I have landed a few high profile jobs through first-time acquaintances, shared a taxi with a stranger who turned out to be the juniour brother of our President, and started companies with complete strangers whom I met through an acquaintance.
Being able to form strategic alliances and finding key connectors can save you years of going around in circles or help you to break out of your current level of success. Someone somewhere has something for you.
I met my husband the first month I made up my mind to start having a social life. Prior to that my life had consisted of my banking career, occasional church attendance, and my television set. I got the banking job when I attended a client's birthday party.
So how did I get stuck in the house-work-church routine?
I had gotten to a place where I was consistently overwhelmed by work and I felt like the only other thing I could do with my life at the time was to flop in front of the television and binge watch several episodes of Desperate Housewives, Alias, Prison Break, or 24. Later on, I graduated to Ugly Betty and eventually to Suits. Predictable.
In 2020, I still got enticed by all the episodes of The Crown and Reign on Netflix. I even got entangled watching episode after episode of a Netflix documentary on Jeffrey Epstein's sordid lifestyle until I could watch it no more.
The purpose of my writing this book, Successful Networking, is to share with you the various circumstances that led to my having some of the contacts that greatly benefited my life and career over the years, and to share some tips based on what I have learnt so far about meeting people in various situations.
Hopefully, the book will inspire you to go out and intentionally meet more people, be strategic about your networking activities, plan them, and at the same time raise funds for me to continue my radio broadcast on essential etiquette skills for everyone who cares to listen. I know you care.
So why should you read this book?
If you would like this year to be dramatically different from last year, you will need to do some dramatically different things such as meeting a lot more relevant persons.
It will also pay to get more people to know what you do. Do the people in your circle of influence know what you do?
In the book, you will get page after page of valuable tips and information based on my experience working in Nigeria and the United Kingdom.
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