I thought this would be a great opportunity to quote the great Dalai Lama and the best way to resolve
any problem in the human world is for all sides to sit down and talk.
Well I'm sure the Dalai Lama didn't come up with this when he was thinking about connecting with people
and seeing if he could win new business only.
Absolutely certain of that.
But it turns out that sitting down and talking to people is one of the best vices often he smiles or
business development problems that we also have.
And I'm going to show you how we can get into that situation very quickly very easily.
So before we do have a look at the templates The connected to this class that Valbrun the resources
below and what I suggest you do and if you're going to do this on an ongoing basis then to save yourself
a little bit of time correct some templates you can customize and tweak the templates.
Besides you haven't talked this out every single time you want to reach out to somebody.
So if you can send individual introductions sorry if you're going to send individual connection requests
to people that you know then you're going to have to start typing new messages individually creates
a template for that makes it a lot easier.
That way you only have to change the name create a template as an introduction for people that you meet.
So remember what we're saying to you before around networking events and exhibitions and trying to dinners
and that sort of thing creates a template for that saying Hi Bob it's great to meet the other night
at X event and these templates or examples of these templates are included in this lesson that feel
free to tweet and write your own.
And also though create a template for what to site when you are asked to connect to somebody else.
So very often what happens if somebody else asks us to connect on LinkedIn we'd accept it or decline
it.
And I say we don't do anything else.
We don't talk to them anymore we don't try and build a relationship we don't trying to have a conversation
we don't try and assess the opportunity we just pretty much ignore it.
Well if we've got a template that can encourage conversation without us having to spend too much time
in doing great and the template is how to respond when people accept your request.
So again one of the downsides with league team that we mentioned earlier when you reach out to somebody
on LinkedIn and they accept your connection request I see they don't even bother replying to you and
you don't really bother saying anything else to them because we've got the connection and we consider
it to be job done.
But what we need to do once they accept your connection request leaked it will send you an email saying
congratulations.
Julie has now accepted your correction request.
Well that's a great opportunity to continue the conversation.
And I've given you some templates as to how you can do that.
It's important in every one of these cases that we don't seem to be just taking.
And it's important that we can add some value to our connections because although we use this quite
aggressively in terms of finding prospects we also have to be aware that we are part of a network of
business professionals on here and it's important that we behave in the right way.
And I think one of the best ways to generate a good response from potential audience is is to generate
some good work you know introduce yourself make sure that you're not there just to pitch your business
and that sort of thing.
But you are genuinely there to have conversations and build relationship.