Met a guy at the Buckhead coffee shop who actually followed up | Atlanta Networking - Freelance Forum - The Community for Independent Professionals

Brooke Singh · 2026-06-28T20:50:03.697912+00:00

Been to a dozen networking events and nobody ever follows up. This random guy from the coffee line messaged me 2 days later with a solid referral. Anyone else find real connections in the weirdest places?

black.oliver2mo ago

Is one decent referral really worth a whole story about it?

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the_faith2mo ago

Black.oliver, you're missing the POINT entirely. A random referral out of nowhere is HUGE in Atlanta's Buckhead scene where everyone's fake-polite. Finding someone who actually does what they say they'll do is like finding a unicorn.

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margaret5512mo ago

@the_faith nailed it - used to roll my eyes at stuff like this till it happened to ME.

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