BUSINESS
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INAUGURAL TASTE OF VEGAS CASINO NIGHT “A Gourmet Taste of O’Fallon, Vegas Style.”
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ickets are now on sale for the O’Fallon Chamber of Commerce’s Inaugural Taste of Vegas casino night presented by Krey Distributing on Saturday, March 2, 2013. The event will take place at the O’Fallon Elks Lodge located at 1163 Tom Ginnever in O’Fallon, Missouri.
This black tie optional evening will begin at 6:00 p.m. with food samplings from the area’s finest establishments along with wine, beer and spirit tastings. Then from 7:30 until 10:00 p.m. attendees will be able to try their luck on several casino tables that will be available, including Black Jack, Poker/Texas Hold’em, Craps, Roulette and a Chuck ‘O Luck Wheel. Guest will then be able to trade in their winnings for raffle tickets for a chance to win some great prizes that will be drawn at Continued on pg 7
3 WAYS TO GET MORE BUSINESS AT NETWORKING EVENTS
When it comes to building contacts, quality trumps quantity. BY IVAN MISNER
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usines speople unfamiliar with referral networking sometimes lose sight of the fact that networking is the means--not the end--of their business-building activities. They attend three, four, even five events in a week in a desperate grasp for new business. The predictable result is that they stay so busy meeting new people that they never have time to follow up and cultivate those relationships--and how can they expect to get new business from someone they’ve only just met? As one of these unfortunates remarked to me, “I feel like I’m always networking but rarely getting anything done.”
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