Sally A CurtisContent Monetization and Legacy Content Strategist

The Importance of Networking: Building Your Entrepreneurial Community

23 Apr 2025 · 1 min

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In this interview excerpt, Speaker A asks Speaker B about the initial actions taken after deciding to leave the nonprofit sector and become a nonprofit management consultant. Speaker B explains that while some steps were planned, many were not. The first concrete action was announcing the new role to their network, despite lacking a clear client acquisition strategy. This public declaration generated inquiries, which subsequently turned into consulting clients, highlighting the power of word‑of‑mouth networking in career transitions.

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Yeah. And when that catalyst occurred and you made that decision, what were your first steps to sort of come back, literally transition from that one spot? I would imagine that having had an engineering background, you would have had a lot of thought processes and you would have worked quite a game plan out prior to. What were your steps?
Well, some of it was well planned and some of it was not. Which is what often happens. Um, so I did start telling people that, and I had left the nonprofit sector, so I told people I was now a nonprofit management consultant. And, um, I didn't really have a clear game plan as to how I was going to get clients, but starting to tell people was actually an important factor. And Doing that actually led to inquiries that led to clients.