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Yesterday, I decided to reach out to women on Facebook who have businesses not similar
to mine but that maybe had customers similar to the people that I would like to do business
with. It was really interesting because I connected with about 16 people that I sent
messages to. A small percentage got back to me, which is what I expected. They always
say that in most home businesses, usually a third are just businesses in name only,
a third are doing ok and a third are breaking records. So obviously, the people I contacted,
I don't know who's really focused on their business and really into the marketing their
business. Anybody who is a coach will tell you that you need to work on yourself. This
is a little aside here but anyway... coaches will always say you need to work on yourself
first. If you think about it, why do we work on ourselves? We don't work ourselves to be
an island, to be by ourselves and not talk to anyone else right. So I was surprised at
the response of one woman that I contacted who is a coach. I said, "This is Dale and
this is what I do. I'm interested in meeting women who are in business. I am expanding
my network and would love to know more about your business and what you do. How do you
promote it?" When she got back to me, she said, "This is how I promote it and you
would do really well in our courses, hope we see you there sometime. I thought this
is really interesting For someone in a Coaching position She's done nothing to connect me
with her She's basically trying to sell me on the very first interaction. So in videos
are talking about when you go to a networking event you don't go to sell the people that
are in the room you. You build relationships with people because when you meet one person
and you develop a friendship you may gain access to their friends and in some cases
to the friends of their friends. Networking is about building relationships. My automatic
reaction to this woman was that I thought this is not someone I am willing to take the
course from because there was nothing about building a relationship with me. There was
no opportunity to get to know her. No thinking that she is a wonderful person and nothing
about me wanting to share her and her business with my friends. I am one of those people
that when I have a relationship with someone and I love what they do, I will share that
information with everyone I know. I'll share it on my Facebook page, I'll tweet it and
I'll tell everybody about it. She lost that opportunity. There was another woman that
I spoke to who is an artist. I was so impressed with her because she's very smart and she's
very into marketing and she had lots of questions for me. We chatted back and forth for a while
and immediately after this conversation with her, I posted an event of hers because I liked
her. I really liked her and thought it would be fun to go to her event. That's the difference
when you're trying to market yourself. Don't think short-term. Don't think just of the
individual in front of you. Think about the goodwill and the type of people that you may
meet through that person. Anyway, it was it was interesting experience and I probably
will do it again a few more times because through it, I have met some very interesting
people. As I said, the thing about life is to enjoy it, to meet people. It's not all
about work because through doing this and talking about my business and talking about
their business, I have met people that I want to develop a social friendship with. Anyway,
those are my thoughts for the day. Hope you have a wonderful week. I'm looking forward
to talking to you soon.