I had lunch today with my friend/client/marketing maven at the Urban Eatery – a hip new eating establishment in Charlottetown, PEI. If you live on PEI and haven’t yet checked out the former food court of the Confederation Court Mall – what are you waiting for?! Chef Gordon Bailey has done an outstanding job, offering a great variety of food items at great prices. I had two delicious beef skewers, a mountain of fries which I didn’t come near being able to finish and a bottle of 7-Up (don’t judge me it was a treat) for under $8.

The food was great, but that’s not what this post is about. Living in a small province, it’s rare to go to a public place like that and not run into someone you know. Today’s trip to the mall for lunch turned out to be a networking event! Two lovely gentlemen joined us for lunch – both friends of my lunch date, Moe. Two people to introduce the virtual assistance industry to! One was the editor of a local paper and the other a financial planner. When they left, I saw another of my clients having lunch and she came to talk with us on her way out. Turns out she recognized Moe from her former business and said she could use Moe’s new consultation services. That’s networking and I love it!

We don’t all live in such a small community, but as business people we should always be armed with business cards and an elevator speech (30 second pitch) whenever venturing out in public.

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