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Grow Your Network With Everyone You Meet

Guest post by: Lonny Dunn

Article Overview: Social Media allows us to grow and enlarge our network with every single person we meet or talk to. It's as simple as asking them if they Tweet or are LinkedIn or Facebook.

Grow Your Network With Everyone You Meet

Growing a Viral Network At your next professional appointment, whether you are the client, or someone has come to see you, ask a simple series of questions: "Do you tweet?" and "Let me show you how?"

We may not be very skilled at social media, but we can use it to enlarge our networks. Social Media is a perfect runway to launch your Text Tagged Article', 'Click', 'business growth']);"> business growth strategy. Even if you are beginner, you likely know more than someone who does not participate at all.

I make a habit of mentioning LinkedIn to people who are professionals. "Are you on LinkedIn?" if the answer is yes, then I ask how involved they are, and would they like to send me their eMail address so I can help them with a few pointers.

If they answer no, I explain that LinkedIn is the world's largest Professional and Business website, and that without a LinkedIn profile, it is hard for Human Rescources Departments to guage their involvement in Social Media. I cite the fact that over 60 percent of hiring managers use LinkedIn to weed out prospects, and not being on the website means they could lose a possible job by default. I might mention this recent college grads and inform them they may need a quick makeover.

Developing our network by helping others is rewarding, and gives us an opportunity to plant and sow kindness for nothing in return. It is the random acts of kindness and helping others with no quid pro quo that helps us lead a serene and healthy life.

I manage many Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn profiles across a wide strata of occupations and professions. With over 125,000 followers under management, I have used these very same ideas to grow my network. But a journey of a thousand miles begins with the first step.

Begin to grow your network by asking people to help them grow theirs.

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