How to reach unreachable people

The more time I spend with students and people building ideas the more I hear the same questions being asked. These questions are about how to get busy people to pay attention to you.

Always be Networking

You’re well established in your current role. You have a great relationship with your boss. You make a healthy wage and more than enough to live off of. Why in the world do you need to engage with your network or increase your personal brand?

The Follow up is REAL!

Growing up there was an unwritten rule; once you got a girl’s phone number, whether you got the digits playing the number game at the skating rink or after she checked “yes” on the letter you wrote her instead of taking notes in class:

I quit networking.

Congrats to those who understood that. Basic english and the piss poor education system that we grew up with, at the same time as we destroyed Quaker Oh’s and Peanut Butter Cap’n Crunch through Saturday Morning Cartoons, has yet to fail society. Yet, I say I’m done with networking. Finished with it. Not…