Build Strong and Unbreakable Network List!

Your net­work is your net worth! One of the key to suc­cess is your net­work.  The net­work of friends, rel­a­tives and peers you are inter­act­ing, work­ing or befriend­ing in.  Whether you are a sales per­son, busi­ness­man or some­one that is hold­ing a nine-to-five job, it is very impor­tant to have a strong net­work to sup­port what­ever deci­sions you make.  Strong net­works not only pro­duce good leads and increase sales vol­ume, it also helps pro­vide lever­age or sup­port for major tasks at work.  How do you build a strong net­work that can sup­port you and goals then?

1. Imme­di­ate Rel­a­tives and Friends – A young sales per­son will usu­ally get the imme­di­ate fam­ily mem­bers to be his first cus­tomer.  This will fol­low by his rel­a­tives then friends, and then uh-oh… he is out of net­works… Per­son­ally, I wouldn’t rec­om­mend sell­ing to your rel­a­tives unless it is a really fan­tas­tic prod­uct that really ben­e­fits your rel­a­tives.  Pic­ture this; if the prod­uct (1) wasn’t what your rel­a­tive wanted in the first place or (2) does not prove it is ben­e­fi­cial or worth to your rel­a­tive, you will be labelled for life for sell­ing crappy prod­ucts to them.  That will leave you with two choice, either stand up to the pos­si­ble mock­ery in future or be absent from fam­ily gath­er­ings.  But of course, not all fail­ure sto­ries end up that way.  How­ever, if what you sold was gen­uinely good for them, then that is a plus point and they will prop­a­gate the ben­e­fits to their friends becom­ing your strong first line network!
2. Recon­nect with long lost friends – Take time to look through the list of old friends.  Those dur­ing your col­lege days, your pre­vi­ous com­pany or friends from the old neigh­bour­hood.  Browse through social net­work sites that you have accounts in and see if your friends are there.  You will be sur­prise at how your friends have grown and changed over time.  That point aside, do some catch­ing up through online chats or an email.  Be gen­uinely inter­ested in the events of life that they have gone through and not blast your lat­est offers imme­di­ately.  It is eas­ier to link up with old friends as there are com­mon top­ics to talk about.  This recon­nec­tion can reveal a net­work of dif­fer­ent exper­tise or help that you need (but do not know where to find).
3. Get to know more friends at work – Have con­ver­sa­tion with col­leagues of a dif­fer­ent team.  Arrange lunches with col­leagues from those teams.  Not only you break the bor­ing rou­tine of hav­ing lunch with the same group of col­leagues, you get to know what you do not (or may not know) that is hap­pen­ing (rumours) in the com­pany, open new prob­lem solv­ing ideas and build links (and trust) to with another depart­ment!  Birds of the same feather fly in a flock.  It holds cer­tain truth in this phrase.  You will have the same men­tal­ity (group cul­ture) if you per­sist to stick with the same group of friends.  By inter­act­ing more with peers of dif­fer­ent teams, you build a sup­port­ive net­work and trust and will be use­ful when an inter-team effort is required!
4. Build rela­tion­ship by extend­ing your cur­rent ones – Lastly, from your exist­ing rel­a­tives, friends and col­leagues, always take the oppor­tu­nity to find out more about friends of friends, friends of rel­a­tives, friends of col­leagues, etc… you know what I mean.  Get to know your friends and his friends.  Take the oppor­tu­nity to build a rela­tion­ship with this pos­si­ble new friend.  Ask to be included in their next friends meet up ses­sions or even pro­pose to link up with this new friend your­self!  This will help you expand your exist­ing net­work to a big­ger one!

These are just ways to build a strong net­work to sup­port your goals.  Remem­ber, net­work is your net worth!  So how do you build your strong network?

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