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Are you trying to build your referral business? Wondering how networking really helps to bring in new clients? We (me included) tell you to get out there, put yourself in the path of your right people, tell enough people what you do and the right people will recognize you and become your new best clients. 

Nice in theory, but you might have a few questions about how to put in into practice. Among them:

*I meet people all the time. How can I turn them into clients?

*Isn’t networking for people who work in banks and sell insurance? How does it apply to my salon business?

*Just because I’m asking for referrals doesn’t mean anyone is telling their friends and family about me, does it?

*How does using Twitter bring me any new clients? Aren’t I just talking to people who already know me?  

The second in a series of free (yay free!) workbooks by Rock Your Day’s Dave Navarro arrived yesterday. It’s called 7 Steps for Networking with A-listers Fast (with free workbook). It’s filled with actionable things you can do today to connect with people who CAN help you grow your business. It answers those questions you might have about how networking works, why it works and how you can use it to grow your own business. What’s more, the workbook walks you through putting a plan into place that you can start using today. 

 7 Steps for Networking with A-listers Fast (with a free workbook) can help you create a plan that will:

*Get more referrals wiithout really asking

*Leverage value-added services to turn people into paying clients

*Use Twitter to connect with your target audience

*Network like the big dogs so other people really will talk you up to their friends.

It’s good stuff and most of the ideas here can by applied to your salon business. Check it out by clicking here and let me know in the comments how you are going to use what you’ve learned. We can learn from each other, after all.

Great ideas can be found everywhere and anytime I find ideas and free stuff that will help you grow your business and make a big pile of money, I like to pass it on. So, today a whole page of great ideas arrived in my inbox.  

I’m a fan of Dave Navarro. Every Monday morning he send me an email (Monday morning ass-kicking!) reminding me to think big, be better and to get off my lazy butt, go out and kill something and drag it home. His specialty is coaching people to biggify their businesses and helping you sell more of your stuff.  (All good things, right?) It’s amazing, but he always seems to send me exactly what I need to hear at the moment, with some nugget of wisdom that changes how I think about my business and my life.

So today, in my inbox, arrived a link to a longish post he wrote  – 7 Ways to Play a Bigger Game and Make More Money.   It’s filled with things we can all do to do take our business to the next level, be more profitable and make more money. It also includes a little bit of ass-kicking (wouldn’t be Dave if it didn’t), he definitely calls us on the stuff we do to stand in our own way of really, really making it big.

The post also includes a free (free!) workbook that you can download to begin to immediately begin to biggify your thinking and your business.   Check it out – I know you’ll read and discover something that can totally change how you think about your business.    

Click this link to go right to “7 Ways to Play a Bigger Game and Make More Money”.