6 Quick Ideas for Building Your Contact List

Here are some great ideas on how to build your network:

6 Quick Ideas for Building Your Contact List:

1. Trade Show Marketing, Fishbowls, and Plexiglas Drawing Box



2. Register for free and inexpensive seminars from your local business journal.



3. Read the local business paper and scan articles written about successful small business owners.



4. Join two of the hundreds of networking organizations in the US (e.g. BNI, local chamber of commerce, etc.).



5. Go through the want ads and look for others promoting their businesses. Call them and say, "I am a local business owner in the ... business, and I am looking to network with other business owners so that we might refer business to each other . . . would you be interested in getting together? I would like to learn a little about what you do and also talk to you about what I do to see if we might help each other get more business?" You may have to talk to 10 to get 2, but many will want to meet with you.



6. Ask 10 people that you know for 3 names and addresses of business owners that are in the process of building a business.

I hope this information helps you grow your list.

All the best,