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What are the three best methods for networking? - Barking up the wrong tree


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Looking forward to Panda's additions...

Not surprisingly, I'm a big fan of Reid's Rules of Networking and I practice them regularly: http://pandawhale.com/convo/422/reids-rules-of-networking

These rules boil down simply to: What you get out of it is what you put into it.

Altucher has several variations on this theme as well: http://pandawhale.com/convo/290/be-a-super-connector

Suster has his own version of this as well: http://pandawhale.com/convo/197/you-can-make-progress-in-anything-with-50-coffee-meetings-get-started-msuster

Ultimately you have to think of it in terms of what you have to offer to the other person to make it worth their while to spend time with you.

I also agree that the best first step is to find someone on Facebook or LinkedIn that you haven't talked with in a while, and talk with them: http://www.bakadesuyo.com/is-it-worth-reconnecting-with-old-acquaintanc

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