Comments on: Forget B2B or P2P, How About F2F? http://www.jonathanfields.com/blog/forget-b2b-or-p2p-how-about-f2f/ Innovation, Creativity, Entrepreneurship, Personal Development Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:21:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Personal Growth with Corinne Edwards » FACE TIME - Saving your future business http://www.jonathanfields.com/blog/forget-b2b-or-p2p-how-about-f2f/#comment-7100 Personal Growth with Corinne Edwards » FACE TIME - Saving your future business Sun, 29 Mar 2009 13:10:52 +0000 http://www.jonathanfields.com/blog/?p=1249#comment-7100 [...] And some words from Jonathan Fields where I stole this idea! [...] [...] And some words from Jonathan Fields where I stole this idea! [...]

]]> By: Matthew http://www.jonathanfields.com/blog/forget-b2b-or-p2p-how-about-f2f/#comment-7040 Matthew Thu, 19 Mar 2009 15:41:06 +0000 http://www.jonathanfields.com/blog/?p=1249#comment-7040 Great post, Jonathan. I totally agree w/ you about F2F. Enjoy Austin! Great post, Jonathan. I totally agree w/ you about F2F. Enjoy Austin!

]]> By: Enrique S http://www.jonathanfields.com/blog/forget-b2b-or-p2p-how-about-f2f/#comment-7004 Enrique S Mon, 16 Mar 2009 18:26:34 +0000 http://www.jonathanfields.com/blog/?p=1249#comment-7004 Face to face is best. Meanings can get misinterpreted over a conference call, and there's just something nice about dealing with a real person. I had a boss who used to spend the day emailing everyone, and never even saying hello in person. She sat about ten feet away from her people. I vowed to be different when I was put in charge. Face to face is best. Meanings can get misinterpreted over a conference call, and there’s just something nice about dealing with a real person. I had a boss who used to spend the day emailing everyone, and never even saying hello in person. She sat about ten feet away from her people. I vowed to be different when I was put in charge.

]]> By: Stephen - Rat Race Trap http://www.jonathanfields.com/blog/forget-b2b-or-p2p-how-about-f2f/#comment-7000 Stephen - Rat Race Trap Mon, 16 Mar 2009 01:14:43 +0000 http://www.jonathanfields.com/blog/?p=1249#comment-7000 Jonathan, the huge amount of non-verbal connection people engage in, is simply not possible online. Anyone who works in the rat race world can attest to this. Once I had a phone conference where everyone else was physically present and I called in. I thought it went badly. I was telling my boss this (who was physically there) and he said "No. No. Everyone was shaking their head up and down in agreement." You just can't get it digitally. Jonathan, the huge amount of non-verbal connection people engage in, is simply not possible online. Anyone who works in the rat race world can attest to this. Once I had a phone conference where everyone else was physically present and I called in. I thought it went badly. I was telling my boss this (who was physically there) and he said “No. No. Everyone was shaking their head up and down in agreement.” You just can’t get it digitally.

]]> By: Corinne Edwards http://www.jonathanfields.com/blog/forget-b2b-or-p2p-how-about-f2f/#comment-6993 Corinne Edwards Sat, 14 Mar 2009 17:21:24 +0000 http://www.jonathanfields.com/blog/?p=1249#comment-6993 Hi Jonathan - I think I stole the idea for my latest post from you on a conversation on a "tribe" call. http://tiny.cc/PT7vn (although I took your idea in a little different direction) Apologies. This is a credit line. See on Twitter that your presentation at the conference was a smash! Congratulations. Not surprised. I found you early. Lucky, I guess! Hi Jonathan -

I think I stole the idea for my latest post from you on a conversation on a “tribe” call.

http://tiny.cc/PT7vn

(although I took your idea in a little different direction)

Apologies. This is a credit line.

See on Twitter that your presentation at the conference was a smash! Congratulations. Not surprised.

I found you early. Lucky, I guess!

]]> By: Joel D Canfield http://www.jonathanfields.com/blog/forget-b2b-or-p2p-how-about-f2f/#comment-6992 Joel D Canfield Sat, 14 Mar 2009 14:34:30 +0000 http://www.jonathanfields.com/blog/?p=1249#comment-6992 We just spent a whole day in San Francisco with some folks we met online at Seth Godin's Triiibes.com site. It fundamentally changes how you view people—it genuinely humanises them. Because, until you've heard their voice, seen their face, they are just pixels on your screen. We host one networking event each month (the NCAE) and attend others. Our real business has come, not from our various search-engine-friendly websites, but from our physical meetings—which proliferate to folks we haven't met, in the form of referrals. But it all begins, really begins, with F2F So, when're you gonna be in NorCal, Jonathan? We just spent a whole day in San Francisco with some folks we met online at Seth Godin’s Triiibes.com site.

It fundamentally changes how you view people—it genuinely humanises them. Because, until you’ve heard their voice, seen their face, they are just pixels on your screen.

We host one networking event each month (the NCAE) and attend others. Our real business has come, not from our various search-engine-friendly websites, but from our physical meetings—which proliferate to folks we haven’t met, in the form of referrals.

But it all begins, really begins, with F2F

So, when’re you gonna be in NorCal, Jonathan?

]]> By: Laurie | Express Yourself to Success http://www.jonathanfields.com/blog/forget-b2b-or-p2p-how-about-f2f/#comment-6991 Laurie | Express Yourself to Success Sat, 14 Mar 2009 13:17:00 +0000 http://www.jonathanfields.com/blog/?p=1249#comment-6991 Point well made; there's nothing like F2F. While online relationships are great, the energy you created from being in the same room with other people can be amazing...even if it's just 15 minutes! Point well made; there’s nothing like F2F. While online relationships are great, the energy you created from being in the same room with other people can be amazing…even if it’s just 15 minutes!

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