My 3 Tips to Building Strong and Lasting Connections in Business

Welcome to the List Building Lifestyle Show. I’m your host, Igor Kheifets. In this episode, I’m here to guide you through the world of strategic networking. We will explore effective ways to identify and connect with valuable contacts aligned with your goals. you’ll uncover the transformative power of selective networking, demonstrating its effectiveness even for introverts. So get ready for actionable tips on maximizing networking opportunities, whether in person or virtual. Before we begin, a quick heads up, this voice is powered by some incredible AI tools. But enough about that, let’s jump into the episode.

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In general, I haven’t yet seen anyone who couldn’t benefit from good networking. It’s just you have to be selective with your network. For instance, if you’re looking for more joint venture partners, you should go and hang out in the places where your potential JV partners hang out. And you benefit by building relationships and eventually getting them to promote your stuff. But if for example, you’re selling an E-commerce product, you can network with suppliers, you can network with other sellers to find out what techniques work for them. You can network with industry professionals that provide all kinds of professional services for the kind of business you’re in. 

There are two types of people, I’d say three types of people that are valuable. One would be, you know, project managers, so people can oversee a project and see it done. And another type would be somebody who can deal with content or copy. So anyone can write well, anyone who can work with AI these days to come up with great content, great copy. And the other type of person would be a media buyer, somebody who understands how to buy ads and how to optimize ads, and so on and so forth. So if I network, in circles, where these people hang out, and I can pinpoint the top people who are good at this, and I can bring them over to my team, my business will grow. And so I will benefit from networking again. 

So, just be selective about what you do. Now, if all you do is purely, let’s say it’s gonna be purely affiliate marketing, cold ads, and you don’t want to talk to people, you don’t have to network. But even for you, in that case, networking with the affiliate platforms and the people who will like account managers and those platforms can still be extremely valuable. So there’s a reason why www.affiliatesummit.com East and West, probably collectively bringing like 10,000 people together every year. And there’s also huge summits in Brazil and Asia and Europe and what not. So yeah, in general, networking will always be beneficial as long as you’re strategic about the people you network with. Otherwise, it just can take a lot of time and produce nothing. 

I mean, not so at www.webinarcon.com like where I’ve been last week. I met a guy who’s into E-commerce, and he sells physical products on Amazon. On the surface of it, he doesn’t really do anything that connects to what I do. In fact, there might not even be any value in US connection. But I’m still going to meet him probably this week, just because he was at the www.webinarcon.com. So he’s obviously at least somehow involved with webinars. And maybe he knows, you know, econ gurus, people who teach how to make money in E-COM. 

And those can become JV partners. So I kind of think of it in terms of handshakes, where I can connect to somebody who doesn’t necessarily appear to be extremely valuable to me right now, but it’s through a handshake or two, that will eventually lead to something mutually profitable. Earlier today, I spoke to a guy, he’s a copywriter. So but as of this moment, we did not see how we can work together in any way. But let’s say three months down the road, something happens. So I am looking for a copywriter. I got him on a shortlist and I can connect and say hey, remember we had a call three months ago, and I’m looking, I got this project, you know, want to talk about it? 

So you never know. You really never know. But yeah, networking I would say though, is not like you don’t have to do it to be successful. But if you do it, it can boost your sales pretty quickly. So I would still advise you to do it. If you got the personality for it, I just don’t think that everyone has the personality to do it. I had to kind of train myself for it. I’m introverted, although I know it doesn’t appear that way. But I had to, like, teach myself how to be fun and outgoing. 

You know, it’s a public event. But then it takes me like a week to recharge. You know, I’m still a bit exhausted from the trip, to be honest with you. Like, if you can tell my energy isn’t as high as it usually is. It’s because I’m still recovering from all this networking that I’ve done last week, even though I’ve had my, you know, three espressos and you know, a quarter of Modafinil and drank a lot of water and everything else and had my eight hours of sleep. Still, I feel like I’m sort of, you know, a bit dazed or whatever. 

And that’s because I’m an introvert and it takes me a long time to recover from something like that. But that’s also why I wouldn’t go to an event like that every month, I probably only fly out like once a year, just something like that. Most networking events that I do are either virtual, or a little bit more intimate than that. 

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