Strong Relationships – Connect With Your Friends
This is the shortest month of the year but we have just as much opportunity as any other month to accomplish big things! It is the month of love thanks to St. Valentine. This is a great month to put your focus on cultivating strong relationships. Connect with your friends, old and new. Here are 3 ways for you to take action:
1. Make a list of 10 blogs that you want to pay attention to, top blogs in your niche that talk about subjects that you know about or want to know about. Leave a comment on 1-3 of those 10 blogs everyday. Leave a Comment that adds value and joins the conversation. Comment enough that the author knows who you are and takes notice of what you have to contribute. If the blog deals with a subject that you can talk at length about, offer to do a guest post, or even trade guest posts.
2. Make a list of the social media relationships that you’d like to cultivate. You may have 100′s or even 1,000′s of friends or followers, but how many do you really connect with? Decide which relationships you want to take to the next level and connect with them more, follow what they are doing, get to know more about them and offer your support or encouragement.
3. Pick up the phone. I don’t know about you, but I am online so much that my connections are by email, blog comments and social media. The phone gets used less and less. What if you made a commitment to call someone every work day just to say hi and let them know you were thinking about them. Or if it is not someone you know real well,, you could set up a lunch date via the phone. Have a getting to know you call and set aside 10-15 minutes to chat with an online friend. It is pretty darn cool to put a voice with a face.
These ideas should get you off to a great start in this ’lovely’ month of February! The theme is cultivating relationships. What will you do this month to connect with people and strengthen your relationships? How will you follow up with your new and past friendships? What value can you share or offer the people in your inner circle?
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You are so right about how social media and email can push the phone to the background. Not a good trend. I’m working on it!
I love these ideas Helen! You gave me another idea too. I do need to call some of my virtual friends and I also want to write them a note or card and send it to them in the mail. Yeah!
Way to go Jeff! Phone calls and personal note cards keep a relationship going strong. I am an affiliate for Send out Cards and I can give you a free gift account to send 5 cards out. Just let me know if you are interested and I’d set a time with you to show you how to use the service and send your first card. (This is open for anyone interested.) Email address for that is Helen@TheCardLink and subject line ‘SOC Gift Account’, please.
Love your energy Jeff!! Keep it up!
xox
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