 Heading to WEC-19 next week. It's one of the year's most anticipated shows for event profs and hotel sales professionals. But often with these conferences, we go through this exciting four days of activity and we get back to the office and we wonder, what on earth did I get out of that? So I've compiled a list of best practices for going through a conference in particular this week's WEC-19. Hey everyone, WEC-19 is a few short days away and it definitely is meeting professionals, internationals, hallmark event for bringing people from the global community together for four or five days. And you wanna meet as many of these people as possible. But often without a plan, we can go into these events and not really meeting anyone and going home with not really any real new connections. So I'm outlining a plan here today that allows you to be a little bit proactive this week in gearing up for the show. So that a week from now, when you're coming back from the show, you've got some real connections and some real knowledge that you can pass along to your colleagues and pass along to other people in your network. So here we go. Tip number one, download the WEC app. This is the Apple app that I have on my phone here. It allows you to create your schedule in advance and customize your schedule for the sessions you want to attend. It's also got all the attendees on here. So you can take a look at who's attending the show. Now, when you go to the Apple Store, make sure you search by MPI WEC or WEC 2019. That's what'll get you to the Apple Store app. It's also on Android. I'm sorry, I don't have an Android. I'm sure you're gonna find the app just fine. But make sure you download this in advance. Tip number two, make sure you update your profile when you're on the app. There's lots of room to add a bio, your social media handles, your contact information. So make sure you do that before you hit the show floor as well. Tip number three, find and connect with attendees of the show. Now, I'm not talking about hundreds of connections. I want you to find four, five, six names of people you really wanna connect with and even brainstorm some questions you wanna ask them. And that'll make your interaction with them a lot more meaningful. And of course, you can find all the attendees on the app as well. Tip number four, get active on social media. So the hashtag for WEC is hashtag WEC 19. They also have a Facebook page, an Instagram page. And while they didn't have anything posted for a LinkedIn page, I think you should post things on their LinkedIn as well. So just get active on social media before the show, during the show, and of course after. Tip number five, take notes. It still shocks and amazes me at how many people can go into these conferences and not take good notes of all the sessions that they're attending. I need to take notes. I need to handwrite the notes because it'll lead to better retention so that when I'm bringing them back to the office, I actually have something that I can use. So make sure you take good notes of all your sessions. Number six, be deliberate about meeting new people at the networking receptions. And set a goal for yourself. Maybe you wanna meet three or five new people at each networking reception. And I did a video and blog post not too, too long ago about networking. And so you can look at that blog post in the description for this video. But make a point of meeting new people at receptions and not just sticking with the same people from your MPI chapter. Number seven, sit next to someone new at each general session and meal. And hopefully there's lots of people that you can meet there. So make a note of sitting next to someone new, introducing yourself, what chapter you belong to and what you love most about your MPI community. Finally, number eight, schedule some time after the show to go through all of those great notes you took, go through all of those business cards you collected and be intentional about the things that you collected at the conference. That's what makes the conference great is all of the learnings that come out of it. So let's not let that information just sit on the corner of our desk when we get home. Let's actually act upon all the information that we collected. So are you attending WEC next week? Are there any of your best practices for attending a big show like this that you'd like to share? Please share them with the community below here. That's this week's Two Minute Tip Tuesday. Follow me on LinkedIn to catch all of my Two Minute Tip Tuesday videos. And if you're attending WEC this week, save travels, make a note to try and find me somewhere on the show floor to say hi. And we'll see you in a week's time. Bye for now.