21st Century Business Networking Tips: Have more fun, make better connections, and leverage your business networking online and face-to-face.
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1. Effective
Networking:
Hybrid
Approach
Networking
Develop
Its still a
Maintain
relationship
Advocate
thing!
. . . Or Is It?
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26 Year Entrepreneur
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3 Year Gallery Owner
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3. Talent is Not Enough!
Just because we own
our corner of the
blogosphere doesnt
mean we have
Expanded Emotional
Bandwidth. We still
need to bridge the
Relationship Gap.
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4. Going Back to the Future
The Way It Was... So
The face-to-face How do you know who
neighborhood to trust?
Physical community
The Way It Will Be How do you separate
A voice, a name, a yourself from the
websitea lot of noise?
noise
Virtual community How do you create
relationships?
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5. The New Reality
We are passing through the
information age (Many to Many)
Sharing is power; NOT holding it
Web-based relationships
To create and maintain a web of
connections that are actively
available
Networking is NOT a separate
event
It must be practiced with regularity
Your career may depend on it
6. I. Networking is About Relationships
It was 7, now it takes 11 exposures for
brand recognition
Marketing
to
Relationships are assets to be organized,
managed, cultivated and leveraged.
Genuine relationships are that and more.
Both matter.
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7. Id Like You to Know Me . . .
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8. NetworkingA Part of Your Life
Where to Begin?
Say hello
Anywhere, anytime
It isnt always in person
OR online
By giving to another
Be generous at all times
Think beyond the
WIIFMs
And Being
authentic, kind, profes
sional
Find your own style
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9. But Im Shy in person
You are the focus, but
are you the topic?
The Secret.. Its
About ____________!
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10. NetworkingA Part of Your Life
Your Role? You must
actively
Build it
Maintain it
Grow it
Retool it
Networking is the act of
intelligently and sensibly
sharing your intangibles.
Knowledge / Wisdom
Talent
Compassion
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11. Expand Emotional Bandwidth
Create Richer Connections
Write notes to remember.
Give to Get
Hand write notes on
creative note cards.
Find something you can
do for Them. You
WILL be
remembered.
People are inexorably
drawn to connectors.
Learn how to be
helpful.
It isnt a one-time deal.
You dont have to follow
up with everyone.
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12. II. You Are
the Star
Host!
What would
you do to make
any guest
welcome?
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13. How to E2B The Three-Point Focus
Getting Over Your Self.
Expand Emotional Bandwidth
Its about your topic of
Create Richer Connections
connection! Artist and
Your Role Collector connect over
Art The 3rd Point is the
Connectors Focus.
You bring
traffic!
Always a 3
host, virtual or
F2F 1
2
Support by
being a Go-
Giver first.
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14. III. Building Your Community
Beyond personally
connecting
Building the Infrastructure
Know Who are you seeking and why
Join! Associations, Work, Your
industry, Family, Neighbors, Leisure
activities
Limit! If your goal is to link to the most
folks.. Think again!
Volunteer! Think outside existing
communities
Develop a method for tracking
(Outlook, ACT!, Google apps)
Informal Viral Marketing
Sales Force
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15. No Right or Wrong.
Do. Or Do Not Do.
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16. Seek Alignment With Your Life &
Your Goals. F2F. Virtual. Always.
How do you
Strategy +
focus your Synchronicity
network?
How separate
Be interested
self from in _ _ _ _.
noise?
How create Genuinely.
relationships?
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18. Trina Hoefling, founder of GroupONE
Solutions, LLC, is an organizational
psychologist, executive coach, and virtual
work expert.
Ms. Hoefling has over 25 years experience
helping business and individuals grow.
Author of Working Virtually
Creator of www.TheVirtualTeamToolBox.com
Chapter author, The Handbook of High
Performance Virtual Teams.
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