7 Ways to Build Your Business by Networking
- Learn to appreciate relationships: Appreciate one person daily. This can be done with a phone call, email or personal note and only takes minutes. The benefits of this one tiny habit alone will produce a tremendous payoff.
- Practice networking one day at a time: While in line at Starbucks, the grocery store, even the airport practice striking up a conversation. Eventually you will be able to do this with ease. And, you never know when you'll come across just the person you've been looking for.
- Join a networking group: There are so many - Rotary, Kiwanis, The Chamber of Commerce, industry associations, mastermind groups. Join these groups to meet new friends and to help foster the success of their business.
- Go to industry functions: ICSC, CCIM, SIOR, NAIOP, CREW (for the ladies in the business), anything! Just go and enjoy the people you came across. Have the intention to seek out one person at each event whom you can help. Become resource rich!
- Learn to smooze: Practice making people comfortable around you. Learn how to talk on a variety of subjects thereby being able to choose from your conversational arsenal when needed.
- Make connections: Approach a group or person, introduce yourself and learn something about each person - be interested. Now, go back to your office and follow-up with each person.
- Offer help and follow through: If you're in the position to help someone you meet networking, follow through and do it. The law of reciprocity will pay you back ten-fold.
1 comments:
I fully agree with you because networking always is a key factor when it comes to spreading a business and the ways of doing so as you stated are of great use to the top management in making a final decision.
Good work. Keep it up.
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