Smart Networking
Hi everyone! I’m here to introduce another book again! This time it’s Liz Lynch’s Smart Networking.
This is my first serious attempt at trying to learn how to network, and for someone that wasn’t exposed to networking at all, it was a very insightful book that not only gave me the basics to networking, but some very good tricks as well! Liz talks about how to make yourself known the people that cares, and how to network smarter rather than harder.
I’m going to repeat a few words of wisdom from Liz here for everyone to read.
Value:
Yes, the key thing to making that relationship is to provide some sort of value to them. This is not just what you can do for them, value can be tangible or intangible. Tangible values are things you can actually give them or help them with. For example, referring them to a job oppotunity, helping them with a certain task, offering advice, recommending a good service, recommending a good book 
etc. Intangible values are things that you can make them feel. For example, making people feel appreciated, understood, admired, welcomed, or simply make them laugh!
Value is the fundamentals of relationships, we make friends because they make us happy in one way or another. It also feels great being able to give value to others, if you’ve ever felt great about helping other people, you know what I mean!
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Know what you want and tell people:
No matter how much someone wants to help you, they can’t if they don’t know what you want. Be specific, don’t assume that the other person already knows what you want. Everyone knows you want something from them, so don’t be afraid to tell them what it is. However, when asking for something, ALWAYS give the other person a way out, or a chance to say no naturally.
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Connect others:
One of the best way to network is by connecting other people, by doing so, you would’ve given value to many people. You also get to know more about others and become someone others can turn to when they need help. This is a very positive cycle that really helps everyone!
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Obviously, I cannot tell you everything that’s on the book, or else this post will be insanely long and Liz won’t get the money she deserve for her book! 
However, if you have the time and the willingness to find out more, I recommend that you read this book. Personally, I learned a lot, and was very motivated by this book. It got my almost non-existent networking on track, and gave me the final push to finally starting this blog site I was thinking of making for the longest time!
I have started something to help everyone network as well! In the meet people section, you can introduce yourself or read about others who have introduced themselves here! In the introduce yourself page, you can fill out what you need help with and what help you can give others. These two questions are actually two of the most important and to the point questions that needs to be asked when networking! We usually spend so much time just getting to these questions, so let’s just get straight to it! I will personally go over everyone’s needs and see if I can help you with it, so you know you have AT LEAST one person that will attempt to help you with your needs!
