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How to be interested, in the 21st century.
“You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.”
Dale Carnegie, How to Win Friends and Influence People
That is absolutely one of my all time favourite quotes and sums up my networking and social media ethos.
If we would all spend more of our time being genuinely interested in the other person, rather than constantly trying to be interesting to them, all of us would have a much happier and more productive networking and social media experience. I talk about this all the time when I’m on stage and always follow it up with “the real opportunity is that most people won’t bother”. Because they won’t. Talking about ourselves and automating some social media posts takes so much less effort than actually doing what it takes to form real relationships and work through the Meet — Like — Know — Trust.
But that’s all abstract. How do you actually show people that you’re interested in them in 2018? And it isn’t by automating some tweets.
Social media.
#1. Show up on social media personally. Be a person, not just your business. This involves time and…
