Sharing with you some meeting advice that I find useful and learn from others.
- Don't spam, be genuine: If you want to meet person, don't spam by sending continuous emails or DM on various social platforms. That doesn't work, instead send message with proper details including who you are, why you want to meet and so on.
- Ask for Introduction: If you want to meet a person and your friend or friend's friend know him, ask for your introduction. Ask your friend or friend's friend that you want to meet him. Again if you are genuine, it will work in most of cases.
- Be Human: If you setup meeting with person, be human! Don't be selfish and don't talk only about you. Make conversation happen and listen him.
- Have a couple of topics in mind: If you are meeting with person, have a couple of topics in mind. That will help with those odd silence moments.
- Do your research: Do a possible research on the person you are going to meet including his general interest, what things he like and what he particularly don't like. For example, instead of talking only about technical aspects, you might take conversation happen on other interested topics including cricket or football or politics or whatever that make person friendly to talk.
- Make them easy to meet: Finally, make them easy to meet. Don't tell, please meet me at cafe which is 10KM away from your office. Instead, tell him, I know you are working in this area and there is nice cafe which is just walking distance away from your office. Can we meet there?
I found this advice quite helpful. So, I thought why not share?
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