At the core of my social selling  strategy is a firm belief that virtual relationships need to transition to real time.

Unfortunately, many people get stuck after an invite has been accepted and all they get is another useless name on their computer screen.

Today, I want to lay out a very simple way for you to provide more value to your network and position yourself as more than just another “friend” “follower” or “connection”

Introducing  . . . “The Social Networking Mixer”

Here’s how you do it:

1)    Grab yourself a free conference call line on a service like http://freeconferencecall.com

2)    Identify 4-5 people from your network. I don’t like more than that because I’ve found that it can become a tad chaotic.

3)    Set aside a day and time where you’ll have 60 minutes

4)    Consider a real simple agenda like:

10 mins of introductions

35 mins discussing a topic that’s relevant to those you are inviting.

10-15 mins of resource sharing. Resource sharing is when each participant brings (get this) a resource such as the name of a good book, a website, publication, study, statistics, free service etc

What are your take aways if you try something like this?

1)    You’ll stand out! Not too many people doing these calls.

2)    You help introduce people who need to know each other. Matchmaking is always cool no matter how you slice it!

3)    You and your participants will learn quite a few things as people share their ideas and resources.

4)    You work both your facilitation and public speaking muscle groups.

5)    You actually connect and build trust.

6)    You foster a spirit of “community”

7)    You get to demonstrate your expertise.

8)    You’ll help others to get to know you and a much higher comfort level will be established.

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There’s a bit more to this such as how you facilitate the call to some cool things you can do after the call that I will be sharing in our online Social Selling Camp starting July 15th.

I have over 100 tips waiting for you to help you build a killer lead generation system! I’m including real world examples of how your peers are leveraging social selling and I’m even going to take you behind the scenes and let you in on a few of my own best practices.

Perhaps it’s time for you to consider some new tools while your competitors slack this summer?

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