9 Joining it all up

Much of your networking success is going to come from learning to join all of this up. When you apply all of this, you can truly dominate your networking environment and social media for your business. Remember that you're generating opportunities and, as someone once said, “when opportunity knocks, you still have to get up off your arse and open the door…”.

Say yes to every opportunity

An awful lot of the opportunities I am offered along the way come with no immediate payday. I am asked to speak for free, to appear on podcasts and guest blog for other people.

Gary Vaynerchuk sums it up beautifully when he says that “1>0”. Whatever you're doing, you are constantly pushing yourself and your business forward and reminding ...

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