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If you reach out to 50 people on email and only one real connection happens in your networking, it is worth the effort, and the learning.
You can fine-tune your ways to get better results as you progress.
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Practice networking daily, making the right efforts with patience, and you will see your network growing, as you become more comfortable and confident.
If you are going to a club or a meeting, it helps to check online and on the event's page about the people that are going and touch base with a few of them.
When you arrive at the event venue, you can meet those persons and can avoid loitering alone there.
It pays off eventually. Efforts to connect may not pay off right there and then, or even in a fair way, but they do pay off.
Even if this effort pays off half the time, it is worth it.
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- Good listener.
- Positive attitude: it makes people want to cooperate and associate with you.
- Collaborative to serve others.
- Sincere and authentic.
- Follows up.
- Trustworthy.
- Approachable.
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Friends do business with friends.
By no means is this a suggestion to go be one of those social climbers who pretends to make friends in the name of getting to the top. It's more about having genuine connections, with openly stated goals, aspirations and struggles.
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- Start small. Connect with your peers, teachers, family, and friends to start off.
- Think outside the box. Try cold-emailing, especially if you're searching for a job. It will be jarring at first due to a large amount of rejections or no replies, but a...
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