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Post-Event Reflection and Confidence Building

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Thursday in the Life of a Landscaper

What happens here

After the event, the contractor reflects on the experience. He reiterates the importance of attending such events for visibility, even if immediate deals aren't closed. He mentions feeling underdressed but states that sometimes standing out can be beneficial if accompanied by confidence. He warns against prioritizing social invitations over crucial business development time.

Goal: Reinforce the value of networking and maintaining confidence regardless of external factors.

Tools and materials

  • Business cards — Exchanging contact information

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to expand or do or become where I'm get to where I'm at right now. And that leads me to want to bring up a point to you. Don't fall for that trap. Your friends are going to be asking you out. Oh, come on out. Let's go uh let's go party. you're you're going to be uh invited to events or functions and you're going to be torn. You're going to be torn between going or going to work. Remember this, 80% of businesses fail. And the reason is because people make the wrong decisions. What do you think the right decision is? Putting food on the table and a roof over your head or going out and partying? You figure it out. It looks like that's my place. Let's go check it out. Okay, we're here. Cameras are rolling. Everybody's dressed up in suits and ties. And here I am, a landscaper. Yeah, my kind of event, right? We've got people all over. I am so totally underdressed. Is that going to stop me? Be willing on occasion to fail. And that's one of the things that we at Egan haven't learned how to do very well because haven't failed all that. So I think you know at the end of the day there are small specific problems we can point to and say that's an amount of money that's not amount of money. I think it was all right going on 9:00 just got done with the state of the union address for the city of Egan. Was it worthwhile? Passed out a few business cards. That wasn't what it was about. Was about making sure that people could see you attend the event. Not every event is going to be a walk away with a deal in your hand, but the next time you go to event, your face may be recognized. So, you need to attend these things whether you want to or not. Next job site in Menota Heights. All right. One of the fun things about that last event, it was a suit and tie event. Here I am in jeans and boots. But

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