Why "Just Network More" Is Terrible Advice (And 7 Better Alternatives)
You went to the networking event. You made small talk with strangers, listened to people explain their businesses, exchanged contact information, and drove home with a handful of business cards. You were exhausted, but at least you'd done the thing everyone keeps telling you to do.
Now it's Thursday. You haven't followed up with anyone because you're still catching up on the work you didn't get done while attending the event. And when someone suggests you need to network more consistently, you begin wondering whether you simply lack the discipline to grow a business.
I've worked with hundreds of coaches, therapists, and service-based entrepreneurs, and I've watched capable business owners blame themselves for struggling with a networking method that doesn't fit them. Some genuinely need more consistent relationship-building. Others are being told to repeat a method that consumes hours without connecting them to the right people. And some choose perfectly reasonable alternatives but still can't bring themselves to make the invitation, publish the content, or participate in the conversation.
Those are different problems. They shouldn't all receive the same advice, especially when that advice is simply to attend another event.
Key Points
- Traditional networking events are one way to build business relationships, not the only way.
- The right method depends on your audience, goals, schedule, work style, and the relationships you're trying to build.
- Seven practical alternatives include personal conversations, communities, content, partnerships, written outreach, virtual events, and asynchronous networking.
- Changing the format may solve the problem. If the same action keeps stalling, examine the actual interruption.
- An Execution Block describes a recurring gap in follow-through. An Underlying Block is only one possible explanation.
The Problem With "Just Network More"
Networking can absolutely help build a business. I recommend relationship-building regularly, and I do it myself. But networking is an activity with a business purpose, not a moral obligation. The goal is to develop relationships that can lead to appropriate referrals, collaborations, opportunities, and clients. Attending events is one possible way to accomplish that.
If you enjoy meeting people in large groups, your ideal referral partners attend those events, and you're building useful relationships, keep going. A strategy doesn't become wrong simply because another person dislikes it. But if you dread every event, need substantial recovery time afterward, and rarely meet people connected to your intended audience, increasing the number of events isn't automatically a sensible recommendation.
You also need to account for the complete cost. A two-hour event may involve travel, preparation, schedule changes, follow-up, and the time needed to return to focused work afterward. If that investment creates useful relationships, it may be worthwhile. If you're regularly giving up effective marketing or client work to participate in rooms that don't serve your business, reassess the method.
And no, this doesn't mean introverts can't network. Some introverts are excellent at it. A person can be introverted and enjoy professional events, or be outgoing and find a particular networking format unbearable. The question is whether the method creates the relationships you need at a cost you can reasonably sustain.
Seven Alternatives to Traditional Networking Events
You still need ways to connect with people. Relationships rarely develop because you quietly hope the right person discovers your website. But those relationships don't all have to begin with a name tag and a conversation beside a tray of grocery-store cheese cubes.
These seven alternatives give you different ways to accomplish the same business purpose. You don't need to do all of them, and you shouldn't choose one simply because it sounds comfortable. Choose based on where the right people are, what kind of connection makes sense, and what you can actually maintain.
One-on-One Conversations
Instead of working an entire room, choose one person you'd genuinely like to know. Invite them to a short video call, coffee conversation, or introductory meeting. You can learn what they do, who they serve, and where your work overlaps without trying to make twelve meaningful connections in forty-five minutes.
I do this regularly. Some of the most useful professional conversations I've had started because I was interested in the person and what they were building, not because I had a sales pitch ready. That doesn't mean every coffee conversation should become a referral relationship. Sometimes you simply meet someone interesting, learn something useful, and move on.
Make the invitation specific. Rather than adding "network with more people" to your task list, identify two professionals who work with an audience related to yours. Read enough about their work to know why the conversation makes sense, and send an invitation that gives them a clear choice.
Best for: People who prefer deeper conversations and businesses that benefit from professional relationships.
Time horizon: An initial conversation may happen quickly. Meaningful referrals often take longer.
Online Communities
Professional communities, industry groups, and focused discussion spaces let you get to know people through ongoing conversations. You can read what they're asking, understand the issues they face, and contribute when you have something useful to add. This works particularly well for people who communicate more effectively in writing or prefer time to consider a response.
The trick is to behave like a member of a community rather than someone who wandered into a conversation carrying a stack of sales flyers. Answer a question. Offer relevant insight. Make introductions where appropriate. Learn who contributes good work. Dropping your sales link into every discussion is unlikely to create the kind of reputation you want.
Community networking is usually a longer-term investment. It may produce an inquiry quickly, but that's not a dependable expectation. If you're using it as a client-acquisition strategy, consider whether the right people are present and how you'll turn professional familiarity into actual conversations.
Best for: Thoughtful contributors, written communicators, and professionals serving a recognizable community.
Time horizon: Usually months of participation rather than immediate predictable sales.
Content as Connection
Articles, videos, emails, and useful social posts let people experience your thinking before they speak with you. A potential client may recognize a problem you've described. A referral partner may see how you distinguish issues that other providers lump together. Good content can give someone a reason to begin a conversation.
This approach is especially useful if you're more comfortable teaching a subject than introducing yourself repeatedly at an event. I use it in my own business because I can explain a problem in depth and give people something useful even if we've never met. A strong article or video can continue introducing your work long after you've finished creating it.
But content doesn't automatically become networking. Someone has to see it, understand it, and have a way to respond. If you're publishing regularly without getting relevant conversations, examine distribution, audience fit, and the opportunities you're giving people to engage. Producing more content may not be the missing step.
Best for: Writers, teachers, video creators, and service providers with useful expertise to demonstrate.
Time horizon: Often a long-term approach. Measure meaningful responses and relationships before expecting consistent clients.
Strategic Partnerships
Instead of trying to know everyone, identify professionals who already serve the people you want to reach but address a different need. A business coach might develop relationships with copywriters, web designers, accountants, or other specialized consultants. A professional who helps clients with one part of a problem may benefit from knowing someone who handles the next part.
Begin with five to ten potential partners. Learn what they actually do and what makes someone a good referral for them. Then look for genuine opportunities to connect, collaborate, or make helpful introductions. Strong partnerships are reciprocal in value, although that doesn't mean you need to keep score every time someone recommends another professional.
You may meet fifty people and discover only two or three who become consistent referral partners. That's normal. The relationship is the asset, not the size of the contact list.
Best for: Referral-based businesses, specialized service providers, and professionals whose clients need complementary services.
Time horizon: Introductions may happen quickly; reliable partnerships usually require time and trust.
Email and Direct Messaging
Some of my strongest professional relationships began through written communication. We exchanged emails or direct messages, learned about each other's work, and developed a genuine connection before ever having a live conversation. Not every worthwhile relationship needs to begin on Zoom.
Written outreach allows you to explain why you're contacting someone without interrupting their day. You can refer to a thoughtful article they wrote, a shared professional interest, or a relevant opportunity. They can consider your message and reply when it works for them.
Don't confuse thoughtful outreach with sending the same generic pitch to two hundred people. Relevance matters. So does recognizing when the other person isn't interested. A clear invitation followed by respectful communication is a better foundation than treating every person with an inbox as a prospective customer.
Best for: Strong written communicators and people developing targeted professional relationships.
Time horizon: Initial replies can arrive quickly; reliable relationships grow through continued interaction.
Virtual Networking Events
Virtual events offer many of the advantages of meeting people face to face without travel, parking, or taking half a day away from your business. You can meet several professionals in a relatively short period, then decide which conversations warrant further contact.
I've used structured virtual formats, including Alignable Smart Connects. I appreciate knowing how long a conversation will last and what the basic expectations are. I don't go into those calls trying to pitch every person I meet. I'm curious about their work, who they help, and whether there's a meaningful reason to continue the conversation.
This still requires a strategy. Attending three virtual events every week is no more useful than attending three in-person events if you're meeting the wrong people and never following up. Choose events with relevant participants, keep the cadence manageable, and follow through on the connections that make sense.
Best for: People who enjoy brief video conversations but prefer to avoid frequent in-person events.
Time horizon: New connections can happen immediately. Referral development varies.
Asynchronous Networking
Asynchronous networking means the interaction doesn't require everyone to participate at the same moment. You might answer a question in a professional group today, review a collaboration opportunity tomorrow, and respond to someone later in the week. The conversation develops over time rather than during a scheduled meeting.
This can work particularly well when you have a demanding client schedule, variable capacity, or simply prefer writing a thoughtful response instead of trying to think on the spot. It gives you more control over when relationship-building happens.
But flexibility still requires a workflow. If every message remains unanswered because you'll get to it when things calm down, the method isn't doing much for you. Set aside a realistic amount of time to participate and decide which conversations deserve a response. Asynchronous doesn't mean someday, possibly, when the planets align.
Best for: Busy service providers, variable schedules, and people who prefer participating on their own timetable.
Time horizon: Depends on the relevance, quality, and consistency of interaction.
What If You Choose a Better Networking Strategy and Still Don't Do It?
This is where the conversation gets more interesting. You've decided not to force yourself into another crowded room. You choose one-on-one conversations because they're a better fit. You make a list of professionals you'd genuinely like to meet, and then you don't send the invitations.
Or you decide to build relationships through content. You enjoy teaching, have useful ideas, and can create the material. But everything stays in drafts. You keep polishing the posts while avoiding the one action that would let someone respond to them.
Changing the networking method solved one problem, but it didn't necessarily solve the interruption in execution. Before deciding what that means, examine whether the next step is clear, the workload is realistic, and the approach genuinely supports your business. If those factors are workable and the same action keeps stopping, we have something more specific to investigate.
Three Client Examples of Networking That Kept Stalling
I've seen this distinction in my work with clients. These situations involved different kinds of networking, but each person kept encountering an interruption at a particular point. The examples are anonymized, and individual outcomes don't establish what will happen for someone else.
1. "I Feel Like I'm Bothering Them"
One client understood that online networking, strategic partnerships, and one-on-one conversations were better options for her than large events. She had already identified people she could contact and had the time available. The strategy made sense. Yet every time she considered reaching out, she stopped.
When we examined the interruption, we identified an older pattern around feeling like a burden to other people. The invitation itself felt as though she was imposing on someone, even when the potential relationship could be mutually useful. We worked on that interference and reframed the outreach around building a referral team that could help other professionals and their clients.
She took action that week. Her account illustrates why changing a networking format doesn't necessarily resolve a repeated interruption around making contact. The practical strategy was already available; we needed to address what happened when she attempted to use it.
2. The Content That Never Got Published
Another client chose content as her main relationship-building method. She had the time to create it and wasn't depending on immediate results. The idea of attracting people through useful teaching was a reasonable fit for her business, and she could write the posts.
The difficulty appeared when it was time to publish. She completed the creative work but repeatedly stopped before anyone else could see it. We worked directly on that recurring response, and she began publishing. In her case, the content subsequently attracted clients.
That's an important distinction. She didn't need another lesson on how to write posts. The work was already being written. We needed to investigate why it wasn't becoming public.
3. Twenty Years of Experience, but "Who Am I to Comment?"
A coach with twenty years of experience understood that participating in an online professional community could help her develop relationships. She had relevant knowledge and a reasonable opportunity to contribute. Yet when she considered commenting, she questioned whether she had enough authority to speak.
Her internal question was, "Who am I to comment? I'm not a doctor. I'm not an expert." That assessment didn't reflect her actual training and experience. After we addressed the repeated pattern, she began participating more visibly in the community she'd already chosen.
She didn't need to add networking events to her schedule. The useful change was being able to contribute where she already had something relevant to say.
These examples are not evidence that every reluctant networker has an emotional block. A person might stop participating because the community is poorly managed, the people aren't relevant, the work is too time-consuming, or the next action is unclear. The specific interruption and its surrounding conditions are what matter.
Is It the Strategy, the Structure, or an Underlying Block?
An Execution Block describes a recurring gap between intended action and actual follow-through. It does not automatically identify why the interruption happens. A poor networking strategy, unclear actions, an unsustainable cadence, or an Underlying Block can produce similar-looking results.
I use the SCAN framework to examine the difference before deciding what kind of solution is appropriate.
Does It Support the Goal?
Are you building relationships with people who could realistically help you achieve the intended outcome? Is networking even the best use of your current marketing time?
Is the Next Action Clear?
Do you know whom to contact, why the connection makes sense, what you'll say, and when the action is complete?
Can You Sustain It?
Does the format and cadence fit your schedule, capacity, communication style, and business? If not, change the method or expectations.
What Happens When You Try?
When the strategy, task, and method are workable, attempt the action. Notice whether the same interruption persists and where it appears.
If the strategy is weak, change it. If the task is vague, define it. If the schedule is unrealistic, adjust the cadence. These are practical business problems, and they deserve practical business solutions.
If those factors are addressed and you repeatedly stop at the same point, an Underlying Block may be worth investigating. That's where Rapid Block Resolution may be appropriate. Brainspotting is one tool I may use within that work, but it isn't the answer to a poorly designed networking plan.
Choose a Networking Approach You Can Actually Test
You don't need to leave this article with seven new marketing responsibilities. That would be a remarkably efficient way to turn a practical list into another overwhelming plan. Choose one relationship-building goal and one or two methods that make sense for the people you're trying to reach.
Your Networking Test
- Choose a specific goal, such as developing referral relationships with professionals serving your intended audience.
- Identify one or two networking methods that support that goal.
- Define the exact action, including whom you'll contact and why.
- Set a realistic cadence you can maintain for the next several weeks.
- Complete the actions and observe the quality of conversations.
- Evaluate both the business response and what actually happened during execution.
For example, you might choose to invite two relevant professionals to one-on-one conversations each month. Or participate thoughtfully in a specialized community for fifteen minutes three times per week. The number isn't the point. What matters is whether the commitment is reasonable, observable, and connected to a meaningful business result.
If you're doing the work and consistently meeting the wrong people, reconsider the strategy. If the task never gets started because you don't know whom to approach, add clarity. If the method consumes more capacity than it produces in value, change the format. And if you have a workable plan but the same invitation or visible action keeps stopping, investigate that specific interruption.
You Don't Need to Become a Professional Networker
You need business relationships that make sense for the services you offer and the people you want to reach. That may involve fewer events, more intentional conversations, written outreach, strategic partnerships, or a combination that changes as your business develops.
I still don't enjoy being told to make a list of fifty people and start calling them. That approach doesn't fit how I prefer to build professional relationships, and I don't force myself to use it just because someone else swears by it. I use one-on-one conversations, virtual networking, written communication, and other approaches that fit my work.
But choosing a better format is only the first part. You still need to execute it. If you've found the right strategy and the same action repeatedly stops, that deserves more attention than another list of networking events.
Start with a method worth using. Make it specific enough to execute. Observe what happens. Then fix the part that's actually getting in the way.
Frequently Asked Questions
Do I really need to network if I'm an introvert?
You need ways for relevant people to discover your work, develop trust, and form useful professional relationships. Traditional events aren't required. One-on-one conversations, partnerships, content, written outreach, and online communities may be better options depending on your business.
How long does content-based networking take to work?
It varies. Content can start conversations quickly, but building a reliable source of referrals or inquiries generally takes sustained work. Evaluate audience fit, distribution, engagement, and meaningful conversations instead of assuming a fixed timeline.
What's the fastest alternative to traditional networking?
Warm introductions and relevant one-on-one conversations may create connections quickly, especially when people already know your work. Developing dependable referral partnerships generally takes additional time and trust.
How do I know if I have a networking Execution Block?
Look for a recurring gap between the networking action you intend to take and what you actually complete. Then examine Strategy, Clarity, and Alignment. An Underlying Block becomes one possibility when the same specific interruption persists despite workable practical conditions.
Can I grow a business without traditional networking events?
Yes. Many service providers develop relationships through referrals, professional partnerships, educational content, email, virtual events, and individual conversations. The right combination depends on the audience and business model.
What if I've tried these alternatives and still don't follow through?
First check whether the strategy supports your goal, the next action is clear, and the method fits your actual capacity. Make practical corrections and test again. If a specific interruption keeps recurring, investigate what is still interfering rather than automatically replacing the strategy.
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Have you ever been told you just need to network and then feel your entire body just tense up? I've worked with hundreds of coaches, therapists, and heartlet entrepreneurs who struggle with this exact issue. And today I'm going to tell you why just network more is terrible advice for a lot of people, what to do instead, and why knowing the right networking strategies still won't help if you have a deeper block.
Welcome back. I'm Jenny Hayes, your beyond mindset mentor. And today we're tackling one of the most common pieces of advice given to coaches and entrepreneurs. Network, network, network. I give this advice myself. You have to network. But for some people, this advice is generally helpful. A lot of you, it's causing more harm than good. And let's talk about why and what you should do instead.
Here's what you've probably been told a thousand times. You need to just get out there and network. Go to events, meet people, build relationships. Your network is your net worth. And if you're someone who generally enjoys meeting new people, striking up conversations with strangers, and being in rooms full of people, great. This advice works well for you. It's easy. Go forth. Network.
But if you're someone who gets anxious in social situations, finds small talk exhausting, needs significant recovery time after being around people, feels like you're performing when you're networking, would rather literally do anything else than go to a networking event. If you know you have social anxiety, you're neurode divergent, deeply introverted, just network isn't necessarily helpful advice. In fact, it can be harmful because when you force yourself to go to these events, you spend the whole time feeling uncomfortable, awkward, and like you're doing it wrong.
You compare yourself to the extroverts in the room who seem to do it effortlessly. They connect with everyone, and you feel inadequate. You leave feeling drained and pretty much like a failure. or you just don't go and then you beat yourself up for it. You tell yourself you're lazy or you're self-sabotaging or you're not committed enough to your business. Neither of these options is serving you or your business.
The problem isn't that networking doesn't work. In fact, it does. Networking is the fastest way to fill your business, hands down. The problem is traditional networking. The kind where you go to an event cold, make small talk with strangers, try to work the room. It's only one approach to building connections. And it it's not the right approach for everyone.
Let me be really clear about something. You you do need to build relationships to grow your business. 100% absolutely. But the way you build those relationships needs to match who you are, your energy, and your strengths. Forcing an introvert or someone with social anxiety to just network more at an in-person events is like trying to force a fish to climb a tree and then telling it's lazy when it can't do it.
You're not broken. You're not failing in networking. You're just being told to do it in a way that doesn't work for you. And here's the beautiful thing. There are so many other ways to build relationships and connect with potential clients and referral sources that don't involve traditional networking events. You can build your business without ever setting foot in a networking event if that's not your thing. You just need to find the strategies that work for you.
So, let's talk about what networking can look like if traditional events aren't your thing. Number one, one-on-one connections. Instead of going to big events, focus on one-on-one coffee chats, video calls, reach out to people individually. Build deeper relationships with fewer people. This is actually often more effective. Quality over quantity.
Number two, online communities. Join these online communities, Facebook groups, forums, where your ideal clients or referral partners hang out. Engage at your own pace from the comfort of your own space. You can think before you type. You don't have to perform or make small talk. Now, there are a couple caveats to this one. Number one, don't be spammy and don't go in somebody else's group and start promoting yourself. Instead, you go in and you just share your expertise. Love on people. They will seek you out.
Second caveat, this takes a long time. This is not going to get you clients in one or two months. There are some people that occasionally will do that, but the reality is you have to work a lot longer to make this format work.
Number three, content as connection. This is where you create content like this, videos, blogs, social media posts. It attracts people to you, letting your content do the networking for you so that people will reach out because they resonate with you and what you're saying. This builds connection without you having to initiate it. But you again, you need to be really careful of this one. You need a cohesive strategy if this is your only networking plan. And you must realize that it will take a minimum of six months to a year before you can expect to see any any kind of a foothold.
Fourth, strategic partnerships. Instead of trying to meet hundreds of people, identify five to 10 strategic partners or referral sources and build real relationships with them. Go deep, not wide. This is similar to that one-on-one coffee one because what we're doing now is instead of building one-on-one coffees with potential clients, we are building that relationship with somebody who knows our ideal client.
So, if you are a diet expert, you may want to hook up with someone who does personal training in a gym. If you work with mindset for entrepreneurs, you may want to work with someone who does strategy for entrepreneurs. There's a lot of ways to mix it. And it's a matter of thinking about who else your clients see. And that's what this piece is.
Number five, email or DM. Now, some of the relationships that I've built have been entirely through emails or DMs that have blossomed into video. We've never met in person. We've never been on a call like a regular phone call. Um, but we built genuine, mutually beneficial relationships through written communication that then blossomed into a natural friendship. Again, long game.
And again, you're reaching out to either and potential clients as well as potential referral sources. I'll tell you the referral sources are much more powerful but fewer and further between because you're going to meet a lot of people who could refer before you meet the two or three that will that can eventually fill your your case load.
Six virtual events. If you don't want to attend events in person, but you're looking to meet a whole lot of people in a short amount of time, look for the virtual summits, the webinars, online conferences. Again, we take this back to the service mindset of how can I help you?
Um, seven, [laughter] asynchronous networking. So you can join communities and platforms where the networking is happening but it's not happening at the same time. Meaning you can do it asynchronously. You can come in when you have energy and reach out and talk to people and then when they have energy and time they reach back out and talk to you. This means you can respond when you're ready. Step away when you need to recharge.
And this is just the start of different ways you can network. The point is there are endless ways to build relationships that don't involve the traditional get dressed up in your, you know, casual business attire, drive across down to the convention center, listen to a whole bunch of people that you don't really know and don't want to know and feel uncomfortable. You can you can find a way that fits for you. You get to choose what works for you as long as you have a strategy to it.
And here's the thing that people don't talk about with networking. Even if you can force yourself to go to those events every week, it's possible. You can physically do it. You're capable. You have the transportation, the means, the physical ability to get there. But if it drains you so much you don't have energy for the actual work of serving your clients, creating content, running your business, it's not going to be sustainable. So basically, you're trading networking for running your business.
So we want you to choose something that is relationship building that energizes you or at least doesn't completely drain you. If one-on-one coffee chats light you up, do that. writing content, connecting with people online feels natural, do that. It just takes a little longer. If you genuinely enjoy traditional networking events, that's awesome. Jump in your car, jump on the bus, go over there and do it.
But if something consistently drains you and makes you want to hide, that is your body telling you it's not the right approach, listen to that. Honor that. Find a different way. Because building a sustainable business means working with your energy and your personality, not against it.
But now, here's where I really have to be honest with you. Some of you are listening to this and feeling relieved. Oh, thank goodness. I don't have to go to that networking event. I can just do one-on- ones or create content. But you still don't do it. Or everything sounds horrible still. um you don't reach out for those one-on-one connections, you don't create the content, you don't join the online communities.
Let me tell you about patterns I see. So, there was a client who I had who understood she could network online and she knew she needed to build those strategic partnerships and do one-on-one coffee chats and that she could do all of that instead of going to the big events. She didn't like the big events. She knew all of these alternative strategies and had picked the ones she thought were best for her. but she still didn't do them because resistance wasn't about the format of networking.
So, it wasn't just that she had social anxiety and needed a safe way to do it. It was about something a lot deeper. She had a childhood wound. She didn't even know what it was. Every time she thought about reaching out to someone, she felt like she was bothering them. And once we did a session and addressed that wound, we reframed the networking as building the referral team to help other professionals. She reached out, secured three referrals that week.
You know, another client who knew she could create content and let people come to her instead of cold networking and had the time to do it. You know, she she wasn't in a rush. She had perfectionism that kept her from hitting publish. She'd write the post. She wouldn't share him. She had this invisible fence around her visibility. She could see what she needed to do, but her body wouldn't let her do it.
Once we took a session, processed that freeze response. She started posting and went from invisible to attracting clients through her contact. Through her content, not her contact, through her contact right away.
And then I had another coach that I could think of who knew that she should join this online community and engage. We had talked about it. She understood. She knew that it was going to be a lot less draining than the Inerson events. There was a piece of her that was very aligned with it. But there was another piece that kept asking who am I to comment on other people's posts? I don't have a I'm not a doctor. You know, I'm not an expert. You know, I've been doing this for 20 years, but I'm not an expert.
Once we addressed that block and she realized that I am an expert, I have been doing this 20 years. I actually went to school for it. In her case, her visibility increased without ever attending a single networking event because she was able to be present in the event that she chose.
These alternative strategies all work, but only if you can implement them. If you can't, it's not because networking is the problem. I used to blame it, too. I hated hated when they would say, "Make a list of 50 people, you know, and reach out to them." That it still doesn't align with who I am. I still don't do that, but I'm doing this. And I do one-on-one coffees and I do virtual networking events and I reach out by DM.
So, I have found things that do work. But before I address the block, I didn't do any of it. And if you are being held back by a block, you won't either.
Now, here's your homework. I want you to go back and listen to those different alternative ways, and you can even put in there traditional networking. I want you to think about which three you would be most likely to be able to do. Maybe they actually even sound appealing to you. What sounds doable? Maybe enjoyable.
Maybe it's reaching out for a one-on-one coffee chat, posting valuable content twice a week, joining an online community, and genuinely engaging, setting up three strategic partner conversations per month, writing thoughtful comments on other people's posts in your industry. Whatever it is, I want you to write down those three approaches that sound like they could work for you.
And then I want you to notice, do you feel excited to try them? Yay. But if you paused or if you started thinking, "Yeah, these sound okay, but I can't do it." It's not about you. It's not about the networking, it's about the block.
So, if that is you, I do want to invite you to come to my two-part training. It's free uh from Stuck to Clients. Part one, we're going to give you the strategy. You need to do this. This is how you do this. Here's some different things that you can do. Mix these things together and we create this strategic plan.
But part two is where the magic is. That's the missing piece. Because part one, strategy, you can get strategy anywhere. I think I do it differently because I want to make sure it fits who you are because it's huge. Huge. I'll share my story during the event.
But part two addresses what happens when you have the strategy and you're not doing it. It may be perfectionism. It could be imposter syndrome. Could be invisible fences. Could be something that you don't even know what it is, but you just can't do it. and we're going to look at that and we're going to get you the information and the tools so that you can move forward because knowing there's alternatives is great, but it doesn't help at all if you still can't bring yourself to reach out, create that content, or show up.
So, I'll have the link in the description to sign up. I would really love it if you would subscribe for me and give me a like. Take just a moment to make a comment about which approach you're wanting to try. And then be honest. Is it something that you're like, "Yeah, I can do this." Or is there something inside going, [snorts] [clears throat] "I want to, but I'm not sure I can."
Next week is going to be it's going to be about why you don't need to be an influencer, but you also can't be a ghost. There is a middle ground that works. I will see you then.
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