Here are 7 important lessons about networking:
- The way you meet famous people is the same way you meet anybody. You go into the relationship being a giver, not a taker.
- If you want long, sustaining relationships, you need to be in the relationship business – not the transaction business. This means you go into relationships being genuinely helpful.
- Do research on what is important to the other person.
- Time is not money. I’ve never woken up in the morning and next to an alarm clock was a pile of money. The truth is relationships are money. Money is found within relationships. Connections to jobs and opportunities are all done through other individuals.
- Don’t expect anything to be given to you without creating value first. Never feel entitled to anything unless you create value for somebody first. You need what Dan Sullivan, GN/100K member and the Founder of Strategic Coach, calls a ‘No Entitlement Attitude’. Money earned ethically is a by-product of value creation.
- There are plenty of opportunities. You simply need to position yourself mentally, physically and emotionally to be prepared to take those opportunities on and do something with them.
- Whenever you connect with anyone of value, ask yourself: “How can I add value to this person’s life?”
You can either learn HOW to do something – or – you can find the right WHO. I know a lot of stuff. Although I love learning and I’m a lifelong learner, I’m at a stage where I don’t want to learn how to do certain things. What I want is to find people who have already figured it out, and work with them.
If you can find the right WHO, they bring the HOW with them. A lot of times people are trying to figure out HOW to do something, when in reality you might just need to find the right WHO, because the right WHO already knows HOW to do it.
by Joe Polish
Founder of Genius Network
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