Building a long term business relationship often begins with the idea of reciprocity. No matter how influential someone might be, if you do a genuine favor for him/her and stay connected with them persistently, you might be able to turn your mentor and role model into your business partner.
When we think about how to make a lot of money, we hear of 1,001 things we need to do to get there. But, We both know that trying all of those strategies is not worth it. And these ‘Suggested Tricks’ are not likely to work. Because if it were, everyone would be doing it already.
Forget everything you know about making money. It’s probably not true. To be rich, you just need one thing: A rich network of people
I Ask what I can Do for the Millionaire, no what He can Do for Me
To be rich, you just have to know a bunch of rich people.
It’s pretty simple. Renowned Marketer, Neil Patel has his own theory and algorithm for this: He says that you can just take the top 5 people who you spend the most amount of time with day to day, and take all their individual incomes, add them all up and divide it by 5.
That’s probably how much money you make. So, this kind of shows how important it is to surround yourself with rich people.
But HOW??
The trick is to reach out to them and make them feel important. And offer to help them for free.
For example, the other day, I sent in an application to write for Search Engine Land. The application asked if anyone referred me to apply, and if anyone can vouch for me.