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  1. Help others succeed: The essence of social networking is to continuously help others succeed in various forms. Share your knowledge and resources, time and energy, friends and relationships, sympathy and care, thereby continuously providing value to others while enhancing your own value.
  2. Strive to give more than you receive: Because you provide value to others, they will contact you. So think more about others than yourself.
  3. Don't hold back: Don't think friendship is limited. It's an investment that grows and grows.
  4. The key to success is generosity: In social interactions, it's not about seeking convenience, but about being generous.
  5. Clarify your life goals: The intersection of what you desire and what you crave is your inner passion. What excites you the most? What do you do that makes time fly?
  6. Know clearly what you want: The clearer you are about what you want, the better you can find ways to achieve it.
  7. Get used to setting goals for yourself: The simplest way to stand out is to set goals. Turn dreams into life goals, then break them down into smaller goals.
  8. Plan for developing relationships: Building a network is a process. Your plan should include the following three parts: 1) Your 3-year goals and progress every 3 months. 2) List people who can help you achieve each goal. 3) How to contact the people listed in point 2. Once you set goals, post them where you can see them often.
  9. Build your personal "think tank": Find knowledgeable people who are willing to help you responsibly. They are your "think tank."
  10. Build your network before you need it: Keep in touch as early as possible before you find you need to use others. It's important to treat these people as friends, not potential clients.
  11. Keep in touch with people you know: At the beginning, focus on people in your current network.
  12. Courage is amazing: Two people with similar talents may develop differently, perhaps just because of differences in thick-skinnedness.
  13. Be willing to ask for help: Being willing to ask can create opportunities. You should be as willing to ask others for help as you are to help others. Remember to prepare for the worst-case scenario of being told "no."
  14. Consider the gains in the face of fear: It's natural to fear the embarrassment of failure when talking to strangers. It's risky, but to gain and achieve, you must take risks. Doing nothing leads to mediocrity.
  15. Respect others: Respect everyone, regardless of status.
  16. Be transparent: An open heart is a beneficial and highly welcomed attitude.
  17. Make friends: People who are good at socializing are not "building networks" but "making friends." Broad gains are a natural result, not a carefully designed goal.
  18. Prepare well: Who do you want to meet? How to meet? What impression will they have of you after meeting? These cannot be ignored.
  19. Understand the people you interact with: If you know enough about the people you interact with, you can delve into their field and converse professionally. You can easily gain appreciation. Find a rich and deep common ground, and then you can easily interact and leave a deep impression.
  20. Understand others' interests: Love what they love, and you'll soon become part of their lives.
  21. Never dine alone: Mealtime is very conducive to relaxed conversation. Eating with others is an effective way to socialize.
  22. Manage your information well: Effective information management is very important. If you are organized, focused, and persistent, no one will leave your network.
  23. Make lists: Categorize according to your goals (e.g., potential clients, potential employers) and organize your lists. Not only list relevant organizations, but also people with influence within them.
  24. Know the authorities in your field: To achieve your goals, you need to know who is the best in your field. List the current authorities.
  25. List people you already know: List people you already know: relatives, college classmates, past classmates, former teachers, former colleagues...
  26. Organize information flexibly: Be flexible in how you manage your lists. By location, by industry, by closeness...
  27. Use others' contact lists to supplement yours: Others' lists are your resources.
  28. Create a "people I want to meet" list: Your list categories can include "people I want to meet," who are high-level people you hope to meet in the future.
  29. Contact complete strangers: When you need to call strangers, you'll feel some fear. Just steel yourself. Only think about success. Meeting new people is a challenge and an opportunity.
  30. Persist: If you contact someone and they don't respond, keep contacting them. Take the initiative, even be aggressive.
  31. Contact indirectly related people (Warm Call): Use these four rules: 1) Express reliability: Mention relevant people or organizations. 2) Offer value: What can you do for them? 3) Convey urgency and convenience: In most cases, the only purpose of a cold call is to schedule a meeting. 4) Prepare a compromise plan: Start with a high position, leaving room for negotiation.
  32. Treat gatekeepers as allies, not enemies: Gatekeepers should also be respected. Don't annoy them.
  33. Never disappear: When building a network, remember: First, never disappear. Disappearing is worse than failing.
  34. Strive to remain visible and active: Fill your schedule with social events, meetings, and activities. You must remain visible and active in your startup's friends and network.
  35. Combine multiple things: You need to make an effort to connect with people, but that doesn't mean you have to spend a lot of time. You can arrange the same event to save time. For example, invite all the people you want to see to meet together.
  36. Find fun: Socializing is fun, not a waste of time.
  37. Share your passion: Sharing interests is the foundation of any relationship. When you are genuinely interested in something, it's infectious.
  38. Emphasize quality time: Friendship is built on the quality of time spent together, not quantity.
  39. Follow up or fail: After meeting people you want to connect with, make sure they remember you. Follow-up is key.
  40. Follow up immediately: You should follow up within 12 to 24 hours after meeting them. Email is a quick way.
  41. Don't forget to follow up again: A month later, send another email. Keep in touch.
  42. Spend time talking to people at conferences: Conferences are often misunderstood as places to find insights. Wrong! Conferences have only one benefit: they provide a place to meet like-minded people.
  43. Be a conference organizer: Don't just be a participant; be an organizer. Prepare information in advance: who you plan to meet, how, and where.
  44. Speak publicly: Speaking is one of the simplest and most effective ways to make people remember you.
  45. Follow up with as many people as possible: Don't stick with your best friend throughout the conference. Follow up with as many people as possible.
  46. Keep in touch with networking experts: Some people know many more people than we do. These people are the core of various networks. If you can befriend them, you can connect with thousands through just one person.
  47. Have as many acquaintances as possible (people you know but aren't particularly close to): Often the most important people in our network are acquaintances. Why? Because our closest friends know the same things we do. So the more acquaintances you have, the stronger you are.
  48. Meet people from various fields: We not only know thousands of people, but also thousands of people in different fields.
  49. Exchange networks with others: The most effective way to expand your circle of friends is to connect your circle with others' circles.
  50. Build your organizing committee: Politicians have "organizing committees": bringing together people working in various fields. If you want broader exposure to the world, find a core person to act as your "organizing committee member."
  51. Improve your "language fluency": "Language fluency" is the ability to communicate confidently with anyone in any situation. It's a common trait of many successful people. And the ability to get along with others is more important for personal progress than anything else.
  52. Be authentic: To be impressive, being unique is key. To ensure uniqueness, be true to yourself. Being yourself is charming. Your uniqueness is your strength.
  53. "Compliance": The power of compliance is overlooked by many. Complying with others is very useful in small talk.
  54. Speak from the heart: When you understand that the best way to break silence is to speak your mind, initiating conversations becomes less daunting.
  55. Learn to use non-verbal communication: People can subconsciously decide whether they like you within 10 seconds of seeing you. This judgment is based on non-verbal communication.
  56. Prepare material for discussion: Have things to talk about. Follow current events and cultivate some hobbies.
  57. Learn to listen: Seek first to understand, then to be understood.
  58. Always remember people's names: Nothing sounds sweeter than one's own name.
  59. Be sincere: Undoubtedly, to be seen as special, you need to make others feel they are special in your eyes.
  60. Try to find out others' motivations: When you first communicate with someone, you can find their motivation. Their motivation is generally based on three things: making money, finding love, or changing the world.
  61. Help others fulfill their deepest desires: Actively helping others solve their key problems can bring you very close.
  62. Make yourself indispensable: Indispensability is very important. To be indispensable, you need to continuously convey your information, social connections, and goodwill to as many people as possible.
  63. Think about how you can help everyone around you succeed: When someone tells you they have a problem, think of solutions. Solutions come from your experience, your knowledge, and your friends and helpers.
  64. Offer help proactively: Don't wait for others to ask; be proactive.
  65. Spread knowledge: When you have little financial resources and connections, it's still possible to benefit from socializing. This is through knowledge. You can easily learn to spread knowledge in your network.
  66. Be interested in others' success: If you are interested in others' success, you can become more successful in 2 months. You can also spend 2 years getting others interested in your success. (Dale Carnegie)
  67. Small contacts from time to time: 80% of relationships are maintained through small contacts. You must keep contacting, contacting, contacting... never stop. You must constantly add fuel to your network to keep it from withering.
  68. Repeat, repeat again: A key method to make people remember you is repetition.
  69. Establish a rating system: A rating system can make maintaining relationships easier. For example: 1) "Level 1" contact at least once a month. 2) "Level 2" call or email at least once a quarter. 3) "Level 3" contact at least once a year.
  70. Incorporate small contacts into your schedule: You need to make small contacts one of your work tasks.
  71. In your personal name: If possible, try to make all information in your personal name.
  72. Don't forget birthdays: Birthdays should be your best opportunity for contact.
  73. Eat with the "main force": We build relationships with older, wiser, and more experienced people. These people are the "main force." Eat with them and recharge.
  74. Be an interesting person: Everyone you meet will ask themselves a question like: "Is it worth spending an hour having lunch with this person?"
  75. Be a person with substance: Substance is professional knowledge. It's what makes you different. It's what gives you a unique brand. So have your own unique insights.
  76. Learn and share without reservation: To make your content different from others, you must learn, share, and sell your content relentlessly.
  77. Get content from others: Sometimes you can easily turn others' ideas into your own content. Then share and apply these ideas ahead of others.
  78. Provide your own content: Other times, you have to use your brain to provide content. You need to understand various information and connect it in a unique way.
  79. Attract attention: Once there is resonance, it will attract attention. What you need to provide is simple: vivid stories.
  80. Become an expert: The most common way to become a content creator is to be an expert. Do what experts do: teach your expertise to others, write it, speak it.
  81. Teach what you want to learn: Teaching others is the best way to learn and understand.
  82. Use stories to express your content: Powerful content expressed in story form can help achieve goals. When telling stories, use your emotions to convince skeptics.
  83. Build a personal brand: A strong brand is very competitive, but it's always based on the value of the product, not the way it's described. A good personal brand can do three things: make others feel authentic, unique, and trustworthy.
  84. Make yourself unique: Your brand expresses what you can offer, why you are special, and tells others why they should stay in touch with you.
  85. Continuously add value: To become a brand, you need to focus on what you do and continuously add value. This means you need to constantly surpass yourself.
  86. Create a personal brand logo: When others hear or read your name, what do you want them to think of? Your brand logo should include all the words people use when mentioning you.
  87. Package your brand: To look valuable, you need to look polished and professional. So why not build a personal website?
  88. Promote your brand: If you don't promote yourself, others won't either. Your success depends on how others recognize your work, which also depends on the quality of your work.
  89. Keep in touch with the media: You should start keeping in touch with the media now, not just when you have a story to tell them.
  90. Promote the content, not the author: What you promote to the public should be your sense of mission, not your pride.
  91. Co-write: If your writing skills are poor, you can write with others. Through co-writing, people you had little contact with can exponentially grow your network.
  92. Write articles: Writing articles can greatly promote your career development. It can make you noticed in a short time.
  93. Keep writing to become a good writer: To become a good writer: "Write, and write again. When you finish writing, continue writing."
  94. Interact with celebrities: Are you only in touch with nobodies? You need to shift your attention to some important people, which can make a big difference in your life and the lives of your friends.
  95. Build trust: Trust is key to getting close to these authorities. Make others trust that you have no hidden motives when contacting them. Make them trust that you treat them as ordinary people, not stars.
  96. Join associations: There are various associations now. If you want to meet influential people face-to-face, you need to become a participant first.
  97. Start your own club: Sometimes you want to join valuable clubs but can't for various reasons. Why not start your own club? Draft your own promotion plan and create a new organization. Invite people you want to meet to join your organization.
  98. Be humble: Arrogance is a disease that makes you forget true friends and their importance. Stay humble as you progress. Help others progress with you, or even surpass you.
  99. Review your past: Regularly review your past and keep in touch with people who have been important to you since childhood.
  100. Find several mentors: Find mentors who are talented, experienced, and willing to invest time to help you improve. Don't decide your career direction based solely on salary and prestige.
  101. Learn from everyone: Among any three people, there must be one who can teach me something. There are many people around you from whom you can learn.
  102. Build good mentor-mentee relationships: Successful mentoring relationships require effectiveness and enthusiasm. Effectiveness means you can let the teacher see the impact they have on you. Passion means your mentor invests in your progress.
  103. Find several mentees: As you strive to develop, be sure to turn back and help others. You will learn a lot from your students.
  104. Stick to principles: Socializing should move forward, not compromise backward. Never violate your values when interacting with others.
  105. Don't try to balance your professional and personal life: You should provide the same value to people in different relationships, rather than dividing life into work and personal parts.
  106. Build close friendships: How many people can walk into your home and open the fridge to find something to eat? Having close friends is what makes you happy. --------------------------------------

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