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Look at networking as a long haul and you’ll be alright

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Look at networking as a long haul and you’ll be alright

One of the hardest things for me to understand about the expectations of networkers is the impatience many have. And it isn’t only in networking. I see it with advertisers as well. For instance, many forwarding professionals feel that there is a direct and fast return on advertisements. This completely misses the point of advertising.

Advertising is for name recognition. It is much further toward the marketing side of the spectrum than to the sales side. It is an investment in your name, your brand. If a magazine ad salesman sells it as otherwise then you have probably been taken for a ride.

Networking is the step beyond advertising. Unlike advertising this process is personal. Also unlike advertising the transaction is two-way. You cannot network alone. You have to have partners in the activity. However, when networking it is a grave mistake to think of the process as anything other than mid- to longer term sales. Both parties have to build the relationship together. Both parties have to include one another in each other’s sales pipelines. Then mutual business has to be won. Any party who thinks that profits from a network come simply because dues are paid will definitely find themselves on the the short end of the stick if they expect black in the first year.

I am reminded of that old saying that life is not about the destination but rather the journey. I will double paraphrase that if I may…

If profit is the goal and sales is the path then networking is the journey.

Gary Dale Cearley is the Managing Director of Advanced International Networks Ltd. (AIN), one of the fastest growing and most dynamic business-to-business networking organizations in the world. AIN’s networks include AerOceaNetwork (AON)XLProjects Network (XLP), and AiO Logistics Network. Gary Dale has been in many facets of international freight forwarding for more than two decades from operations to sales to the owner of the first 100% foreign owned freight forwarding company licensed in Vietnam. The companies that he has been involved with have been both generalists and specialists. He has also worked from large European and Asian multinationals (Danzas and Hankyu Express) as well has small start up forwarders. For the past ten years Gary Dale has owned and operated AIN. He has lived in several major cities in four different countries and he is multilingual. Currently Gary Dale runs the AIN operation from Bangkok, Thailand, but travels the world over.

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