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In this episode, you’ll learn how to connect with anyone in the world. In the last two episodes, we talked about why Word of Mouth is not working and How to Make Word of Mouth Work for You by connecting with Mavens, Connectors, and Salespeople. But HOW do you meet these people?
We’ll show you.
Plus, we’re giving you a Spreadsheet that will make the process simple. It will keep you organized and help you track the people on your “I Want to Meet Them!” list.
But first, Jim, we have to talk about Jim’s new book! The Man He Never Was (affiliate link) just came out.
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Show Notes
Introduction
As we said earlier, we talked about how Mavens and Connectors and Salespeople are the most powerful way for us to spread word of mouth about ourselves and our stories, but how to we get introduced to them.
Six Degrees of Separation
- Kevin Bacon https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six_Degrees_of_Kevin_Bacon
- Make a list of the people you want to meet- DON’T edit yourself. Dream big
- List people who might know that person
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- You’d be surprised to find out who your friends know
- Delilah Rene
- You’d be surprised to find out who your friends know
- Define your reason for getting in contact with this person
Tools:
- Twitter is a tool to use to contact folks directly. People (even ultra famous people) don’t get as many tweets as you’d think. So they read them for the most part.
Ask
- The hardest part
- You will strike out
- You will get base hits
- You will hit home runs
- If you don’t swing the bat, none of these things will happen
- Make it worth it for them.
- Think CONTACTS, not CONTRACTS …
Our Challenge To You
- Reach out to three people in the next week and then, let us know how it went
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Hi Jim, Thank you, as always, for the great podcast. I tried to upload the free plugin for My Book Table, but my WordPress.COM site says I need to upgrade to the $300.00 business version of WordPress to make it work. Are plugins like this free on WordPress.ORG? I remember when I started my blog and website, someone said to use one or the other, but I couldn’t remember which one and ended up choosing the .com version because it seemed easier to figure out how to do it. Now I’m afraid I’ve made a big mistake! Do I need to switch to WordPress.org?
Sonja,
Yes, plugins are free on WordPress.org. WordPress.org is a lot more powerful but it is a bit more work to setup. Moving is not hard, but it also takes some work. With WordPress.org you will also need to pick a host like WP Engine or BlueHost.
Thanks, Thomas! I really appreciate your reply. Sounds like I need to spend some time looking into this. Thanks again!
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