How to get your networking 'working!'
It's not called Net-Sitting
It's not called Net-Eating
It's called Networking and in order to be successful you have to work hard at it. I have talked in previous posts on LinkedIn about the importance of Networking and how it has a positive effect on my businesses. However it is really simple to do nothing and go nowhere and get zero results.
I have seen people on the networking circuit and they just come to a meeting, say their pitch and leave.
THESE PEOPLE WILL NEVER GET POSITIVE RESULTS FROM NETWORKING.
Networking is all about building up relationships with others. When you meet somebody at a networking event make sure you follow up with an email or a phone call. Arrange another meeting to talk about how your business and their business can help each other. The amount of people I have met and I have contacted but they have never got back to me is scary. The sad thing is on numerous occasions I was contacting them to connect them with someone I though could help their business.
I get asked a lot how to get results from networking and really it's simple.