Business Foundations 1-14

1.14A HOW TO NETWORK

Networking is an indirect sales opportunity.
Listen more than you speak.
No sales-y language!
Meeting other local business owners face-to-face and participating in your local community will do more for your sales than thousands of tweets will ever do.
Having said that, social media is an excellent opportunity to network. There is a huge online community in your industry, who are available for interaction at your fingertips.
Small business conferences are a great way to surround yourself with other entrepreneurs and create opportunities to make valuable connections.
The best way to increase name recognition and overall success of your business is to join business organisations or face-to-face business networking groups.
If you haven’t reached out to someone in a while because you no longer work together, reconnect with them.
If you can provide something of value to someone else, for free, then that person will also value you, and most importantly they will remember you.
Where could you be networking that you aren’t already? In other words, where are your people?