The Power of Connecting

In this world where tight competition exists, there are still people who’ve become so fortunate when it comes to their field of business.

Lucky in a way that some of the businessperson able to grab chances of being introduced to other people who offer bigger and brighter opportunities for them.

What I’m trying to emphasize here are the referrals that some fortunate business person have encountered. They really have best of luck!

In the world of business, strong Power Teams are now present. For the information of everybody who does not know yet what power teams are, they are actually group of people having “complementary” professions and they work with the same clients, yet do not take business away from one another.

To make it clear, one great example I can point for this kind of group are the people behind weddings. In a wedding team, the members could consist of a wedding planner, designer, photographer and a florist. In this circle of professions, one of them may have contacted by a client for an upcoming fabulous wedding. So the one being contacted here can refer the client to each of the member of the group for other wedding activities.

The ability of the members highlighted in the situation display a competency for maximum success in networking as these high quality group of people foster a mutual relationship beneficial for each one of them.

Guidelines on How to Cultivate Relationship with Networking Partners

In order to come up with a strong team compose of high quality members where presence of mutual understanding and interest does also exist, we need to take note of these guidelines:

1. Share Something About Your Business

One of the factors that can easily help you know your networking partners better is through asking them about how they started their business. Through sharing of thoughts and experience, you able to build great relationship with them and may also help you come up with reliable testimonial about them.

By this move, it’ll be easy for you and for them as well to refer each one of you to prospected clients.

2. Ask What Activities They Enjoy

Asking your partners with what they love to do is also one of the important factors that you need to share to your prospect client. Letting your client know about your partner’s interest may also influence them to ‘like’ your partner.

3. Ask Advice

Asking advice from your networking partners is a sign of great respect. This is also important in a certain group of professionals. By this move, credibility will be established.

There are actually more guideline to follow in order to build a successful relationship with your networking partners and be able to help one another in developing each one’s business. If you want to know more about it, then feel free to contact me anytime.

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So what do you think about the guidelines? Are they helpful to your business? Are the guidelines sound beneficial in cultivating a networking relationship with other professionals? Feel free to comment below and let’s learn from each other.

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About the Author

Jason Bettinger is the entrepreneurs, entrepreneur. Through experience of starting, running and selling 9 prior businesses (he's on his 10th), he does know a thing or two about what makes or breaks a business! You'll find him at the forefront of web innovation and digital marketing, teaching business owners how to leverage Social Media and Search Engine strategies in optimizing websites and online branding.

Today, he focuses in his company, Web Fixers, www.webfixers.com.au which helps businesses demystify the web through fixing websites, putting in social media, Google SEO and landing page strategies that work together to produce fantastic results (digital marketing). Such systems create online lead funnels and automation, which result in more website traffic, more inquiries and more sales. Jason delivers monthly in person education segments about this, held in Sydney area of via his webinars and podcasts such as:

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• "How to Leverage Social Media in Creating Leads"
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