Connecting with the right people to help your business and make sure everyone knows about your exceptional product or service are critical to your success in business. Learning to be an effective networker is key in achieving these two goals.
Robyn Henderson is widely regarded as a Global Networking Specialist and in this issue has shared some of her ”hot tips” to support you to network with integrity and increase your customer base.
Networking is a life skill, not just something we do when we want something.
Great networkers:
- Give without expectation.
- Do things for others – not to get something back. Have an abundance mentality and with this alone anything is possible.
- Believe in making the pie bigger for everyone. They cross network with competitors and regularly give away referrals.
- Know that having a poverty mentality, where people come from fear – fear of sharing ideas, of giving information away freely – is a negative way to live.
- Believe in the universal law of reciprocity, they know that what you give out comes back ten-fold.
Remember great networkers work at their networks for a minimum of 15 minutes per day.
Whether it’s a phone call, fax, email, thank you card, small gift or a “good morning” greeting to a stranger, a kind word to a fellow worker or neighbour, it’s all part of networking.
