Pop Quiz: What’s your game plan once someone accepts your social networking invite?
Do you just leave it to chance while you race off to invite the next “connection”? Or . . .
Do you launch immediately into your best infomercial?
Sorry for the Monday morning reality check but I’m willing to bet that most people would fail this simple quiz.
Its kind of like we invited someone to do something, they accept and then nobody knows what to do.
So they do nothing!
Here are a few thoughts to start turning those “connections” into true connections.
1) Start Giving A Damn About The Status Updates Of Those In Your Network! All of us are a tad guilty of being so busy trying to get noticed that we fail to notice other people. You’ve heard me say it before . . . “Everyone has a story and wants to be heard” so you need to take the time to acknowledge the things OTHER people are saying. I go into great detail on this topic in this free podcast!
2) Set A Weekly “Getting To Know You” Call Goal. The “Getting To Know You” call is simply a phone call designed to “take it live” with someone in your network. You could jump on a phone call, a video chat, and if geographically feasible, I would suggest meeting up for a cup of coffee.
Time Out! For those of you who travel, you should check your network for local contacts and make it a point to try and meet up.
Immediate Action Item: Identify and invite at least one person from your network to “take it live” this week. I triple dog dare ya to do this within 5 minutes of reading today’s blog. What’s the matter Colonel Sanders . . . Chicken?
3) Be A Good Host/Hostess And Invite Your Connections . . .
– Into Discussions
– Onto Other Social Networks
– To Meet Other Connections (matchmaking is highly underrated)
– To Meetups, “Tweetups”, Google+ Hangouts & Conference Calls
If this whole business of truly CONNECTING with your network interests you, then I would highly recommend that you check out my 90 page Social Networking E-Book by clicking here!
Or you could simply do nothing and see how valuable yet another inactive contact is to your overall efforts!
