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3 /OfAKind Lessons On Meaningful Relationships
Submitted by Macala Wright on 03/22/2011 – 2:00 AMNo Comment | 532 views
Living In LA, there’s no shortage of events, parties and invitations to things that you’re supposedly supposed to be seen at. But honestly, when you get to be a woman of a certain of age in the city of Los Angeles, you simply want to stay home.
Once you’ve lived LA Vida Loca – Angeleno style, you start craving substance and connection. You want relationships that are more than {Wham! Bam! Thank you, Ma’am.} meetings; you want to create life-long relationships. And last week, that’s what happened when the beauties from Of a Kind brought Brooklyn to the Sunset Strip.
@ofakind, @Alisagouldsimon, @RoseApodaca, @JustineBateman, @StyleSectionLA, @Mondette and @fashmarketing met at Food + Market for a NYC meets LA dinner. It was not your typical LA event referenced above; it was a simple, intimate get-together and provided three valuable business lessons that I think all of our readers can learn from.
1. Quality Over Quantity: It’s not how many people are at your event, it’s who’s at your event. All in attendance opened our minds and our networks to help each other accomplish a task each person present needed help with. Meeting with small groups is more productive than an event full of relevant strangers. So the next time your PR person says “BIG EVENT,” slap him or her with your copy of Guy Kawaski’s Enchantment, then go through your Rolodex and see who you know that can help you plan a ‘lil get together. Pay for dinner with the PR person’s salary for the month.
2. Communal Tables Breed Community: Have you ever wondered why Le Pain Quotidien has those long tables in the middle of their restaurants? Well, they’re called communal tables. Communal tables are designed to encourage you to site next to someone you don’t know and start a dialog with them. The conversation that the writers, bloggers and fashionable entrepreneurs in attendance started that night were the beginning of friendships and business partnerships to last a lifetime simply because we could listen to each other and converse.
3. Social Media Is Online; It’s Okay To Get Old School And Go Offline: Do you find yourself introducing yourself by your twitter handle more and more these days? That’s not a good thing. For the rest of 2011, take the time to meet @InsertTwitterHandleHere in person and practice insights #1 and #2.
