Comments on: How to DO the second-hardest thing in networking http://www.svahaconcepts.com/blog/alignment-with-your-message/how-to-do-the-second-hardest-thing-in-networking Content that Connects Mon, 23 Jan 2012 20:12:02 +0000 hourly 1 By: Grace http://www.svahaconcepts.com/blog/alignment-with-your-message/how-to-do-the-second-hardest-thing-in-networking/comment-page-1#comment-2088 Grace Mon, 09 Nov 2009 21:30:20 +0000 http://www.svahaconcepts.com/blog/?p=1470#comment-2088 <strong>Far'ha</strong> - You know, I never thought about applying the networking skills I teach to dating. How funny - and what a great idea. After all, it IS all about creating and nurturing connections between people, right? :) I also appreciate your point about marketing - when done effectively, as opposed to your example about "being worked" - as simply an extension of good social skills. That's a key point. My approach to marketing has always been that it's a way for me to offer help to people, whether or not they ever buy anything from me. It's a way for me to say, Yes, I hear your problem, I hear your pain. Yes, there really ARE solutions to it. My solution may - or may not - be the right one. What's important is that someone walks away knowing that there's help available. So yeah, it is about social skills: being helpful, making connections, following through on commitments. Thanks, Far'ha! Far’ha – You know, I never thought about applying the networking skills I teach to dating. How funny – and what a great idea. After all, it IS all about creating and nurturing connections between people, right? :)

I also appreciate your point about marketing – when done effectively, as opposed to your example about “being worked” – as simply an extension of good social skills. That’s a key point.

My approach to marketing has always been that it’s a way for me to offer help to people, whether or not they ever buy anything from me. It’s a way for me to say, Yes, I hear your problem, I hear your pain. Yes, there really ARE solutions to it. My solution may – or may not – be the right one. What’s important is that someone walks away knowing that there’s help available.

So yeah, it is about social skills: being helpful, making connections, following through on commitments.

Thanks, Far’ha!

]]> By: Flowersbyfarha http://www.svahaconcepts.com/blog/alignment-with-your-message/how-to-do-the-second-hardest-thing-in-networking/comment-page-1#comment-2087 Flowersbyfarha Mon, 09 Nov 2009 21:23:11 +0000 http://www.svahaconcepts.com/blog/?p=1470#comment-2087 What great advice! The section about "make a concrete suggestion" also sounds like great dating advice (as in how to get one)! Makes me realize I need to look at sales/marketing as an extension of good social skills with a focused agenda rather than as a completely foreign set of behaviours. I hate it when a salesman or marketer tries to "work me" so consequently I hate to use those behaviours on my potential clients. This gives me some ideas about new approaches with what I do. Thanks! Far'ha What great advice!

The section about “make a concrete suggestion” also sounds like great dating advice (as in how to get one)!

Makes me realize I need to look at sales/marketing as an extension of good social skills with a focused agenda rather than as a completely foreign set of behaviours. I hate it when a salesman or marketer tries to “work me” so consequently I hate to use those behaviours on my potential clients.

This gives me some ideas about new approaches with what I do.

Thanks!

Far’ha

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