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After meeting someone one-on-one, immediately find a relevant contact in your phone or LinkedIn and introduce them. Making that first referral shows you're a giver, not a taker, and sets up a stronger relationship.
After meeting someone one-on-one, immediately find a relevant contact in your phone or LinkedIn and introduce them. Making that first referral shows you're a giver, not a taker, and sets up a stronger relationship.
The next one is, is to make sure that you give the first referral. So you've now met some people at the Chamber of Commerce, you're having one-on-one meetings, and in that one-on-one meeting you discover that the person you just met with is, you know, looking to meet marketing manager, a marketing manager for a mid-sized company. You need to go through your list of contacts, go through your LinkedIn, go through the list on your phone, Find somebody that you can introduce them to that's valuable to them and make sure that you give that first referral. This gets the ball rolling and gets it to where they understand that you're not just a taker, you're also a giver. So giving that first referral will help set the stage for a very successful relationship going forward.
