This is a fantastic topic. A year and a half ago I showed up at my current BNI group, and despite having lived in Northern Virginia for years I didn’t have ANY connection to the members of that chapter. My current network was relatively small and there was no way (at least that I knew at the time) to leverage my current network to break into this entirely new networking scenario.
So the answer to this question held a special interest to me because I have really been able to expand my networking, especially from what I have learned from sticking around Coach Powell :).
I have since gone into entirely new networks and worked hard to make myself known in those networks. But I have often been able to leverage my current network to usher that process along.
If you were suddenly without your current network, what are some strategies that you think that you might employ to get a new group of people to know you, like you, and trust you?
I know that I would work very hard to establish my competancy before anything else. That way people would be encouraged to try out my services or products and then I would have a chance to show them my character as a person. Thats what I have done with countless BNI chapters that I have visited and it has worked pretty well so far.
What are some strategies that you have used?
God Bless,
-Coach Kolansky
Speak Your Mind