How good your network is, and how much time and energy you invest in it, will undoubtedly have an effect on the success of your business.
No matter where you are now, over the next few Blog posts I want to run through some of the fundamentals of how to build, nurture, and grow your ideal network.
To be honest with you, the first (and worst) networking strategy I had was to join Chambers of Commerce and Business Link for London, attend their events, stick on badge at reception, grab a glass of wine and a plate of food, and then hide in the corner!
Eventually I graduated to being able to mix. In fact I became a serial mixer, collecting business cards – hundreds of them – and piling them up with all the other unused business cards I'd collected along the way. Or even worse, SPAMMING contacts, trying to sell regardless of what they'd said, did or didn't want when I (obviously) hadn't listened to them at the original networking event.
Does any of this resonate with you? Or even if it doesn't, if you're at the beginning of your networking journey, the up-and-coming Blog posts will be useful, and may well save you spending so much time getting low, or no results from your networking endeavours.
The upside? Networking can be fun! Business should be fun!! We live in a world of more than 6 billion people, we're sociable creatures, and so interacting with some of those people in a subject we're passionate about (our business) should be so easily a win-win situation. Check in the next time and grow your networking results now.
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