{"id":1449,"date":"2019-07-10T10:13:41","date_gmt":"2019-07-10T15:13:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/prcamobile.com\/?p=1449"},"modified":"2024-03-07T15:07:33","modified_gmt":"2024-03-07T21:07:33","slug":"how-to-network-with-pr-professionals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prcamobile.com\/how-to-network-with-pr-professionals","title":{"rendered":"How to Network with PR Professionals"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><em><strong>By: Shellie Teague &#8211; President, PRCA Mobile<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-53 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/prcamobile.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Untitled.png\" alt=\"Shellie Teague\" width=\"143\" height=\"200\" \/>As public relations professionals, we&#8217;re often in the know of ALL the events. Networking after hours, coffee chats, speaker luncheons, and special events are on our calendars and radars at all times. While I enjoy a good luncheon or after-hours event, I&#8217;m here to tell you to toss out what your Facebook Events are telling you about networking.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>You read that right. Ignore those event reminders when it comes to networking with your colleagues.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>I&#8217;ve met great people and learned so much at the events I described above, but nothing compares to one-on-one interactions with my colleagues. When I joined PRCA, I didn&#8217;t know anyone in the Mobile Chapter. Fortunately, the speakers were great and the members were welcoming so I kept coming back. These luncheons proved to be a great time to not only grow in the profession but also make great connections.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Taking these connections to the next level didn&#8217;t involve any complicated steps. It was as simple as sending an email to meet for coffee.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>WHAT?!<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Yep. In the day of being connected to everyone and everything, I took a chance and sent an email to a few colleagues I didn&#8217;t know very well to meet for coffee. We shared our professional journeys and current challenges over a $3 cup of coffee. These meetings turned into valuable connections that turned into mentorships and friendships. They later turned into a recommendation to join the PRCA board, which opened up a host of opportunities with it.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>We have a tendency to over complicate things (guilty!) in the day of tools, social media, apps, networking, etc. When it comes down to it, networking is best done when it&#8217;s genuine and not in the &#8220;speed dating&#8221; style at so many events we attend. I&#8217;m fortunate to be able to call on these friends for advice and feedback on any type of project&#8211;and their feedback has never led me wrong!<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>I challenge you all to make one new connection with a PRCA member before the end of the year. I&#8217;m proud that we are offering more opportunities to connect outside of our regular events and I hope to make several new connections with you all over the course of the next few months!<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By: Shellie Teague &#8211; President, PRCA Mobile As public relations professionals, we&#8217;re often in the know of ALL the events. Networking after hours, coffee chats, speaker luncheons, and special events are on our calendars and radars at all times. While I enjoy a good luncheon or after-hours event, I&#8217;m here to tell you to toss [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prcamobile.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1449"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prcamobile.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prcamobile.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prcamobile.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prcamobile.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1449"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/prcamobile.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1449\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3009,"href":"https:\/\/prcamobile.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1449\/revisions\/3009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prcamobile.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prcamobile.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prcamobile.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}