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Ideas for becoming a better networker

Posted on January 3rd, 2009 by Sacha Chua
  • Load contact information onto my iPod Touch in a way that I can easily search
  • Explore using a system like SugarCRM
  • Add pictures to my contact records
  • Schedule real-life contacts weekly
  • Send updates to all of my contacts on LinkedIn and Facebook as well
  • Store people’s goals in their address book records
  • Find people’s blogs or other online profiles and put those in address book records; ask new acquaintances about those too.
  • Improve hypersegmentation of e-mail by creating code templates and data structures
  • Read more resources, and summarize them in hypersegmented monthly or quarterly e-mails
  • Find a way to enable my network to share their goals with each other.
  • Improve follow-up process by sending e-mail within three days of event
  • Develop templates I can customize for events
  • Organize an external event around a topic of common interest
  • Summarize my weekly reports into monthly reviews and highlighted blog entries
  • Visualize my contacts by last contact so that I can see who I haven’t been in touch with in a while
  • Visualize my contacts according to interest
  • Pick up a card scanner that works with Linux? (hmm, not needed yet)
  • Remember birthdays as a good excuse to ask people what they’re planning for the next year of their life and how I can help
  • Hold regular dinner parties
  • Expand size of dinner parties

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Short URL: http://sachachua.com/blog/p/5541
  • gary

    *Find a way to enable my network to share their goals with each other*. i think this idea is important and may have larger importance than i can see right now.

    *Remember birthdays as a good excuse to ask people what they’re planning for the next year of their life and how I can help*. i like this idea. also, it may be a way to help people stay motivated and on track. lastly, it would be a good way to add additional importance to one’s
    birthday and give it an important, new focus. – gary

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