OCTOBER 2017
CHAMBER CENTRAL
A PUBLICATION OF THE WESTMORELAND COUNTY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
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4:30 pm - Ribbon Cutting, Geyer Performing Arts Education Center, Scottdale
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7:45 am - MBPA Chapter Networking Breakfast, Dick’s Diner, Murrysville
The Networking Battle is On... SOCIAL FACE-TOMEDIA FACE
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11:30 am - Awards Luncheon & Annual Business Meeting, Ramada Hotel & Conference Center, Greensburg
By Mike Dudurich, Contributing Writer
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Back in the days when There are business varying consisted of perspectives. exchanging hard goods only or exchanging goods for ser- Amy Miller of Heartland Payment Systems is a vices, there wasn’t much need for networking. firm believer in the traditional way.
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9:00 am - Sporting Clays Shoot, Seven Springs Mountain Resort
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7:45 am - Breakfast BASH, Art & Frame Gallery, Greensburg
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5:00 pm - BASH, Beeghly and Company Jewelers, Greensburg
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8:00 am - Small Business Roundtable, Year-End Tax Prep with Case | Sabatini
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7:45 am - Coffee & Connections, Hayden’s Pharmacy, Mt. Pleasant
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8:00 am - Government Affairs Committee Meeting
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8:00 am - Ambassador Committee Meeting
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As business and time have evolved, however, that need has grown exponentially.
explosion of social media platforms become the way to go?
“Absolutely, I believe in the face-to-face way of networking,” she said. “I do use social media some. I joined LinkedIn and I have not The need to network with current, as well as earned any customers from that site. Some prospective customers, has become absolutely people rarely meet face-to-face, but in my necessary to succeed in today’s business business, I need to create a trust with a proworld. A national survey showed that from spective customer and you can’t do that on 2008-2012 over 40 percent of job-seekers social media.” obtained positions through networking. Dan Galbraith, aka Dan the Swag Man, of SoluThink of what that number might be considertionist believes social media has a place in the ing the time that has elapsed since that survey networking game, but it’s not first place. with the explosion of social media. “Absolutely,” he said. “You do business with Discussion these days centers not on the need people you know you can trust and it’s hard to for networking, but how best to do it. really know people from Facebook. Face-toface can’t be beat.” Is it the time-honored way of going face-toface with people at networking events like the See Networking • Page 5 Chamber’s BASHes and luncheons or has the
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