What 4 weeks of networking taught me

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This is my third networking challenge, and I thought I had it figured out. But Week 4 taught me that I needed to be more intentional.

It's almost comical at this point. My first networking challenge was created by

@Lukas Schmidt

My last challenge? Also created by Lukas.

I think I'm just doing networking because he tells me to, and honestly, I don't even mind. It's been incredibly valuable.

I'm deeply grateful to for challenge for bringing me back into community again.

My call with

@Sofiya Pierce

was transformational. It gave birth to a challenge that put me on the map for multiple communities, and I'm grateful I accepted.

I'm learning constantly. How to create engagement. What makes communities stick. People further ahead than me share their lead generation strategies and techniques. Every conversation sparks new ideas for posts, webinars, or how I build my own community.

I don't have a large audience yet, so I got strategic. I targeted fitness and nutrition communities, climbed the leaderboards to get more visible, booked more calls, and created more conversations.

This came from advice during my networking calls.

@Sam Rathling

gave me several recommendations on how to get more eyes on me, how to use networking calls indirectly to generate clients, and strategies around engagement. I'm implementing all of it.

(Funny story: I had Sam's book on my Amazon Wishlist for months before joining her community. When she mentioned her book on our call, I realized it was THE SAME SAM. Slightly embarrassing, but also perfect.)

My call with

@David Mason

was all about reaching our monetary goals by year-end and building our client bases.

@Mirtha Pena

and I have this funny thing where we've never intentionally booked a 1-on-1 call, but we end up connecting every week anyway. Even in breakout rooms, we accidentally end up together. We are now working on getting to the paid clients by end of the year.

I had to reschedule with

@Melvin Zhang

several times, but we connected over anime and I'm excited for when we finally meet.

Attending group community calls is a perfect conversation starter. After the call, you can DM someone naturally, mention how good it was to see them, and you already have familiarity. This has been a game-changer for starting authentic conversations.

Networking is one of the biggest, most important parts of having community. These lessons don't end at Week 4.

My October goal: 5 sales calls per week. I've been having plenty of discovery calls, but I've struggled converting them to sales calls. That's my next mountain to climb.

I was extremely introverted three months ago. Now I've completed three networking challenges, met incredible people, joined multiple communities, and I'm building something real.

The conversations, the support, the knowledge exchange, the value—it's all there waiting. You just have to start.

And if you've been thinking about networking but haven't started?

There's never a perfect time. So... DO IT, join next challenge which I think will start on Monday ( Since months should start on Monday 😉 😁😁 )

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