There Is A Will, There Is A Meeting

Day 39 (2) - 961 days to go

God helps those who help themselves.

Well, I like the above title as well as I have completed full days of marathon back-to-back meeting. I am not sure what is the world record for meeting in a day or 3 days. My two colleagues and I just completed 23 meetings in 3 days, two of us even had one extra personal meeting that made up 24 meetings in totals.

In order for any event to be successful, there must be many things done right. Sometimes, luck also plays a very critical role. Three of us are from product development division and we made a trip to Singapore to meet up with existing and potential users and intermediaries of the products listed in my company, BMD. Before we reach Singapore, we managed to arrange 17 meetings. However, we end up having 23 meetings. Key success factors are:

1. Never give up. We try to arrange more meeting until the very last minutes via handphone and email.

2. Try our luck. We drop by counterparts' office without informing them and we were lucky enough to be able to meet them.

3. God helps us. By chance we met an ex colleague who is working in a futures company that we have interest to meet and he did help us to arrange for meetings.

4. Friend helps us - We managed to fix a few meetings after getting some information from friends or they actually help us to even fix a meeting. Helps gained from our business partners, brokers, and ex colleagues.

5. Good Luck - It was beyond my imagination that I was able to fix 17 meetings without really changing any appointment time slot at all.

6. Think out of the box - I enjoyed this the most. We simply drop by an office, go to the meeting place earlier, try to combine two meetings (from the same company) into one, change meeting time in order to arrange for more meetings.

7. Just do it - To attend meeting on an hourly basis and from one office to another one seems difficult if not improbable. However, we just make arrangement and completed with minor delay for a few meetings only.

8. There is a will, there is a way - we try to arrange meeting via different channels and networks which include cold call, get help from colleagues and friends, referral, and so on. God even help us by meeting another lead while walking.

Great event never happens by chance but by own will and God will. First thing first, God helps those who help themselves. This is the lesson I learned again in the past three days.