

Read the following tips about Connect.Club:

• Firstly, sell tickets on any platform (it depends on the organizer’s preferences)
• Then, send the link to the room to the people who bought tickets with a reminder of when the event takes place.
• While you are standing on the stage, everyone in the room will be able to hear you. When they sit at a table, they will hear only the person at the table with them.
• You help everyone to take their places and signal from the stage about the start of networking.
• In 3–5 minutes, you say from the stage that it is time for those on the right to move to the next table. People in the yellow chairs move to the next table.
• After the speed networking ends, you can offer free time where all the participants can join groups and communicate if they choose.
• Here, you can watch a video on how this platform works. The video shows you how the circles move and more:

And, you can click on this link to find out more about Connect.Club on Product Hunt page 🔥

Bring your community online and give them all the benefits of offline experiences!

When approached effectively, online networking is a great platform for building a professional profile, growing your digital network, and even landing your dream job.

If you are keen to network online, you first need to understand the landscape. Once you have familiarized yourself with connecting online, especially through the Connect.Club platform, we are sure that you will find it rewarding and valuable!