Keeping In Touch

Networking or Socializing?

Today I am doing followups from people I met networking this last week.

In a discussion yesterday, we talked about all these people we meet networking…..

I looked today, I have met a little over 20,000 people in the Nashville area, in my networking adventures (and that is not all, those are just the ones that I have mailing addresses for).

What do YOU do after you meet someone at a networking event? Because if you are NOT following up, you are NOT netWORKing, you are socializing…..

And granted, anyone that knows me, knows I am one of the biggest social butterflies in the world haha!

BUT, are you networking to enhance you, yourself, your business, others, their business, etc or just to fill time slots with nothing better to do?

Today I am sending a *nice to meet you* card to everyone I met I have a mailing address for this week, sending them an email asking to set up a time for a *one on one* appointment, connecting w them on social media, looking for their birthday so i can send them a birthday card :), etc.

What do you do after you meet someone at a networking event?

Write customers personal handwritten notes frequently

Danielle Kennedy, in her book Seven Figure Selling says,
“Write customers personal, handwritten notes frequently. If you run into an old customer anywhere, follow up with a handwritten card.
In this electronic communication age of email, the handwritten card with a postage stamp gets more immediate attention than ever.”

That quick thought of “I should contact that person” is what I call a “prompting”; an out-of-the-blue remembrance of a particular person.

If you’ve personally observed promptings, you’ve noticed that they only last in your mind for about 60-seconds, and then they’re gone.

My cards company provides a way to capture that sixty-second moment. Capture that opportunity to make a difference; to make your friend or client feel special. To make them aware that we are thinking of them – by remembering events and dates that are important in their lives.

Thank you cards are one of the most powerful tools in building a huge network

Bob Burg, in his book Endless Referrals says,

“Thank you cards are one of the most powerful tools in building a huge network, both professionally and socially.

People with the most impressive networks are typically avid card writers.

It’s one of the best techniques for long-term winning without intimidation. I suggest getting into the habit immediately of sending out cards.”

We all wish that we were better – I can help you with that!

www.SendOutCards.com/holiday – watch the video on the site, and then click to send a card free, and contact me with the questions you have.

Why I chose Send Out Cards

WHY Send Out Cards is a great company for ANYONE and EVERYONE

–Complete company, team and leadership support
–You can use this company, product and service to build any other business and improve relationships
–We have a simple way to share the business opportunity & make money. A cell phone app, a deck of cards & a community Facebook page that people post often with their success stories!
–Highest payout in the Industry
–86% is paid out of the sign up $ to the field to qualified reps
–Hundreds and hundreds join us daily. We are in momentum
–True wholesale product & service
–It’s clearly a better business model
–We get paid twice. Once for sharing, and forever as people stay in touch
–True Leveraged Income
–Our people make the all the difference
–Mobile optimized platform
–Massive market upside
–Top 5% company
–Proof of concept (Almost 15 Years)
–Someone doesn’t have to use it to feel its effects
–Our Products consistently provide a superior customer experience
–We have breakthrough intellectual property
–We have insanely great marketing
–We are the de facto standard in the Greeting Card & Gift Industry
–Our unique concept has been executed quickly & almost flawlessly over 100 Million times
–We have a culture that fosters innovation
–We have a best in class operation, supply chain, and logistics model
–Nothing will make you feel joy the way this model does

SOC is a tested & proven company… always innovating and improving over time… and that’s why I am a SendOutCards Evangelist.

Below is the final criteria list I used for choosing this company. It comes from my own core values and the need that – what I do, how I do it and with whom I do it with are in complete alignment with my purpose, passion and why…

1. Does it Have Real Purpose?
2. Can God Bless it?
3. Can I Fully Respect It?
4. Can Others Respect What I Do?
5. Can It Elevate My Own Purpose & Why In Life?
6. Can It Keep My Passion Long term?
7. Is It In Alignment With My Personal Brand of “Faith, Family, Friends, Fun, Fitness, Freedom & Forever”

This is just some of the reasons, of why I joined this great company.

Who are you? Not what do you do, or what do you sell, but WHO ARE YOU? Do you know? Do you want to know?

They say “people buy people, not websites” “people buy people, not products” — right? So, why do you want people to *buy you*?

What are YOU offering that others that sell the same product/service you do, don’t offer?

HOW are you different from your competition?

Or HOW can you ENHANCE the marketplace to even HELP your competition? (why help them? because what goes around comes around, and the more you help others, the more it WILL come back to you) It is a *Universal Law* and God made our Universe 🙂

What are you doing in building your *personal brand*? Internally and Externally – it is who you have become or are becoming, because of *your story* — so it is unique to you, not anyone else, because you are the only one that has lived or is living your story.

You want to be your authentic and expressive self, that when you speak, and move, it transfers to others, your belief, your value, your story, your *you*……and that is how you will *connect* with others.

Reflection

Funny…..(not really, but truth)….

How life can *hit* you *so much*…..

I have always been a *work-a-holic* — I am sure always will lol. My life is pretty scheduled, 7am-midnight almost every day. But, the last few years, with *so many* major and significant losses in my life….

Feb 2013 – husband of 20 years

July 2013 – My Grandpa (dad’s dad)

July 2013 – Our 13 year old Boxer “Bullet* family dog)

2014 – My Father in Law (who we took care of in our garage apt for many years)

2015 – oldest daughter diagnosed w cancer (she won! thank the Lord, and now healthy)

Mar 2016 – My Mom.

And through that – other close friends and family lost or major *issues*- has the reality of the *take care and spend time with those you love, and TELL them you love them, cuz you never know when you will get to again…..even friends….

And then also, even myself….for many years I lived for doing *for* everyone else, and I still do, and I think it is important, but I have also learned, and been hit w the reality, of not being someone’s wife, and kids getting older, not that I won’t always be their mom, but they need me *less* — of *who is Laurie, and what does *she* want and what is she *here for*?

Reflection can be a good thing…..do it…..and figure out what your plans are for the rest of your *dash* here on this earth, and what you are doing for you, and what you are doing for others, and what difference you are going to make in the world and the lives of others. <3

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