• Do your homework: Develop your name list of specific people who can help you achieve your mission and short/mid-term goals. Always prepare before a meeting.
• Approaching new contacts: Learn how to warm up cold leads in advance (do not make cold calls)...

• Generosity and Loyalty are the foundations of good networking.
• You must build your network long before you need it.
• It’s not the amount of time it’s the quality of the time spent.

 If you build a basis of understanding and trust with someone, you can sure count on their help when you eventually face a problem you can’t solve alone.

Networking has a bad connotation because of people who build relationships just to exploit them. The key to successful networking is to add value to help others to succeed:

Super-connectors are people who know lots of people. They are known for having hundreds or thousands of contacts and their contacts often come from different walks of life.