Wednesday, 2 July

The ultimate guide to In-Person vs. Virtual Business Networking

Networking connects people to share ideas and create opportunities. This session offers tips for confident in-person and online networking.

By Small Business Research + Enterprise Centre

Date and time

Wed, 2 Jul 2025 02:30 - 03:30 PDT

Location

Online

About this event

Event lasts 1 hour

Networking brings together like-minded people to share ideas, feel supported and create new business opportunities. Feeling weird about doing it in person or online? No worries! This session will give you practical tips to feel confident and comfortable.

Join this online session to learn why networking is perfect to build relationships that lead to opportunities, growth, and long-term success. Whether you're a small business owner, entrepreneur, or industry expert, you will learn lots of practical tips to make a positive first impression with new contacts.

The key take aways:

The Advantage of In-Person Events
How to Prepare for In-Person Networking
The Advantage of Virtual Networking
How to Prepare for Virtual Networking
Your networking toolkit
Resources to find networking events
.. and more

Louise is a two-time award-winning marketing and communications specialist with over 20 years’ experience. As the founder of Soundbite Media, she has developed her expertise working with great brands such as BBC, Superdrug, HSBC, Nationwide Building Society, Prince’s Trust. She is on a mission to encourage businesses to promote who they are and what they do using marketing, communications and public relations tools and techniques.

Frequently asked questions

How to join the online webinar

When you register for the webinar, you'll receive an automatic email, including a Zoom link to access the event. If you don’t receive a link to the event please let us know by emailing sbrec@cityoflondon.gov.uk. (Note: Emails will come from Eventbrite, it may be in your junk folder.)

About Small Business Research + Enterprise Centre

We are a small business support service provided by City of London Corporation. Services include; Access to specialist business data helping you build and grow your business; Business advice for start-ups; events and networking. Become a SBREC member today and unlock your business potential!

Where is the Small Business Research + Enterprise Centre?

80 Basinghall Street, just off Gresham street. Our postcode is EC2V 5AG. We are approximately a 5-7 minute walk from Bank, St Pauls and Moorgate Station.

Refunds / Cancellations

We try to keep our events free but some of them may have a small charge. Cancellations for free events are available until the date of the event. Refunds on paid events available up to 48hrs before

Join our programme

If you have an expertise or knowledge that may be helpful to the small business community and SMEs, we would like to hear from you - please email sbrec@cityoflondon.gov.uk.

Organised by

Small Business Research + Enterprise Centre

SBREC is a business support service who help start-ups and small businesses turn their ideas into reality with access to business data, advice, mentorship and events.

We create events with small businesses and start-ups in mind, we partner with industry leaders, professional and experts to bring you events that will help your business grow.

Free