In this episode of Bella in Your Business, Bella offers up a recording of talk she gave to a faith-based business networking group in her area. In the talk she discusses approaching networking from a faith-based point of view.
She says that successful networking results from:
Listening
Caring
Taking time to build trust
Influence
Finding "family" in networking
She offers some quick, but poignant tips:
Better to get a card then leave a card
Go to a lot of events. Arrive early and leave late
Get around people that you like
Ask someone out for coffee
Don't be a "promoter" of your company
Networking is always about "them" and not you.
Don't be afraid to cast your net or you won't find those relationships
Ask God to be your Holy business partner
Shine your light!
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Transcript:
This is episode 24 of Bella in Your Business.
Welcome to Bella in Your Business, where Bella will discuss anything and everything about your pet sitting business to help you land on target. So get ready—Bella’s got your chute. Let’s jump.
Hello, and thanks for listening to Bella in Your Business. A little while ago, I did a talk to my local church group. We used to have this really cool business networking group where a bunch of Christians from all around town would get together once a month and just share. We used to bring in guest speakers, have some lunch, have some roundtable discussions, and it was really uplifting. As many of you may know from my journeys, my faith is something that's pivotal in my life. It's something that helps ground me, and it's definitely that faith, which is you walk by faith, not by sight. Oftentimes, things in life are just so confusing. Things don't exactly make sense, or we might not have the exact answers for them. So I really feel like it's a big part of who I am, and I'm very open about it.
If you're in my flock of birds, if you fly around with me on Facebook or maybe have some of my products or have done some sessions with me, chances are you probably already know this. But I decided to take this recording that I had and kind of put it out there. So I am putting it out in faith. If it for some reason rubs you the wrong way, or it’s some churchy or Bible verses that somehow offend you, I get it. No judgment here. Go ahead and skip to the next podcast. But if this is something that you find refreshing or even encouraging in your life, I definitely suggest that you take the moments to listen in on it. I'm about to talk about the connection between your business and your faith, and I hope you enjoy it. So here's a little piece of me to you.
Networking—that's what we're all here for. How did we all hear about this? It's your first time. I'm just curious. The bulletin? Perfect. Yeah, I'm in the church. Okay, I've been playing the phone for a while. Definitely. Gentleman in the back? Facebook. Love it. Perfect. Well, networking comes in many forms. A lot of people think that it's just doing what we just did—standing up, saying our business name, shaking hands. Throughout this whole thing, I'm going to share a lot of my experiences in hopes that you'll kind of learn a little bit from it. I haven't always been this outgoing. I haven't always wanted to get in front of people. In fact, I'd rather talk to you at Airways Arena right now, where we're in this intimate group. I used to despise networking.
I used to go to that many groups and think, oh, well, no one hired my business, so it was useless. I used to get scared. I used to be a wallflower. I didn't know what to say to people. I used to try to give all my business cards to as many people as I could. I thought it was a business card game. But soon I learned that that's not what it's about. A lot of you already know that, but I just kind of wanted to start off with how a lot of people think that's what it is. Raise your hand if you've ever kind of felt like that—scared to get up and say somethin...
