You probably heard the saying, “Your network is your net worth. Better networking and quality relationships allow you to add to your personal bottom line.

When I begin networking I was just coming to the even and give away my business card. I though I am networking, but what I have done was “schmoozing”.

People tend to get confused or turned off by the word “networking” because they think that networking refers to sales and marketing. That’s the ‘old’ meaning of networking.

The ‘new’ definition of networking is a process of building and maintaining relationships with other people in order to achieve a specific goal. That goal may be of a business nature (for example: get more clients) or of a personal one (for example: meet the person of my dreams). No matter the nature of your objective, having a goal is an essential distinction between networking and schmoozing.

Schmoozing has the connotation that you are getting something without giving any benefit to the other person. It’s a ‘take’ situation. o

In Webster’s dictionary, one of the definitions of schmoozing is “to gain an advantage or make a social connection.” That is why so many people feel uncomfortable around people who schmoose. In order to avoid those types of people, many of us don’t like to go to networking events. It’s important to avoid groups or events that pretend to be about networking, but are actually about schmoozing. The people at those types of events either don’t know or forgot the:

Golden Rule of Networking: “If you want to achieve your gal, you must help other people achieve their goals.”

One of the biggest complaints I hear is that people always want something without even a thought about giving back. You probably can think of one or two people that you rarely hear from unless they want something from you.

Networking is something that people talk about and know they should do, but they don’t know how to do it effectively. This is what you will learn in this report: how to stop schmoozing and begin real networking.

To build a $1,000,000 network you must pay attention to what people want and need. A $1,000,000 network is the result of a lifetime of caring about people, listening to them, learning about them, spending time with them, and being interested in what they are doing.

Let me ask you: have you ever been at a networking event where someone was looking over your shoulder to see who they would rather be talking to, or planning who they were going to talk to next? It makes you feel really unimportant, doesn't it?…

The best networking begins with planning and taking action. Being strategic in your planning is important to your ultimate success as an effective, caring networker.

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