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Little Black Business Books - Networking Step By Step
A guide to making networking work for you
Marilyn Messik
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Little Black Business Books - Networking Step By Step
A guide to making networking work for you
Marilyn Messik
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Little Black Books offer a feet-on-the-ground, pared down, common sense, no holds barred and hopefully constructive take on the things that can make your business soar or sour! You will find them full of:- Practical steps and suggestions - Ideas and initiatives - Inspiration and incentives - Suggestions to help you prioritise and get you thinking- Reasons for trusting your own common sense and business instincts.They'll also show that whilst there's no short-cut to success, sometimes you find it in the most unexpected places by just looking at things from unusual angles.
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MAKING NETWORKING WORK FOR YOU
First and foremost letâs define this word which has become both buzzword and byword for what the with-it business person has to be doing a lot of the time. In actual fact itâs something most of us have probably been doing for years anyway, and if youâre a woman then you probably do it very often and very well indeed.
Nowadays we call it networking, a few years ago we just called it being helpful and itâs something we all tend to do because itâs great if you can connect two people each of whom needs what the other has to offer, and of course that applies just as much to matching up your husbandâs best friend with your second cousin Edith, as it does to business. For the moment though letâs stick to business â although whoâs to say a book on matchmaking isnât crying out to be written?
Networking In Its Various Formats
Networking comes, as indeed do networkers, in all types, shapes and sizes.
- There are weekly breakfast meetings for those who are natural larks and can get themselves to a designated location bright-eyed and bushy tailed, completely compos mentis and raring to go around the same time the dawn chorus is rubbing its eyes and clearing its throat for action.
- Then of course there are plenty of opportunities for owls who wouldnât even attempt anything businesslike before 10.00 a.m. but are quite happy to go on meeting and greeting until someone clears the tables, switches off the lights and asks them to leave.
- And letâs not forget the mid-morning coffee get-togethers which allow you a civilised amount of time to gather yourself, your wits and your business cards together, roll up, get a shot of caffeine or camomile tea, (different strokes for different folks) and hit the decks running.
- Most civilised and settled of all formats is possibly the lunchtime meeting where things operate to a rather more fixed agenda than the above. Thereâs plenty of time for free-wheeling before and after the meeting which usually has a noon start but does includes a more structured section which usually runs from 12.30p.m. to 2.00p.m.
Naturally, none of the above are mutually exclusive and itâs how much stamina, time, inclination and number of business cards you have to hand that might be your deciding factor. You could probably quite easily waft from one networking meeting to another every day of the week and most hours of the day. Although this is not something Iâd whole-heartedly recommend if youâre a one man band, as it obviously doesnât leave much time to actually run the business youâre promoting. However, if there are several of you involved in the business and one of you wants to play the rainmaker, grab your umbrella and go for it!
Ideally though you should strike a happy balance between networking and working and the easiest way to do that is to think and plan ahead. Youâll find forward dates for meetings on all the various networking sites. If you sit down with these and a diary you can plan for and block out dates up to a year ahead. This will mean you have a healthy balance between going out and getting potential new clients and regularly shooting back to base so you can actually supply whatever it is those new clients might want.
What You Can and Canât Expect From Networking
Putting yourself about, telling people about your business and finding out about theirs should be productive. However thereâs no time frame that comes with that. So lower rather than higher expectations are recommended. This will also prevent you sobbing and banging your head in despair on the steering wheel as you drive home after a meeting where youâve gained no new clients at all.
Itâs quite likely that you wonât get any business immediately, however attractively you set out your metaphorical stall, and obviously the service or product you supply will have a huge bearing on how and when clients start to come calling. If, for example, you specialise in building conservatories and extensions, then thatâs a big purchase and not something people agree to casually. Your marketing message might have to germinate a while before it starts sprouting. On the other hand, if you run a hairdressing or beauty salon youâre more likely to see a drifting in of clients sooner rather than later.
But setting your expectations realistically shouldnât ever lull you into smugness. Itâs always worth wondering whether youâre getting your business message across correctly to potential clients or whether they are in fact more mystified after youâve spoken than they were before you started â and, weâll cover that in depth further on in the book.
Dos, Try Not To Dos and Donât Evers!
A few pointers here that are pretty basic common sense so forgive me for stating the obvious, but sometimes â and Iâve done it myself more times than I like to remember, so I know â there are some things that are so blinking obvious we sometimes simply overlook them.
Do look good â weâre not talking designer here but you never know who youâre going to meet and you never know by what standards they will assess you. Of course you canât please all of the people all of the time but at least go for the basics:
- Wear comfortable clothes so youâre not fiddling and hitching.
- Donât nibble reflectively on a thumbnail whilst listening to someone else talk.
- Make sure your hair is not going to become a feature of the meeting â no frequent gathering up and tossing it back over your shoulders, no twiddling it round your finger while you talk and certainly â and I wouldnât put this in here if I hadnât seen it done â no chewing of ends!
Weâll be covering presentation in further detail as we wend our merry way, but if youâre in any doubt, a good rule of thumb is donât wear or do anything you wouldnât like to see anyone else wearing or doing!
Donât gabble, donât babble, donât giggle, donât talk about yourself all the time, donât feel tempted to launch into details of your recent relationship break-up or the tragic and untimely demise of your hamster and donât, donât, donât keep glancing over the shoulder of the person youâre talking to in case someone more interesting happens along.
Iâm not suggesting you canât ever be yourself and relax, just donât lose sight of why both you and the other people there have pitched up. Youâre there for business reasons and whilst fast friendships may and often do develop with people you meet, your personal trials and tribulations are always best kept to yourself at this point.
The looking over someoneâs shoulder syndrome is unfortunate and should be nipped very firmly in the bud, whatever the temptation. People arenât daft, and nothing says more clearly âIâm bored rigid with what youâre saying and donât think youâre going to be any use to me at all...â than that telltale eyeing up of the rest of the room to see who you want to target next.
Thereâs not really any such thing as wasted time at a networking meeting â well there is, but you wonât know about it until much later. The person youâre talking...