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My friend Randy Joey is the most relentless and most successful power networker in the world. No one knows more people than he does. He helps them find themselves and others to bounce ideas off of with the ultimate goal of self-actualization for all.
Recently Randy Joey went to the beach. I asked him how his beach power networking was going because if there’s one thing I know about Randy is he doesn’t turn off the networking button just because he’s at a place where people go to relax and avoid networking.
I wondered if, while on the sand half nude, Randy confronted guys and asked if they know John and Bill, who also knows Sam, who knows Terry and has a side hustle with Fran, and how all these people need to get together on the beach via Zoom calls to brainstorm ways to grow their businesses and invest in beachfront real estate, find higher interest rates on retirement incomes, and identify stock market tips.
Turns out this was going on. Instigated by Randy Joey, these power networking collisions took place on beach chairs connecting beachgoers on both the Atlantic and Pacific Coasts at high noon with temperatures soaring above 90 degrees.
Strangers all on the call, they talk networking, aimlessly wishing to just get back to sitting without thinking, being blissfully beach brain dead.
Once Randy kicked off the call as moderator and had that power networking cohort at full tilt, he figures his work is done there so goes to the greasy fries/cotton candy/caramel corn boardwalk hut and confronts some random guys waiting in line.
“Hey, you guys know Bob and Bill and Gertrude and Gail? Bob knows Hank and Bill works on side projects with Gertrude. How’s business? What’s in your financial portfolio? How much money did you make last year?”
“Dude, I’m here buying a lime snow cone,” says Caramel Corn who looks to be in some kind of shady mortgage business. “Who are you? It’s the beach. I don’t know any of those people.”
He bolts down the boardwalk munching on his caramel corn texting guys in his power network about being accosted by another power networker on the beach boardwalk – an unprecedented event in world history.
The next guy in line orders greasy fries.
“Hey, do you know Julias and Bertha?” says Randy. “They do business deals with Bostwick and Bernie. Here’s my business card. Text me your business card in PDF format.”
“Dude, nobody hands out business cards on the beach,” says Greasy Fries. “People go to the beach to avoid being handed business cards. Besides, I don’t know how to do PDFs.”
“Hey text me your resume,” says Randy Joey. “I’ll post it on my LinkedIn page and forward you any business leads that come through that channel.”
“Dude, you don’t even know my name,” Greasy says. “You don’t know what I do for a living. I don’t know who you are. You posting my business card on your LinkedIn page sounds odd at best.”
Undeterred, RJ says: “I’m texting you the dial-in for the bi-coastal Zoom call now taking place on the Atlantic and Pacific Ocean beaches. Join the marvelously meandering ideation session. Build your network. Do business while slurping greasy fries on the beach.”
Greasy walks away.
Up walks Sammy Sportface having just finished texting 1,000 people on the blog he posted yesterday about seeing a live band at the beach and wrote about it as if it’s a novel thing to see a band play live even though it happens every night of the year all over the world.
“Hey Sportface, I’ve been power networking so much on the beach that I haven’t had time to read the 47 texts you’ve sent me of blogs you’ve written while at the beach and force-fed everybody you know. To catch up with all that reading I’d have to go to a remote island with nothing but coconuts and print all those blogs out to read them. Do you have any idea how exasperating it is to get so many unwanted blogs from you?”
Sportface shoots back: “Of all people you – the world’s best power networker – should appreciate what Sportface is doing. It’s called power blogging. You power network. Sportface power blogs. They’re basically the same thing only I don’t have to set up Zoom calls between strangers on the beach. I just write about the beach Zoom calls and power blog them out to strangers. Lower overhead and less interpersonal friction. It’s called The Blue Ocean Strategy, which is the title of the book I read. Blast out blogs near a blue ocean to everyone you have contact information for and see who gets seasick.”
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