Ok, so yesterday we talked about reducing costs (and what awesome responses all of you had!) Today I want to ask you all about the flip side of that coin which is how do you maximize your networking time?

There are so many ways to go about this but one strategy that I can think of is to make sure that you have done your research before attending an event.

For example, when I first joined BNI a while back I had no idea what I was getting myself into. As Marvin and a few others established in the first day’s answer, the difference between a novice and an advanced networker, I was shooting from the hip and was just happy to see any results.

As I began to learn about networking though, I began to start researching the BNI groups I would visit before I would come. I’d do this in a very simple way, though. I’d only visit groups to which I already knew someone in the group. Then I’d just ask them, “is there anyone in your group that I should keep an eye out for?”

This strategy works pretty well because any decent BNI chapter will have guests from other BNI chapters at any given week. So when I’d visit a new chapter I knew who to focus my attention on because they’d have been pre-qualified as a potential client/contact by one of their other chapter members :).

So yesterday was trying to be smarter about spending your money, today I’d like to hear what strategies that you have used to be smarter about your time.

Hit us up in the comments below ^_^.

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