Means getting to know clients and ultimately establishing a relationship built on trust. Women’s Network (and other organizations) provide you with the opportunity to meet new people - many of whom will become your clients or know somebody who may need your services. You just have to let them know what you do!
- Carry your business cards at all times and hand them out freely.
- Don’t be afraid to initiate the contact with someone you don’t know. Most people are feeling the same insecurity as you. It will make you both feel more involved if you strike up a conversation.
- Get out of your comfort zone at each meeting. Say something different - sit somewhere different.
- Do keep expanding your network. At the end of a conversation ask, “Do you know anyone else I might talk to about this?”
- Share the fact that you are in a network. Your clients will appreciate your extended contacts.
- Do offer your help generously. Remember, “What goes around, comes around.”
- Do take others up on their offer to help….