I often get asked about the ideal number of connections you should have in your professional network. The topic often gets muddled because our first impulse is to equate networking success directly with the number of connections we have. I’m here to tell you that you don’t need a huge number contacts to have networking work for you. It’s much more important that you have strong relationships with the people in your network. But if you are really looking for that magic number of connections, here it is: One more than you have now. That’s the key to success. What’s really important isn’t the overall number of connections, but the … [Read more...]
David is an internationally-recognized keynote speaker, sales trainer, and business coach. He focuses on bringing the human-to-human back into sales, social media, networking, and entrepreneurship.
He is the best-selling author of 12 books on sales, networking, social media, and entrepreneurship. And he is also a prolific contributor to blogs in the sales and marketing space.
His goal is simple: help people become RockStars in their professional lives so that they can have a positive impact on those around them.