{"id":2203,"date":"2009-08-09T20:38:14","date_gmt":"2009-08-10T00:38:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.local\/?p=2203"},"modified":"2009-08-09T20:38:14","modified_gmt":"2009-08-10T00:38:14","slug":"bwagy-networking-theory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.local\/bwagy-networking-theory\/","title":{"rendered":"bwagy Networking Theory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I saw a tweet from a fellow business owner a few months back, they had stopped having coffees and networking as they weren&#8217;t building any immediate business out of it&#8230;&#8230;. hmmm<\/p>\n<p>Bit stupid to stop networking if you ask me. \u00a0Why? Well&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>My theory basically is, no matter what you do, every person you meet at some stage in the next 5 years will either have a need for your service or will hold a conversation with someone who needs your service. \u00a0So no meeting is wasted! (as long as you impress them enough).<\/p>\n<p>Yes this is a long term view &#8211; but successful business is built over the long term. \u00a0So don&#8217;t fret that every meeting has to turn over dollars; build relationships, think for the long term and it will pay off.<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t stop networking because money doesn&#8217;t come in straight away, keep at it, it pays off.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I saw a tweet from a fellow business owner a few months back, they had stopped having coffees and networking as they weren&#8217;t building any immediate business out of it&#8230;&#8230;. hmmm Bit stupid to stop networking if you ask me. \u00a0Why? Well&#8230; My theory basically is, no matter what you do, every person you meet [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[183,569,774,811,831,832,1040],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2203"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2203\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}