Originally Posted by BigLar
I just had a conversation with a co-worker. He started here a month or so ago.
We started talking about travel. Turns out, he has made eight trips to Singapore this year alone, and several trips to Europe. He was complaining about always being cramped in Coach on these long-haul flights.
He's a member of WorldPerks, but he has no idea of how many miles he has, has never worked a promotion (or even heard of them), didn't know you could upgrade with miles, was completely unaware of any hotel programs, and so on.
I started to explain a bit, but I got the familiar "eye-glaze", so I let it go.
oh you gotta take the time to help him, man!
you never know what perks this could give you (even without that being the main intent going in) when you hook someone up with your knowldge!
example: I told my brother to join United after having a long conversation about a promo with him, and he has so many miles with them now that he has given me free awards left and right! SPG stays too! He's already platinum from a few trips overseas...He has been away many times and he now must fly Singapore Airlines many times in the coming months to Jakarta for lengthy stays. He said I should come and may get us tickets because I helped him get perks!
I also work as a recruiter. Got to know one candidate who likes baseball and needed a certain job. He said I was nice about things in my approach as well as trying to help him get a certain job too. For this, he has utilized connections he actually has in the sport and has just offered my playoff tickets should the Red Sox make it yet again in Octobah!!!
It's alllllll networking and the big wheel comes back around to ya!
MM