Building Meaningful Networks

We all have gifts and incredible natural advantages in certain areas of our lives, but no matter how well we do in these areas. There are still parts of our lives where we need support and not very skilled and strong. These areas of weakness where we have cause to come to a chasm in our lives or businesses, where we are able to continue without the support of someone else. Identifying people with whom they can establish mutually beneficial relationships that can help us and whom we can support and help get what they want in return. Will accelerate our daily progress and help us achieve our goals.

Identifying and connecting with real people, with whom you can establish a meaningful relationship, one of the main reasons for building a successful, mutually supportive network. Trying to build a successful business, without the incentive of building a network, using face to face networking events and various social media platforms as a tool to support their efforts, such as carrying a heavy bag without wheels at the airport. You can very quickly feel tired and overwhelmed.

Creating an effective network with each other platforms supported by people who really connect and could depend on one another for help, like walking in the airport with one of these travelators, perfectly balanced with a suitcase on wheels. You have the momentum and quickly get to your destination. The same applies when you engage in effective networking and make meaningful and mutually beneficial relationships with real people. Do you support each other and each other to accelerate success.

Support you get from an effective, carefully selected network of support to succeed in both your personal and business life feels effortless. It will feel like you have a travelator under their feet, and accelerate the path to success. Mutually beneficial relationships with the right people is the catalyst that will accelerate your ability to accomplish all your goals and dreams.

Meaningful relationships

In Dunbar 150 theory states that we only really have 150 meaningful relationships at any time. The average Facebook user has 130 friends. So this theory seems to be true even with social media. This means that while you were May built a vast network of connections through its social media platform, you will only ever be able to communicate with these individuals on a daily basis, you will never be able to form any kind of meaningful relationship with them.

Oprah Winfrey, Donald Trump and Richard Branson revealed in a biography that is their incredible success is supported and accelerated by about one to about twenty people. Your life is no different, the energy spent on trying to build meaningful relationships with thousands of people across your various social media platforms is wasted. You would be far better to use social media presence to support your networking efforts, where you can form a meaningful relationship with a small group of targeted individuals.

There are some opportunities that will come from communicating with a wider base of individuals through social media. You will constantly interact with a large spectrum of different individuals. This opens the possibility of people who did not even think are the potential connections can also contact link. It happened to me on several occasions in recent years.

In October last year I was contacted by someone from Dallas Texas to get across the U.S. and speak. I never thought of going to Dallas, it was not even on my radar. This gentleman was after my daily read for about eight months. He enjoyed my work and that has seen a consistent quality of work I produce, I wanted to see me speak in Dallas. I enjoyed a couple of windfalls during the past few years. I must nevertheless state that they were all great experiences, but they contributed little to the overall growth in my business. The consistent growth in my business has come from identifying targeted individuals in carefully selected organizations and build a relationship with them.

The very nature of social media gives us the opportunity to get thousands of connections. These compounds open the door, May you have never been opened, we had no such connection. I must say though that if basing the entire marketing and networking strategies to build relationships with thousands of strangers, and then hoping to get back to you. You're going to struggle to get your business growing.

Communicate with thousands of strangers through their social media platform, and then wait to be contacted, such as waiting to win the lottery before you become successful. If people do not win the lottery, but the odds are really stacked against you. Use a consistent strategy for communicating to a broad base of people through its social media platform to create awareness of who you are, build a perception of a large presence in the market, create a perception in the market that you are an expert and a rare case, to get people to contact you and do business with you.

There are many ways to increase the number of superficial relationships you have. To get maximum benefit from this part of your networking and marketing strategies, you can use a really powerful CRM software help. Using the software, customer relationship can be effectively linked with significantly more people. Your CRM software, when managed properly will help you keep track of their extensive network and communicate more effectively with them. They are by no means a substitute for real face to face contact and relationship building. There are great tools available such as Gist.com and rapportive.com plaxo.com and management that make social networking easier and more efficient.

Treat everyone you meet as a VIP.

It is clear from the foregoing, it is to build a successful business is about developing meaningful relationships with targeted groups of individuals. All other strategies to complement and effective only to support your efforts to connect with real people. Once you know the right people, or through social media platforms or face to face networking events, make sure you have their explicit permission before you add them to any mailing list or newsletter. You will quickly alienate other people if you follow this reckless strategy.

You can build meaningful relationships by making people feel special

It is crucial that the real interest for all of you met and you are trying to treat them as VIP's. Always try to go the extra mile by glancing at them was on LinkedIn, Facebook or Twitter, before going to any meeting with them. It's always great to have something to comment about the people you meet them. Things like, it was great to meet a fellow engineer, etc. will stand you in good stead to start a conversation and eventually develop a substantial relationship with them. Even better would be to have an understanding of their interests or hobbies. People love to talk about their interests, and will easily connect with you if you explore them and to know something about their background.

There is one word people like to hear more than any other, on their behalf. Using people's names as often as realistically possible in any communication with them. This is true whether speaking to them personally, or if you communicate with them via e-mail or at any of the social media sites. Using the sweetest sounding word in his vocabulary will build a great relationship with everyone you interact with. Please make sure that people pronounce and spell the names correctly.

The relationship is crucial

Get out of the idea that you should always be in the way of broadcasting. This refers to the face to face networking events and on your social media platform. Nobody likes to communicate with people who just push the content or information one way. Respond to as many people within your network of social media as possible. I try to comment on at least 3 blogs targeted people communicate daily with 5 target people every day on Facebook and join one or two targeted Twitter conversation daily.

Try to be someone who always adds value to everything around them, helping and connecting with people on a daily basis. Someone with whom people can connect with confidence, forming a mutually beneficial relationship with, who will serve both sides, leaving all the better after the link. Successful networking and face to face or through social media is all about looking for ways to connect with other people and support. Always try to contribute as much as possible for people in your network and they will return the favor.

These contributions should never be a hidden agenda. You must be completely transparent when supporting people in your network, people will know when not to be credible. As you build your social capital will attract the right kind of people in your network. The law of reciprocity will surely be activated and will create great long-term sustainable relationships with people who matt