How do you add value to your network?
Hey guys,
What does "adding value to others" mean to you? How do you maintain relationships with clients, mentors, peers, and so on?
What does "adding value to others" mean to you? How do you maintain relationships with clients, mentors, peers, and so on?
While you don't hit it off with everyone, you'll likely find that there are some amount of folks you meet at conferences, in the community or otherwise that you could see spending time with or getting to know.
Keep updated with those people, follow them on social media, send them articles or links of things that you know they're interested in and call them from time to time.
Beyond that, if you can place facilitator of needs, awesome. You know x person has a need for a person with skill y, and you z person with y skill. Link them up!
This doesn't come without some level of intentionality. The main thing though is to build relationships and community with no expectation of a return. Genuinely do it because you want to model the type of behavior you want to see in others.
That’s the same way you’ll add value to others as well.
I’m a problem solver. I’ll help people that do not give me money by solving some of their problems. It could be code, it could be knowledge or it could be connections.
I’ll do that for free because I like helping people and because someday they might help me.