Five Benefits of Networking

When you network you give and you receive. Networking is great to help grow your business and gain a better position. By Being out there and connecting with people you are moving your business forward.

Here are 5 great benefits that come from business and social networking. Each is in order of how all benefits support the ones before it.

1. Contacts
By networking you build a large contact base of influential people. This is the most important benefit because it is the base to everything else you have to gain from networking.

2. Information & Knowledge
“Knowledge is a benefit of networking. The more information you have the more power you have. Networking helps you expand your knowledge about where you want to grow and puts you in the position to help others.” - Cat Mig/ Break Studios Contributing Writer/ www.mademan.com

3. Reputation
When you become good at networking you build your reputation as someone people want to talk to and know. But you also create a reputation of being that person that people want to help and be helped by.

4. Support
A positive reputation leads to a positive support base, which also doubles as advertising – word of mouth advertising. Your support system will spread good news about your business.

5. New Leads
With another avenue of advertising, you have more opportunities to have people contact you about your business, or referrals from your support system. You may also be inspired with new ideas and new approaches that you didn’t think of before.