Marketing Blog Post on How To: Network when You need to get more Referral’s for Life Step 1

Nate! What an awesome thing networking is. I really appreciate this vid blog, because this hits so close to my personal mission which is to connect and equip business people for success. It is a constant challenge to make honest, genuine personal connections with people that will use your service or product and will also send their friends to do the same.

A great thing to do to accomplish this step, which is to identify the ideal networking partners and referral sources, is to use the phone book (as old school as that sounds) yellow pages. Now, I'm only talking about the headers, that is, the classifications. This will serve as a memory jogger so that that you can free-flow out a list of 100- 300 people that you know, and then highlight the very best, most effective individuals to contact first.

We also have an industries list and a memory jogging invitation tool in the BizBuilders Business Networking Groups Leadership Manual which comes included in the New Chapter Start-up Kit, see http://www.BizBuildersUSA.org .

I imagine in the next videos you will address having a REASON to contact these people that you have identified. But let me offer this excellent reason: To let them know about a BizBuilders chapter that you are starting! Even if they do not want to come yet, you have contacted someone with a great reason, something that will help them, and you can simply ask if it is alright to add them to your newsletter, or if you can send them an email or something in the mail and perhaps follow up in a month and see if they have time for lunch or coffee. Mission accomplished.

Network it!