Three Ways You Can Help Others In Business

With 2015 coming to an end, it’s a wonderful time to reflect. It’s a great time to brainstorm your 2016 strategy while also finishing 2015 on a very strong note! As someone who thinks quite a bit about people, my network, I wanted to share a quick post today offering three ways you can help others in business.

I know everyone is ready for the holidays and new year, ready to relax. However, I encourage reading my three tips today because it’s a quick post and could truly accelerate your business success heading into the new year.

Tip 1: Be A Dealmaker, Think Like A Broker

Teamwork Sculpture

Real estate brokers are dealmakers. They facilitate transactions between buyers and sellers, bringing parties together for mutually-beneficial financial transactions.

In business, become a dealmaker. As your network grows, you will uncover opportunities. Various parties in your network can benefit incredibly from each other, however they may not yet know each other. When you uncover those opportunities, be a leader and make the connections.

Don’t always look for profit or benefit from your introductions. Simply make the connections and do your part to be a leader. From my experience, this type of activity will always come back in one way or another, benefitting you in the long run.

Tip 2: Mentor Others and Be A Friend

In the fast-paced world of technology, there is a clear need for mentors. There is no better way to give back in business than mentoring others. While you are truly helping others, you will also gain a loyal supporters for life (your mentees) and learn your craft even better (teaching is one of the best ways of learning).

Mentoring does not have to be formal. Identify those professionals you truly believe in and just start taking them to lunch. Talk about business and find ways you can help. Be a coach and a friend. My challenge to you: Become a mentor before the end of 2015, take a potential mentee to lunch in the next 8 days!

Tip 3: Spread The Holiday Cheer

In technology, we work so incredibly hard. With the year coming to an end, find ways to slow things down. Focus on the people that matter most to you, both in business and your personal life. Spread that holiday cheer!

How can you go about doing this? A few ideas:

Take your team to lunch
Hand out holiday cards/gifts
Recognize big achievements for the year
Take the time to reconnect with old colleagues
Let people leave the office early/take some time off
Pay out a holiday bonus if your company did well

The happiness you spread will elevate everyone’s wellbeing and take your leadership to the next level.

If you like today’s tips, I also wanted to highlight my recent post about my People Day Strategy. I’m a firm believer that your network is one of your greatest investments. Hold your own people day to take your network to the next level.

My Biggest Investment Yet: My First People Day

By PPC Ian Leave a Comment Dec 7 0

If you’ve been reading PPC Ian for a while, you know that I’m a tremendous fan of networking and turning business partnerships into friendships. You’ll often hear me saying, "It’s all about the people." While I have done quite well investing in stocks, pre-IPO companies, and businesses, I have done even better investing in people. I want to take my network to the next level by planning my first people day. Today’s entry outlines what this people day is all about. It will act as my personal agenda and will hopefully spark some great ideas for your own network strategy too!

Before I get into the specifics of my upcoming people day, I wanted to take a moment to explain why people have been so fundamental to my career:

Great mentors have guided me in the right direction.
Great connections have helped me secure new jobs.
Great employees have worked on my team, driving results and making my life wonderful as a manager.
Great teammates have made my workday fun and exiting.
Great people have helped me solve complex business challenges that no single person could solve on their own.
Great partners have brought forth incredible game-changing technologies that have transformed my business operations.
Great PPC Ian readers have provided amazing questions, insights, and ideas (thank you for reading).
Great sponsors have made this blog a reality (thank you for your support).
Great friends have connected me with fabulous consulting opportunities.
Great leaders have inspired the way I do business.
The list goes on!

Aside from your own health/growth and your own family, I would argue that the single most important investment in one’s life is other people. The people investment is more important than saving money. It’s more important than investing in stocks, bonds, and real estate.

Why is it then that I spend so much time obsessing over stocks, but far less time strategizing about people, my network, my most important investment? Why is it that I save every spare dollar for financial investment, rather than allocating a portion of my savings to people investment? I will be holding my first ever people day in the coming weeks, and here’s what I plan to accomplish…

Goal 1: Scrappy People Database [3 hours]

While I have gone to painstaking detail to categorize every imaginable detail on my financial portfolio, I have not taken the time to do the same with my network. I will leverage all data available – business cards, LinkedIn, emails, and notes – to create a centralized database. My database will include as much information as possible: contact details, how I know them, when I last saw them, who paid for lunch last time, fun facts, and more. Part of the process will be identifying all of the columns I require. I will also assign each person a level of priority: friend, super friend, and super best friend.

This step alone will help me be a better business partner, connection, and friend. Having all the data in one place will immediately help me focus on the amazing people in my business life, encouraging me to stay in contact more often and more strategically. Eventually, I may migrate this entire process into a CRM system, but I’ll start out with the quick, scrappy route in Excel.

Goal 2: Take Action With High Leverage Opportunities [2 hours]

Since this is my first people day, I am going to take the quick, scrappy approach to realizing results. This involves really analyzing those that fall into the "super best friend" category. I will look at each super best friend one-by-one. Specifically, I will:

Reach out to them if I have not recently.
Plan lunch (on me) if we have not seen each other recently.
Brainstorm how I can be of assistance to them.
Create a calendar (that I can stick to) for future lunch meetings.

With my incredibly busy life, I feel like I could have been more proactive staying in contact with some of my best friends. This is not acceptable, and a primary goal of my people day is creating a sustainable cadence and schedule going forward.

Goal 3: Lunch Hour Big Picture Strategy On Who I Want To Meet [1 hour]

It has been said that you become an average of the people you surround yourself with. Thankfully, I surround myself with the most incredible, amazing people, and I’m so thankful for that. As someone who’s always looking to grow and expand, I want to carefully brainstorm over lunch 5-10 people who I want to meet (or re-connect with) in the coming 12 months. These will be people with unique skills and accomplishments, people who know things that truly want to learn.

These may be leaders who I worked with in the past or people I don’t know at all. The important element here is these are people who are busy, successful, and really don’t have time for me! There’s an element of challenge here, I want to shoot for the stars. I’m going to spend some time trying to build a relationship with these 5 leaders, bringing value into their lives. However, if only one or two work out, that will be considered success and progress. I want to set the bar high.

Goal 4: Plan, Buy, and Send Holiday Gifts [2 hours]

I’m a big fan of holiday gifts, especially ones with custom engravings that have a personalized message. I’m going to curate my list of super best friends and probably best friends too, planning holiday cards and gifts. I will determine an appropriate budget, and plan to say "thank you" to the people that matter.

These gifts make an incredible difference and strengthen relationships, if they come from the heart. A great example: My team and I sent custom-engraved gifts to our Yahoo! team last year. A very high official at Yahoo! reached out and let me know that we were the only client to do this, out of their multitude of clients. Our gifts made an impact on the partnership/friendship.

As part of the holiday gifts, I also plan to create great documentation so the process is even quicker next year. I’ll certainly build this into the database (Goal 1).

Goal 5: Social Media Network Expansion [1 hour]

I have met an incredible number of business professional and leaders thanks to my blog, PPC Ian. I am so thankful for everyone who reads. I hope I have added as much value to all of your lives as you have to mine. I’m always looking to grow my audience here on PPC Ian because that’s one way to grow my network! In fact, it may be one of the absolute best ways to grow my network, because PPC Ian has no geographic boundaries.

Lately, I’ve been investing in paid social media with incredible success. I want to spend a little bit of time during my people day looking at the numbers, planning budgets, and determining how much I can afford to invest going forward. I’m on a limited paid media budget, and have already blasted through a reasonable sum of money. I need to really understand what I’m willing to invest and challenge myself to go all out on this front.

In the coming weeks, I will be doing a separate blog post outlining the success I have been experiencing via social media, especially Facebook.

As a related note, would you like to me part of my network? I’d really like you to be! Please shoot me an email or message on social media, and I’ll add you to my personal network. I’m always looking to meet new business professionals and friends. Let me now how I can be of assistance to you!

Goal 6: Recapping The Day and Brainstorming For My Next People Day [1 hour]

I will close out the day getting my next people day on the map, and with some high level thinking. My first people day is going to be incredibly scrappy and tactical. I’m getting the basic foundation in place for future success. However, this people day can become so much more! I want to get my next people day on the map, and brainstorm some really clever, big ideas. Things I already want to do that I’ll be skipping this first people day:

Thank-a-Thon: I want to personally call people from my database to reconnect and thank them for being in my life.
Community Service: Part of investing in people is giving back. The perfect way to start off a people day is investing in one’s own community. As a related note, I want to double down and invest in friends who actively participate in community service. How can I donate to their causes?
Summit: I want to get some of my closes friends together for a people day summit. How can we help each other with our networks, partnerships, and friendships? How can we challenge each other?

I recently started my new PPC Ian Quotes Series. One of my most popular quotes is, "Invest in yourself. Carve out the time. Nobody else will." Today, I encourage you to have your own people day. While you’re investing in others, the people in your business life, you’re also investing in yourself, since people are your greatest investment!

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Fun Times At The Crunchies With Yahoo!

By PPC Ian Leave a Comment Feb 10 0

Last week, I attended the 8th annual Crunchies with my good friends from Yahoo! Hosted at Davies Symphony Hall in San Francisco, the Crunchies is the Oscars of the technology industry. It’s all about honoring the best innovations in technology from the past year. I had a blast at the event and wanted to share today some of my big takeaways.

Ian Lopuch Crunchies

First and foremost, it’s good to be in digital marketing. It’s good to be a valued Yahoo! partner, the premium sponsor of this event and so many others. Yahoo! really knows how to treat their top partners. I’m talking about a special VIP lounge with amazing food and drinks. I’m talking about the best seats in the house (we sat in a balcony suite right next to the stage, and right next to some of the most important people at the entire event). I’m talking about an exclusive pre-party and after-party. Thanks to Yahoo!, I really had a special time.

Second, it’s all about the networking. In our industry, we all work such long hours. It’s easy to lose sight of the relationships and networking side of things. I’d like to argue today that it’s all about the people and networking. I have built a truly lasting relationship with the incomparable Yahoo! team over the years, and this relationship has added true value to my career. More than that, it’s just plain fun to spend time with great people! Yahoo! has a really special and talented team, and I learn so much every time we hang out. Get out there and invest in your business partnerships, they might just turn into friendships!

Third, it’s important to take time to be inspired. This event honored some seriously incredible accomplishments. I’m a tremendous fan of Customer Acquisition marketing because this career offers so much responsibility. It’s just like being a "Mini CEO". I’m talking about responsibility over: P&L, strategy, huge budgets, large teams (in many cases), technology platforms, cross-functional work, new ideas, growth, results, and so much more. Awards shows like the Crunchies are the perfect time to get inspired. In an inspired state, we all bring our best ideas and work to the table. Combine the overall inspiration of the event with an inspiring premium sponsor (Yahoo!), and I left ready to do my best work ever!

Thanks, Yahoo!, for an amazing VIP experience, and for being the best partner ever!

Hanging Out At the Yahoo! VIP Lounge

PPC Ian and Yahoo at the Crunchies

Images in this post © PPCIan.com

SEO Networking Lunch With AdLift

By PPC Ian Leave a Comment Jul 12 2

I wrote a post a while back about my Lunch With Top SEO Agency AdLift. I’m a huge fan of tradition in networking. It’s important to build friendships with the best-of-the-best, and AdLift is just that. Our tradition: Networking lunches at Chef Chu’s in Los Altos. (Side note: Looking for an SEO agency? I highly recommend contacting AdLift today.)

Networking With Johnny From AdLift At Chef Chu’s

I originally met Prashant Puri (CEO & Co-Founder) and Johnny Shami (VP, Business Development) at Search Insider Summit. I was immediately impressed and have stayed in close contact with these guys ever since. They are true experts in SEO (search engine optimization), based here in Silicon Valley.

Last week, Johnny and I went to Chef Chu’s in Los Altos, a tradition for our PPC Ian : AdLift networking lunches. I’m a big fan of Chef Chu’s, some of the best Chinese food around, with a truly healthy and fresh perspective. I ordered the cashew chicken lunch special, and will be going back again very soon (it’s delicious and healthy).

Do you work long hours? Are you busy? Prashant, Johnny, and I are for sure. Prashant is busy traveling the globe, growing AdLift’s business at warp speed. Johnny and I worked for weeks (actually months) trying to find a date that would work. I think we had to reschedule at least 5 times. However, we made it happen! (It’s all about determination and not giving up, especially when it comes to something as important as networking.) I cannot say enough about the power of important friendships with the best-of-the-best in digital marketing (or your profession of choice). It’s all about the people.

My career advice for the week: Build out your network and make these types of lunches happen! See how you can add value. Help your friends out as much as possible, and make a positive impact. It’s all about building great friendships and seeing how you can add value! I have personally built my career with a friendship and service-oriented perspective. I am amazed every single day at the opportunities that come my way thanks to hard work, giving back, and collaborating with great people.

Image from SEO Lunch © PPCIan.com

Lunch With Top SEO Agency AdLift

By PPC Ian Leave a Comment Jul 16 0

In the world of digital marketing, it’s all about networking. Your network is important for so many reasons. Just a few: finding opportunities, hiring great marketers for your team, collaborating/learning new things, and hiring a world-class agency. In addition to all of this great stuff, your network will allow you to find ways to collaborate and give back to the industry.

I’m a real fan of attending search marketing conferences for the purpose of networking. Recently, I attended Search Insider Summit where I met the amazing AdLift team – Prashant (CEO) and Johnny (Director of Business Development). AdLift is a top SEO Agency. I’m super impressed with them and so are their clients such as Comcast, PayPal, and at&t interactive.

Today, I had a blast having lunch with Prashant and Johnny at Chef Chu’s in Los Altos. We talked all about digital marketing, SEO, and life. I picked up some great insights into the SEO industry from the true experts. I also enjoyed sharing some insights about the paid side of things. AdLift, thanks so much for the great lunch. PPC Ian readers: Get out there and network! And, if you’re looking for an SEO agency, check out AdLift. Their resume is truly impressive, and they are absolute experts at enterprise-level SEO.

Image of AdLift Lunch © PPCIan.com

Cool Search Marketing Holiday Gifts

By PPC Ian Leave a Comment Dec 23 0

I’m a huge fan of corporate holiday cards and gifts. Giving gifts is such a wonderful way to say “thank you” to your valued colleagues, vendors, and partners. Gifts don’t have to be super expensive, it’s the thought that matters. Being an online advertising professional, I’m truly blessed and lucky to work with amazing partners such as Google, Yahoo!, and Marin Software. This year, my partners went all out and sent over some truly impressive (and amazingly appreciated) gifts. Today, I wanted to highlight a few of the gifts I received this year. Thanks everyone for the awesome gifts!

Marin Software Holiday Gift

First up is the tower of chocolates and goodies from Marin Software. This tower is truly impressive, check out the picture to the right. Each box contains a different treat. I’m talking about chocolates, truffles, gourmet cookies, and so much more. Marin’s gift is the first one I received this year and it went fast. Everyone at the office truly enjoyed it! Thanks, Marin!

Second up is the most amazing gift basket ever from my SEM agency. This is the first picture below. I put an Expo marker next to the gift basket for size comparison. This basket has more food than one could possibly eat! It’s a heavy gift basket and has just about everything from caviar to chocolates to smoked salmon. I know we will be enjoying this gift basket for months to come, our SEM team is stocked with snacks and goodies.

Next, I wanted to highlight the third gift on the list, the amazing Harry and David gift box received from our friends at Yahoo! This is perhaps the classiest gift basket I have ever seen. It contains pears, apples, chocolates, and more. The presentation is simply amazing. I really like this gift box because it’s the perfect balance of healthy foods and desserts too.

Good things often come in small packages! I wanted to sincerely thank Google for the fifth gift on my list today, an amazing Ghirardelli coffee mug filled with all flavors of Ghirardelli chocolate squares. This gift is truly fun because Google sent it to all members of our team. It’s always fun when you get a personal gift, thanks Google.

I wanted to round up today’s post with my fifth gift, an amazing gift basket (literally in a basket) from one of our favorite second tier search engines. This basket, like Yahoo!’s, is from Harry and David. The pears, apples, nuts, and goodies are delicious.

The 2012 holiday season is definitely the season of good food. Our gifts this year were all centered around the gift basket and food theme. Thank you so much, everyone, for the gifts. I’m so honored and lucky to work with such amazing partners in such an amazing industry. I wanted to also take this opportunity to sincerely thank you for reading PPC Ian and to leave you with a parting thought… While all of these gifts truly made my month, I also had the great opportunity to purchase a few gifts this holiday season for those less fortunate (via my company’s holiday gift drive). This is truly the season of giving and I encourage you to find ways to give back. That is the most rewarding gift of all!

Images of My SEM Holiday Gifts From Amazing Partners

Search Marketing Agency Gift Basket

Yahoo! Gift Basket

Google Holiday Gift

Search Marketing Holiday Gift Basket

Great Online Marketing Networking Tips

By PPC Ian Leave a Comment Nov 18 0

I’m a huge fan of search marketing careers. In this business, networking is super important. Just a few months back, I wrote about PPC Networking Tips. Today’s post is a continuation of the networking theme and offers some fresh and new online marketing networking tips. I hope these tips help take your networking to the next level.

Lunch at Cascal, Mountain View With Yahoo!

Invest time in high-leverage relationships. Relationships in any business have different levels of leverage. Some partners are super busy and don’t have as much time to network. This is totally ok, as we all get busy. Other partners, however, are all about networking. You really want to invest where you will get the most leverage (and this may change over time depending on people’s schedules and ability to network). I have always viewed Yahoo!, for example, as an amazingly high leverage partnership. When it comes to partnerships, they are the best of the best. They always make so much effort to help their partners in any way possible. As such, this is a relationship that is always top of mind for this online marketing professional.
Attend happy hours and company events. Online marketing is truly a cross-functional career. As SEM professionals, we work with so many different departments (literally all departments). As such, I try to make all possible happy hours. This is a fun way to truly get to know others in your company. It’s a great way to learn how you can work together as a team to achieve amazing results.
Travel to different office locations. Do you work at a large company that has multiple offices? Try to visit them all! This tip really ties into the last one. As a cross-functional discipline, it’s all about building solid relationships throughout your company. Visit different locations in-person and you will build amazing relationships.
Host events for search engines and partners. We are truly blessed in online marketing. We get to go to so many fun events planned by our friends at search engines. In just the past few weeks, I enjoyed amazing events with Google, Yahoo!, and other partners. Recently, I have been thinking about ways to give back. Why not give back and host the events for a change? Your partners will truly thank you!
Plan team events such as hikes and community service. We all work so hard, and it can truly help break things up by taking off some fun time for team events. Networking with partners and other departments is truly important. Networking with your own team is paramount.
Plan team offsites. This tip is really a continuation of the last one, it’s all about networking with your own team. However, you can also make team offsites about networking with key partners. Consider inviting key partners to your offsite for the ultimate networking opportunity!
Leverage social media to build key relationships. I mentioned LinkedIn in my last post about networking, and today I wanted to highlight Quora. I wrote a post a while back about how I’m Answering Online Marketing Questions On Quora. I have found Quora to be a super social network for building true relationships within your industry.
Send holiday cards and gifts. I wrote a post last holiday season about how Online Marketing Holiday Gifts Rule. Gifts truly do rule and they are critical for networking. Even if you don’t have a huge budget, it’s the thought that counts. With the holiday season on its way, make sure you get cards and gifts for your most important partners.

A Great Week of PPC Networking

By PPC Ian Leave a Comment Oct 17 4

I’m a huge fan of networking, PPC-style. Building your career within pay per click is all about driving results. However, it’s also all about networking and building solid relationships. Because of the career benefits and also because it’s so much fun, I’m always looking for ways to network. Just last week, I visited the offices of InsideVault and also went on The Free COO radio show. This week, I focused on lunches!

I had two really great lunches this week. One was with my team and our good friends from Yahoo. We work with such bright and amazing people at Yahoo, they are true business partners and personal friends. I could not imagine a better team. Yahoo certainly has an amazing strength in account management, way to go Yahoo! My other great lunch this week was with my friend John Rampton, owner and blogger at PPC.org. PPC.org is a great blog about, you guessed it, PPC. John and I had a true blast and chatted all about our favorite topic, PPC. Both lunches were in downtown Mountain View, a really happening downtown for anyone in the online marketing or tech industry. My advice for anyone looking to grow their PPC career: Get out there and network! It’s all about the people.

Lunch With Our Amazing Yahoo! Friends

Yahoo Lunch Mountain View

Great Lunch With John Rampton From PPC.org

PPC Ian and John Rampton

PPC Networking Tips

By PPC Ian Leave a Comment Sep 5 2

In the world of paid search, networking is extremely important. It really is all about the people. Whether you’re looking for a PPC job, campaign advice, a speaking opportunity, the next big thing, an opportunity to help others, or simply good times with others in our industry, it truly helps to network. Following are some PPC networking tips that have helped me tremendously.

Lunch With Marin Software

Schedule lunches with colleagues and business partners. Lunch is a great time to network and really get to know those in the PPC industry. Check out the picture to the right. Our good friends at Marin Software recently treated my team and I to lunch. Thanks, Marin!
Attend search marketing conferences. Check out my recent recap of SMX Seattle and you’ll see that the networking at these conferences is truly unparalleled. I try to attend as many SEM conferences as possible.
Consider joining SEMPO. SEMPO (Search Engine Marketing Professionals Organization) provides a great way to network with other SEM professionals both internationally and also in your area.
Read PPC blogs and comment. I have met an amazing number of PPC professionals both through my own blog and also by reading/commenting on other blogs.
Take time to get to know your colleagues. Attend company events, such as happy hours. Go to lunch/dinner with your teammates. Spend some time chit chatting around the office (as long as it does not affect work). Getting to know your colleagues on a personal level will create lifelong friendships.
Leverage LinkedIn to grow your SEM career and build your network. I wrote a long post all about my own LinkedIn strategy. (One of my first posts here on PPC Ian nearly three years ago but tips I recommend to this day.)
Have regular calls with your search engine reps and partners. Meet your reps and partners for strategy sessions and lunches. When possible, have the meetings in-person.
Attend webinars and ask questions. Follow up with the presenters/moderators. Read eBooks and whitepapers. Email the authors. There are so many great webinars and eBooks/whitepapers in the PPC industry.
Give back via public speaking. I have done quite a bit of public speaking over the years. Some examples: Google and Stanford GSB (twice). Speaking is super helpful for your career and it’s an excellent way to network with other online marketers and businesspeople.
Find ways to help out others. I’m a firm believer that the more you give, the more you receive. Find ways to mentor others. Find ways to help out. You will build an amazingly strong network thinking of things with the “How can I help” mentality.

I hope this list helps you build your network. Do you have any PPC networking tips that have helped out in your career?

Helpful Tips For Company Offsites

By PPC Ian Leave a Comment Aug 25 0

This past week, I enjoyed a leadership offsite with my colleagues in Monterey, California. Monterey is a really fun area, just south of the San Francisco Bay Area. We stayed several nights at the Monterey Plaza Hotel, right on the water on historic Cannery Row. In addition to several days of extreme productivity and strategy, we did some serious team building and networking. Today, I’m going to share a few of my favorite tips for company offsites!

Tip 1: Enjoy The Team Building Activities

Spyglass Golf Course

Offsites are a great way to network and truly know your colleagues. At my offsite last week, I got to play golf at Spyglass Hill Golf Course, at Pebble Beach. This is one of the premier golf courses in the world, a truly fun experience. You can see a picture of me to the right, at the Spyglass Pro Shop, in my new Spyglass vest. Below, you can see a picture of the deer we saw on the golf course. It was awesome, we ran into deer on many of the holes.

I’m super excited because I’ve been playing a lot of golf at work events lately. The pay per click career path has given me to the opportunity to play at the Stanford Golf Course, Granite Bay Country Club, and now Spyglass Hill. I’m actually scheduled to play again at the Stanford Golf Course again in September with several colleagues.

While I love golf, these events are not just about the golf. They are all about networking and having a great time with colleagues. A truly solid and powerful organization relies on teamwork. Team building activities, such as these, are a key area of focus for anyone in a leadership position (or looking to become a leader). The next time your company has a team building event, make sure to attend and enjoy it to the fullest extent!

Tip 2: Bring New Ideas To The Offsite

In addition to team building, offsites are the place to brainstorm new ideas. Offsites bring everyone together, away from the office. Offsites encourage everyone to look at the big picture, and are typically in a setting that encourages brainstorming. I always recommend spending some time before the offsite thinking of new, big ideas. Of course, you should also try to do the same during the actual event, in collaboration with your colleagues. However, by putting in a little preparation work ahead of time, you will contribute maximum value to the group, during the event. In addition to bringing ideas, make sure to have all your numbers, marketing plans, initiatives, and ideas handy. You never know what will come in handy during a brainstorming and strategy session!

Tip 3: Get Plenty of Sleep and Always Be On Time

Offsites can be quite tiring. You’re essentially working around the clock at such events. When you’re not in meetings, you will be at events. It’s a lot of great stuff concentrated into a small amount of time. Make sure to pace yourself and get as much sleep as possible. By keeping this in mind, you will always be on time to each event (super important) and will have maximum clarity for your meetings.

I hope these tips help and make sure to have fun at your next company offsite!

Spyglass Pebble Beach Golf Course