Netweaving Tips For Professionals

Knowing how to network – but going beyond it to making sure your referrals are all to the most incredible people possible – makes you into a netweaver.  Knowing how to grow your netweaving database takes practice, and some help perhaps from guru Bob Littell.

 

Being found online properly is perhaps the most important thing to be able to make your networking easy and your refer-ability simple.  What if the next time a contact or client wants to refer you, if all they have to say is “Google her”?  How much does that help you out?  How easy does that make it for the person referring you?  They no longer have to type in details about what you do – your online profile tells them.  The other day I told two friends to “just Google each other” and then in two sentences, told them how I saw them helping each other.  They loved the intro, I loved the ease – and a business deal is brewing between them, as I type.

 

Knowing the best people is a large part of the netweaving battle – but having them make themselves easy to find, easy to refer to, and easy to work with – is almost as important.  If you do a lot of business of a partner, suggest to them they get to page one of Google.  They will become easier for your to refer, easier for their clients to find – and they will gain new traction to help pull the information they want to share onto page one with them.