Networking Nugget by Casey Eberhart
<<Networking Nugget>> Today we will be talking JAIL! If you were picked up and taken to jail, who in your cell phone would you call if you were given 3 calls? Your nugget for the day is to call each one and just let them know that they are your “bail your ass out of jail” person. Two things will happen, you will find out if they are up for the challenge AND you will have a good chuckle.
I actually love this Nugget! This is such a fun one to do, I had a fun time today giving my 3 a call. The results were great and I found myself catching up with an old friend about his family. If you take me up on this Nugget trust me when I tell you this will at the very least get you into several great conversations. If you want to take it to the next level then call your “Jail” friends that are in other parts of the country. I actually called a friend up in Seattle just to let him know if I was caught in a bad situation up in the Pacific Northwest, that he would be it!! I would love to hear about you results with this Nugget.
Give your close friends an AWESOME day!!
Networking Nugget by Casey Eberhart
<<Networking Nugget>> Today should be easy. Look at your desk right now. Surely you have 5 business cards laying around on top. They are just lingering, so let’s fix that! Your nugget is to either throw them in the trash OR send them a quick email letting them know you will be in touch with them in the next week or so. Better an email than let them set for too long.
O.K. I admit I had many more than 5 business cards on my desk when I wrote this, but not any more! Here is the deal, If you are just storing cards on your desk as a form of procrastination, that’s O.K. so long as you understand these will NEVER turn into full blown business relationships without you doing any work. It might even help if you take a couple of minutes while facebooking today and separate the cards into stacks by importance. Just letting the cards stack up only let’s us feel like we are or have been busy but it moves us nowhere closer to adding the person to our network. I promise it will feel quite liberating when you are able to free yourself of a few cards or even better yet, taking a step towards adding them to your network.
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Give someone an AWESOME day!!
Networking Nugget by Casey Eberhart
<<Networking Nugget>> Today, very easy and can have some big effects. While you are out and about today, your nugget is to reach your hand out and meet one new person. It will count when there is a handshake and you know their first name. This gets us out in the world and looking for opportunities to meet new people.
This is one of those things that once you get in the habit of doing, it almost becomes second nature. I was having lunch with a friend a few days ago and as we were walking to our cars she told me that I had created an opening for her business. I was like, “huh”. She went on to explain that since we had walked into the restaurant she had noticed that I had introduced myself to the Hostess, the Chef, the Server as well as one of the patrons that ended up needing a bit of help keeping the door opened. I did not even notice because it is a habit for me to introduce myself to as many people as possible. Now, the funny thing, I did not talk about my business at all at luck with any of the people I had just met only because the subject never came up, but I eat there a few times a month and now when I go in, I will be able to start a conversation with my new “friends”. I hope you will get in the habit of extending your hand to someone new everyday. If you get something out of this Nugget, would you please share it using the Facebook button in the upper right corner? Also, if you would like a little FREE publicity you can head over to my “Success Spotlight” and add yourself to the community on my website. I would be honored to have you there. Visit the Spotlight by heading over to CaseyEberhart.com
Give someone an AWESOME day!!
Networking Nugget by Casey Eberhart
<<Networking Nugget>> In the upper right corner hit “home”. It will pull up your news feed. I know there will be many people on there who you may not know. Your nugget for the day is to simply leave a COMMENT on every single post you see. It will only let you see about 15 posts. They can be one word comments but NOT just a “like”. The goal is to start interacting with people you may not know.
This is the 1st installment of the Networking Nugget and I am so proud! In this NUgget, I of course am talking about Facebook and should only take you about 20 minutes. As it was posting this morning, I started taking my own advice and I reconnected with a friend from high school that I would not normally have. Every week day, there will be a new Nugget to help you improve your business networking skill set. I would love your feedback or even a Facebook share up in the upper right corner of this post!
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Networking Nugget by Casey Eberhart
<<Networking Nugget>> Pay 2 random people whom you have never met before a compliment. Could be on the phone or in live. You never know what kind of friend you could make or what opportunity may be created.
This is a practice that I have been doing forever! It is so important that you make people feel good. You never know how your small little compliment might just turn into a conversation and worse case, you are cool, best case they become a friend, spouse or client.
One of the things I almost always compliment people on is a piece of jewelry because in most cases it comes with a story. I love hearing stories about something that means something to the person. I would love to know if you actually take me up on this little nugget and what the response was.
Give someone an AWESOME day!!