Networking is a brilliant way of doing business. It allows you to meet a huge range of different people from all walks of life and share your ideas, contacts and to glean valuable information which can help in your business life. It’s also pretty popular for social circle building too.
Realising the value of these networks and getting a huge personal buzz from helping to connect people, Tim Matcham has recently invested both time and money in optimising his return from networking and has some great success stories to tell.
‘People mocked me when I first adopted Twitter, the online micro-blogging site’, recalls Tim, ’You are wasting your time there can be no business benefit from a social networking site’.
Convinced they were wrong he set about proving that you could indeed make Twitter work for your business.
As an ardent Networker, Tim has recently purchased the Horticultural Networking site – The Garden Network. This brilliant site offers everyone, with any interest or passion in gardening to meet up with other likeminded people – and although it is UK based they have a growing contingent of overseas members. Absolute beginners can ask burning questions about how to get started, while more experienced members are on hand to offer advice and share ideas on garden design and exhibiting at the prestigious RHS Shows.
It seemed a natural opportunity to use Twitter to help promote The Garden Network to a wider audience and help the members get even more value from the site.
Selecting a key Garden Network member who is designing a show garden at the prestigious RHS Chelsea Flower Show for the charity Demelza House Hospice, a children’s hospice in Kent and suggesting that the gardening fraternity on Twitter might like to get behind her and wish her well in her endeavours.
Jo Thompson was delighted at the response that came. One of Tim’s followers was the metal sculptor Steve Blaylock – and he made a very generous offer of donating a piece of sculpture for the garden which could then be auctioned off after the show to raise money for the charity.
Jo had been an admirer of Steve’s work but without the power of the Garden Network & Twitter the association would never have been made.
This story has a twist – success it seems does indeed breed success – Steve has been invited to take part in a sculpture exhibition being organised by a friend of Jo’s!
If you are going to Chelsea next week keep an eye open for Jo’s garden Demelza on stand RM13. We wish her every success.
It seems then that networking can be hugely successful, and if you have an interest in gardening too then make The Garden Network a place to solve your gardening problems.
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